Symptoms of the marijuana withdrawals

i just read all 6 pages of this forum..i have been smoking everyday for 3 years now, when i was a freshman in highschool i first tried it and only smoked occasionally and then my sophmore and junior year i didnt smoke at all, when i was a senior i started back and discovered i could do it every day and still function as what i thought was normal, i've been out of highschool for 2 years and still smoked every day, sometimes up to 8 blunts a day, and not the crappy weed either. 8 days ago i found out i had to stop due to some events coming up, from tuesday to friday i didnt smoke anything and i seemed to feel fine, this past weekend i was with some friends and friday night i hit a bowl only 1 time, the next night i hit a blunt only 1 time, today is tuesday and i havnt smoked at all since those 2 hits in those 2 days, 2 sundays ago before going to bed i smoked my nightly bowl pack and about 30 minutes later the right side of my chest started to ache and i suddenly started feeling numbness all over my body, tingling, weird taste, my face felt like it was swelling, i thought i was having a heart attack, but it was anxiety. scared sh*tless i didnt smoke until the next night and i only smoked 1 blunt, the anxiety took over again although not as intense. that was the last time i smoked until the 2 hits this past weekend. since today would be the 3rd day in a row that i have not used marijuana AT ALL i have noticed that i feel like complete c**p. the first day of no use i seemed alright with the exception of clammy hands and armpits, that night around 7pm my right leg began to feel numb and then went into a tingling sensation i also experienced trouble falling asleep and would toss and turn for at least an hour before i finally fell asleep, waking up the next day i felt okay and durring the day i seemed to be fine, my appetite has supressed and i can only take about 5-7 bites of my meal before i am full, yesterday (day 2 with no use at all) i was fine with the exception of sweatyness but at around the same time (7pm) my right arm went numb and this is when i really started to worry, i tried to let it wear off but then the tingling sensation started to occur so my mom took me to the hospital where i had a CT scan, turns out my brain is completely normal and they sent me on my way but im supposed to do a follow up with a neurologist, i didnt really start to think that i was having withdrawls from marijauna until today when i really started to question it, it seemed to make sense since 2 weeks ago when i was still using i felt normal and healthy, when i put 2 and 2 together i started to ask myself if it could be withdrawls from marijuana, since i've never used any other drugs it could be the only one im experiencing problems from, i started looking it up online and came across this website, when i read that other people besides myself were experiencing the same problems as i am im sort of at more comfort, i've been weepy(crying off and on) for the past few days, my muscles have felt really weak, the tingling seems to seclude itself to certain parts of my body, my hands and armpits (no matter how much antiperspirant i use) are clammy (sweaty) i wake up and realize that my brain was active all night due to freaky dreams though i cant recall exactly what went on in all of them im able to remember certain parts which from what i recall are very highstrung and full of anxiety, one particular dream which i remember parts from i was arguing with my mother, today i ran for a mile so i could sweat some of the thc out of my body, right now it is 6pm and today i've experienced cold feet and hands, sweaty armpits, hands, and feet, dizziness/light headedness, pain in my neck and lower back, weakness in my arm and leg muscles and my vision seems to be sort of off, not really blurry but not like im really seeing as straight as i should, my eyes feel sort of tired like the feeling you get when you've come down from your high, i almost forgot upset stomach, i've had diarhea for a few days now, to add to the symptoms, and i have a weird sort of indegestion type feeling where my chest and throat meet, i've always stood up for marijuana and for people who used it but im here to say that withdrawls from it ARE REAL, especially if you've been using it for a significant amount of time.

Hi, I have gone through withdraws from methamphetamines, and almost every opiate at some time. I smoked marijuana constantly (several times daily) for 5 years. I quit cold turkey with no problems in the least. This is because the half life of THC (active ingred. in Marijuana) is so long you naturally taper down over a couple of months. I know you can be adicted to it menatally also and that is the difficult part of quitting. But physical symptoms, from my experience and I seem to get every withdraw symptom from every thing else, should not exist. You must get over the mental addiction.

JH2

i was just reading all these and felt an urge to write.. id say im about halway through the recovery process after smoking about 2 times a week and then had 1 bad incident where i tripped out so hard that i ended up passing out due to drinking too much and smoking at the same time.. i feel that all my symptoms are the same as quoted above except i also feel im in almost an "autopilot" mode where everything i do was not thought out by my brain just done by my muscles recounting past experiences.. im also extremely irritable and have a ton of trouble waking up in the morning and constantly feel tired during the day as if my body isnt getting enough energy.. ive also feel a stronger urge to decline weed and not take it
the headaches are slowly goin away.. has any1 else felt this? and how far do u think i am in recovery?

