Symptoms of the marijuana withdrawals

dude my name is William Bowyer and im 14 and I just stoped smoking weed last weeek and anexity is taking over me I cant stand it ive been have anexity attacks and stuff for almost 4 days now what did you do how did you conrol it and how long did you have to go through this

thats really good advice and im going to try that thx for the help

Im 27 years old..Ive quit smoking weed myself recently, its been about 3 weeks and its been over a month since tobacco. I smoked cigarrettes for 10 years, and started smoking weed heavily everyday for about a year. I would mix the two substances in joints sometimes or smoke seperatley. I know a year isnt that long compared to most of you but yes, i definatly felt "addicted" whether psychologically or NOT, i needed it. It helped me escape reality, and thats what i felt i needed, and even at times right now, i wish i could and i want to smoke weed so bad (even more than tobacco!) and they say tobacco is as hard to quit as heroin!! nope, for me its weed, i fell in love with the escape and the imagination. I felt like it helped me through extremely "hard" times...but now i look back and honestly, the truth is, it caused most of those "hard" times or made them seem WAY worse than what they were. My judgements werent the right ones and now im paying for them. I felt like it took the edge off for certain situations that i needed it for but once i started smoking weed heavily, my life went down hill...quick. I guess my perception was way off. It sounds dramatic, but yes with some people it can be and it creeps up on you. I was like a different person and it didnt seem like a big deal at the time. I decided to quit after my brain felt like it was "overthinking" over worrying about stupid things and my once perfect skin, is now in recovery! I never had acne till i smoked weed. Its worth every little side effect of quitting. Ive been irratible, night sweats, DEPRESSION and anxiety off and on for a weeks. I just want my old positive self back.. I feel like my drive for life is slowly coming back.

this is all a load of bull!!!! ive been smoking about half an ounce a week 4 about a year and already i can feel how much worse it is on me i cant now relax. if u like marijuana then fair enouf but i find it awful on my life! i think the govurnment should never legalize marijuana because it has a bad influence on peoples minds and situations.
i have recently lost my girlfriend because of me and my marijuana smoking. without it i dnt kno what mite of happened.
all i want 2 say is smoke weed and im sure u will feel end act like a total moron just like me too!!!

Hey! My name is Jason and I smoke some reallllly potent marijuana and I did it on Wednesday around 2. It is Sunday and Im still feelin distant, out of place, not much emotion, I feel time is messed a bit, and Im scared. It was my first time and I took alot. I keep gettin all these horror stories online and Im just wonderin what to believe. Its hard to focus and concentrate.

My friend says it happen to him once... it was a bad trip and to relax and it will go away way sooner then I think.

Its my first time


It is now comin to Wednesday and I can eat right now and I seem to be improvin


GWF <3.
God Bless <3.

hi,
my name is haylee, i have been smoking mull since i was 13, day in day out, before school, during school and after school. my mother never minded me smoking because i never used it in a bad way, so i was always doing it. it was so easily avaliable to me and i never thought of addiction. it was one day that i realised that i could not go a full day without it,i was addicted.

i am now 17 years old and im known as a pot head,it sux, most of my friends accept it, but some dont,and i hate it, i have had chronic anxiety attacks-so bad i thought i was dying and nearly called the ambulance-even though that sared me so badly, i still could wake up and have a cone, i know that with mull it is more-so mind over matter, but why arent the attacks enough to make me stop?????? does anyone have ideas to help the cravings stop, i am so determined but it has me wrapped around its dependant finger.
HELP
cheers. Haylee
PeAcE

