Celebrating my 8th month. It's been an awful 8 months. I wrote a highly detailed writeup of my experience here in this link:
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To quickly summarize my story. I used weed only for 3 months. I had a large dose of weed on my birthday for my tolerance. After that, cue a cold turkey withdrawl 8 months of PAWS. Sometimes I think my symptoms are more akin to a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. I'll probably never really know what happened.
Here's the good stuff. I continued to improve in month 7. The biggest improvement? My brain fog finally disappeared. Coincidentally, I also undertook 2 extended fasts this month. One for 36 hours, and another for 50 hours. I wanted to induce a process called Autophagy which is a cellular cleanup. You can google it. Anyways, it was quite dramatic, I felt like my brainfog disappeared after my fast.
So whats left for me is this Anhedonic feeling in my head along with a mild head pressure feeling. But even that lifted a bit this month. It feels less "tight" in my head, and more solid. I remember my head used to feel like it had holes in it. It still does sometimes, but other times not so much.
Other things of note, I haven't be disassociated in a couple of months. I'm so thankful. I did have a couple of weird flare ups. For about 4 days I had this odd twitch in my right thumb along with sort of an anxious restless nervous feeling in my nerves. It felt like my body was going to spasm or something, but I never did. Felt like I had a nerve disease. And then one day I woke up and it was gone. I also had a brief few seconds of a couple visual snowflakes. It scared me because it reminded me of being in Month 3 or 4. Fortunately, it only lasted a few seconds and went away.
I'm more vigourous as well. I'm doing HIIT oriented workouts again. I was worried I wouldn't hold up, but I am. I'm getting a strong 5 days in a row workout with weights coupled with a walk or jog later in the day. When this all began, I couldn't even hold a Down Dog in a Yoga class without getting shakey. My brain really has come a long way.
I hope that by the 1 year mark I'll have this behind me. Thanks everyone here for being supportive. I know I'm not out of the woods yet, but boy am I glad to be out of the fog at least.
