EVERYTHING YOU ARE FEELING IS 100% COMPLETELY NORMAL. I am on the exact same boat, we all are. I was a 20 year smoker, took breaks from time to time but never longer than a few weeks or 30 days max. And yes, withdrawals were even bad then, I can remember bad they were but I apparently felt it was important to smoke pot again. Very Sad (: I went to rehab for alcohol in July of 2013 and I am still not drinking but I started smoking again December 2013. You know the drill - smoking only on Saturday nights, then a few week day nights too, then I am smoking every day and then for the icing on the cake, I started smoking wax. Quit smoking on May 25th so I am on day 3. THIS IS THE WORST I HAVE EVER FELT IN ALL MY YEARS OF SMOKING. Nausea, diarrhea, irritability ( I am going into angry rages ), insomnia and the worst part is the anxiety & loss of appetite. I think I have lost 5 lbs in 3 days!! I know this will pass but man............withdrawals from marijuana are no joke, especially if you have been smoking for years and are smoking wax and other concentrates. Hang in there!! LIFE IS SOO MUCH BETTER WHEN WITHOUT POT!
You are very misinformed. I have smoked 35 yr smoker (1/8 every 2 days) and 2g of wax every few days. I am connected. Or was. Every post about withdraw symptoms is true. I clawed the walls night one. I had the cold sweats and now have sexual issues and hot flashes. Anyone who says it's not addictive is not dealing with reality. This includes half of my friends. The emotional withdraws lasted two days for me.
The tone of your post tells me that you are nota happy camper and maybe you need to become a clean addict! Think about it.
i have been quit for about 2 months now. Let me explain what I believe has happened with pot. Back in day about 20 years ago, I started smoking pot at 16 with buddies. Back then mostly all we had was Mexican dirt weed. It had very low THC content and sometimes we weren't even sure if we got high! Or it would be what we called creeper and it would take like 15 mins to hit us. In the fall sometimes we would get some homegrown which was much better. I smoked back then and never got any negative symptoms... i stopped for awhile and was fine...
Jump ahead 20 years, about a year ago I started getting great weed out of Cali, this stuff is 10x more potent than anything in the past... I started smoking daily heavy.. I would get different strains that I can tell gave a different affect.. I got to the point where I was smoking a bowl about every 3 hrs to maintain the high all day long.. This was impacting my job and social life. About after 8 months I started getting anxiety symptoms after smoking a bowl that I never experienced before.. I basically just ignored it and kept smoking but I could tell certain strains of lot would trigger that symptom.. It got to the point all I was doing was smoking and playing video games.. It was fun but I knew it couldn't continue like this and had to stop. I also wanted to lose some weight.. I wasn't obese but sorta of skinny fat from munchies and pizza...
So I decided to quit smoking and restricted my calories to 1500. Not a good combination so don't do it. Anyways as soon as I stopped I lost my appetite which was good for my diet.. But also I couldn't sleep very long at a time and anxiety symptoms were strong. I felt nausea and my hands were really sweaty. I haven't suffered from panic attacks before either... Exactly 1 week after quitting cold turkey about 7am I woke up very nauseous so I went to the bathroom and puked. I thought it was just some bad food. But the my symptoms worsened.. My heart started racing, I broke into a cold sweat... So I just laid there thinking it would pass... Then my whole body felt numb and tingling I thought I was going to pass out. I thought it might be a heart attack even but I'm just in my 30s, I decided to call 911 and by the time the paramedics showed the symptoms were subsiding.. The took my vitals and EKG and it was good, they asked me to sit up. And then the symptoms returned again.. They wanted to take me in to check me out further I was reluctant but agreed since it could be more serious. At the hospital they ran a few more tests and all was ok. They believed it was just a panic attack. Also that low potassium could of caused it, i only told them about my restricted diet and didn't mentioned that I had quit smoking a week prior.
Now 2 months later this morning I'm still coughing up black phlegm I believe if from smoking pot. I'm hoping by 6 months my lungs will be completely clear. My other symptoms finally subsided after about 3 weeks.. I haven't had another panic attack since that day.
