Marijuana anxiety withdrawal

Hi, i'm 20 years old and well, I only recently started smoking weed compared to some of you. I started when I went off to university. I used to be entirely against drugs up until grade 11, when I became very interested in acid. I kept asking around for it, but it was impossible to get, so a friend introduced me to a drug called DXM which was extremely easy to get (any pharmacy), and would get me screwed for 6 hours. Eventually I would be downing 60 liquigels a night, but I couldn't continue that and when I stopped getting the same high, boredom and depression had me looking for a cure. The first few times I smoked weed, nothing happened. But the first time I finally got high I was in love. I ended up dropping out of university because I didn't like my program, and that's where my love of weed took off. I was going heavy for a year, with few breaks, and then I got a decent job with decent money, and of course that's when it really picked up. Up until last monday, it's been 2 and a half years now with absolutely no break any day for the past year and a half. Whenever I felt depressed, I'd just rip a hit and forget all about it. It was great, my friends and I were hanging out almost every day, and I barely ever felt depressed. Of course we did other drugs, I tried mdma, 2ce, and continued doing dxm (even though it just made me feel weird and my hands feel numb). Of course I was just putting off the depression and not dealing with it, which I wish I realized long ago. Anyway, for the last 6 months my stomach has been screwed, bubbling, felt like i always had gas, the only way to make it feel better was to take a dump or smoke weed. I just ignored it. I always noticed on sunday night that my depression was at it's worst. Recently I became very antisocial, I pretty much stopped hanging out with my friends, and basically just stayed in my room all day playing video games and smoking weed.

This past sunday, I decided to cut back. I cut back from my normal 6-8 bowls a day from my gravitron, to about 2 that day, and that's when it first happened. All of my thoughts I had been blocking out for the past 2 years came rushing to the forefront, and I thought I was going crazy. I walked around for the entire day trying not to cry, until i finally broke down infront of my family. Without my family I don't know what I would have done. I didn't even know what anxiety was, but my mother informed me my symptoms sounded a lot like it. I realized a major reason why I had been depressed was because I was so distanced from my family. I felt like a guest staying at a hotel. I didn't contribute to anything, I came down to eat, and went back up. After the whole anxiety episode sunday night and monday morning I felt a lot closer to my family and figured it would go away. So I got high again. And it came rushing back. I decided to quit for good tuesday morning. It was HELL at first. My stomach hurt so much because I couldn't just have a bowl to make it feel better, I had brutal sweats, and then insane cold chills from my sweat cooling i imagine. For some strange reason, I just happened to get athlete's foot (OUT OF NOWHERE, i hadn't gone to a gym in years) at the same time, so now I was convinced they were all related and I was dying. I didn't even know anxiety was a side effect of quitting so I figured all my mental problems I had been blocking had come out and now I was going to be screwed up for the rest of my life. I kept thinking about my future and thinking I was going to become a failure, and all these stupid thoughts which I couldn't shrug. I can't tell you how much better I felt coming to this thread and reading all these other people's experiences so similar to my own. I used to read how there's no negative side effects from weed, but that's BS. I was lazy, anti-social, and mean. I never wanted to leave the house, I didn't want to do anything to help anyone. I was extremely defensive and whenever anyone said anything against my opinion i'd lash out at them. I'm still only on day 5, and I know I still have a little while to go, but I've yet to get a chill today, and I know the anxiety will subside. I actually don't even feel depressed anymore. The one thing I want everyone who has anxiety to know is that you just have to take it a day at a time. I kept thinking oh my god this is going to last forever and i'm never going to get better, and then i realized it was like the second damn day. I wanted to laugh at myself for being so ridiculous but i couldn't. You really feel overwhelmed and like there's nothing you can do. But just breathe and realize it's going to pass. Right now, my feet stopped itching when I put some cream on them, I've been working out a bit to deal with the anxiety, going for walks with my family. I woke up yesterday for the first time in 6 months with my stomach not hurting and I felt great. Just do anything to keep your mind off of what you used to be doing. I really don't miss weed anymore. I used to ask myself when I thought of quitting weed how I could ever live a happy life. I thought everything was boring about our world. But now I don't see how I could ever think that with all the world has to offer. And I especially do not regret trying weed. It was great while it lasted, but it's only a temporary fix. It made me appreciate what I was doing instead of thinking about what I was going to be doing, and for that I will be eternally grateful to weed for. I enjoyed the time I spent with friends, and maybe I would have never become this close to my family if this didn't happen. I don't believe in a God, it's an insignificant question, I believe in myself, and as lame as that sounds, if you can do that, you can beat any withdrawal or addiction. I can't believe how much I wrote here, but I haven't felt anxious the entire time so I guess that's a victory. Hour by hour, getting by, and I wish everyone else luck who is feeling the same way i'm feeling.

