I'm new to the site. I thought I would share my story with you all.
I've smoked since I was 16 and now I'm 48. About six years ago I started smoking heavy. Then one day I woke up in terrible abdominal pain. I was vomitting up acid. I was taken to the hospital and tested. They found nothing. So, every two months I'm in the hospital with the same pain and vomitting. The only thing that stops it all is pain medication like Morphine. They give me that and the pain stops and I go home. This has been going on for 6 years.
Also, I had trouble with bowel movements. They were dark and tiny marbles. I have to push to see if I have to go. I couldn't feel it where I should have. I felt it in my abdomin. I was nauseated everytime I had to go. Then I started being nauseated every time I got up in the mornings.
Last time I was in they put me on a Fentynol patch and it has taken the nausea away and any pain I may have felt thru the day. It hasn't stopped the episodes where I have to go the hospital but I can function now. It was awful. Bowel movements in the middle of the night, nausea..
Now, you're probably wondering how much I smoked? I would sit down cause I'm sure there aren't too many of you that have smoked the amount I have. I was smoking 4-5 ounces a month. The cost was 800 - $1000.00 a month for six years. That's $75,000.00 in 6 years.
Well, my wife has been great and she's the one that has taken me in to the hospital every two months for 6 years.
I decided I had to quit or I was eventually going to lose her. I was right because she told me she couldn't handle it anymore, so I quit.
It will be a month this Sat. Now, if anyone would have told me that I'd go thru withdrawal, I would have told them they were nuts! Well, let me tell you. I have had the worst time. Mood swings like you wouldn't believe. Crying one minute, manic the next. Manic to the point that I almost felt high. The sweating is unreal. I'd be sitting here with it pouring off my face. This happened for at least 3 weeks. I'm still sweating while I'm sleeping but even that is subsiding. The sweating was unreal. I'd wake up with a literal pool of sweat on the sheets. Everything was soaked. I'd have to change three times a night. Now it's only once a night and I'm not sweating thru the day anymore. Mind you if I go out, after about 1/2 hour of shopping or whatever, I'll break out into a sweat. The mood swings are still there and that I find difficult cause one day I feel great and then the next day I feel like I don't know why I'm even alive. The one thing that's amazing is my bowel movements have gone back to normal and thru the day. Now, it's only been 4 weeks and usually it's about every 7 weeks I end up in the hospital. So, I'm anxious to see if pot is the reason for it? I'm starting to think it is since my bathroom routine has changed.
Anyway, I just wanted everyone to see what I'm going thru and that if you're going thru it too...you're not alone.
Also, this site has helped me to understand it better. I ended up on the guitar forums one night and met this guy who's been supporting me in emails. He doesn't know how much he's helped me. I think he's a cousellor of some sort. He hasn't really revealed if he's been thru it to but he sure know's what I'm going thru. He's been truly amazing. Imagine, someone I don't even know taking the time to help me. That means the world to me.
I find a lot of people on this site experienced similar things after they quit. I experienced these things before I quit. Interesting.
I've smoked since I was 16 and now I'm 48. About six years ago I started smoking heavy. Then one day I woke up in terrible abdominal pain. I was vomitting up acid. I was taken to the hospital and tested. They found nothing. So, every two months I'm in the hospital with the same pain and vomitting. The only thing that stops it all is pain medication like Morphine. They give me that and the pain stops and I go home. This has been going on for 6 years.
Also, I had trouble with bowel movements. They were dark and tiny marbles. I have to push to see if I have to go. I couldn't feel it where I should have. I felt it in my abdomin. I was nauseated everytime I had to go. Then I started being nauseated every time I got up in the mornings.
Last time I was in they put me on a Fentynol patch and it has taken the nausea away and any pain I may have felt thru the day. It hasn't stopped the episodes where I have to go the hospital but I can function now. It was awful. Bowel movements in the middle of the night, nausea..
Now, you're probably wondering how much I smoked? I would sit down cause I'm sure there aren't too many of you that have smoked the amount I have. I was smoking 4-5 ounces a month. The cost was 800 - $1000.00 a month for six years. That's $75,000.00 in 6 years.
Well, my wife has been great and she's the one that has taken me in to the hospital every two months for 6 years.
I decided I had to quit or I was eventually going to lose her. I was right because she told me she couldn't handle it anymore, so I quit.
It will be a month this Sat. Now, if anyone would have told me that I'd go thru withdrawal, I would have told them they were nuts! Well, let me tell you. I have had the worst time. Mood swings like you wouldn't believe. Crying one minute, manic the next. Manic to the point that I almost felt high. The sweating is unreal. I'd be sitting here with it pouring off my face. This happened for at least 3 weeks. I'm still sweating while I'm sleeping but even that is subsiding. The sweating was unreal. I'd wake up with a literal pool of sweat on the sheets. Everything was soaked. I'd have to change three times a night. Now it's only once a night and I'm not sweating thru the day anymore. Mind you if I go out, after about 1/2 hour of shopping or whatever, I'll break out into a sweat. The mood swings are still there and that I find difficult cause one day I feel great and then the next day I feel like I don't know why I'm even alive. The one thing that's amazing is my bowel movements have gone back to normal and thru the day. Now, it's only been 4 weeks and usually it's about every 7 weeks I end up in the hospital. So, I'm anxious to see if pot is the reason for it? I'm starting to think it is since my bathroom routine has changed.
Anyway, I just wanted everyone to see what I'm going thru and that if you're going thru it too...you're not alone.
Also, this site has helped me to understand it better. I ended up on the guitar forums one night and met this guy who's been supporting me in emails. He doesn't know how much he's helped me. I think he's a cousellor of some sort. He hasn't really revealed if he's been thru it to but he sure know's what I'm going thru. He's been truly amazing. Imagine, someone I don't even know taking the time to help me. That means the world to me.
I find a lot of people on this site experienced similar things after they quit. I experienced these things before I quit. Interesting.
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