Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms – What Marijuana Detox is Like

I started smoking bud about 5 years ago. 3 years ago I got a drug charge and went on probation. During this period I started smoking cigarettes to deal with not smoking pot. When I went on unsupervised probation I started smoking weed again but didn’t quit the cigarettes. Well I quit smoking cigarettes a week ago and weed 3 days ago. So far I can breathe better, and can wake up early without issue, but my sinus cavity, chest and throat have been sore for about 5 days. The withdrawal symptoms have been more physical than mental. My craving for both has dropped a lot. The hardest day is the first, but after that it gets good. I have developed a pain in my right shoulder and have had persistent headaches , but like I said its day 7 for cigs and 3 for weed, and I’m feeling really good. If I can do it, you guys can too…I promise you that.

Hello I am a 39yr old woman and have been smoking daily for the last two years. I quit 19 days ago and the symtoms are hell. I cant sleep,dreams are crazy, irratable, bowel issues and angry all the time. I want another job and need to be able to pee clean. I have also gained a bunch of weight due to the munchies and want to try and change that. glad to know I am not in this alone

I just turned 25 and have been smoking since I was about 10. I started on a few hits a day to keep me from throwing up in the mornings and am up to about 10 blunts a day. I can’t eat, sleep, depressed, angry,headaches, stressed and physically ill. My headaches are the first to show up..within hrs of not smoking. I have dreams and sweats and headaches for days at a time. I am completely having to learn to relive my life without it. I would go thru a dub In 1 day, a half in 2 and a zone in about 3 days a quarter pound would only last about a week. I am afraid my husband won’t like the sober me…he has never been a heavy user like me but recently quit to get a better job I am quitting because its impossible to find where we live . I can’t go thru this process every few days when we run out and can’t get more. We also have a child who just turned 2 and we said we would quit by then he is getting too big and smart for us to keep doing it. I need to get better for my son but my head is the worse part about all this.i can barely open my eyes my head hurts so bad and my son is non stop talking..The worst part is nobody but my husband know I am going thru all this and I am still supposed to go to family dinners and such and act like nothing is wrong and I don’t hurt and feel sick ..and all I want to do Is throw up and crawl back in bed and not let and lights penetrate my eyelids until my headache goes away..I have had this headache for a week now and even thru sleep and everything it hasn’t gone away..it stays, I’ve tried Tylenol, excedrine…nothin works.. I’ve heard b12 helps de tox u faster… Anybody got ideas?

Smoked for 25 years daily. Never missed work and only smoked after work and on weekends. Tried half way quiting a couple times. After 20 years I noticed paranoia and anxiety got much worse. Started having breathing problems, chest pains, lack of love for life, depression. So I’ve 100% decided to quit. Day 8 withdrawls started. Dehydration, headaches, insomnia, anger, sweats, low sex drive, oddly no craving. I’m on day 15 and looking forward to a life without weed. Good luck to everyone trying to quit. You have to really want it to quit. Don’t quit for someone else, it will only work if you really want it for your better life. Hang in there and congrats!

Hey guys! I’m 22 years old and I have been smoking weed for about 5-7 years now. I quit Bc I simply could not afford it any more. Well last week I had an anxiety attack at work and called 911. I was fresking out and had no idea what was happening. I ended up going home and I’ve been in bed for the last 7 days going on day 8. I can’t sleep, I’m barely eating. The only thing ive been eating are green grapes and saltines. I’ve been drinking cranberry juice and some milk. But I still haven’t been feeling well. I never even thought this was possible. But at least now I know what’s going on with my body. I smoked once today but only a hit. I got a little high but it didn’t do much for me at all. I was just going to start back up again but if I keep having these feelings why would I keep fueling the fire!?! I’ve only been sleeping a couple hours at night but when I wake up I feel nausea and slight anxiety. Every day seems to get better but I feel like I’m going crazy! This blog really did help me though so thank you.