Hi, I'm 18 years old and have been a casual smoker since about 16 years old. The following is a story of my withdrawal thus far.

Over 3 months (summer after highschool) I smoked heavily. I mean I know I'm not the heaviest smoker on here, but a pretty decent amount. About 2-3 bong sessions (double perc bong btw) per day, didn't miss a day. So maybe a few grams a day probably.

I stopped smoking so much after summer ended (about 2 months ago), because I had just started college and obviously didn't have the friends to do it with just yet. Eventually I found some fellow stoners and was smoking 2-3 times per week, not as heavy as the summer. However, about 1-2 weeks into school i started noticing some strange sensations. Waking up in the middle of the night mini panic attacks, some irritability, nothing terrible.

Then as the weeks went by, every time I would smoke I would get sick to my stomach. I mean terrible, like i was going to vomit but wouldnt, just sit over the sink dry heaving. It kept happening, but being a determined stoner (an id**t) I kept at it and was able to control the feeling, for the most part, and fake a good time. Finally, on the last day at my house (oh yea, I'm moving too, so between college and moving I may have some anxiety as well) me and my friends lit up in my backyard and went hard. Felt nautious, but kept in control.

The next day I went down to dinner and suddenly was overwhelmed over nothing and out of nowhere. Started crying and ended up being a panic attack, worst one I'd ever experienced and worse then my parents had ever seen, and ended up in the hospital (lost control of my body, numbing all over, certain I was dying, a panic attack).

Next day, same thing a that night had another lovely (sarcasm.) anxiety attack. Ended up in the hospital.

This was just over a week ago, and about 5-6 days after that felt extreme anxiety, to the point where I thought I was going absolutely insane and would be hearing voices soon.

However, through some prescribed xanax type pills I'm doing better. Hopefully it will go away for good soon. I was enviornmentally addicted to weed and I see that now. I hope I don't go back, I want a real life now.

Withdrawal from weed (THC) is real, and it sucks.

Hi, i am so glad i found this website.. before anything let me introduce myself, i live in so cali i am 26 and all my friends almost all about 80% are pot heads. Now this already shows u which path i have already taken the stoner path... i smoked for the first time when i was 15 but didnt really get into it until i was 16 or 17. after that was history i became a very heavy marijuana user meaning i smoked atleast a full packed blunt a day once i reach 18 i was buying eights which lasted me 2days, once i started getting more money from my work i started to smoke even more. how i felt when i was high, honestly i felt great until time kept going the more i started to smoke the lazier and even little things that people joke about bothered me a lot. Like if a friend would joke around, i wouldnt be able to take it and i started to become hostile towards him. the whole world seemed like it was against me, but in reality i was against the whole world. I started to become very forgetful short-term memory is really screwed takes me way longer to remember something than before i started to smoke bud. I become very depressed at times i guess anxiety, i have quitted for 3 days now. today i had an anxiety attack so hard i had to stop my car on the side of the freeway my whole hand cramped up my blood was going to my head and i had this tingling sensation all over me like if i was going into a cardiac arrest. some1 stopped to helped me an called the ambulance, the paramedics asked me questions like did something stressful happened recently, it was just me being hard on myself the withdrawl symptoms was causing me to become very angry at everything or anyone. no matter what happens to u dont give up, lets say u quit and someone gives u sh*t that day relax take a deep breath do whatever u could to hold that stress and somehow release it without weed. is hard but is not impossible. this is for the heavy users that been smoking more than 5 years up....

