Symptoms of the marijuana withdrawals

I posted a while ago explaining what I was going through after giving up Cannabis after 10 years of smoking everyday and I just thought I would give you an update to how things are going and hopfully make a few people who have posted recently feel a bit better about what they are going through.

Well it has been 12 weeks now without a spliff and things are getting a bit easier. The first 8 weeks of giving up was the worst weeks of my life, I was having severe anxiety, headaches, insomnia,panic attacks and loss of appetite but things do get a bit easier with time you just have to push through it. I have still got days where I have anxiety and headaches but the good days in between are now getting longer. I like others thought I was going crazy and thought I would never get better but it does get easier believe me. The thing I found that made me feel better was excercise as this cleared my head and tired me out so I could sleep.

Reading posts on this forum made me feel so much better and made me feel like I was not going mad and that I was not the only person in the world going through this nightmare. I am still far from feeling normal like I said I have good and bad days but hopfully the good days are starting to outweigh the bad.

So if you are experiancing the same symptons as me and feeling like c**p everyday just dont give into smoking again just stick with it and you will feel better with time, I would still do anything for a spliff and I do miss it but the nightmare I have been through in the last couple of months totally outweigh the temptation to sparking up again.

Hi. I started smoking weed when I was 16. The first joint I ever smoked I actually passed out from- not sure why though. I didn't smoke after that experience for about 6 months or so. I can't exactly remember when I started up again but I am going on 23 soon and have been smoking bong hits consistently everyday at least 3-4 times per day for about 5 years. About a month and a half ago, my friends and I had a party night where we were doing cocaine. We did it til early in the morning and came home and went to bed. I woke up, and a friend came over to have a 'session'. I took a bong hit, then another one and I started feeling an overwhelming sensation of anxiety. Almost to the point where I called 911 because I thought I was having a heart attack (I've never really had anxiety before). My friend calmed me down a lot and I went back to sleep thinking the anxiety would go away. I woke up and it was still there- and strong. I went to the doctors and they gave me lorazapan (sp?) which took away the anxiety for a few hours but when it wore off, it came right back. Since that party night, every time I smoked weed it just made my anxiety 100 times worse so I decided it's time to quit- weed and coke (which I had been doing on and off once a weekend for a year or so) since I've done enough damage to my body. After a week, the anxiety was still there so I went back to the doctor who just told me 'lay off the cocaine'- yeah, I agree there. Another week went by and the anxiety was still present- kind of sparatic but not as crazy. But I was having some chest pains and decided maybe I should talk to a therapist. I did that weekend, she helped me out a lot by letting me know some things that are good to deal with anxiety. Excersise, drinking lots of water, 'grounding myself' by rubbing my feet on the ground and saying out loud my name, the date and my location (it sounds weird but it helps) and by always saying to myself 'this will pass, I am a good person, I deserve to not have these feelings' and some other stuff. My drive home from the therapists was a little bit challenging because I was getting anxious and actually put some of her suggestions in to play. I struggled with the anxiety and chest pains for a few more weeks. The anxiety has slowly started to go away, same with the chest pains. But recently I have felt very detached from the world, depressed and hopeless. The only time I get away from it is when I'm sleeping. If I think too hard about it or am bored, that's when it gets the worst. I always have to keep myself busy but it's very hard to stay motivated to do things. I really want to feel normal but I don't even know what feeling normal is as I smoked weed for so long. I'm sure this will all go away but when? If I had known what I know now, well I'm sure everyone would have made different choices- lol. So I'll update maybe in a month or so just to see if I've made any progress. But I really hope these surreal feelings go away. Reading the messages on here have helped me out to know that other people have been going through the same.

i have been smoking for a good year now it started out as i was getting it free so me n my best friend would smoke just for fun then i moved back to illinois and after awhile i decided id buy some for a fun weekend well after i did that i bought another gram and the cycle continues...


