• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, it’s a hot new thing so it’s definitely getting overprescribed. I got diagnosed with it after some intermittent vomiting with lots of nausea. After the symptoms still persisted after six months without smoking any, they started to take me a little more seriously. I’ve also known friends who’ve had issues misdiagnosed.

    At this point, it seems like if you’ve smoken marijuana and have any stomach issue, they’ll say it’s CHS

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I promise, it was just a few lines during my appointment, and he settled on cyclical vomiting syndrome even quicker ;_;

      The questions were like, “Do you smoke? No? Do hot baths help? No? Oh you’ve heard of it! You read a paper? Oh I mostly do papers blah blah blah” then he asked more questions and it was just “Yeah you almost undoubtedly have cyclical vomiting syndrome, but I want to do an upper endoscopy just to make sure it’s not gastritis or cancer or something horrible. You have textbook definitions of cyclical vomiting syndrome” and when I got home and read them it was like. Yep! Sure fucking do.

      But I get why he asked, cause the two do seem to have a lot of overlapping symptoms.