I was a casual smoker all through high school and the second i got to college i began smoking every day several times a day. I did this for nearly 6 years and one day decided to quit cold turkey. I also chewed tobacco all day every day during these times and quit at the same time. anybody that says smoking weed is not addictive and doesn't have any side effects is absolutely crazy...my withdrawl symptoms have been TERRIBLE to deal with, the day i stopped smoking my muscles began twitching uncontrollably. i also have been experiencing headaches almost daily as well as seeing things in my vision such as light flashes, stars, and other things in my peripheral. every time im watching tv i think i'll see something flash on the wall to look and find nothing there. I have been clean for several weeks now and am still having all of the symptoms, although now that im about 20 days clean things seem to be getting a little bit better. I have been foggy headed and feel almost stoned most of the day and have a hard time focusing as well as problems with my memory. I know that if i did not quit smoking that i would not be experiencing any of these issues but I HOPE that in the long run it will be a wiser decision for me to clean my life up and be sober rather than living my life high all the time. I definitely do not feel normal but i hope that some day i know what it means to be normal again

PHDinTHC are you still around? I'd really like to ask you a question.

Reading these post really gave me comfort as i'm going through the same exact withdrawals myself.I have smoked marijuana for the past 6 years of my life everyday.I decided to quit because of my social withdrawal from my family and society.I would wake up everyday gagging/throwing up if I could.When I wouldn't smoke I would have a hard time getting my meals down without the feeling of throwing up.

Today is day 5 of going cold turkey and it's honestly a physical/mental battle.Over the past 5 days I have experienced headaches,stomach aches,irritability,extreme anxiety,cold sweats/hot flashes,trouble sleeping,loss of appetite & at times i've even seen stars.

I will remain optimistic through this.To any one else going through withdrawals I wish you the best of luck!Keep your head up,it will eventually end!

I know this thread is quite old but I found myself here about 2.5 months ago when I was quitting weed. I had smoked pretty much every day for over 10 years and had recently noticed that I wasn't having much fun anymore and was feeling really anxious when I performed (I'm a professional musician.) I decided to quit and thought that would take care of my anxiety but it actually made it worse. I was feeling anxious for no reason whatsoever, while doing regular day-to-day things, and performing was becoming a daunting task. It was the Christmas season when I decided to quit so I had concerts pretty much every week, sometimes twice a week. It was really hard. I was taking beta blockers, eating bananas, trying to meditate, but nothing worked 100%. The reason I am writing now is because I want to reassure anyone who is going through this. Since the New Year, I have performed four shows and am finally feeling like my old self again. The day-to-day anxiety has subsided and I'm no longer afraid to perform. I actually feel excited again and am having fun. The anxiety I was feeling was obviously due to withdrawal and thus took time to go away. At the time I felt desperate and as if I was never going to be the same again. So, rest assured, you will. If you stick with your quit and deal with the anxiety one day at a time, it WILL get better.

this guy is obv troll and has smoked himself retarded

I am positive you have the characteristics of indicia and sativa backwards. From the way it is normally cultivated, to the characteristics of the leaves and body-altering characteristics. Kind of makes me question the entire integrity of your post, seeing as though this kind of knowledge is common among amateur smokers and true connoisseurs such as myself. You even came up with incorrect mnemonic devices, "thindica" and "fativa." The fact that you glorify your knowledge on the subject is the reason I felt it necessary to respond. This is the reason everything you read online should be taken with a grain of salt, and nobody should base decisions on their life choices by what somebody claims without a cite of information. Everything I have said here can be backed up by basic Google searches.

