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Re:Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal? by opportune on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:30PM (#30251498)
To fight Cannabis Hyperemesis hopefully you can take/get prescribed Zofran or some other anti-nausea meds.

If you simply find your appetite to be gone, maybe it will help to exercise? This will also help with falling asleep. Remember some exercise is better than no exercise, so don’t burn yourself out going hard on your first day by getting an injury or discouraged.

For sleep I don’t have a good way to fight the REM rebound or difficulty falling aslee. IMO you should embrace the REM rebound as long as you don’t get severe nightmares or anything. It’s your body recovering from chronically low amounts of that specific phase of sleep.

If you’ve become accustomed to taking large amounts of cannabis to get “in the zone” you might want to try taking a large dose of caffeine instead. What’s large for you may depend on your tolerance. My tolerance is decently high and I would consider 300mg enough for this.

I’ve gone through this a couple times and it’s not that bad. The worst is the difficulty falling asleep which only takes a few days to fix, and the CHS which only lasts a couple days. The brain fog takes a while to fix though

Re:Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal? by throwaway_weed on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:16PM (#30252130)
I mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but I'm exercising a fair amount already, and in my case the traditional reward for a solid workout is a vape session so while I do intend to keep it up I'm sort of maxed out in terms of using it to compensate. Regarding sleep – in my commuter days the insomnia would wreck me but my schedule is a lot more flexible now so I think I'm going to try to ride it out with just some melatonin. Re caffeine – somewhat maxed out there too, I drink about a pint of high-grade Colombian iced coffee a day which is at this point a well-established personal upper threshold for well-being.

Thank you

Re:Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal? by eurasiantiger on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:26AM (#30255781)
Where did you get hyperemesis from? OP did not describe any symptoms.
Re:Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal? by opportune on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:56PM (#30264581)
It’s a common symptom in cannabis withdrawals. A lot of people are not even aware of it’s existence, since the legalization of cannabis in many areas it’s becoming a very common reason people go to the ER (without knowing that it’s linked to their cannabis use)
Re:Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal? by eurasiantiger on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:18PM (#30276092)
No it’s not. It’s not even a symptom of cannabis withdrawal, it’s a purported condition claimed to be correlated with extremely heavy cannabis use.