I just want to let everyone know that life does exist without pot. I've been quit for 6 months now, experienced a bit of insomnia but that disappeared after about the first month. I was a chronic in the worst way I have been smoking pot daily since I was 15, I am 20 now. That's 5 years of living life in an absolute fog, I've tried to quit before many times. I am not sure why it worked this time, I just started to see it as pointless I quess. After a while it drowns out everything else, I quit for mental clarity and because I wanted to go back to school. I always found it impossible to focus and read when I was getting high all the time, it really affected my attention span. Before it seemed almost impossible to picture my life without it. I never realized that after a certain amount of time I would forget all about what it was like to be high. I never thoght that the desire would ever go away when it was so constant before. Getting clean really is like waking up from a dream I quit alcohol recently too. I was a little depressed for a while after I quit pot, but the important thing is to get through it and drag yourself up out of that slump. Now I feel like I can actually look forward to the future and I have a lot more motivation than I had. I have truly become a different person and now I'm waging war on tobacco. My brother was diagnosed with cancer so I've decided to cut the cigarettes lose as well. Sometimes it's just the right time, and when one door closes anouther opens, good luck.

Hi. And thank you all for your messages.

I smoked marijuana for approximately 6-8 months. In that time I might have missed 5 days, other than that I was stoned every chance I got. No matter how much weed we bought it was always gone the next day. Whether it was a gram or $100 worth.

I cut down a little last week and then two mornings I got up and had to throw up before going about my normal routine. I am now completely quit I haven't had any since last Thursday.

And I've been horrible ill ever since. My back hurts, for the first few days I was throwing up, I can't eat, I have no appetite, I'm nausious, phlem in my throat, sweating, hot/cold flashes and horrible irritability.

I didn't know it was withdrawl. I didn't know if I gave it up I'd have these problems. This is so hard. I hope it ends soon. Funny though one of my reasons for quitting was so I could give my daughter the attention she deserves and instead all I do is scream at her.

Thank you all for sharing your experiences, at least now I can put myself at ease about why this is going on. I think not knowing the cause was the worst thing about it.

PS-I had to quit for my daughter and because I spend every cent I can on marijuana which means that the bills weren't being paid and I was hardly buying groceries.

I wish I had known all this stuff before I started cause I never would have.

I've been browsing all 10 pages of this thread for a few days now- and I keep seeing the same symptoms as my own recurring post after post. I've been dealing with these 'symptoms' for some time now- off and on. It's only been recently that I've begun to realize that most times I've begun to feel this miserable has been around the time I've had a 'dry spell' where I've run out and haven't been able to get more for weeks at a time.
All along I thought it was something significantly more serious- everything from a cold/flu to a serious condition like MS. I can't recall how many times I've gone to see the doctor about my symptoms, or how many times I've been prescribed antibiotics as a result. Before Christmas I was REALLY sick- almost completely immobilized due to fatigue. I was prescribed strong antibiotics used to treat staph infections- and had bloodwork done. The bloodwork all came back negative- and the antibiotics did next to nothing.
One symptoms I have not seen listed here, however, and thus- I'm not even sure whether it applies or whether my situation stems from something else- is sores on my neck and scalp- and occasionally my face. This is why my doctor prescribed me the antibiotics. Usually they feel like a cyst under the skin, and are occasionally itchy- and become inflamed if I scratch/poke at them.
Everything else, however, is bang-on. The headaches, the lightheadedness/dizziness, the depression, the extreme anxiety (which I tend to suffer from anyways), the paranoia/hypochondria, the lack of appetite, the irritability, the tightness/pain in my neck and lower back. I have it all.

I've been 'dry' for about 2 weeks now, and really began feeling symptoms last Wednesday night- specifically aches & pains in my legs, fatigue, and the lightheadedness. I've woken up wanting to puke- though I haven't. All-in-all, this 'feels' identical to every other time I've been 'sick', and I've jumped through many many many hoops to try and identify what the source of the problem may infact be. I'm so thankful for having found this thread and hear that this isn't some strange phenomenon that I'm suffering through myself. I even went and had a root canal that I had been putting off for years (admittedly, it needed to be done) thinking that it was the cause of my problems- causing recurring infections causing me to feel the way I have.

