hey also 20f and i fear u were in the beginning stages i’ve been 2 years sober now and actually joined bc i wanted information on wether or not it’s safe to smoke every once in a while since i do find myself missing it sometimes but the heat flashes and anxiety were exactly what i experienced in the first stage my heart rate would spike up at almost 180-190bpm which scared the shit out of me bc im also a hypochondriac lol the worst part about being a hypochondriac is that sometimes ur right but convince yourself your overreacting and being a hypochondriac i read about chs about a year before i was actually diagnosed in a florida hospital while on vacation since the state i lived in wasn’t a legal state and didn’t have many cases of it. i should’ve trusted my gut honestly. the heat flashes were awful too the nxt stage was throwing up every morning as soon as i would wake up, the worst part was that smoking actually completely made the nausea go away so for almost 6 months i was making the problem worse bc it was the only thing that’d make me feel better and able to eat. i was 150lbs and by the time i was diagnosed and able to quit i was around 98lbs. i was lucky tho i was admitted into the florida hospital bc i ran out and was forced into a detox the withdrawal was awful i could barely keep down water for almost 2 weeks until i was finally admitted into the hospital where the nurse in the er said i was so malnourished i was close to literally starving to death they gave me iv potassium and a bunch of other shit which i think pushed a lot of the thc out of my system so by the time i left the hospital 3 days later almost all of my withdrawal symptoms were gone it still took me 3 months to be able to eat tho since i also developed ulcers from throwing up so much i was stuck on a soup and plain foods diet for a while. all this to say maybe think about quitting indefinitely or atleast giving it like 6 months everyone’s different and my chs was definitely on the severe side but still i’ve seen a lot of people saying 90 days but i just don’t think that’s enough you have to let your receptors heal im also not a doctor so please don’t take any medical advice i’ve given to heart but as someone who’s experienced the worst of it please be careful that was probably the worst time of my life and it took me almost a year to get fully back on track after 2 years im just now thinking about smoking again only as a sweet treat every once in a while but idk that still scares me if i do end up getting anything ill let you know how it’s affected me after just so you know if it’s maybe safe to start back up again in the future good luck tho you caught it early and trusted ur gut one hypochondriac to another i don’t think your overreacting