Sleep deprivation due to cannabis withdrawal

it sounds like that's your body's way of reacting to good deprivation. Mostly happens when people have eating disorders. Intentionally; or not. Just start exercising an hour a day and eat good meals. Feeling well and sleeping will progress greatly in less than a week.

i stopped using cannabis 8 week ago,i smoked every day for 20years,my sleep pattern is terrible, i wake up constantly through out the night, so feel rough through out the day, but sticking with it, as ive come this far now. good luck to all on here. wish we get some decent sleep very soon. 

I smoked cannabis heavily for 7 years and havent smoked for 5 years now i failed several times before and just want to say if you have been addicted there is no such thing as 1 last smoke no matter how long you have been without it i went several weeks without it and thought i could have 1 last smoke but afterwards i didnt feel better i felt stupid as if i had thrown the past few weeks away so if you give up do it now no more last joints!!

I just wanted to give folks here some hope. I started smoking chronically at 14 and was forced to give it up at 34 while backpacking through parts of the world I just didn't feel comfortable buying it or have easy access. Terrible insomnia and vivid dreams started about a week after my last puff, and continued for about 4 weeks. I have heard folks going as long as 3 months with insomnia, and I suppose that is in large part to do with how much you smoked each day, and what other means you use to calm your anxiety. I typically smoked three small spliffs a day. I then continued my smoking upon return to the states and decided to give it up a few months later as I missed the clarity I had experienced after the insomnia and vivid dreams had subsided. Unfortunately, a jealous neighbor helped me to relapse for a couple months and I am now in the process of quitting again and experiencing the same insomnia and vivid dreams, though much less so. Probably because a few months back I took up meditation, which has given me tools to stop my racing brain while lying awake in bed. I highly recommend working out, meditation, and a warm cup of milk and hot shower before bed. It helps a lot. I have also found melatonin useful for getting me to sleep, but I generally wake up a few hours later with the insomnia caused by racing brain activity (anxiety, no doubt). But at least I got those 2-3 hours sleep at onset. Anyway, don't relapse! I promise the insomnia will pass and you will be fine in about a month. It's rough. But I'm now doing it for the third (and hopefully last) time. I promise it can be done!

Yeap, Weed sucks! I'm going through my withdraws and DT's from smoking to much. The late nights no sleep , overly active , I can't think straight my thoughts are all over the place. The worst part is my eyes look like I have been on a crack benge and are sunken in and dark cycles around both eyes. I look horrid. It looks like a bomb went off in my head! Not having good sleep & looking like a dark sunken in eyed physco was not apart of my smoke weed brochure. I guess I bought into the VIP treatment of horrible marijuana withdraw again!?!?!

I am in the same boat as u guys, i want to kick it.  Withdrawl is so bad, it makes so irrattional.   I feel like a tweaker.  It can is addictive as any illicit drug, albeit that it is medicinal in California.  I agree people over hear.  I been to collectives up and down the bay area.  I wish they would help with withdrawl, but they don't.  Its all about the MONIES!!!! period.   I want some real SCIENTIFIC FACTS.  

 

it sounds like i am shunning POT,  but the truth is it has help me with pain, chronic back pain to be exact.   I feel like it is jepordizing my health.    

 

I'm an avid user/patient for 1yr, i dont drink nor smoke ciggs.  ONLY toke it up every day.  atleast 3 times through out the day.  I only get HighGRADE potent no BAMMER.  And i love Concentrated stuff.  

 

but now the pain / withdrawl is back.  

 

i want help!!!!

^ ^ MY bad for the poor grammar, must be high or something  ^ ^  

Why quit cannabis to rely on pills? That is foolish.

My advice would be to eat a candy bar 2 hours before sleep so it make syou crash, that's what I did.

Although, a week after me quitting smoking (2 years, 5+ a day daily use) I was back to normal. But man do I crave it lol.. I'm 28 days clean so best of luck, pray to God to give you the strength and sleep needed to quit. That's what I did.