Just got home from the hopital. i had symptons like lightheaded arm/hand/legs/feet shakes. also had sweating hands and feet.
LACK OF SLEEP. after that i went to the local hospital they gave me some small pills to stop the wtihdrawls. so if u have the smptoms please go get the meds its helpful and u can get a decent night sleep.

Its free if ur in canada not sure about U.S.A

I had shoulder surgery on Monday the 11 2006 at 2:00pm. The night before At around 5 was the last time I smoked. Until that evening I had smoked 3 to 7 bong (RooR) hits a day for 10 years. I worked out the morning of my surgery and when I went to the hospital my hands became clammy, and I was very nervouse along with my terribly upset stomach( no weed and fasting for sugery). When I was in pre op my blood pressure went to 153 over 96 which was waty up from my norm of 128/77. AS I went into the operating room my blood pressure went to 180/110! It dropped when I had the anestisa to normal until after the surgery when it rose back to 180/110 anfd took an hour and two doses of medication to get my BP down to 160/93.I hand an anxiety attack my first. I went home that night and tried to smoke and instead of feeling relif I devloped abdominal spasms right below my heart combined with nausea, clammmy hands, sweating and a elevated and rapidly fluctuating BP and heart rate. This caused me to have my first ever anxiety attack and the evening of the 13th I went to the emergency room with chest pains, nasea and rapid heart rate and a high BP 153/88. The er doctors found nothing abnormal and I said nothing of my habit/addiction. Then the next day I saw my primary care doctor, did not tell him either. That night I went bact to the emrgency room when my bpwent to 178/105 and my heart rate went to 115. I had another panic attack! this time I told the er doctors and after running the same tests as the hight before and determining everything was Ok told me they believed it was withdrawls. They gave me adavan and sent me home. Today I went back to my primary care doctor and my sympotms were still comming and going with horrifying intesity. I told my primary doctor and he prescribed me beta-blockers to stop my mind from producing the chemical that causes anxiety. That was this mourning , tonight I fell better but am still sweating profusly and have abdomianl cramping. I did not hink that mj could cause such pronounced withdrawl symptoms but it has. I have no desire to smoke and just want to get back to normal after a ten year run. I don't have regrets about my past history but am upset with myself for becoming so dependant. Hopefully I will have a few more days or weeks of this and then I will be clean. P.s. I am not an inactive person , for the last ten years I have been in the ocean at least 6 days a week and also lift weights I am in good shape and before the start of this week was completly healthy besides my left shoulder which used to dislocate alot! Marajuan withdrawl symptoms are real. I am seriose when I say I smoked chronic everyday multiple times out of a bong only. Modreation or abstinace is the key. Good by Mary jane thanks for the good times but its time to move on. This forum is great and has made me feel a little better about my situation, Thanks
Wavehoundsa

Tip of the hat to the post above me, very informative...anyways, I'm 18 and have only been smoking for less than a year, however for most of that year i only smoked on a rare occasion like once a month, not until i went to my first semester in college had i started to smoke often. I started to smoke heavly back in august september-ish, i was smoking atleast tree times a day if not staying high the entire day, and it was VERY potent bud,(if you know what i mean).I was almost only smoking out of gravity bongs and bowls, needless to say, college life is much better high, so in just a few months time I managed to ingest what would take most poeple atleats a year to smoke. And just recently I began to have withdrawal symptoms with actaully quiting, I definately leaned off alot but not completely, only recently (past few days) have I had almost not smoked at all and now my symptoms have grew much worse, its started with some nights sweats every so often to now waking up at 3 A.M. completely soaked in sweat, from head to toe, also completly drenching my sheets and pillows, also I have just now expeirenced some insomnia, severly decreased appetite and mood changes along with feeling hot or cold in the middle of the day in normal tempertures. At first I thought something was majorly wrong with me because I didnt know you could have withdrawal symptoms, however after readng about everyone elses expeirences it makes perfect sense, I think I'm going to smoke a little every night to help with the insomnia, not to get high but to just even out and slowly get off completely, I would just go cold turkey but classes will start up again soon and I need to be in 100% working order. Well so far thats my story, if anyone has any advice of any kind I will be sure to check on this forum for replies and I'll also update my progress as it continues. Thanks Alot

My last report was on page 5, November 8th. I'm still straight, and it's unbelievable because I have had several periods when I strongly desired to start back. Someone's comment really helped me here, so I will reiterate it. I forget that when I was high is when I most wanted to quit. I have to remind myself of this. It's like amnesia. I think I want to be high, but when I did, I really wanted to be straight again.

I have suffered some more horrible headaches, mostly during the night. Not often, but very painful when they do occur. I imagine this is part of the healing process. Also, I caught a flu-bug a few weeks ago, which lasted 2 weeks. Near the end, I suffered three days of very deep depression... I have never experienced this low a feeling for so long. Finally, I took a long walk and counted all my blessings. Then, I climbed onto my stair-stepper for a 20-minute workout... this helped lift the depression the most. I am going to begin exercising regularly to try and prevent the depression from recurring, and replace the buzz with the one you get from a workout.

