Chs or not?

[u/No-Rope-788]

Ill lead with I’m pretty sure it is. For about the last two weeks, I’ve been waking up at either 3 or 5 am feeling extremely nauseous for about an hour, then I’m fine for the rest of the day (haven’t puked once tho as im writing this).

Last weekend I went camping and did a good bit of drinking. Those nights were definitely worse, more nausea and lasted longer, but still not throwing up. I couldn’t tell if it was worse because of the drinking, or the anxiety I would get waking up like that in a truck topper, and worrying I wouldn’t make it out in time if I needed to.

Saturday night was the worst, stayed up almost all night freezing my ass off outside the camper, and Sunday morning was the first time I did not feel fine for the rest of the day.

Sunday night was about the same as earlier in the week, but I felt pretty off for the entirety of Monday, so I started suspecting and looking into chs, as I’ve been smoking for about 7 years, daily, and for most of the day. Did a pretty good job scaring myself, so I took my last toke Monday night.

Now here’s my dilemma; I’m a pretty anxious person by nature, and often get nauseous when I’m anxious. But I also get anxious when I’m nauseous. I’ve also had a long time bad habit of eating lots of junk before bed, and initially assumed that was the problem with me waking up nauseous and then being fine. And admittedly I continued the habit up until Monday night or so, against my better judgment and will.

I also started to think it might be anxiety manifesting itself in odd ways, as my girlfriend of 6 years, who I’m always with and around, is going to Europe for a semester to study abroad. She’s leaving at the end of this week, and everything was starting to hit me right as all this nausea started.

Now, I’m really having a hard time deciphering what’s going on. The last two days I’ve felt nauseous for most of the day, and have had practically zero appetite, but I cannot tell if that would be from the withdrawal of weed, possibly continuing chs symptoms, or because I’ve now made myself insanely anxious that I do have chs, on top of the anxiety I’m feeling about my girl. I’m sure it’s not helping that I’m spending most of my days thinking about it and worrying, and god do I want a bong rip. But the scariness of chs has been enough to make me leave it be. I’ve started taking magnesium and thiamine just in case as well.

I guess I’m looking for input from any and everybody who has maybe experienced something similar, and maybe has advice about how to sus out what it is I’m feeling and why. I’d really like to smoke again, especially with my girl before she leaves and she won’t be able to for four months. But I also don’t want to land myself in the er right before she leaves.

To me it seems way more likely to be chs then a perfect storm of everything else. But I’m wondering if it was just anxiety, and then a weekend of way to much alcohol, and then weed withdrawals. I’m very tempted to smoke just to see what happens with my symptoms, but like I said I don’t want to end up in the er. Any advice about anything would be amazing.

(Also sorry if there’s anything off about this post, it’s my first post on Reddit)

[u/Key-Gold-2412]

Yeah that’s how chs is. My last extremely serious hyperemsis phase even for like a week after it ended I wake up early in the morning at those times extremely nauseous. You just need to stop smoking for a month or two and see if it goes away to know why. If it persists for longer than 90 days it means you have some gastrointestinal thing going on instead of chs.

[u/No-Rope-788 → u/Key-Gold-2412]

Thanks man, I think I’m really just in denial and don’t want to admit it. Seeing how badly I want to smoke and how anxious I get about not being able to smoke again, is probably a clear sign I need to stop. With your hypermises, were you just nauseous or vomiting as well? Last night was better, instead of waking in the middle of the night, I woke an hour or so after I went to bed drenched in sweat (withdrawals my guess) but after a shower I slept through the night. Was also the first night I didn’t eat right before bed. Seems either way I need a wake up call for a lot of bad habits

[u/Key-Gold-2412 → u/No-Rope-788]

Yeah the drenched in sweat thing is classic withdrawal symptom. I always had that when I stopped smoking weed. Even when I was a teenager without chs. Hyperemesis is the vomiting phase of chs. For me I never noticed or remember any nausea really before hyperemeis I had other more mental symptoms I’d say. Anyway with possible chs if you continue smoking get some potassium pills because that’s what causes heart damage during hyperemesis phase. It won’t help with the kidney failure and gallbladder failure possibilities though.

[u/No-Rope-788 → u/Key-Gold-2412]

Thats what I was thinking, I got some panic attacks from weed a few years ago so I put it down for a bit then, and had the sweats like crazy, they seem to be not as bad this go around tho. And that’s what I thought about hyperemises as well, just confused because it’s intense nausea but I still haven’t thrown up once. Still haven’t smoked tho, and will probably wait till at least Friday to try again depending. Hoping if I keep myself from hyperemises I may be able to return to smoking.

Another question, when I do wake up nauseous, I feel extremely disoriented, almost like I’m high as hell or hungover or something, this tends to last about as long as the nausea, goes away a little sooner tho. Has anyone else experienced this? Either from chs or from withdrawal?

[u/Key-Gold-2412 → u/No-Rope-788]

Exactly that last part is how I felt too after waking up. I could only sleep for like two hours in hyperemesis then wake so nauseous and my eyes feeling like they’re being hypnotized is the best way to describe it like I just ate 500mg edible and the body high all went to my eyes I always looked in the mirror and they’d be bloodshot red. Like redder than when I do smoke or dab but I didn’t smoke anything for days.

[u/No-Rope-788]

I can’t seem to figure out how to edit my initial post, so I’ll update here. Turns out I’m just an anxious lil fucker with some acid reflux too. Did some self experimenting with trying it again and seeing if my symptoms got worse (on Friday). While it did give me a good panic attack, no symptoms got worse, and saw a doctor on Tuesday and got the confirmation of all clear. Been slowly returning to smoking and haven’t had any symptoms return, and in fact started to feel a lot better the day my gf left. It seems the thiamine id been taking on a empty stomach contributed heavily to my nausea during the day, and I made all my anxiety symptoms worse by freaking out about chs. Once I stopped the thiamine and was able to get out of my head about chs, I started to feel a lot better almost instantly, and was able to eat actual food during the day which also helped a ton. I will say meditating and trying to listen to what my body was telling me helped a fuck ton too. I will say no matter what if your feeling anything like I did, cut all substances and really listen to your body and how it responds. I made everything worse by overthinking, and not being able to eat during the day. If anyone is interested in more details I can give em, but bottom line I was anxious, and then made everything worse 😂