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CHS/CVS Question

I have been vomiting on and off since June. It started with cold turkey quitting Lexapro and has not gone away. I am suddenly unable to smell certain scents without vomiting, see gross things (I'm a horror movie fan and I replayed a movie I saw and had no problem with before and the gross scene was suddenly too much for my stomach), sickness on long car rides (anything over an hour it seems), herky jerky movement, you name it I get sick from it. I have not had sex in over a year and have been repeatedly tested and am not pregnant.

This has landed me in the emergency room twice for dehydration, I am going bankrupt dealing with this, and every time the doctors land on a solution it doesn't seem like they want to consider anything else. At the start two different doctors SWORE it was my morning Bupropion ER (XL) so my clinical psychiatrist lowered my dose even though the it made no sense for it to be that. That hasn't helped and now I am under-medicated and my symptoms have gotten worse which suggests that the "it's stress" option may have been right. Then they scheduled me for an endoscopy and now the sworn answer is CHS. I smoked pot almost daily for years as a teenager. I now have a medical marijuana license and use it for my PTSD and to help me sleep. Also, it's the only thing reliably killing ym nausea and helping me eat since I have managed to throw up every medication they gave me and have been given more Reglan than it turns out is healthy for me to have taken. I have stopped using edibles multiple times in the course of this nonsense and it hasn't helped.  On top of that not a single thing they list for symptoms fits other than "uses pot" and "vomits". I have a habit of getting really hot and sweaty before an episode and the hot showers they swear will help make me projectile vomit.

I'm willing to watch my mental health utterly tank by taking away the last thing I had to calm down for ten days to disprove this theory, but I need someone to help me know if I'm being logical or just frustrated because two months of puking really ruins you physically and mentally it turns out. I feel like they're just going with the easy answer that requires no work. All the other options they had that they wanted to test are now forgotten including abdominal migraines (I have suffered from migraines for 24 years and they always come with stomach issues). Can a doctor help me to know if I am just being stubborn or if I need to look for a second opinion?
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