Marijuana Withdrawal and Spasticity

Hey, what's up everybody. I've been attempting to quit marijuana lately (49 hours sober), and it sucks, but now I have to do it. I feel extremely bored, unfocused (but very focused on the negatives in everyday life now, hurray), anxious, I get morning head aches when I wake up after a shitty sleep, usually I can't sleep, I even experience "hypnagogia" on a regular basis now.

I've been smoking weed only about 4-5 months, and some how I quickly got into the habit of smoking a QO (7grams) about every 2-3 days. I "use to be" a generally well focused person with an awesome sense of humor, but recently I've been feeling like absolute shit, and came to this awareness that I've been pretty much not myself and beat up on for a while now. From the outside I know I appear withdrawn and inattentive, but there's always a world at play in my head. It was never like this before.. Lol.

Anyway, what made me decide to quit this time is the fact that I have cognitive problems and spasticity daily now (and it increases and scares the shit out of me when I'd previously get high). Spasticity is when random muscles twitch and tense.. I probably get them every couple of minutes / 30 seconds and it's really annoying, because it's also all i can think about. From what I read on google, marijuana is supposed to reduce that, but only makes it more apparent and intense for me, not to mention probably caused it in the first place...

Don't let me get you wrong, Marijuana use to be a beautiful tool for me, especially when used in conjuction with some meditational practices... I had a beautiful sense of awareness only a few months ago, but then some how marijuana just became an everyday escape, and I really dug myself under.

Anyway, I'd really hate my life if this spasticity shit keeps up, Idk if it will, I don't know much about it. I hope it's temporary. And if anybody else has been experiencing marijuana withdrawal, share the hope.

I know it's mostly and probably all psychological, but for some reason meditation just isn't working for me anymore, and I've been trying. I just don't know.

 

Hey My Man!

Its good to break even if for years. People forget and tend to run their life around getting buzzed. Problem now is you are bored, head to the book store!

Moderation in all things!

-B

 

Yeah it's just the boredom getting to you. Find something to keep your mind occupied and try to stay busy with something. I haven't smoked since Sunday because I'm trying to cleanse my system so I can get a job, but I'm not letting it get me down. It's not even bothering me, really. I do wanna get high, but I don't feel the need to get high. The main thing for me is, I've been eating a lot more since I began my break, because I'm so fuckin bored. haha

I am ready to hurry up and get a job though, because I sure would love to have a fatass blunt right about now:spliff:

 

Well, I've been smoking for about 4 years now, and a daily smoker for about 6 months. I can't find any weed right now, so I've been sober since 4/20. The first day always kinda sucks for me, but as the days go by, the urge to smoke lessens. The first day I'm always like "Shit, I really need to find some weed!" But by the time the 3rd day rolls around I'm not very worried about it anymore. Sure, I'd really like to get high, but I've realized that I don't need it, and if I wanted to, I could quit any time, and that makes me feel good. I've never had any withdrawal symptoms, but I guess it effects everyone differently.

 

Hm that sucks. I get the muscle twitches sometimes when i'm high like i'll randomly twitched but never when i'm sober.
good luck quitting. how old are you?

 

I don't really get anything else than just pure boredom if I quit smoking the ganj. It's strange that people enjoy it this much, but I can sure understand why!

 

"Spasticity is when random muscles twitch and tense.."

I do that to where I twitch so bad thats its noticeable and sometimes I get distracted by it.
It only happens when im high. I thought it was just me being weird and I even thought that I wasnt even twitching but I asked my friend if she could see me and she said yeah I always do that. Its annoying.....

 

I only get the random twitching when I'm really high. I hit my friend's PHX the other night and that made me twitch, it also made me trip a little too.

49 hours sober eh? You just need something to keep you busy. When you're on weed everything is entertaining and all your senses get ultra sensitive. When you come off weed, yeah everything is dull again. The come-down off weed isn't really "bad", life just feels dull, your mind feels very cloudy, and you're tired. That's what I get, anyways.

I've been smoking for almost 2 years now and I understand where you're coming from, I don't like feeling spaced out and retarded all the time. But when I do take the time to sober up I feel much better than I do normally. Like it feels as if my brain has been on vacation and its very very fresh, I can think much more clearly than normal and much faster than normal.

