Quit smoking marijuana and have daily anxiety attacks

Thankyou! BIG TIME panic attacks! But I have a Genetic Illness so I'm in pain 24/7 so after coming off this c**p, I had to take Clonazepam and Cimbalta, to deal with the panic! I will probably be on those for ever! As I've been on them for so long! So technically still have them, I just don't have to deal with them now! But I'm only on them because of the pain! If I was totally clean then I would be OK! The panic is created by the addicted brain, it's main goal is to get you back on the drugs! As soon as it realizes that NOTHING works, it stops! Kind of like a little kid asking "Why? Why? Why? Why? ....." Then once you ignore them they stop asking! ;-) XD You know that old expression "If I can do it, so can you!"? Well that is TOTALLY my point! I got off this "Legal" c**p even while being in terrible pain! So anyone can do it!

BJamin wrote:

Bambi you are my hero!!!! :) did you get panic attacks and if so are they gone

B

Bambi pretty much is the forum rockstar, I hope you realize that. :) Now as for the panic attacks, I can speak to that myself too...yes, they go away. You have to be sure to face some fears, like going through the pain of a panic attack which of course sucks when you get them. They go away when you face them down though. And when you do, they go away. Does that help at all?

It's so hard to give up stuff when you don't have friends who support you. Have you started to meet new poeple? When you kick a habit like the one you had, that's really important. Have you maybe started to socialize in different circles now?

bluedog wrote:

vangie1005 wrote:

nope not one of those ppl either! i thank you now for all the support. wish i had friends like you around here. im not gonna smoke even though i really want to! like i said i cant do this again! NO i never want my kidds to smoke and once im done i dont want them to know i ever did!!!! yeah im doin better. .. ive lost about ten pounds already due to the throwing up, which stopped yesterday finally. again thanks and if i get the urge agina hopefully someone will be here to talk it away!!! again!!

everyone keeps telling me that was a sign to show me how bad off i was! and i was pretty bad. not like i was on the valium but pretty bad. im goin to get a neew truck tomorrow since im gonna have five hundred extra dollars lying around every month. then i wont have that money to spend on the pot.

yeah sober feels weird, not use to it! i get these spurts of energy then i go back into not wanting to do anything and getting nauseses and anxious and just gross i hate it!!

again thank you thank you thank you. im gonna get off here for a bit and try to sleep.....which more than likely wont happen till about two maybe three...so ill be back on before bed:)

It's so hard to give up stuff when you don't have friends who support you. Have you started to meet new poeple? When you kick a habit like the one you had, that's really important. Have you maybe started to socialize in different circles now?

i have the same thing. ive been off the pot for four weeks today at ten!!! i had all the crapy symptoms all of them!!! today all i have is the anxiety adn overwhelment of being sober and not being used to it. i have minor panic attacks daily now. its just so weird how it happend. going from smoking everyday ..running out for two days...then smoked a bowl and had a panic attack from smoking. i went to rehab for valium when i was seventeen they had to ween me off that slowly.5-6 v-cuts a day. then i stopped everything and was sboer for a year then went back to smoking with no probs!! then this happened its just so weird. im glad to be sober.. i know how bad off i was now. i mean i can afford a new car and the insucrance with the amount of money i was spendin on the c**p. all i take now is half a .5 xanex everyday or everyother day. when i start having that gross feeling and i know im gonna go into a mltdown. i was seeing psychiastrst but he isnt helping just someone to talk about problems too..and i have god and my family for that. all i know is its just weed its not like coming off pills its hard but it could be harder. Its really hard when your dependant on something to keep you happy. it was my antidepressant. now im off and i just want to feel normal again. and quit thinking about it. my friends all laughed when i said i was withdrawing from weed..nice friends huh!! then they seen it. you can become addicted to anything i know a lady addicted to mints PEPPERMINTS. her doctor said they are tearing up her throught but she stll is eating them. lol!! so weird!! well i know if i can do it you can do it.

I am VERY proud of you Vangie!! It is hard to be "normal!!" It's like "Well what the hell do I do now!!!"? I used Oxycontin and Oxycocet for pain, anxiety, to be the life of the party etc. It made me so ON!!! I couldn't get down!! Does anyone understand that? I was the life and soul of the party and everyone around me was in hysterics 24/7 - I thought that anyway, THEN I found out that all these people laughing WITH me, were concerned FOR me!

When there is such addictive c**p out there, people don't think of weed being addictive, they think of it as the milder of ALL drugs, which in itself is an Oxymoron! It's an illegal drug, that is not supposed to be addictive!!!!!! %-) Doesn't make sense does it!? The pot I smoked in my teens and 20's is NOTHING like the pot now! I have counselled several young people on here, that have TOTALLY lost it after smoking a bad joint or bowl! There's something WAY more dangerous about pot than every before! So you pat yourself on the back honey! You kicked this horrible you know what to the curb!!! And that's more than you freinds who are laughing at it, can say!

