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Marijuana withdrawal & nightmares?

I thought i was going mental.Long time heavy user for varying reasons.Waking up to all stuffed up out of this world nightmares when on a forced break.I get all the above mentioned combined with full on rages.
Very worrying and i dont know how to stop without ending up doing something stupid.Very out of character for me.Lately been getting up in the morning feeling really confused.Long term heavy use is catching up.Combined with other life issues can form a lethal mix.Any suggestions on giving up guys? Damn weed.I love it.;)
 
I dont get withdrawls from weed, sometimes I will smoke for a week straight and then just stop for months...I havent smoked like in a year :)
 
i dont think im dependent on weed
but then again i see no reason to stop

my friend has had bad nightmares after stoping for 3 months
were he wud actually punch and scream
 
I think everyone differs. I didn't notice "abstinence symptoms" until recently after smoking and quitting for years. I think some may get it worse than others and it probably depends on how much you've been using. I'm on my first day today with none and I'm probably gonna have a weird night of sleep for the next couple days combined with agitation and rage. I plan on using chamomile tea and other natural sedatives maybe some kava etc. I'm avoiding pharmaceuticals for this as I want to be grounded and leave my brain chemistry alone for a while. That's how I'm approaching it. It should be smooth sailing.
 
I didnt really read much of anything past the 1st page. I just wanna say ofcourse weed has withdrawls. Maybe you guys are just very light smokers.

Weed takes over your appetite, smoke enough long enough and youll be starving without it but have no desire for food all the same. Youll sit there saying"fuck i need to eat something" but nothing sounds edible or worth eating.

Weed never really burnt me out or made me tired so in all my years of smoking iv never used it to help get to sleep however after 24-48hours of no smoke, getting 4 hours of sleep is decent if even that and even then still likely be at unfortunate hours.

Then lets consider mood... Weed for me is "Reset" button, if i cant hit reset then stress continues to build and build and i become a very irritable snappy bitchy dude. Like if i cant "reset" after work when i get home i might as well still be there, my body feels that way.

Just a couple things off the top of my head. Comparing these things to opiates is dumb and pointless as is comparing any drug that way. Who cares whats easier or harder. Fact is negative effects are there that normally wouldnt be.
 
When I stop smoking weed for a while or even a few days, my dreams are waaaacked.

I wake up feeling very weird and often think about the dream throughout the day afterwards. Often they are scary, sad, very realistic or just downright bizzare.
 
What I'd like to know is if there's a difference between the effects on people who smoke it for pain, or smoking it for pleasure.

Because I smoke/eat MJ for breakthrough pain, I'm quite curious. I don't seem to have any tolerance or withdrawals, but then I'm always on an opiate for chronic pain, too. Ergo, I feel I must disqualify myself.

Anyone who's experienced toking for pain, then quit, and whether they had any symptoms?
 
I smoke mostly for insomnia (can't sleep more than 3-4 hours a night without, sadly.) I get nightmares when I stop for a while but they ease off after a week or so.

I take 2-3 week tolerance breaks every so often, or when I can't find any good weed (the low-quality stuff just leaves me in a stupor.)

At one point I smoked every day for 3 years and coming off that put me in a bad mood for a month or two, but honestly, it wasn't real withdrawal. I can quit weed anytime, for little or no reason - coffee's a different story :)
 
Just take a OTC sleeping pill or two and drink a beer or three if you want (don't trade one addiction for another) for a few days and you will be fine. After 3 to 5 days its over, not saying your sleep dependence with cannabis is finished, just that most of the WD symptoms stop.

Some people report significant WDs from Cannabis. I'm lucky not one of them and most likely you are not either. Also, I never really noticed an reduced dreams when smoking either, but that is just me. I know alot of people do not dream (or at least remember them) when smoking.

I personally do not think herb WD is bad, but I've gone through benzo, opiate and alcohol withdrawals at different times so that may be skewing my view. I really enjoy keeping the herb to a once in awhile thing now and I was a daily smoker for over a decade at one point. I only started to slow down over the past year or two.
 
bibliosaur said:
I don't want to be drug dependent. It's been a way too common a theme in my life. Though at the same time I can't find it in me to get that worked up and worried about being addicted to pot given the severity of my previous transgressions. However It's seeming like this might be a bigger monkey on my back than I thought and might take more effort than I realized to really stop for good. I think I'm just gonna take it easy and cut way down and hop off from a lower level to hamper the discomfort.

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I was the same at one point in my life. I basically smoked and drank for about five years after I quit all the other shit (except for very rare use of a few other things). Eventually daily smoking just didn't fit into my life anymore. I suspect you will get to that point as well. Just keep monitoring it and start taking a week to a month off here and there. If you have been through other WDs (especially Methadone WD which I never have been) then you will be fine. Its more of a mild discomfort rather then an "end of the world" feeling you get with opiates.

I still drink a beer or three a day but I am comfortable with that.
 