You’ll get over the physical withdrawal symptoms soon enough. But be prepared for life without a drug that numbs you to reality. You’ll need to come to terms with why you started in the first place. For me I think it was boredom. And 30 years later I see what incredible damage smoking pot has done. It made me antisocial and impacted every relationship I attempted. Now that I’m off I can trust my thoughts again. I don’t question and analyze everything in my relationship. Still, boredom is a problem. And I still struggle with anxiety almost 3 months from quiting. But it is getting better. It seems with a clear head that life or the meaning of life has greater importance and I’m fumbling about trying to figure it out now. Hard to believe how deluded my thoughts were when I was smoking pot. Nothing crazy but subtly misleading. I’m looking forward to the second half of my life finding real meaning. It is never soon enough to stop wasting your time smoking pot! DON’T GIVE UP.

I am on day two of not smoking pot having no appiteate. It is hard to have this withdrawal symptoms but these isnt my first roadeo with these symptoms. I have quit and then started and once I started again, I would smoke constantly, having little or no control of me smoking. It was all or nothing and for me, I was all in. Smoking weed would help me escape the reality of my life when I was high but smoking weed everyday caught up to me and made me feel like shit and very down. I have quit before for over a year so the symptoms that I am feeling is nothing new to me but that doesnt make it any easier to deal with these symptoms and feelings that I have. One of the reason why I smoked weed was to do something and I thought that smoking would help me feel better but in reality it jsut made things worst. I am determined not to smoke weed anymore for my health and my life, which I know I just have to get through these time for my symptoms to subside and I will feel better. Who ever reads these and is trying to quit, it does get better and once the THC is out of your body, your body will feel better and the synptoms will be gone for good for the most part. What is hard for me is the first couple of weeks to get through and not smoking. When I did smoke, it was always on my mind and I was always wanting to get high but by me not smoking anymore, I still think about it but I know that will fade. Good luck to all those who are trying to quit and who are wanting to quit. It is worth it.

Hi guys.
Im 18 years old, and have been a smoker for only about 3 years now, the past 2 years cones every single day. I quit about 2 weeks ago due to health reasons. It hit me outta no where, one day I had a cone and I had a massive anxiety attack! My hands and head started to sweat, my heart rate shot up to 130bmp I literally thought I was going to have a heart attack!
I was previously though before the first anxiety attack having some heart worries.. ( chest pains, rapid heart rate, pressure like feeling) after having the clear from the doc my hearts all good that seemed to make me feel better.
Anyways back to the buds. First week, I was losing my shit at everything! Screaming one moment to balling my eyes out the next.. I was having tension headaches. I
Wanted to curl up in a ball and stay like that forever.
After the first week though things have died down quite alot..
Only problem I’m having now is that feeling of soberness. Everything is different I guess. It feels like I’m on drugs when I’m not.. If that makes any sense to anyone.. It’s such an odd feeling it feels just overwhelming at times like I don’t know what to do with all this extra energy..
Overall though I know this will be good for me.
I pretty much want to say to everyone out there that is trying to quit YOU CAN DO IT! You truly can no matter how hard it is.. I promise it will get better.
Tell all those negative thoughts to fuck off! You can do this.
I wish you all the best

Cat xoxo

I’ve been smoking for about 2 years now. It started in the very early stages of my relationship. for us then, it was purely recreational, we had a lot if fun and only had it on weekends. But it slowly became a part if our daily lives. We had a pretty rough start to our relationship and I have always blamed that for ourproblems but I have now come to real
ise that a lot changed after we started smoking all the time. We fight a lot and he often gets physical during the fights. Just yesterday it got to the point where I finally had enough and made him leave. He knows what he has done us wrong and we both want to quit. We love each other and have a baby on the way. We want to make a better life for ourselves and our child. He’s currently staying at his mums house. Many of both our family members also smoke which I know will make this hard. I don’t feel it would be wise for us to live together tho, until we are both clean and past the worst of the withdrawals. I would like some opinions on my situation, please.

