4 months in and getting worse
I was a daily smoker for over 20 years and an heavy one the last 5 years with my over a gram a day, only strong weed 20% + THC.
I stopped last year 4 months and it was hard but went smoothly except a bit of loss of weight and sleep at first but got better after 2 months (I was in a beach environment and was doing a lot of exercise) but this year I stopped for 4 months now and it’s brutal.
I stopped right before moving in a big city when I’m more use of the beach life and my nervous system totally hates it.
And it’s getting worse I feel, first month at first I lost weight , I had trouble sleeping and had all my trauma resurfaced, but also a lot of fatigue. I felt better around the 2 months. But the last month and half… oh boy.
It’s physical mental and emotional struggle almost everyday, I don’t have friends or family in this new city and my physical and mental state preventing me from socializing. I lost a lot of hair, I experience an extreme fatigue that is hard to push through a day without napping. I had neck issue and occipital neuralgia. I have anhedonia and everything feels flat, work or struggle. I have a lot of anxiety as I wake up, cortisol feels through the roof and I’m looping on my loss of muscle loss of hair loss of confidence which make things worse. I had blood work done and everything is fine, but I’m living one of my worst period mentally and physically I got a bit of comfort seeing this group, that showed me I’m probably not that alone in this. What helped you guys to feel better? Did you go through some of the same symptoms (hair shedding, anxiety, neck pain, extreme fatigue)?