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Withdrawal symptoms

May22Contributor07 Oct 2021, 3:01 pm AEDT

Withdrawal symptoms

Hi guys, hope everyones been having a good day.

I need some suggestions from people who have dealt with cannabis withdrawal symptoms or know about ways to deal with them. I have recentlly slowly starting cutting smoking out of my daily activities and now have cut it out completely. A little background about my addicition: I started smoking 5 years ago to deal with my undiagnosed mental illness, after being diagnosed with bpd and psychosis a year ago I was told I must give up smoking as it is has been making my disorders worse. I stopped smoking 2 days ago and I'm constantly restless, irritable, short tempered, have the hot and cold sweats, I'm up throughout the night but when I'm asleep I'm keeping my partner up by grinding my teeth and making weird noises. I can hardly eat and when I do I have nausea 😞

Does anyone have any advise on what I could do to make this process a little easier for me? I'm looking for any suggestion at this point..

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May22Contributor13 Oct 2021, 5:11 pm AEDT

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@StuF
That's alright, it's just nice to know I'm not alone out here 🙂 I still need to go to the gp, I've booked it twice and cancelled both times, I'm very open with my doctor he knows my struggles and I'm very worried he's going to push me to go to a rehibilitation clinic, my bpd mood swings have been a bit outta control lately too so he knows impulse is strong, I will go and speak to him it's just a matter of not scaring myself out of it

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StuFSenior Contributor13 Oct 2021, 5:18 pm AEDT

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@May22

At least it sounds like you have a GP you can trust 🙂

But yeah, still scary. I hope you get there.

It seems you Want to change and that's a huge part of the battle

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Maelstrom1Senior Contributor13 Oct 2021, 6:09 pm AEDT

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Hi @May22,

It may be that you need to more slowly ween yourself off before going cold turkey. Without contravening guidelines it might be worthwhile to also talking to your GP about a medicinal cannabis prescription.

There are various products like THC oil that are much easier to control dosage on via eye-dropper (and thus slowly reduce) rather than say 'I'll only smoke half a joint rather than a whole one after dinner'.

@Former-Member - please delete if above is outside the guidelines

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