Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I don’t play one on TV. I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Express Inn last night. This post is based on personal experience & research only.
HeyHey Sportsfans,
Shortform: If you or someone you know has been throwing up a lot lately, and smokes a lotta weed, this shit is for real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndrome
Longform: I smoked pretty much all the weed I could get my hands on from since I was 15 until I got hit with this shit. Reefer, as the late great Muddy Waters said, relaxed my body and eased my mind.
However, when I moved to the PacificNorthWest, and was able to get ahold of really GOOD, STRONG ganja on the reg, I started experiencing nausea in the mornings. Not every day, but at least once a week. It didn’t seem to correspond to my drinking or stress or anything else as far as I could tell. I then started throwing up. This got worse, and worse, and WORSE. It got to the point that, at its worst, I would experience repeated cycles of nausea, vomiting and exhaustion lasting about 30-40 minutes each for 4-5 hours. The only relief was in taking long, hot showers (but the symptoms would usually return afterwards). I would throw up everything in my stomach, then stomach acid and bile, then dry heave. It got to the point that I would drink warm water so I would have something to throw up. Real FUN STUFF, folks.
My regular doctor tried putting me on protein pump inhibitor drugs & other courses of treatment to no avail. After getting an esophageal tear from throwing up so much and vomiting up blood, I went to a specialist and had an endoscope. After the endoscope detected no abnormalities, the gut doc asked me if I smoked a lot of weed. I replied in the affirmative. He then said that he’s been seeing a lot of what I was dealing with and prescribed that I quit the reefer, immediately.
Now, seeing as how 1) weed had been seemingly helping my digestion for the past 20 odd years and, 2) the U.S. medical establishment has been complicit in publishing a slew of lies shat out by the pack of puritanical pudfuckers crafting U.S. drug policy & blaming cannabis use on everything from brain damage to poor dental hygiene, I was skeptical. Then, after reading the wiki page above and articles like this: https://www.leafly.com/news/health/what-is-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome from otherwise weed-friendly sources, I decided there might be something to this. So, after some false starts and backsliding, I quit for about a month and a half. The vomiting and nausea stopped.
Of course, being the inveterate bonghead that I am, I started smoking again. I have found through trial and error that if I watch my use, and smoke weed with low to no CBD (thank you WA state for your labeling regulations!) I can enjoy a bong hit or five in the evening and not feel like I’m dying later.
I apologize if it is out of line for me to be posting stuff like this so soon after joining the commentariat, as well as for my crappy formatting, word choice, etc. I just want to prevent anyone from going through what I did if possible.
Fume en bonne sante!
I do love watching the Canadian VisionTV channel. It’s a faith-based platform that features tons of detective shows whereby relentlessly rational thinking leads to fact-based conclusions that result in criminals being incarcerated. If only.
I watched a random YT vid and I’ll share it with you. It’s one of those silly ones where moms look at a TV chef making a recipe. I laughed out loud when I heard, “this looks like when I make soup for my dogs” which is a great line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFN2g1FBgVA
I saw Soup For Dogs open for Camper Van Beethoven at the Vic in ’87
Despite the song title, The Soup Dragons had another engagement and couldn’t attend. LIARS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljbcRu3tiU
I saw them in Toronto with “Catherine Wheel” as the opener, like 30 years ago
This is a crime against humanity.
So…any update?
I pretty much still am where I was 5 or so years ago, which is a good place.
I’m able to keep the symptoms at bay with watching what and how much I smoke.
Yeah, still infected and runny, but the doctor says the antibiotics should kick in soon, so the testicle pain should stop in due ti
Oh, you’re not talking to me, please ighnore
It’s all that goat fucking.
TFW you’ve been used as a political prop and get a bottle of water and a cold McDonald’s cheesburger in return:
I have a two-stage deadline to lose weight. First deadline is this. Failsafe is September 10, the actual season opener.
I thought step 1 was “steal underpants”
Tell me to screw off if you like-is this a preliminary to a Gastric thingy?