I have a card so I can grow my own weed, or buy it from the Canadian Government!! - It's c**p!! Anyway, I have a friend who is a "WONDERFUL" baker - if you know what I mean! So I bought 6 cookies and 3 "Vegan" brownines from him! He said "Now don't eat the whole thing, just to start with take only a half of the cookie!" THANK GOD I listened to him and ate half!! I was on the floor!!! And couldn't concentrate and could not stop laughing!!! I can just imagine if I took the whole cookie! My point about this is, when I was "younge" I was a pretty good "baker" myself!!! But what I used to whip up is NOTHING compared to what is out there now!! IF I didn't have my family and friends supporting me and watching that I didn't get carried away! I would be eating those things day and night! PLUS weigh 400lbs!!! ;-) XD It's the addiction part, a friend of mine had a heart attack at 35 he used to smoke a pack a day, so he switched it with carrot sticks, he was ORANGE and yellow! He could NOT stop eating carrots! So addiction from one thing turns to an addicition of another, so be careful that you don't turn orange, smell like peppemint, or start eating salted peanuts - which is quite common after MJ withdrawl!! so just watch out for that OK? And know that the panic will leave you soon, just face it down honey! And take a deep breathe

I Wish you Sobriety, Health and Good Luck honey!

I know that you are gonna do well! I want to congratulate you for making it four week and I know you're going to make it four more even easier than you did these. Just post whenever you get the urge and let us know how you're doing, okay? Thanks for the update!

your a sweetie bluedog!! and im okay and im on two months woo hoo i did make it and ihavent really had any urges until the anxiety hits ewwww

Hi everyone. I've definitely been going through extremely similar stuff lately. The stresses of life have gotten to me. I'm 20 years old and also began smoking more heavily when I graduated from high school. I recently broke up with my long term love and have a full load of classes hoping to one day open my own business. For about 10 days now every day when I wake up I have been having insane anxiety attacks which often lead to me vomiting and not being able to hold even liquids down. I also recently stopped taking zoloft, not in the best way because I just ran out. My anxieties have been hitting me hard and up until a couple days ago I thought pot was helping me get better through the day. I read some stuff online about the correlations between smoking weed and anxiety and it couldn't be clearer. I hope I can get better and move out of living in fear. I want my life back. I want me back. I guess this means I must stop smoking weed. This will be so hard, I live in Humboldt County in CA too. I have to do this for me. I'm very grateful that all of you are writing your experiences and I feel it is my duty to do the same. I'll keep my progress updated and I wish you all the very best! Go get your life back! It's my turn to try !

well, i kno im a little late but i ended up quitting weed after having n LSD like trip and im only 15!i had no idea what this "stuff" could do and it wasnt even that much. ive been doing it ever since the beggining of my freshmen year and have only "tripped" and hallucinated twice before but was able to handle it. the first time i didnt even relize what was happening cuz i was just laying there thinking about the world, the suddenlynim starring at my friends hand and i pretended "in my head it was drawing then all of a sudden the image started looking like a cartoon then i was like "Sh*t this is reality and the image shattered and his entire body started becoming bigger then smaller.Then i had one wer my friends head became a boblle head and looked lik someone else. after the third time i tripped i was lik screw this im quitting!! then i relized i shudnt have quit so cold turkey, for the next couple of days i felt like high 24/7 this went away after 3 days then i felt "normal for the next 3 days then BAM i started having withdrawl symptoms, and being a light weight as i am it hit hard except the only wierd thing was i had no anxiety. my though process was so slow along with my short term memory. i also went through night sweats, headaches, insomnia, hallucinations, dizziness, congestion, and some anxiety along with lack to do anything and others. i tried to figure out what was wrong with me but i couldnt, my brain just wouldnt give me correct responses. then it was finally 3 weeks after and i felt fine but i knew that it probably wasnt gonna last which i was right, my OCD started coming back along with high anxiety which made it worse. I started becoming fearfull of losing control therefor leading me to have to watch my drink everywhere i went because i feared that someone would put LSD in it!! i tell myself im being irrational now but i cant stop!! i have to force myself and i feel the anxietys getting worse. i dont want to take any medication because i remeber my aunt use to take stuff for her anxiey disorder but when she came off of it she just wasnt herself, she was more uptight. even though i do take some herbs here and there only when necessary like Pasi-flora to clam me down i dont want to take it day in and out. but other then that the real reason i felt i needed to write this was because i needed answers when i was like this and everything i looked up had some other bullSh*t against it like how the THC is proccesssed and ive become so obssesed with this i literally did so much research i have the science down to it. but other then that, it will generally get alot better, it just takes time and patience. lol and another thing Healthy Body Healthy Mind, sorry for the long post ;p

Listen anxiety gets worse when you surround yourself with thoughts of it. The only way out is to let go and realize that you are fine, do things that you normally do and try to relax listen to music watch tv go to the beach anything but keep doing something. Evenetually you will feel better trust me i did.