inbetween buying it i sometimes have to go a night or 2 now i already have had anxiety,depression and insomnia for the past five years...these inbetween days are killing me i feel shakey,my body doesnt feel like the right temp, im very fast paced and cant calm down and when i try to sleep its very light and disturbed,and i feel a little sick to my stomach

marijuana withdrawls are real

im 25 years old and have been smoking heavily(almost everyday allday) since i was 12. for a long time i was smoking rediculous amounts at a time and it was getting worse and worse. recently i got food poisoning and didnt smoke for an entire weekend(which is a while for me) after that i kinda felt like it was time to stop. especially since this was the first time in a long time that i havent smoked in over 24 hours.
at first i felt like somthing bad was gonna happen. almost like if i stopped i would never feel the same again. a kind of paranoid feeling that i will never be the same after smoking so much and just stopping. plus im very aggro towards everything. just normal conversations with my roomates irritate me. i also have an almost wired feeling. as if i would never be able to sleep without smoking or getting that relaxed feeling from smoking. when i eat its like two bites of somthing and im full. sometimes its like if i eat im gonna feel sick as if my body doesnt want food at all and im forcing it.
i know that ive been doing this for so long that its gonna be quite some time before i feel at all "normal". since ive stopped i have this lingering thought that i will never be "normal" again. could it be that im just paranoid or could it be anxiety?
hopefully it passes and i can go on with things. i dont want my life to be summed up by the fact that i smoke a bunch. im tired of having to worry about whether or not im gonna smoke at any given time. im tired of wasting money constantly on somthing thats gone faster then i get it and in the end i have nothing to show for it.

I am only 16 and I started smokeing weed when I was 12. I smoked it 1-2 times every few weeks and didnt like it because it made me stupid and paranoid. Then I kept on smokeing it because thats what everyone else was doing and by the time I was 14 I was smokeing it 3 out of 5 days. a 5er hear a 5er thier and my paranoia started going away eventually. When I got to be 15 I started smokeing it almost daily every afternoon and every morning. I had to move from that city to somewhere where I had never lived before so I had to quit smokeing because I had no connections. I dont remember any withdrawl other then craveing weed. Then about a month after I moved here I got into e and coke and alcohol. Now im almost 17 and I smoke 2-8 grams everyday. I drink 4 out of 7 days and its getting to the point where I black out now. The more I smoke the less high I started to feel. Now I never get that giggily stonned feeling anymore now its just kind of another thing I have to do. I also smoke cigerettes about a pack a day give or take a few and I am in debt with everyone Iknow. I have no money, no where to get money right now and noone who can spot me who doesnt already owe me so I have been sober from weed for 4 days. I have anxiety all the time and have had it scince i was young so without the weed it is retarded. I feel likeim on the verge of crying every hour and everything pissis me off. I am coughing alot and I am getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that wont go away. Also I have a sick feeling in my throught. Last night I was drunk and i bashed my head off of something and blacked out so im not sure if the headachs are from weed or that. I feel really antsy and fidgety and restless and it is 4am and I still cant sleep. Also I read wat someone said about a clicking in thier head and im not sure if its from weed but i get it to and not only just when im high. Its only in my right ear and sometimes when I walk i can hear it clicking from inside my head. It is scary as sh*t and I want to quit all this before its to late but i really dont want to. I dont like the way I am, I dont like how when I get stressed I need my drugs. I dont like all the money I have spent on it and all the people I have pissed off from it. I dont like how im hungry because i need to buy weed with the little money i make. I dont like any of it but i wouldnt change it . . i could never see me without it and it kills me but i cant quit. what a m***n...

Unlike many here, I have only been smoking for about 4 months...usually daily. This is my 3rd day off, and my main symptom by FAR is the constant Anxiety/Panic Attacks. It starts as a strange tingling feeling in my shoulders and arms, and that seems to lead to increased heart rate...and into full blown panic attack. When moving around during the day...symptoms lessen or disappear completely....however at night, when I'm relaxing in computer chair, or even while I'm sleeping, it gets bad. I do however have all the other common symptoms (Diarrhea, irritability, trouble sleeping, vivid or re-occuring dreams, loss of apatite) My main question is how long will it take before the anxiety lessens for someone, as in myself, whom has only smoked for 4 months?