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lol the reason this OP is getting 'nightmares' is because of the melatonin he is taking. Everyone knows that melatonin makes your dreams much more vivid and you seem to remember them. So i bet its the melatonin making him have these 'nightmares.'
 
That is not necessarily true regarding melatonin. It does not even work for all people, including myself who used it for sleep when I'm out of mj. Kava, on the other hand, works wonders, although taking it 3x a day throughout the day may leave you dazed.
 
Trizzle said:
My boyfriend has been a chronic smoker for almost 20 years. Every once in a while he'll detox for a couple of weeks or a month, and the withdrawal is always unpleasant. The major symtoms are nausea, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, moodiness and depression. It makes me wish he'd stop smoking weed for good, or at least limit it to weekends. I personally don't see the difference between being addicted to pot and being addicted to any other substance. IMHO, when there's withdrawal involved it's time to reassess one's pattern of use.
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toally agree with you..
i;ve been a chronic user for about a year..
and currently going on a week of cold turkey..
i've been experiencing similar symptoms to the mention aboved..hope they go away after a couple of more weeks..
dont believe will stop forever, butit will defenately drop to a blunt a month..which could be 12 blunts a year..hahaha
but i guess if you really wanna quit, only you have the power to do so.
there is nothing stronger than the human brain..
 
I've never had withdrawal symptoms, even after smoking chronic to medical grade 3-6 times daily for 4 months. Mentally, however, it was difficult to quit, partly due to the oral fixation (I loved the act of smoking) and because I used it as a coping mechanism for my depression. Despite the fact that by the end I was a nervous wreck and marijuana just made me feel worse.
 
One of the things i love about having a tolerance break for a week or so is that after the first 2 sleepless nights i have awesome vivid dreams and i can remember them.
I only read the 1st and 4th page, because i'm wacked as, but am I the only one who enjoys there dreams, even if they are weird as fuck. I think there pretty funny.
I dont think dreaming makes me feel as if i didnt get any sleep though
 
SuGaRbUzZ said:
Nah, I won't mess with benzos... the whole point of this is to detox for a bit. Clean out my system. Start fresh. I've been taking melatonin to help with sleep, and that seems to help some... and the dreams are getting less troubling. Thanks again for the advice and feedback, all.
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I find melatonin does the opposite for me. I never fully reach the hypnagogic state. Instead I just lay there for hours on end, lying in some shallow sort of consciousness with mental imagery spiraling out of control. I've gotten 2 hours of sleep total on each of the nights I took melatonin.
 
I can' Quit

I smoke way to much! I am SO happy that soo many people have gone through what i am TRYING to go through! Respect to all! I have gotten through Heavy coke addictions, and BAD opiate withdrawals. Usually after a couple weeks the symptoms go away and its as easy as avoiding a few friends here and there for that time through a web of lies.

For the last 7 years I've been smoking hefty amounts of dope. I mean, i remember when i was 14... buying 20 joints of weed when i first got into it, and smoking them all back to back. I've greened out on oil from smoking too much. Lets put it this way... i live "really" close to my dealer, so i always have a massive supply of AAA bud at any given time. And to be honest, its absolutely habitual, everybody's blazing and I'm down. Every friend i go see, is ALWAYS down to blaze a doobie, and i never say no.

I need to quit tho, my fucking memory is shit, my brain is like hamburger and scrambled eggs. I have fucked up thought patterns and can't keep on a single tangent for very long. I forget i', trying to quit every time i do, and habitually blaze before i realize i was on a 2 day streak. Then i'm like oh fuck... ahh fuck it.

I used to think blazing an ounce in a day with a buddy playing video games was cool. I blazed so much no joke, wasn't even high anymore, just have a fucking headache, but i still keep smoking cuz i love it.

I have unresolved health issues, such as my stomach and i usually get high to get over an upset stomach or muscle soreness, and it de-motivates me from seeking proper medical attention or getting up and exercising and doing healthier things for my body.

The only time i ever quit smoking weed, was when i did heavy amounts of coke, and that was when i did coke for something like 97 days in a row. I ONLY remember because i marked it on my calender, i was trying to quit and everyday i didn't i put an x on the calender.

This is no joke kids, i lived the life. i partied daily, slept with a bunch of broads, did every drug i could get my hands on. You name it i've done it or wanted to at one point. i ran my body into the ground like a rock star, without the talent. All i have to show for it, is some serious unresolved health issues.

i Think i really did some damage when i built the perfect gravity bong. (i'm a ticketed plumber, pipe-fitter, and i mastered the gravity bong design ) I used to burn 1 gram bowls of pure thc at a time in it, 2L of DARK non see through smoke to the lungs in one hoot. Everybody i knew chronic or not, greened on it. I Have videos of some crazy shit people did when that high. I brought people closer to god.

My life is a blur, and i'm gonna quit for at least a month and see if there is any substantial difference, if i don't reply again to this, its probably because i got high and forgot i even posted this shit... PEACE to all! ONE LOVE.
 
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