Trying to keep it as short as possible. I quitted about 6 months ago and is has been an absolute hell. I thought i had some horrible diseases but i’m all checked out and as many others here nothing was found. Now I am 99% sure i’m suffering from paws.
The worst of the worst symptoms are gone now but now I suffer from extreme fatigue and weird brain fogs. It feels like my brain is squeezed and I can’t think straight. It’s really frustrating and scary because I feel really really weird sometimes. Sometimes I have these brain fog ‘attacks’ where i can’t even properly speak and I stutter and mix up words. This is so embarrassing because I’m sitting at the dinner table and I can’t even keep up with a normal conversation. It also feels like i have a headache 24/7 sometimes worse than others. I have the feeling this gets way way worse when i’m hungry. I don’t know if this is related but I feel like I have to eat on time because otherwise my head starts to “shut down”.
Sometimes I feel a painfull stab at the the side of my head which hurts really bad for 3seconds and than fades away. Luckily this doesn’t happen everyday but it’s scary.
I am a bit paranoid sometimes. As example I was walking around yesterday in the evening and had the feeling I was followed. I was getting pretty paranoid and I turned around to go home after only 8 minutes or so. This is quite weird because I’m normally not scared in the evening of anything. I love the silence on the streets and it gets my head clear after work. But it didn’t give me the relaxation it usually gives.
My diet is pretty clean and I lift weigths 3-4 times a week. I try to get at least 20 minutes of outside walking/cycling a day.
It’s all so strange to me. If i play soccer with friends and i’m active I don’t feel anything but if I’m sitting with them at a table having a normal conversation my head gets ‘stuck’ and have trouble making normal sentences and I am just not in the conversation. My head just shuts down and I get this really uncomfortable feeling in my head. Like somebody squeezes it.
I have tried all these psychological tricks my psychologist told me but it doesn’t do a single thing about these weird brainfog/headaches. And because of these brainfog/headaches my anxiety gets way worse. And it’s clearly because of the brainfogs not the other way around.
I haven’t heard many stories with this as primary problem so I am not sure if I have to go to the neurologist. I didn’t had these symptoms as bad 3 months ago so I didn’t get my head checked out.
I’m 18 y/o and quitted after 3/4 years of daily smoking. I’m just so done with it friends try to plan vacations with me but I can’t book vacations when I’m this mess. It’s just work exercise and some rarely meetings with friends if my body/ head allows me.
Sorry for this rant with bad english I tried my best.