You had me going until you said that when you quit and experience anxiety and the likes, it's because "you're just experiencing what caused you to smoke in the first place." Some expert you turned out to be, because long term use shows a pattern of developed anxiety and even schizophrenia. I personally never had anxiety and began smoking for fun, enjoyed the high, and then continued to chase a high that will never feel like the fist time...yeah, an addict personality, maybe, but definitely not an anxious one. I was athletic and smart and received scholarships. Now, after ten years off daily use, my anxiety is peaking, and I've decided to quit, and I'm on my 10 day. Quitting has classic withdrawal symptoms: more anxiety, irritability, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, depression, anger and cravings, to name a few, due to the body's detox process. Even withdrawal from caffeine can make you feel this way, and I doubt most people started drinking coffee because life was hard, other then staying awake because they were likely not getting enough sleep in the first place. So my point is, not all addicts have something to hide; they simply enjoy something that can become a problem (like how fun drinking is, but it's impairment is obviously more severe and noticeable when you go to work "feeling good"), which intern can lead to other problems, and not visa versa. More power to those of you who don't feel withdrawal, and I'm the last person who wants to throw marijuana under the bus, but it's real for most long term users. Especially if you've been in that 'loud." I can't wait until my mind quiets again. My advice to those seeking answers, look at what the majority of people are saying and don't kid yourself. Now if only politics would follow my lead... Good luck!!

So glad I found this thread and your response I see this was over a year ago but I am goin through some pretty tough withdrawals right now goin into my third week. I was a pretty heavy smoker for about 4-5 years with no breaks, I'm 23 and I recently quit cold turkey!! I've been goin through so much with the withdrawals from the dreams, disturbed sleep, foggy head, headaches here nd there fatigue, hot nd cold spells hard to focus, dizzy spells all the withdrawal symptoms that's been named the worst part is the terrible anxiety I'm goin through that's puttin my body through a tough fight I continue to pray nd just hope all of this will end soon startin to take a toll on me any advice or your input would really help dude I kno I won't relapse the urge is completely gone but idk how much longer I can Handel these symptoms!!

Hi folks, I'm 24 years old & have been smoking bud since I was 16. I have had a lot of mental health problems stemming from numerous bereavements and family problems. I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder 3 years ago & have been in and out of services. So alot of my issues are not directly cannabis related. I started smoking as a recreational thing, but it became a crutch once everything went to sh*t (when I was around 18). I have always been an anxious person & have alot of interpersonal problems. In 2013 I went into intensive therapy for people with PD & didn't smoke at all As it was a therapeutic community so I was monitered. This did give me clarity of my mind, but also sprung up lots of issues I was not aware of. After leaveing the TC on a bad note, I went straight back to smoking. Very heavily & became dependant. Now I have quit, going on 2 weeks but the constant anxiety & panic attacks are unbearable. One way that helped me get out more was I took up photography, giving me something to focus on while I could be outside, not thinking about people looking at me and judging me. Now it is affecting my photography, finding it impossible to bring myself to step outside, over the fear of having an attack. I was on numerous medications when I was not smoking (citaloram, mirtazopine, olanzapine) but I really couldn't deal with the side effects & this drove me to attempt to take my life. I feel so ashamed of this, & how it has affected my family. Now I am trying to make changes in my life, I have moved to life with my grandmother, in a much more rural area, where I am hoping I can find myself, and maybe find some peace within my mind. But I am still experiencing extreme anxiety. I really do not want to go back onto prescribed meds, but so dering if anyone can recommend any type of herbal/natural remedy to help relieve some of this. Thank you & good luck to all you folks pushing through this incredibly difficult time of our life's. Peace :)

I'm 1 month off and I'm suffering with burping, it's normal

I mean, people are unique, but you're not alone

Heavy marijuana use causes depression.

wow- this is a very powerful message. Thank you for sharing. Do you think you will use weed again?

Simone

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