Would also like to add, that I have never before had problems with Anxiety or Panic attacks...So it leads me to believe (and hope) that it is indeed related to marijuana.

Feedback would be GREATLY appreciated!

hey im 21 year old , i have been smoking weed for about 6 years, for he past 4 years pretty much everyday, like 6 or 7 bong hits a day.
i play hockey and work out often , id say im in good shape, besides the fact that i smoke weed that much. ive been clean for about 6 days now , and i feel no urge to smoke at all anymore.

having said that , i have gone through alot of the withdrawl symptoms, such as vivid nightmares,cold sweats, clamy hands , chills, and waking up in sweat , although i have been getting my regular sleep. the one problem that is bothering me most of all is my upset stomach and / or (butterflys). im guessing that it is the cause of anixiety for the most part , becasue it seems to be the worst when im about to have sex, and in the mornings. the withdrawl symptoms have been tapering off except for the stomach problems. can anyone with a good backround on this subject help me and explain to me what is going on, and aslo give me an idea of how long it will last / and what i can do to make it better

thanks everyone

I am on day 10. 46 and a regular baker for ~ 27 years, sadly... This is my 3rd serious attempt to quite in past 5 years. I found these posts a couple of days ago, and have been reassured by them, so here is my contribution, experience so far.

First, I am celebrating because I passed a big milestone. My supplier called yesterday to say he had finally gotten some really good stuff, one z for me – and when he says it’s good, it is really good. I was able to turn him down. He laughed at me… He’s heard it before.

Since he’s been out for weeks, I had run completely out myself. I am a private toker now (all by myself for many years), so he is my only supply contact, and this caused me to pinch for couple of weeks, so cutting back helped me to back down gradually. I went from 3-4 small bong bowls throughout the day (every single day) to about 1-2 for the last week or 10 days. I could never quit with it in stock. I had to run out for this to work, and this time it was unplanned.

When I did finally run dry, two Sundays ago, I was so mad at little stuff for days. I decided to start growing it myself. I get extra-irritable when I was straight. I thought it was just my natural problem, and smoking pot was my natural solution. I was wrong. I am finally starting to cheer up again. I have more patients and feeling calmer. I am more confident and pleasant to be with, and very relieved to see that I do not need it, I used to think I did.

Though, the wild and “really” realistic dreams continue. I was happy to see others confirm this part. In a dream the other night, I was being chased by a mad Buffalo, and swinging from a rope to avoid it. The dreams seem so vivid, like none before.

Last week, on top of being cranky, I did have the constant headaches for days, and I felt feverish too, so I took Tylenol PM a few nights and that helped me go to sleep. Don’t need that now. During the day, I took plain aspirin a couple of times, and when I was really feeling rotten, a goody’s powder helped me. I try not to take anything.

I can probably convince you that pot is not such a bad thing, and should be legalized. But at this point, I am questioning my own arguments. I do not wish to ever take another puff, and will keep you posted either way. It sucks coming down, but after 1st week, I see clearer, think faster, fog is lifted, and am already benefiting at work from being mentally clean. I’m beating it Jack. It IS easier than stopping cigarettes, which I did ~12 years ago. Just make the decision, get it out of the house, and stay away from your dope-friends at least until you have it in your control. I am so glad I am free or at least in control of this addiction, so far.

hi thanks to everyone for all the informative posts... ive been an every day (more like every hour) smoker for the past 2 years and need to quit in about 2 weeks. just wanted to get opinions on what would be the best way to minimize withdrawal symptoms for me. (ive tried to quit before and it was pretty bad) i have a small amount of weed left, should i just smoke it all asap and would it be better for me to just go cold turkey or to gradualy cut back leading up to the date when i need to stop (2weeks). how bad are days 1-4 vs. days 12-15.. i would like to feel the best i can in 2 weeks should i just get rid of the weed as quick as i can or use it to gradually taper? thanks in advance for any opinions