I’m 28 years old. I have smoked pot daily for 10 years, but I do not smoke cigs or drink much alcohol to begin with. I am pregnant with my 3rd child. I smoked pot on and off the whole pregnancy with my second- My child is healthy and happy and had no birth issues. Honestly I continued to smoke pot because it helped me with the morning sickness alot! While I’ve cut back some- the doctor I am going to now informed that because my blood tests came back positive for THC that when the baby is born they will test him/her and if the newborn is positive…they will report it. I realize people have VERY different opinions on this particular issue. Granted, I do not sit around smoking all day, just in the morning if I feel sick, or at night to help me to bed. I’m only 13 weeks at this point. When I was really hit with the realility of having to quit…I became very anxious about it. I also suffer from anxiety anyway but I can’t take any of that medication becuase I’m pregnant also. So the thought of having NOTHING to turn to really really scares the crap out of me. I truley don’t know how I am going to do this but I know I am going to have to suck it up and do it somehow. I was thinking of smoking herbal ciggarettes just to sufice until after the baby is born…but I don’t feel like that is any safer really. I’m scared. And I truley want to do what is best for my baby. So in the mean time I’ll just pray really hard and hope for the best and try try try to do the right thing…

I have been smoking for the last 15 Years. my husband and I both smoke. We recently upgraded to smoking waxes because it is better than smoking from a pipe. Unfortunately, I became highly addicted to the waxes. I started using more when my father was going thru cancer treatments. I need something strong to handle the family stress around me. I am also studying for a very hard exam. I decided to quite because the wax was severely effecting my short term memory loss. I was smoking at least 5 to 6 hits a wax everyday. I will never again because of the server withdrawals I am going thru. I am so depressed, irritable, up and down emotions, sever insomnia, not eating, cold & hot sweats. I am my seventh day and it is at its worst. If u decide to smoke wax just keep in mind the withdrawal when u cannot get any or decide to quit……WAX is the DEVIL!!!!

I have been smoking pot for about 5-6 years and have quit on and off from time to time( mostly about a month or 2 a year then back on the wagon). During the summer months i would smoke through a few ounces, after summer though, i would have to return to college and sober up. Well let me tell you something, after blazing 2 months straight everyday a couple of blunts and gowning through like 5-6 ounces in 2 months. I developed a huge tolerance and when it was time to quit i would go insane. Night sweats, hot and cold flashes, couldnt eat, always stressed out, usually when im high i tend to forget about my real life problems, when i sober up i am constantly depressed about my life. The first 2 weeks are the hardest. I literally thought i was going insane, Through my experiances i have learned a few things. Exercise helps alot, so does taking a walk and getting fresh air, Changing your diet (High alkaline diet), weed often at times makes your body acidic, changing into a alkaline diet will help to DETOX your body and replenish it. Eat your multivitamins real big helper in helping the body detox. Try to gain a mindset of a life where you are smokefree and weedfree and as if you never really smoke pot. This helps you forget about smoking. Also showers help a lot. BTW what i noticed after quitting pot, is that after a month or so my dreams become very vivid and i actually start to have a emotional response, which doesnt really exist when im high off weed because i tend to forget my dreams they are not very vivid. Vivid dreams means that your body is detoxing and replenishing itself as well as getting deep relaxation and better over all health. If you are suffering from Marijuana withdrawals dont worry, take it easy, i know it can be very hard, but after a few days to weeks you will feel much better and alive. Remember the body is not a machine, it needs time to heal and rest, when you decide to quit marijuana, instead of thinking about it as a negative, imagine yourself actually doing good by healing your body and mind and knowing that these troubles will not last forever. Stay healthy and be safe DONT GIVE IN! You are incontrol of your life, remember that your and only you have the ability to change the very outcome of your life, through this it will make you a stronger person.

