Posted on 12/06/2017 6:44:37 AM PST by familyop
Chronic cannabis users are at risk of experiencing a horrifying new condition that is being reported at hospitals across the country. 'Scromiting,' doctors say, is becoming an all-too-familiar site at emergency rooms, with patients 'screaming and vomiting' as they turn up for help...'I've screamed out for death,' Chalfonte LeNee Queen, 48, told NPR after experiencing the terrifying illness. 'I've cried out for my mom, who's been dead for 20 years, mentally not realizing she can't come to me.'
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As the SNL Church Lady would say, “could this be.....SATAN?”
I smoked weed as a young man. It was fun/interesting for a brief time, but one day I had an epiphany. It was just making me progressively more stupid. I couldn’t think as clearly, my mind was cloudy for days after getting high, I was becoming slow and lazy. That all should seem pretty obvious, but 21 year-olds learn slowly.
Anyway, one day I decided to stop, and haven’t touched it since.
LOL! I’d like to see this.
Thanks.
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If I got too high, I would get deathly sick. Fortunately, I can only tolerate a small amount of weed. The last time I smoked it (1987), I went right to sleep.
We’ll probably all get it in the nursing home once it becomes legal.
If there is one thing most FReepers know nothing about, it’s marijuana.
This is real although described poorly. It has been commonly seen in hospitals for at least for 10-15 years although it often wrongly gets called cyclic vomiting syndrome instead.
These people who have Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome cost individual hospitals all over the land MILLIONS of dollars a year, as they no surprise are often not insured, plus they generally refuse to believe that cannabis is causing this, and they just keep consuming it, and getting re-admitted.
They have unrelenting vomiting, and often abdominal pain, and get dehydrated and have to be hospitalized on IV fluids. They get GI scans and tests and blood tests and it all adds up. They generally demand narcotics. Some patients have 10-20 expensive hospital admissions per year with this.
Once a person gets this it is like an allergy and keeps happening every time they “smoke up” over and over again. A hospital with just 10 of these people could end up with unpaid bills of 10 people x 10 admissions x $15,000 (at least!) = $1.5 million avoidable cost. This does not count the costs of separate bills like physicians. It is generally more.
The fastest “treatment” is hot showers. It works right away, although they get sick again as soon as they get out of the shower. The patient checks in, demands narcotics and anti-nausea drugs, then gets in the shower and is there half the day.
I think cannabis has been altered over the years, and contains different chemicals and quantities of chemicals, and as a result, this condition (Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome) is MUCH more common.
It is yet another good reason to never use cannabis.
“People should just stick to drinking liquor. Nobody’s ever puked their guts out and wound up in the ER from drinking too much. “
For a minute there I thought you were being facetious. ;)
It's a veritable epidemic. It just hasn't been widely reported until now.
Hey, at least alcohol doesn't cause vomiting, disorientation, screaming, violent assaults, domestic abuse, vehicular homicides, and chronic health problems. Oh, wait...
The clock is not going to be turned back concerning states dealing with MJ as they see fit. You don’t have to accept it but you should get used to it.
Not to mention the drain on resources and the time spent explaining over and over again why they will not receive narcotics in the hospital. The other side to this is we are now having to tailor pain treatments for chronic marijuana users. When they injure themselves narcotics are not very effective to control their pain so we have to initiate protocols with things like ketamine (an IV anesthetic) to try to control their pain. Marijuana is causing significant chronic health problems that no one wants to admit
Didn’t have a fish tank, but psychedelics made the walls & ceiling very entertaining. 8>)
Legalizing mj. What could possibly go wrong?
I’m sorry I was unaware it’s a competition. Of course other things cause chronic health problems We were discussing the ones caused by marijuana. Other kids do it to is not an excuse for bad behavior
Isn't that because the user gets the "munchies" and eats too much, too fast?
No this goes on for days and is likely related to effects on gut motility. People end up with numerous ER visits and hospital admissions
Good point. I've asked people who were concerned about the increase in autism what the drug use history of the parents was. Of course, I was told that they knew people who had a autistic child that the parents had never used drugs and that they weren't that kind of people.
But what do I know other than the advertisement that showed eggs frying in a pan. Comparing that to the brain on drugs. Plus, the scans of brains of long-term pot users having holes in them.
“It is yet another good reason to never use cannabis.”
I would suggest it says its never a good idea to use too much cannabis for too long. Too much of anything isn’t good for us.
I’m a medical marijuana patient in Florida.
After 20+ years of taking prescribed Pharma drugs as prescribed for depression & anxiety I gradually just got worse. I started using cannabis in 2015 out of desperation & got better. Granted its not for everyone, but I am so thankful it works for me.
At first I thought it read “Scrotuming”....Ewwww!
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