marijuana recovery length

I have quit for almost 2 months now (about 7 weeks), after being a daily smoker for 2 years.

Everyone talks about anxiety, depression, sleeping and dreaming patterns, etc. And I also have experienced these type of symptoms.

But I also just have felt unhealthy in general and wonder if it's normal. Digestively I have felt "off", would it make sense that there are toxins, or mayb even "resin" or something causing bowel movements to be affected.

Also I have had headaches, and wonder if anyone else has experienced that?

Thanks,
Darren

I really want to quit. I've recently had bad highs where I was having deep thoughts and realised where my life is going. I've been smoking for about a year or so. the first while it was only a weekend thing. But the last 5 months it has been every day. 1 to 3 joints a night just before going to bed. I've been having a much greater sleep all year, my weight has been fluctuating from 150 to 160 pounds. It all scares me, half of my life is dedicated to fitness and athleticism, the speed skater in me is dying. I could be going to nationals and world championships but I have a plaque controlling me. I just can't seem to put it all down and not use it again.

But recently after getting bad highs, I'm ready to just drop it and forget it. But recovery length is my question, you know how long I've been doing it, my height is 6'1'', 154 pounds, 8.3% body fat. I am very active, I go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week and its all cardio, I sweat lots. Even when I was smoking weed through the late summer and fall, I was still speed skating, and getting very active.

Inline Speed Skating is my life, and I'm very fast. this past summer I set records and hit goals. I just hope my body not all ruined by next summer. I want to quit now, but I can't seem to put it down

I quit smoking after having a panic attack. That was 2 months ago. Before then I had been smoking heavily every day for 2 years.

The first week was mainly physical symptoms like hot flashes, confusion, sweating, palpitations from anxiety, and muscle twitches.

After that, the rest of the first month, I battled anxiety very heavily. Many nights I couldn't sleep because of the fear of not waking up (like many of you have posted). My dreams also reached intense levels. Because of my anxiety, any strange feeling or minor pain was amplified by my constant attention.

During the second month, I still battled the anxiety, but I realized that it was anxiety and not some worse physical condition. That is the first step to beating that beast. My dreams have returned to normal except when I try to take naps during the day.

At this point, I am still battling anxiety, but I have found that the best thing to do is to face all the things that you are afraid of. I was paying so much attention to my heartbeat, so I went and started walking for 30 minutes each day. This led me to the realization that my heart was in fact fine. Time will also heal your anxiety because if you were truly sick, you would have really noticed it after a month or two.

I spoke to a psychiatrist that said a recovery length of 3 to 6 months was a reasonable assumption, especially since it can take up to 2 months for THC to really leave your body.

The least of my worries this whole process was the urge to smoke. I just substituted it with the urge to live.

This forum has been a real help to my own recovery. I was a smoker for over 30 years and a daily smoker for 10. I quit 10 weeks ago and experienced serious withdrawal - anxiety, mood swings, insomnia and depression. I was prescribed Xanax for the anxiety and Lunesta for the insomnia - both worked to a certain degree (I went from 3 hours of sleep to 5). But I didn't want to get dependent on those drugs so I stopped using both 2 weeks ago and I'm back to disrupted sleep and periodic anxiety. But overall, I'm starting to feel better, but it is a slow recovery. THC is a serious substance that the body does become addicted to - no matter what people say about pot - physical withdrawal is the surest sign of chemical addiction. Exercise does help - I run 10 miles per week and weight train - but keeping busy is the key. I'm also feeling more comfortable in crowds as well. I thought I was crazy before I found this forum. Keep the faith, hang in there, there is a better life after pot!!

idk wat your all talking about.

ive been a habitual smoker for 10 years, everyday, multiple times a day. I too got paranoid highs, good highs, heart pounding highs, etc. The bottom line is, if you cant handle the side effects than dont do the smoking. Also, if you have all these mental problems, they were probably already there and pot just alleviated them.

stop trying to make a good plant sound so bad. you all have what we call addictive personalities. I quit over a week ago and the first 3 days, i couldnt sleep and was too experiencing sweating....now i feel fine, and dont notice anything drastically different other than im not munching out every 20 minutes.

stop making problems out of nothing and learn to accept the changes your body makes. suck it up and stop being babys. You cant blame pot for your own mental problems....do some research and know wat the hell your talkin about before you knock it.

You are completely wrong. Not 100% but 99%. I smoked everyday for the past 5 years and i'm talking about several blunts a day, bongs, oil, volcano. man thats such a jackass thing to say. you sound like your in denial. your at day 3? that aint sh*t man. FIRSTLY WHAT PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE THEY BEGAN SMOKING-SOMETIMES YES-BUT IF YOU HAD A BRAIN YOU'D KNOW THAT WEED INTENSIFIES SMALLER EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS. YOU SAY YOU CAN'T SLEEP-TRY NOT SLEEPING FOR A MONTH STRAIGHT!! FOR ME I NEVER HAD SLEEP PROBLEMS QUITTING, I DID HAVE NIGHTMARES AND HOT FLASHES AND SWEATS THE FIRST WEEK OF QUITTING BUT THEY ALLEVIATED AND I STILL WAS ABLE TO GET 8 HOURS A NIGHT. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. AND TO SAY THAT PEOPLE ARE JUST COMPULSIVE IS RETARDED.FIRST OF ALL ANY ADDICTION MAKES ONE IMPULSIVE, IF YOU WERE SLIGHTLY IMPULSIVE BEFORE YOU WILL BE HIGHLY IMPULSIVE FROM SMOKING. I DON'T REALLY GET ANXIETY ATTACKS AND MY SLEEP IS FINE. I DO FEEL TENSE AND NOT QUITE THERE WHEN QUITTING. I FEEL ERY ANXIOUS AND BORED. MY MAIN PROBLEM WHEN STOPPING GANJ WAS BOUTS OF DEPRESSION. LIKE I CAN NO LONGER HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS THAT I'VE KNOWN FOR YEARS. ITS SUCKS. QUITTING WEED IS LIKE QUITTING YOUR LIFE AND THE PEOPLE IN IT WHO ARE STILL IN THAT OLD LIFE. ITS HARD MAN AND ESP WITH LACK OF SLEEP AND LESS FRIENDS TO HANG OUT WITH AND TALK TO CAN TAKE AN EMOTIONAL TOLL. YOUR SEEM HIGHLY GROGGY??????????? AN EFFECT OF STOPPING OR WERE YOU A COCKY PRICK PRIOR TO SMOKING-I BET YOU CANT EVEN REMEMBER.