My theory here, pot today isn't the same as pot 20 years ago. It's much stronger therefore the high is more intense and unfortunately so are the negative symptoms. It take much less to get high so it's easy to use more than u need. I think this makes it more addictive than past generations.
Also when I was dieting I believe it was still releasing THC into my bloodstream causing symptoms even longer(mainly a cloudy head). I wouldn't recommend dieting and quitting cold turkey at the same time. This was my experience and I have nothing against pot or those that use it. Just be aware the stuff nowadays is extremely potent and even if it won't kill you, it can cause these anxiety symptoms and addiction to point all you want to do is keep a buzz..
I hope this helps anyone trying to quit other having similar symptoms.. Good luck
5th day of not smoking for me, how did it go for you? How are you doing now? It's just dawning on me , how much it has affected my life and how I will be able to live without it!!
Went to emergency room because I was hyperventilating and my hands and feet were like shutting down. They gave me lorezapam and medicine to hold on my tongue to not throw up. When I got home, I felt fine but the next day my body was aching and I was throwing up the medication and not the soup I had eaten.
Day 2- I feel trapped inside my head. I cannot escape my mind. I am inside my head too much and it's making me feel sick and hyperventilate. I don't have an explanation why I feel like this but I am getting sicker and sicker as the days go by. I feel lightheaded and stressed. This might be from thc withdrawal however, I feel so light headed and fatigued. My body is a little shakey and I get stressed when I hear someone's voice or if I see my family. I don't know why . It feels like my head is heavy
Day 3- I no longer want to take medication. Every medication that has been givin to me is adding the anxiety and I am feeling sick and horrible every day. I am missing out so much on life. Today I feel a little better because I haven't taken any of my medication however, I am a little nauteous and very weak and tired. I have never felt like this in my life. The drugs that have been givin to me are causing the problem, not solving it
I was using THC for maybe 7 years just to sleep because of the PTSD I’ve had to deal & didn’t wanna use any medications. I tried the medication once & my son had to take me into the hospital because i felt like I was dying lol… but not really. I quit cold turkey & this is day number 7 for me. I’m feeling pretty good actually. Some diarrhea, headache is gone, I have more energy now. I’ve been working out all my life pretty much. I’m 64 y/o & I still push myself to workout & feel great afterwards. What’s different this time is… I’ve incorporated affirmations written out in long hand & not printed out or typed out because that doesn’t work to read. Why? It bypasses your cognitive mind & goes straight to your subconscious mind in where your beliefs reside that controls your whole life 96-97%. Quick & to the point this is what you write out in long hand … eg…. I am totally free from using weed now, no withdrawal symptoms, I am completely free & living life to the fullest, & every cell in my body is filled with perfect health, limitless energy abundant life, & every time I lay down to sleep, I always feel & experience a deep, sweet, healing sleep regardless of my circumstances. Read it first then as soon as you wake up read it for @ least the first two minutes as soon as you open your eyes & 15-20 minutes before bed, Why? Then what you just read will go over & over on the inside of while you’re sleeping, it does all the work for you. Because you’re in an theta brainwave state which is a deep meditative state… after two minutes you’re brainwave state goes into an alpha state for 20-30 minutes. The greatest thing about this is while you’re reading it over & over your cognitive kind will try to tell you that.., this won’t work, this is stupid, I think I’m wasting my time, blah blah blah… that doesn’t matter in the least because the long hand affirmations bypass all of that, regardless. Everybody is different. It might take you a week or 2-3 months but you do it until. I practice this all the time to change different beliefs on a regular basis because of all the business i do & seminars & & investing. IT WORKS!!! Then when you get the desired results, trust me, you’ll know, you won’t be guessing because you’ll feel a major shift & change in your thinking & how you feel. There’s more, but this is all you really need for now. If you can’t sleep @ first then, read it over as much as you can every day as much as you can , it will still work, it might take longer until you can sleep & don’t ever think it won’t, it will.