Dude, I would do it as gradually as possible. Smoke as little as you possibly can each day until it's gone.

sorry guys but marijuana is as potent as you think. It's not all in your mind. I smoked 2 joints everyday in the summer and barley smoke once every two weeks now and i have problems with it. I've been smoking for 6 years. don't smoke it unless you know you can control yourself. I cannot, so i have problems with it, my highschool/college grades really dropped and so i smoke when i feel like it.

Hi. Quitting smoking pot is trickier than ppl think, and anyone who writes to this site saying its all easy peasy is being bloody irresponsible to my point of view. Whether you cut back and quit or quit outright, expect weird dreams, insomnia, stomach pains, sweats, and many and various psychological outcomes.. but remember that they pass, and keep reminding yourself that it s worth it of course, even if its depressing when the fog starts to lift and you realise that you let your emotional social and spiritual learning lapse for so long! I quit a couple of weeks ago and now have a nasty sinus infection, moving towards a lung infection i think... I'll go to the doctors if i feel any more crapola, but it makes sense to me that the pollutants that i deliberately dropped onto my mucous membranes are now being leached out by my smart and amazing body. Green and black grime have been coughed up too... but its all gooooood. Gross but bearable.. and better Out than In as my wise old mother says. Good luck anyone else struggling to regain themselves, and dont be swayed by the casual comments of smokers who help themselves feel better about what they choose to do to themselves by arguing that pot smoking is not that bad... think about what you forfeit in terms of memory and paranoia and demotivation.. Peace out.

I hear that it can take up to 3 months for all your emotions and for you body to slowly come back to normal. Anyone with strong info on this subject know if this is true or not? also that has quit weed , how long did it take for you to completley feel normal agian

does anyone have a professional info on the brain and pot?

does the brain dopamine system ever return back to normal after stoping marijuana?

please anyone?

Hi there, my boyfriend smokes alot and has done for the last 14yrs. I have smoked on and off for the last 7 yrs...i have started again recently since September 06 until now (Dec 06). This is mainly because i am now living with my boyfriend and cannot get away from it. Don't get me wrong, i enjoy it but it really doesnt take away the stresses of life and daily pressures... We keep it to the evenings, and smoke about 3-4 joints a night. We only smoke hash here as we are living in Malta presently. However, my boyfriend and i were in India for 7 months and we smoked constantly...i mean it was ridiculous infact (we loathed it at the time though ~ and it was the bad stuff, fresh from the Himalayers). We woke in the morning to have a bucket, pass out again and then proceed to smoke chillums (like pipes) and joints all day. This did NOT stop, it was our identity for 7 months on the trot. We lived on the c**p, it was our life :-(

Now, like i said we keep it real, and puff away only a few plus in the evenings. However, both of us need to stop. I am OK, and whenever on my own (which i was for 2 years without my boyfriend ~ as we lived apart in differnt parts of the globe)...i was fine, and never bought. I only ever found myself with a joint if it was someone elses at at party that i mooched or something. My man on the other hand is never free of it and hates the stuff...he desperatly wants to rid of his addicrion (although some of you have mentioned it is not an addiction - BS) it's on the mind...but sometimes the mind is more powerful than we like to think and can unfortunatly take over (and this is perminant, i know).

I would like to help my boyfriend as he really wants to stop...he gets horrid chest pains, today he felt incredibly anxious and a little dpressed. He mopped around, and this is rare for him. He gets excruciating headaches, muscle pain and has vivid terrifying dreams (of which i do occationally too).

Can any of you give me advice in what to do? He needs rehab or anything like that...should i hide the stuff? Any help wld be MUCH appreciated.

Cheers.