Woman with ‘scromiting’ weed disorder details symptoms as experts warn of horrifying new cannabis side effect
A young woman’s harrowing battle with a little-known cannabis complication is sounding alarm bells after her life spiralled into repeated hospital trips, extreme weight loss and being fed through a tube — all while experts warn emergency rooms are seeing more cases like hers.
Sydni Collins, 23, started using a vape pen as a teen and smoked almost daily for years. What began as occasional nausea snowballed into episodes of relentless vomiting, crippling stomach pain and a terrifying phenomenon patients and medics now call “scromiting” — a terrifying mix of screaming and vomiting during intense bouts of illness.