The sleeping issue: alcohol. Alcohol makes me sleep like a baby, if I have to stay sober that night I'll have a couple beers before bed and I don't have any trouble sleeping.

 

wonder how many times i've heard this before lol

 

I have been smoking much longer than you but am otherwise in the exact same situation. Marijuana has no doubt done me more good than bad.. but when I was a big pothead it adversely affected my quick wit and sense of humour, as well as cognitive abilities in general. Different people are affected by weed in different ways.. but your case, IMHO, calls for a weed break. I have taken a weed break before, and I am taking one at present. Don't smoke weed for a couple of months.. keep doing meditation, it's not magic potion but if you are patient and disciplined it will help you like nothing else. Eat healthy. Physical exercise is also something taken for granted but it releases endogenous opiates in your brain that make you feel better, and also increases levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin and improves your mood. Indulge in enjoyable activities, explore your creative side. Then in a couple of months, you can return to smoking weed and you will feel rejuvenated. The moment you toke and the the high overcomes you, you will feel all the benefits of taking that weed break. It's a great feeling to overcome toking-related difficulties and then return a confident toker ready to extract more pleasure and mind-expansion from the herb.

 

Probably the easiest of all drugs to quit... drinking is hard, cigs are harder, pills are harder. The want is there but its mostly just pyschological (i.e. I wish I was high right now)

 

ive been smokin daily since january, but have smoked for prob 2-3 yrs now, n when i stop, its boredom...lol...so much boredom...but then i just say u kno what, fuck it...n i go play tennis or something lol, its easier to stop when its nice outside

 

"good luck quitting. how old are you?"

I am 17. And fortunately enough I didn't need any luck, just stuck with the bullshit and realized only time will cure it.

Thanks to everyone who replied, it puts me at ease to know that I'm not the only one who goes through the 3 day hell hole after a pot smoking marathon, and to know I'm not the only twitcher puts me even at more ease yet again, though I would like to stay sober until that shit subsides all the way.. (main goal).

It's been about 72 hours so far, and yeah, I kinda reverted almost all the way back to normal and it feels good, my cognitive-related pathways prolly just need a tad more activation now that I'm not an amotivated st0na. chYeA. It's almost crazy how depressed I get during that little abstinent period, fuck harder drugs.

Funny thing is I actually concluded that I needed a break while being high a few days ago, the sudden realization that I dug myself into a drug seeking hole just got to me all at once. (It was the only thing apparently making me happy).

Good ol' conscious.

 

i use mj medicinaly for spasticity which is not caused by the hgerb but by the nerve
whyere in your body do u experience it

also wtf were u doin smokin so much?
moderation ..smoke now and then how the hell diod u get so into it so fast u were smoki8n that much daily

ya gotta lkearn to kjust tike a lil now and then and thats it

 

Im getting spastic cause I have a migraine and I cant smoke weed. uuuurrgg... weed will only make it worse. mad.....

 

Whats up Eagle

I get the spasticity almost anywhere you can think of.. just not major muscles. And sometimes random combo's of slight tenses in totally different area's. When I smoke my leg will literally twitch upwards and clench, both at the same time.

If I had to guess I use to chill with this girl a lot who use to buy mad weed and her brother sold rediculous amounts of mids for cheap.. we must of went through so many 4g games together in a day (sometimes over a half oz in blunts), then once our shit blew over I retired to my own house for a bit and started doing it on my own, (then even more withdrawn and unsocial), so who knows, all I noticed one day was that I was suddenly anti social as fuck and couldn't think of words to say even if I wanted too.. which bothered me, cause I was always 'smart', funny and.. happy, not depressed, amotivated towards everything and ran down. So I knew something had to change...

And apparently even if I just smoke once I go back to this state, so I'll probably need a 30 day break and a trip somewhere in there. (I cheated a few days ago thinking shit was normal again, then quit again, cause it put me right back, fuck weed)

Peace

 

pfft.. quitting drinking is a cake walk... i joke about how i couldnt live without getting high but if i absolutely had to quit smoking weed for a period i could do it... and i've been a daily smoker for years now... cigs... thats a tough cookie to crack.. longest i've gone has been 4 months