If you are 9 days clean, you are far beyond the worst of any sort of w/ds, the rest you will be battling with will generally be the mental aspects - which after such a longer period of smoking I imagine will be pretty shitty.
What are you currently experiencing? I imagine sleep is becoming less of a battle and hunger has changed a tad.
First 7 days were sedated calling them the worst for me seems unfair, but it prevented relapse which is good. As for the aftermath there are no protracted w/ds, which I counted on after 22 years. Thats a plus!
Now I am mostly indeed gaining some feelings of hunger again, although I experienced stomach discomfort days 8/ 9 which I countered with a quarter pill cinnarizine/ chlorcyclizine. My sleeping pattern changed, going to bed earlier aided with melatonin 5 mg. And I am dreaming again, be it related to stressing events currently playing, which is good all in all.
And although I thought part of how I am is colored by the THC in my blood. The relation to how you feel you are isn t that different with or without THC I am suprised to notice. Although that opinion may vary with others that witness me.
I do notice the dampening effect Cannabis had, making me even more reactive/ anarchistic then before. This will need some steering. I feel less able to concentrate, more memory problems and less motivated. But gained some other things I am not yet ready to pinpoint. Just more drive to get energy from things like playing and talking instead of getting kicks from getting stoned. I felt no change in my mood like depression creeping up or being lifted but more linear.
Maybe this also plays a role I had all ready stopped using Cannabis as a social thing. So my social life was not developed around it anymore like when I was young. I just smoked my bong three times a day in my garden 2 tokes pure weed followed with a tobacco/ weed toke. It did however influence my life tremendously and that of my family in a negative way. Imagine going on vacation or to a birthday etc with the creeping acute w/ds coming on.
Free of neurotic: I am like this because I have to get a smoke now or I ll be miserable untill I can. Me myself and I, right! Ego.
Due to the change I did loose my pattern which I will have to reconstruct. So feeding the rabbits and all such things I did after I smoked, all to give time to exhale the foul smell I excreted till up to 1 hour after smoking. And which according to my partner resembled rotten fish. Which seem logical seeing the relation of the products of pyrrolisis and pyrrolidine which causes rotten fish to smell that bad. Wow all in all good choice succesfull attempt, but not to be taken lightly when one all ready has developed some troubles. Remember this has been my x-ed time I quitted.
What helped besides the mentioned substances.
The idea I would stop for 6 months to begin another use pattern after that, instead of I will never smoke again dogma. Not even having the slightest idea of Cannabis existance in ones mind, tabula rasa, albeit for a brief moment really helped.
Thanks very much for your postings this almost became a blog although the centerpoint, nmda-antagonism and THC w/ds remains a valid question. And the magnesium/ zinc vs. dissociatives would be a very important future point of research esp in the realms of harm reduction.