I smoked for about a year pretty heavily, and then after seeing what it was doing to me I quit. It's been 2 months now and I still feel withdrawel effects. I have a bit of anxiety but what bothers me more is that I feel slower, I have like a constant migraine which makes it hard for me to focus, and I have little energy. What I want to know is if this is normal and will it go away, especially if my mind will be clear and the same as it was before I started smoking.

Can someone please answer my quiestion

I quit smoking about 4 weeks ago. I am seeing an addiction specialist physhcatrist who is a former addict. He told me for my brain to fully recover (all the wires get back to normal) takes 3-5 years. Yes that long. He said since Ive been such a heavy smoker the past 3-4 years, it will take closer to 5 years to fully recover. It gradually gets better, but it takes years and years.

Can anyone confirm, from there personal experiences that they have over come the withdrawl symptoms, and now have no more battles with the symptoms. It has been 7 days now for me, and i really want to know if i will over come this, the last 7 days have felt like a month.

this question is for simma , is your aniexty completley gone? or do you still get it, I am on day 7 and I do notice it going away slightley yet, it is still there the odd time. you said they went away after working out, how long after.

also can anyone else that has posted here becasue of marijuana withdrawl say that they have made a full recovery.

So I have been reading this forum and others as a major aid in my recovery process.

I started smoking at age 20 and at first it was hookah. Did that for 2 years daily and then smoked weed the last two years daily. I was getting some seriously strong weed. Both of these were started due to an anxiety disorder. It masked everything wonderfully. I had no anxiety issues and especially the weed helped my concentration, performance, and most of all, MY SLEEP!

So when I was quitting I forgot how bad the anxiety use to be. Then I realized that the smoking had increased the issues of my anxiety disorder. Usually I would have a small amount of it 24/7 but it was bearable and didn't affect me unless someone or something triggered it, like a dramatic event or something. I'd have really bad panic attacks probably about once or twice a month. I quit smoking altogether May 2nd. I have quit several times prior usually to reset my tolerance. I only experienced bad headaches for the first 2 or 3 days and some irritability. This time when I stopped, I also just quit my job because of its impending stress, and was in a ridiculously stressful living situation.

The first week I dealt with tremors and shaking 24/7, anxiety in on mode 24/7, massive insomnia (slept 3 hours in a whole week) and had really screwed up dreams. I awoke 3 or 4 times a night to bad panic attacks. I also had breathing difficulties due to my anxiety, bad stomach pains and sounds, and my kidneys had an on and off soreness to them.

Things are improving slowly. I have cut down big time on the stress and have taken a whole week off just to relax and aid in de-stressing. The panic attacks have lessened in number and strength although i'm still waking up 3 or 4 times a night to them.

I'm now almost a month in and here is what I'm dealing with on the daily as of now. My insomnia is still bad, I can't sleep for longer than 2-3 hours at a time. My dreams are still very vivid, and all relative to the past. I have occasional waves of panic where I get the hot flashes, dizziness, nausea, but those are few and far between now, maybe 1 every other day for like 30 seconds at a time. I am having difficulties breathing at times. Feels kind of like when you have a cold and your throat is all scratchy and it kinda burns slightly when you breathe through your nose. The breathing issues are worst at night. This is currently the worst symptom as it feeds my anxiety and my anxiety feeds it. I also have been breaking out with canker sores in my mouth and tons of acne on my face and chin. Guessing due to the inherent stress i'm dealing with going through this all. The kidney pains are gone thank god, although I do have a off and on pain on my lower left abdomen, which I have come to the conclusion is my adrenal gland pumping in overdrive.

I know a lot of this is the condition I had prior worsening. Basically it feels like my anxiety switch is broken and turned on 24/7. There are times where I have no symptoms, but then I realize I have no symptoms and some of them will come back. It really is all a huge cycle. I know it's getting better but I'm still getting massively irrational thoughts. At different points throughout the withdrawals I have thought I had every disease under the sun.

I feel hopeless but I love the challenge this is presenting. This has happened before when I ascertained a caffeine dependence after only two weeks of drinking rockstar 21's off and on. I had very similar withdrawals to these for about a month. So I know my body doesn't handle withdrawals in the typical way or time period most people do.

Just wanted to get my story out there so if anyone is having it as bad as I have/am they know they aren't alone. That in itself helped me a ton, knowing everything will get better with time. I've been praying a lot and just trying to be patient.

Anything you guys could tell me i'd love to hear, especially with the breathing stuff. How long does that go on for? Anything to help with that?

Stay strong and keep fighting. I will never touch this or any other substance again. In this day and age there are just too many things for our bodies to deal with and too many viruses and issues to sidestep, to take risks like smoking, even if it was enjoyable and beneficial.

-Michael

I don't know about anyone on this thread but I do know that my brothers have both made full recoveries from marijuana addiction. They're twins and actually got into smoking pot together and now they are recovering. Are you posting because you are quitting pot and wanting to know if it's possible?

how long did it take them??