I am really enjoying the clear head feeling. Life experiences seem more realistic. I'm no longer grumpy. I'm still having intense dreams. I know it will be years before I fully regain all mental benefits, but 57 days is a good start.

You have to want to quit and decide not to restart. It's not easy. If I can do it, you can do it.

It has been really useful to read about the experiences of other cannabis users who are trying to quit. I have beeen a nightly smoker for 20 years, not large amounts but an apparently necessary part of my life. For several years I have thought about stopping as although I function well as employee, parent, homeowner, I do not want to be stoned forever. During the past 12 months I have managed to stop for increasingly long periods, up to 6 weeks at a time, usually followed by a week or two of a return to smoking. During periods of withdrawl my mind becomes overactive, insomnia (already a problem) rages but I cope. After 3 weeks I get clear in my head and appreciate the unstoned life despite being too tired to really enjoy it. I become calmer about the issues that I used to think were alleviated by a smoke. So now I face a serious grown up decision-do I stop forever or can I have the occasional smoke? I gave up caffeine and alcohol a couple of years ago as a kind of trial for my more serious habit.

hmmmm i smoked at least a gram a day for a year and i've decided to stop this is my fourth day and i was just wondering if someone can tell me if i'll go back to how i was before....can someone actually reply to this thanks

I'm 21 years old and up until about a month and a half ago smoked weed every day for about 3 years. I decided to give up because about 4 months ago I had a really bad experience 1 night, had like a panic attack and totally freaked out. Since then I've been suffering from bad anxiety which led to me feeling pretty depressed. After the first experience I kept smoking telling myself it had nothing to do with the weed, in denial I guess!

My anxiety would be with me all the time, my head racing, constantly telling myself that something bad was going to happen and always expecting the worst. I've gone through stages of having really bad tension headaches, chest pains and stomach pains/cramps and always thought that I had something seriously wrong with me( brain tumors, heart attacks, cancer, you name it!).

But here I am, one and a half months clean and starting to feel better. Found that exercise and having someone to talk to has really helped me.
So for anyone who has felt the same as me remember, your not going mad and you will feel better, it just takes some time! So keep at it and don't kid yourself on that weed isn't a powerful drug, it is.

Good luck!

hey saltydog , im in a similar stage as you right now, its been about 60 days (2 months), my head is much clearer, just to ask a question about your post, u say it will take you years unitl u reap full benifits for you mind. Who told you this? is this a fact, that seems kinda long, but im sure you know more then me so i would love for you to talk alittle more about it and what your know about it thanks buddy, let me know?

p.s i feel so much better, after i quit I became somewhat unstable, i went though times of depression and questions such as what am i doing in life and what purpose do i sevre, my self esteem also droped to an all time low , i am good now , but i still feel as if my head isnt 100% ( 4 year of daily thc use). I belive that my neurotransmitters arent functioning properley as their should

Is it normal to still feel emotional swings from anger to depression etc after having quit for 4 weeks? Beforehand i was a heavy user daily for about 8 months ( bong rips w/ really potent weed ). I quit due to having a bad shroom trip and it made me realize a lot.. So I stopped cold turkey, went through all the withdrawal.. I actually felt better a week after quitting, but now i feel like depression and my emotions are just unstable.....Is this still part of the withdrawal? How long does it take to return to normal?

Guest wrote:

I just stop for 1-2 weeks and I'm good again.

From what I have experienced, and now read by people smarter than me, see my next post link, taking a short break does not induce the same effects as stopping for good.

Jimmyp23 - Congratulations to you man! I think you r through some of the toughest days. I am ~ 80 days, and most lately are easier... though I am not out of the woods yet!



I don't know more than you, and I am not certain on that number. I did just rescan one article (see second article in the link below) because it seems to be fairly extensive with explaining our dilemma, including the questions on brain repair and the "two weeks are easy" trick... I think I found the link in this thread, but second article was so helpful, I will risk repeating it:

members.optusnet.com.au/~apfdfy/Strategy.html



When I gave up cigs, I leaned this trick: when I feel strong graving, I mock it.. I slowly blow out all the air, and slowly inhale till really full, hold it, repeat. Somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd time, I am trying to change my thoughts to something else, and that usually works... > 12 years after quitting cigs, I still do this exercise (heart association taught me) when I see the guy in the car next to me fire one up... now its working on my worst "high" graving too.





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im experiencing the withdrawals now big dummys. the lochness monsters a myth you f'n a-holes. smoke everyday for 15 years, then quit cold turkey & then come back & post something dipshits!