I echo what others on this thread have said- had I known that this is how difficult it would be to stop smoking weed, I never would have started in the first place! And in my case- it isn't even a case of deciding to stop... I just ran out and haven't been able to get more. I've read on here people suggesting to ween yourself off it to try and prevent these withdrawal symptoms- and I certainly would, but that simply isn't an option for me. And so- I suffer.

While this thread has given me insight into what is actually going on, unfortunately those closest to me aren't buying it. They tell me I'm going through caffeine withdrawal- but how can that be since I've consumed caffeine regularly for the past two weeks? Hard to feel withdrawal from something you still consume regularly! I'm already irritable as $h!+ and get easily pissed off at anyone that even looks at me the wrong way... and the last thing I need is for people to tell me how I'm f***in' feeling and tell me I'm wrong in my assessment. granted, they are all big weedheads too- but I feel like I'm doing battle just to stand by my findings and my opinions. I even sent them a link to this thread and was criticized for it because it's "just a f***ing posting- go ask a doctor" Ya- I've asked many doctors in the last 2 years that I've been having these withdrawal symptoms (again, off and on- not constantly.. if I had these symptoms constantly for two years then I'd be posting a suicide note instead), and these are the same brilliant minds that throw some antibiotics at me and gladly charge my insurance for their 'professional diagnosis'. Ya right.

Yes, these symptoms are real. That doesn't mean they affect everyone! I've gone through 'dry spells' before and haven't had any problems- but those were in my early days of smoking up... as time goes on and your body becomes more and more used to it, it can affect you differently. I'm sure there are plenty of other factors- like diet, like genetics, like lifestyle, that all contribute to whether or not going 'cold turkey' from smoking weed on a day-to-day basis will result in such symptoms. But as soon as someone even hints at something negative about pot- suddenly you become the f***in' enemy. In a world where people claim that you can 'get cancer from anything these days'- why the f*** do they believe to their very cores that weed is the exception?

I really wish I knew how long I can expect these symptoms to persist. Everything I've read on this thread seems to indicate anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. I suppose I'm in it for the long haul then- especially since it's unlikely I'll be picking up any more. I'm not advocating not using weed- because it has admittedly helped me through some very trying times in my life, but there is a limit to how much the body can physically handle- and I crossed that limit a long time ago.

Moderation is the key- like anything in life, too much of anything is not good in the long-run.

These posts have been extremely helpful, thanks to all for posting.

I am a 21yr old male, have been a regular(daily pretty much) user of MJ for about 2-4 years. Recently, about 5 days ago i stopped smoking cold turkey because i got a good internship this summer, and might have a drug test. Anyways, some of my later smoking experiences were very unpleasureable... heart palpitations, increased heart beat i did throw up as well once, i felt like i was having a heart attack... 5 hours after i smoked i had a roomate take me to the hospital. They ran a bunch of tests.. ekg chest xray etc. The xray said my heart was fine... but the EKG had some problems. I have had another one since, and both times my pulse was around 120-130 because i was so nervous. The doctor in both cases said that the EKG was probably off due to my heart rate. I will be getting a 2-d echo and a 24-hour holter just to make sure everything is groovy. BTW im about 5'9 160 pounds in pretty good physical condition.

I have no desire to go back to smoking whatsoever, no insomnia either, and no real anger. However, i have waves of overwhelming anxiety come over me at random times, where my heart beats fast and hard when im not smoking!! Also i become emotional sometimes for no real reason and start tearing up... something that never happens to me. I have never experienced these things in the past... in fact i would be the last person my friends/family would think this could happen to. I'm always saying how stress can kill people, and they should be more laid back. I was wondering if these symptoms can be caused by MJ withdrawal... or if i have something more along the lines of an anxiety disorder. I suppose, my body is so used to having THC in the system, that its creating a chemical inbalance thats throwing me off. I do have some xanax type drugs which were prescribed for me, but i try not to use them... Its only been 5 days since i last smoked... do you think this could be a result of me stopping cold turkey? If so.. how long do you think this will last? Any advice/comments/suggestions would be wonderful.