Im 15 years old… I started a 1 and 1/2 years ago, during my freshman year in highschool. I started as an occasional smoker, then near the end of the 3rd quarter of my freshman school year i started doing it once a day. By the end of the 4th quarter I was doing it excessively, several times a day. (10-15 bowls every day). My parents are pretty wealthy and i’ve been taking full advantage of their money just to satisfy my need to smoke weed. I would sneak out into the kitchen in the middle of the night and take 50-100$ just so that I could blaze with my friends the next day. Over the summer leading up to my sophomore year, I would go through an eighth/a half every day. That calculates up to more than an ounce every week. I influenced people around me to do the same thing, and they were influencing me too. Me and a group of friends were all addicted. Not hooked of course, considering THC has no addictive properties. My friends continue to smoke as of today, but I recently did shrooms and had the WORST experience of my entire life. I ended up in the Emergency Room, where I would see people coming in with objects coming out of their chests and constant screaming. This is the last thing a shroomed up 15 year old needs to see… Let me just say that I spent 8 hours in a cot crying and rethinking my entire life. I looked at who I became and I finally realized that the cause was the weed. I didn’t value life, I was trying to rush through it with tons of risk behaviors. I was so scared I was going to die because my throat kept closing up, due to an adverse reaction my body was having to the shrooms. I knew I didn’t want to die a pothead, who spent his life trying to be cool and “chillin with my bros” and “getting hot girls”. I was through. Weed got me here. A week ago is when I quit cold turkey. This was not nearly as easy as I had expected, because, of course, “weed isnt addictive.” What a joke. Weed is 100% addictive. I was attached to the feeling of not caring about anything. I now have a mission to make a change in this world. I wasn’t going to leave this world as a pothead who sat on his ass all day, eating and laughing at things that aren’t funny. I swear I’m going to make a difference, and someday you will hear the name Ryan Hayes with a positive connotation (hopefully!). So a few days upon quitting, I was shouting at the TOP of my lungs, cuss words and insults, I broke the steering wheel on my car because I was mad at a red light, and threw my iphone at a brick wall as hard as I could and watched it shatter to pieces. I couldn’t control this anger. And even after I would do these awful things, I would not feel satisfied whatsoever. I would just want to do more awful things. Food tasted like cardboard. Sleeping was out of the picture. As of right now, it is Thursday and the last time i’ve gotten even an HOUR of sleep was Saturday. Im at school while I write this and nobody understands what I’m going through. Im all smiles at school and I’m acting like theres no issue at all. It is almost impossible I swear… Minutes pass by like hours and my anxiety is insane. I never had anxiety in the past. I get super cold and then super hot, and then super cold, super hot, etc. I had one dream on saturday where I was at a playground and people started throwing knives at me. and I felt them when they hit me. It was excruciating pain being caused in this extremely vivid dream. I woke up in a HUGEEE pool of sweat and I was crying from the pain. I haven’t been able to sleep a wink since, either because im just scared to go through that dream again, or the anxiety. Most likely both. I think cloudily during the day and when I try to sleep my thoughts rush at an insane pace. I know this is all fairly normal for people who quit cold turkey, especially at the vulnerable age that I’m at, and the frequency of my smoking. I feel drips of sweat crawling down from my armpit as I type this. I feel cold no matter how much I bundle up. I honestly just wish people could understand what I’m going through. I have no clue. Fuck schools about to end. Good luck to everybody please hang in there you can all make a difference. No matter how weak you may think you are, you can do this. I know it sucks.

Hello all. This is one of the many attempts of not smoking. I’m now on day two and it feels I have high anxiety, irritation, trouble sleeping and eating. I’ve stopped before, once we get THC out of our system, everyone will start appreciating the clarity of life. Weed has ruined my life(it doesn’t ruin everyone’s) I have been diagnosed with Major Depression, Schizophrenia, and bipolar. I’m not saying weed gave those illness’ to me, but it jump started it to happen sooner in life than when I am senile. Thank you everyone and let’s support eachother.