Hello,
I am new to this forum. I wasn't for sure if this was the place to post this as it is under "Addictions" and I was never actually addicted to marijuana. But after browsing the topics, I did see many posts about residual effects from marijuana withdrawal and I feel like that is something I have been experiencing.
I have only had two time frames where I had marijuana (I am 34 years old FYI). Late September of last year I made cannabis oil (with coconut oil). I got the cannabis from a friend who grows it legally and its not laced and everything is perfectly legit. I made the oil and put a drop in my tea. Worked great! Totally relaxed and even slept better! I did that 4-5 times a week for three weeks. Then at the end of the third week I decided to "triple up" on the dosage to just see what happens. After all, my only experience was relaxation. Well that was a mistake! I paced my apartment for 5.5 hours with anxiety and incoherent thought. For the next 10 days I had a slight dizziness at the top of my head and it went away. I decided to just give up cannabis as that was a horrible experience. Then about 4.5 months later I decided to try again but just NOT take a high dosage. So I got a new batch from my friend in later January of this year and made some oil. I tried it and it gave me a tad of anxiety. I thought perhaps I was anxious more out of fear of what I felt months ago. So I waited 48 hours and tried again. Same thing. So I figured I wouldn't abandon oil and just "lightly vape". So the next day I did a very light vaping. A tad relaxing and it helped me sleep. I did the same thing the next night. Now that is it. 4 times in one week. Then 48 hours later I felt this rush to my face, a tingling over my body, a sense of anxiety and it reminded me a bit about when I overdosed months ago so I knew it had to be the cannabis.
The first 3 weeks were the hardest with the third being the worse in terms of severe anxiety. I experienced lots of pressure in my head, dizziness, fatigue where I needed to go to bed at 7pm or 7:30pm, a heaviness on my face that made me feel like it was hard to raise my eye brows. I lost my appetite (due to anxiety) and it was the hardest thing I ever went through. Thankfully, that overall anxiety has left and my appetite returned. I seem able to stay up longer into the evening (8:30pm) but still experience occassional fatigue. Every once in a while I'll try to recall something and it feels like a wall falls down and I literally can't remember it. It freaks me out because it feels like a real mental block (something I didn't experience prior to cannabis). It passes quickly and I remember. But sometimes when that happens I can a headache afterwards.
The pressure in my head and the overall "weight" on my face with some dizziness still persists (and a little tingling numbness in the face) and it is now 6 weeks since I last consumed. Being active and playing outside with my kids, driving around and just getting my mind focused on other things seems to help as I don't focus on my head too much. Now I definitely won't take cannabis again as it is clearly not for me, but for peace of mind, I just wanted to see if you all think that I will recover? Now having read from others on this forum who were clearly addicted and consumed lots of cannabis, I notice they all have recovered over time. My only thing is that I find it so odd that i consumed so little and I am experiencing this. Granted, I have seen improvement in terms of anxiety, I can be present a lot as I play with my children, I can even read to them without feeling too dizzy, but it's so annoying to fill this pressure and slight dizziness in my head. Ironically, it is more acute when I sit down. It is much less when I move or even exercise.
Thoughts and encouragement???