I'm 20,I was a football player,but i've always had my mind related more to girls,fun,party...so i stopped playing football,and started drinking a lot,smoking marijuana and cigarettes.... 12 months ago i had 1 bad trip and i said i'll stop smoking,but after 2 months i wanted to try to get the good high feeling again,and again i got paranoid,so after 2 months,on New Year's eve i tried once more+and i was drunk as f**k and i got the baddest anxious feeling ever. SO I STOPPED smoking and marijuana and cigarettes,i was going slow on alcohol,but now i stop that too,and slowly but sure i get a lot better. Sometimes i get depressed,but then i'll get a good run and i'm better than ever...I've started running for 30 minutes per day at least,and i hope that this anxiety will be gone forever! I'll clean my body from every f*****g thing thats haressing me! :) I am always optimistic,and I am really not used to this feeling down,so i'm gonna beat the sh*t out of the anxiety! :)

P.S. It's funny how the most optimistic person becomes a depressed dumb f**k that don't like anything,but the other optimistic side of me can feel the bad creeps,and i'm always trying to get rid of it somehow! :)

We will get better in time! Just exercise,and no stress! :)

Best wishes! :)

by the way,i still get panic attacks sometimes,but i've learned to cope with them,and they go away in a minute :)

8 months free of everything,is f*****g great,everyday i feel a lot better,i will get to the main point of being ME! :)

I been smoking for years. I am 31 now and I have quit for third time. First time I pit 3 years in between. Second time I put 2 years and third time 2 years. I dont think you smoked anything bad. These are the natural withdrawals you go through. Ive decided I am done for good. Because you ate killing yourself slowly. Everytime I start up then quit my symptoms last longer. I also feel more permanent symptoms. High anxiety and that dead head feel. I recommend a lot, I mean a lot of excerise. You need that health heart and new oxygenated blood to flow. Good luck and I hope everything is goes well. I hope you stay sober. By the way alcohol is not a good substitute. I would recommend healthy living before you decide to drink. Good luck and God Bless.

I haw been suffering from this anxiety too. I had a similar reaction to weed as well. I smoked all summer then stopped because of an attack during it. Anxiety is all in your head, I hate the feeling that you do it to yourself. You freak yourself out. It's so bd that its stopping you from doing everything in your normal routin in life. So my advise to you or anyone is to try to get back on toa Normal routine. Think good thoughts. Eat the right foods and get lots of sleep. A lot of anxiety can happen due to lack of sleep. Everything is going to be okay. And remember if god brings you to it, he will get you throught it. And remember that you are NOT alone. There are many people out there struggling as well. I am.

this goes with everything you guys have said, im 17 i had my first experience with pot when i was 15 and then it was maybe once (if i was luck) a month around chrismas of 11 i moved in with some family that was bad in drugs, mainly presciption meds well i smoked everyday after school about 4 to 5 joints a day for the next 4 months all the way to the point a buzz or a high didnt feel different at all but felt normal even to the point i couldnt think sober but i was a math wiz and a genuise when i was fried at school (straight A's) on top of it i was buying speed meds from friends mainly vyvance(generic speed) and was taking 80 to 120 mg a day when ever i had money but then soon i got my hands on some k2 called mad hatter and my first experience felt as if my pulse was throbbing through my whold body, afterwards i thought hey weed that doesnt show on drug tests whats the harm a few weeks later my friend brought some new kind with a monkey on it and after smoking it everything i did was a late reaction basicly a strobe light effect feel without the flashing lights well a month later and sorry for the mixing subjects but i was at that time a smoker for 5 years but a month later a trip to the dentist and sitting in the chair would cause me to have an anxiety attack when i had the laughting gas or the numbing shots well the worse one was when they made me sit there after they knew i was having one and my right hand started shaking back and fourth at the same time my fingers where twiching well they kept going a few mins later which felt like 20 my entire face was tingling i could feel it all the was down my arms in my chest and couldnt feel my heart beat even if i place my hand between my ribs and held my breath for a second and still couldnt feel a thing and i could have swore up and down my heart stopped and to this day i cant rememeber what i was looking at but i remember the feeling of 300 pounds sitting on my lungs after that the next day i started having them daily even a bus ride and the fear of that feeling haunts me i quit pills, pot, dipping, and smoking tobacco cold turkey and havent touched them since and dont plan on it from the constant reminder of that feeling again. also after i stopped the pot school and stress started making them worse now im perscribed adavan or forget me nots as we call em and even scared to take them.