Nah, he’s trying to hook up with 9/11 widows at a 25th Anniversary mixer.
I’ve heard that the 9/11 widows app has you swipe ‘stay put’ or ‘jump right in’.
STOP READING MY EMAILS!!!!
glad to hear you found a way to manage it. My brother has same condition and learned to cutback and switch to vapes too. the hot shower tactics even work for kidney stones by overwhelming the spinal chord bandwidth. Hard to have that much hot water at home but if can make it to a hotel its a real relief
Gatoraids is one of the funniest names on DFO.
Shempions Bananacakes this morning.
Atalanta hosted Dortmund, trailing 2-0 after the 1st leg. Atalanta scored 3 times to go up one in aggregate, Dortmund ties it back up. Stoppage time, VAR confirms a penalty kick, Atalanta wins 4-1 (4-3 in aggregate), and is on to the Sweet Sixteen (I think that’s what they call it), but they gotta play either Arsenal or Bayern Munich, so good luck to the Falalcons.
You’re just lucky you didn’t graduate on to heroin addiction.
The clear and obvious next step, yes.
After that it’s listening to Strawberry Alarm Clock on a regular basis.
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Yep. Really dodged a bullet, there…
I don’t smoke as much as I used to, so I doubt this will happen to me, but YIKES!!! This seems very unfair. Why can’t we have good clean fun without consequences?
Yup. When I found out what was going on, my reaction was pretty much:
Speaking of vomit.
Which cabinet post is he getting promoted into?
The most cop-looking motherfucker.
Fucking Florida.
Ran across this quote. Made me think of last night…
“When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now? Do not the nightly guards placed on the Palatine Hill–do not the watches posted throughout the city–does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men–does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in thus most defensible place–do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have any effect upon you? Do you not feel that your plans are detected? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which every one here possesses of it?”
-Cicero
/reads title
//slowly reads article in increasing horror
Yeah, it was not a good situation.
The worst part was not knowing what was wrong. I was worried I had stomach cancer or something like that…
Thinking back on his situation & his medical issues, I sometimes wonder if Kurt Cobain was suffering from something like this.
Or were you simply referring to my shambolic writing “style”?
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So what you’re saying…
NOPE. Not at all!
Drugs are AWESOME, however:
“There are certain people who are meant to do drugs…and I’m one of them.”
To quote my friend, “Marijuana is fine, but if you smoke your weight in it, you will die.”
Glad to hear you’re over that, sounds just awful.
But was it good for weight loss?
YUP! (although the “moving more & eating less” method remains unbeaten & is a lot less unpleasant)
Thanks Sir. Speaking only for myself I think sharing experience like this is always helpful. If it helps just one person it’s worth it in my book. Be well Buddy.
Thanks, 2Pack.
I just want to get the word out, so people know about this and don’t have to deal with the barfathons & worrying that I did.
Between this and Ozempic it has been a great few years for BIG VOMIT
And I already puke a decent amount, without weed or anti-fat-bastard-drugs!
I cannot remember when was the last time I vomited. Had to have been around 20 years ago or more. Something I ate didn’t agree with me as I recall.
I will go to ridiculous lengths to keep from puking. Too much to drink, got the bedspins? Put one foot on the floor and keep your eyes staring straight ahead. I could never be bulimic, ugh!
Mounjaro doesn’t make me throw up, but for a few days after injection I need to stay close to a bathroom.
This makes me want to go get high right now.
I just put in an order.
Weed use is cool, kids.
You’ll only get the munchies…
Holy shit, you guys actually published it. I forgot I even wrote this…
Must be scraping the bottom of the content barrel, eh?
Yeah with the mystery series wrapping up we had nothing ready and I found this in the “pending” folder from five years ago. Thanks for planning so far ahead!
And we do actually read it. Although as most know, I’m mostly on here for the pictures.
always, have you seen the writing around these parts
Barrels have voted overwhelmingly to sponsor a “DFO Day” because of how much attention we’ve given them.