Little-Known Illness Tied to Smoking Weed

[BaitongBoy]

Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS):

CBS News

For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea.

“The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.

The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.

“They’ll often present to the emergency department three, four, five different times before we can sort this out,” said Dr. Kennon Heard, an emergency room physician at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado.

He co-authored a study showing that since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, emergency room visits diagnoses for CHS in two Colorado hospitals nearly doubled. In 2012, the state legalized recreational marijuana.

“It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.”

Outside of Colorado, when patients do end up in an emergency room, the diagnosis is often missed. Partly because doctors don’t know about CHS, and partly because patients don’t want to admit to using a substance that’s illegal. CHS can lead to dehydration and kidney failure, but usually resolves within days of stopping drug use. That’s what happened with Crowder, who has been off all forms of marijuana for seven months.

“Now all kinds of ambition has come back. I desire so much more in life and, at 37 years old, it’s a little late to do it, but better now than never,”he said.

CHS has only been recognized for about the past decade, and nobody knows exactly how many people suffer from it. But as more states move towards the legalization of marijuana, emergency room physicians like Dr. Heard are eager to make sure both doctors and patients have CHS on their radar.

[BaitongBoy]

In the lounge as a "For What It's Worth" piece...

Up to you...


“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

― Oscar Wilde

[BaitongBoy]

“Now all kinds of ambition has come back. I desire so much more in life and, at 37 years old, it’s a little late to do it, but better now than never,”he said.

I think he transposed the numerals...Probably 73 years old...

[wasabi]

That's a new one, never heard of it or anybody suffering from it, it maybe true but rare.

[BaitongBoy]

Not so rare, according to "Colorado"...Up to you, again...Your mileage may vary...

Hell, you can die from eating peanuts...

The hot showers "cure" most shit, save hard-ons...Heh...

[NZdick1983]

what? where? how? ay? weed hot showers??? I'm fooked... smoked the wacky dacky, on and off, for 10 + years..

37 and he's given up on life? wtf? I only have a few more years left then.

[BaitongBoy]

Luck with it...Heh...

[NZdick1983]

ahh well... won't be smoking that shit in Japan (that's for sure).. healthy healthy...

[BaitongBoy]

I can tell you'll go bonkers without it...Just the way you said it...

Bring a stray seed...

[NZdick1983]

Nah bro.. I'll be fine.

hmm I could swallow a packet of seeds then 'fertilize' our garden... yeah!

Nahhh... I'll be on my best behavior. A paragon of virtue, role model for my students...(don't laugh!!)

[BaitongBoy]

You'll do fine...Luck with it...Take care of Nana while you can...

Sigh...

[thaimeme]

Perhaps blown out of proportion by over sensationalized media.

More than likely random than widespread.

[Mr Earl]

Perhaps blown out of proportion by over sensationalized media.

More than likely random than widespread.

Most of the negative press about cannabis is sponsoreed by big pharma. They have the most to lose if someone in goverment decides to grow a fucking brain and realize prohibition not only doesn't work but actually makes the social drug addiction problems very much worse.

Cannabis is pretty darn safe compared to what the big pharma drug pushers are selling.

[BaitongBoy]

^ Yes, of course, there's that...

Wonder about the alcohol-related "figures"...

[NZdick1983]

I have a love/hate relationship with it. Whenever I quit smoking the green, there will be some twat on TV, or new research that promotes the benefits of the plant.

I wish they would make up their collective Scientific minds.. if it's good, or bad.

My own conclusion (snigger) is that it has its pros and cons.. but much less harmful than alcohol.

[John Lennon]

Dick
When are you booked for your trip to the Stairway to Heaven?
Bon voyage.

[NZdick1983]

^ Not booked yet mate... but much sooner than we first anticipated (3 - 6 months max).

[thaimeme]

[NZdick1983]

Use a water bong (or vaporizer, Jeff).. save yer lungs bro.

[Nicethaiza]

I dont know weed but I know nok weed its same thing? lol

[BaitongBoy]

Like "bird call?"...

[Nicethaiza]

nope...call bird...

[BaitongBoy]

^ Heh...Poetry, that is...But Icedick will say I'm stalking you...

[wasabi]

Cannabis shower, same cure for "Baby Shower" party

[Chico]

Perhaps hes smoking Spice. not cannabis.