:)

This is ignorant my father has PTSD and it helps his seizures so much, medicinal marijuana may be easy to get, but for a lot of patients it is well needed. Thank you..

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it is now 3:34am and i am wide awake i have smoked budda for 6yrs a 10+ a day and have decided enough is enough and give the s**t up the first night i didn't sleep at all, the next day i fell asleep about 3pm with screwed me right up, when i woke up at 9/10pm i was wide awake and had another night ahead of sleep less nights. now i feel so ill bored and restless, now am going to take the dog for a walk go get rid of the pent up energy.

sorry about grammar and spelling, thank to all the people who wrote on this forum for giving me some were to vent.

 

p.s taking other drugs isn't the answer legal/illegal, i started smoking more weed to help stop with a speed/cocaine addiction now look what a waste of time that has been.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE IN MY SITUATION

This is normal. Pot inhibits REM sleep and when you quit you can get REM rebound. Try 5htp and or melatonin. I had vivid dreams and slept very little when I quit. I took melatonin and chamomile tea, and sometimes 5htp. Both are naturally produced by your body, and helped me sleep more normally.

Hi folks, this info is great and has been really helpful reading people with similar issues. Here's my story and any opinions you may have would really be great. Sorry if I get off topic... you guys have been helpful.

I'm 32 and recently stopped smoking marijuana and cigarettes after 12 years. I cannot get any natural sleep after about 2 months. I take 2, sometimes another half capsule, of Tylenol/Advil PM every night and this sometimes doesn't help. There have been recent event sin my life that have made me depressed, given me mood swings with sudden bursts of anger and little to no motivation for anything. After I quit smoking, I became interested in things I haven't done since high school like painting, reading, writing and working out. However sometimes I just want to lay in bed and do nothing at all. I absolutely hate taking prescription meds but I think maybe I should finally see a doctor for this, but I was laid off from my job and have no health insurance anymore and very little funds. I'm constantly thinking of smoking weed again just so I can finally get sleep but I want to stay clean. I'm at a really tough part of my life now and I hope you guys have some positive words for me. Should I just visit a doctor already? I don't know what to do.... Good luck with everyone's abstinence from weed and thanks again for reading this everyone. 

i'm on day/night 43 after 40+years

of more-or-less one or two hits daily.......yeah yeah dreams, horrible sleep, but THERE IS

NO ALTERNATIVE, doctors never promise to cure, only to "treat" with pharmaceuticals and

charge you or all of us thru insurance rates or taxes thru government.......so get a grip, stay

clear of ALL drugs, which alter mother nature's processes ONLY TEMPORARILY before she

accounts for them and responds......can't you see that's a losing game???.......try being

resolute, intelligent.....have a little spine......and trust mother nature to straighten out

past long-term "indiscretions" sooner or later.......instead of listening to ex-stoners, look

for the little "teasers" of truth from professionals (after all, they want to make a buck to

give you the whole story), but sometimes let a morsel of truth slip........good nights and

bad nights, inconsistent for MONTHS MOST PROBABLY.......it won't KILL YOU.....straighten

up Marines and stop whining!! 

Wow! Loved reading these replies so useful! Well am 5 days clean been smoking everyday for 14 years, I have had 3/4 hours sleep a night until last night I had 2 hours sleep and I loved my 8 hours sleep every night! Am dreading the dreams but I just want to sleep first! It's 00.37am here am still awake so guess it's the same tonight! I was getting bored of the weed and the company boring not doing anything in the evening just sat smoking weed everyday after work! So me and my bf split 5 day ago he smokes too and thought time for a change! Problems with smoking you only want to date ppl that smoke so your circle becomes small of who's company you can and cannot be in! And if I went out after work or to a friends I want to get home to smoke! Was controlling my life! I feel better for it already except for no sleep lol hope things just get better and better and not worse :( thanks for all the advice guys! Will come bk on in 2 weeks and see how far I am then!!! Wish me luck think am gonna need it :)

try valerian root you still be taking something to go to sleep but you just might not have the side effects that the pills are giving you