Day 5 of no sleeping weed 💪💪💪
I’ve been dependent on sleeping weed for going on four years. I have diagnosed cannabis use disorder from my doctor because I just kept ratcheting up my dose to get the same result. At my highest dose I was at 350mg / night and I felt so hopeless about where this was all going.
Two years ago, I did a week long THC break in an attempt to lower my tolerance for an overseas trip. To say I was miserable that week would be an understatement. I was sweating, cramping, irritated, depressed, couldn’t eat or sleep, just MISERABLE.
That break got me from 350mg / night to 80mg. And yes, I sure did smuggle it in my luggage. I was soooooo nervous about it. But I put it in pill form and put it in a supplement bottle and put that supplement bottle in a smell proof bag. The leaps I took to continue using were….unhinged.
After my trip, I ratcheted back up to 100mg. At that point, I decided I needed help and made an appt with my primary care physician. She diagnosed me with cannabis use disorder and suggested a very gradual step down process.
At various times I’ve gone down to as low as 25mg but my preferred dose seemed to settle at 50mg.
I realized that I just need to cold turkey this and just suffer the withdrawal. So I took a week off work and today is day 5 no weed!!!!! 💪💪💪 I expected A LOT worse. Just night sweats (and I have been sleeping!) and loss of appetite this time. Night 1 I slept 2 hours, night 2 5 hours, night 3 6.5 hours, night 4 6.5 hours. I feel hope for the first time in a long time that I can actually kick this habit!!!!!
To all of the people in my youth who told me weed isn’t addictive, I want to punch them. 🤪 I started this because I wanted a “natural” solution to my insomnia. Whenever I hear about people taking weed to sleep, I warn them about dependence.
Sharing in case it helps anyone who uses weed to sleep. I’m the least likely person you could think of to develop this kind of problem. 51F, high functioning software engineer.