CHS is an unpleasant side effect of a person’s plan to chill out with their favorite cannabis product of choice. After years of heavy cannabis use, a small but growing number of people will suddenly find themselves experiencing waves of nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting so violently that it’s accompanied by a terrifying scream, hence the nickname “Scromiting” — a screaming vomit.
Oh, it was “scream” vomiting. I expected it to somehow be another word.
It was originally called BLAAARGHAAARAHAHARRRGGBLLLL
I clicked because I had no idea. I learned something new today.
exorcist vomiting. i was confused thought it had something to do with scrotum, screaming vomiting.
Not vomiting from the scrotum. Well, that’s a relief to read.
So it’s not as gross as it sounds?
Merely vomiting during a death scream
Vice is no longer reputable news as it went bankrupt and was snatched up by venture capital. Take everything with a grain of salt, and maybe some Dramamine for the nausea.
That’s why I only post their articles with reputable sources and stay away from the music/lifestyle drama. I don’t like their new direction but I do like the reporting style. Their health and science stuff is backed up pretty well, the biggest issue being their occasional use of old source material.
It wasn’t when the cofounder shoved a dildo up his ass on air to own the libs?
I just get scarinoia and the scrunchies. Occasionally I get the squiggles, if I find something particularly scrillarious.
Jokes on them, I’ve been scromiting since I was a kid. I don’t know any other way.
Who the hell comes up with this crap?
Scrotal vomit is no joke
I did.
I don’t know about this.
I’d like to see some stats on how many chronic users just suddenly get this, because I don’t know a single person, but when I was younger, in my teens and early 20’s, often people who tried weed for the first time were also hammered as fuck. And that’s when they’d have an “overdose” and they would get dizzy and start vomiting a ton.
That only happened with really high THC products and noob users doing relatively high doses while under the effects of alcohol.
So I wouldn’t be surprised to see the same happen to a population when weed is legamised. People who have been drinking all their lives and never touched “drugs” (except for the ones the doctors give, even if their opiates they don’t count as drugs drugs to conservatives), and maybe they get curious. But since they’ve never done it, they don’t know the proper amount and are a bit anxious so they have a few glasses of wine, and then proceed to smoke/eat something which would drop a daily toker, they get sick, go to the er, don’t mention the alcohol but do mentions cannabis, and the result is “cannabis hyperemesis syndrome” diagnosis.
Tldr that’s more or less just propaganda
The published reports say it mostly happens to chronic users. Admittedly studies are difficult because of mixed policies about cannabis, but it’s been reported from ER departments in multiple countries, some where cannabis is legal/descriminalized. If someone shows up to an ER (at least in Canada) with overdose symptoms, they would have a blood test for alcohol poisoning, ruling it out. Given that, and the volume of papers on it, it warrants more research.
I believe it because pot and ketamine are the two drugs that make me nauseous at minimum. I’ve smoked more than my fair share because I thought the pain was what made it cool, but it either had no effect or made me ill. After one terrible, sickly day, I quit. CBD is the same for me.
with overdose symptoms, they would have a blood test for alcohol poisoning, ruling it out
Yes, but for them to even think it’d be alcohol poisoning would require vastly higher alcohol amounts and it’s not actually what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about being on a very normal level of inebriation, one that doctors would definitely dismiss, especially after like 3-4 hours of not having had a drink and throwing up so much.
Pot doesn’t make me nauseous at all as long as I don’t smoke it after drinking. I can drink and smoke, but I can’t go a long time without smoking (resetting my tolerance to zero), the have several drinks and then a really heavy smoke, I’d become nauseous for sure.
Because alcohol doesn’t just feel like it’s “boosting” the high. Having alcohol in your system actually changes how your liver processes cannabinoids. Ever so slightly. But like how if you’re doing cocaine, if you have even a beer or two, the nature of the high changes, because then you’re getting like cocaethylene from your liver because there’s alcohol in your system as well. So something similar definitely happens with cannabinoids. I read a study saying how events small amounts of alcohol will make it so your blood will actually have higher levels of THC and it’s metabolites than without any.
But I still can’t explain why the science seems to say it happens to chronic users. I’d really need to hear them defining chronic, so it’s not like high school kids who stared smoking weed last year and then this year starter going to partied with alcohol and end up vomiting (but again not having high alc levels so it’s not diagnosed as alc poisoning) and then that makes the stats go up? Idk.
But still, seems like utter bullshit the way it’s presented. As if it can just happen to a person that randomly they’ll start “scromiting” from weed when they’ve been smoking for 10-20 years and haven’t changed lifestyle or habits.
But yeah, nausea does happen more with strains that have utterly high THC without any CBD. I grew this one THC/CBD strain since before it was cool, and it was about 50/50 thc cbd. Awesome for drinking, didn’t give nausea at all and I could even give my friends a puff or two without them getting too stoned or having nausea
These reports are based on patients presenting to the ER with cyclical vomiting. After charts are taken and tox reports are done, they’ve found all of them are habitual to chronic cannabinoid users. It usually happens in the morning and it’s unrelated to other factors.
When presenting to the emergency room with possible signs of intoxication, poisoning, or overdose (the scromiting,) it’s standard to do a toxicology report, which is how they can rule out alcohol.
Vice has a vibe, it’s informal, the tone isn’t meant to be taken seriously, but I like it because it’s different, and their health and science reporting is always well sourced. If you check out the source in the article it links to a paper.
Just because there’s been so much bullshit around weed doesn’t mean it’s perfect. I did a bit of dealing back in the day, tried different weed every which way, and it’s a net negative for me.
But all we know is that it’s somehow linked to this persistent vomiting syndrome, it could be certain strains, genetic, or some entirely different reason. It’s as important to question the reports as it is to use them to figure out what’s going on.
