#56 Quitting Weed Side Effects: every symptom, its cause, and when it stops

Quitting weed side effects: what each one is, the mechanical cause behind it and roughly when it stops.

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For a while after the last use the body behaves as though it has been injured, and nothing has been injured. Sleep is worse than it was while using, anger arrives out of nowhere, food turns actively repulsive. This episode goes through the effects one at a time: the cause, what it is like to sit through, and when it ends.

- Whether laying all of this out in advance prepares people or hands them a reason to delay the attempt is where opinions split. - Sleep as the first and biggest hit: removing THC lets dream sleep flood back, the backlog snaps rather than settles, and the peak lands around days four to seven. - Night sweats, the internal thermostat overshooting while it learns to work without outside chemical cues, usually gone inside ten to fourteen days. - Appetite loss past not being hungry, food turning repulsive, morning nausea made worse by an empty stomach, and why plain food still has to go in. - Headaches from four causes at once: shifted blood flow, drinking less water, a moved coffee habit, and a tight neck and jaw from bad nights. - A faster or uneven heart rate as the nervous system wakes up undamped, and where the line to a doctor sits: chest pain, or not being able to keep water down. - Irritability, with logic and raw emotion out of sync, and why warning your household beats explaining an outburst afterwards. - Anxiety back at full volume, because the substance muted the signal without treating the source, and a baseline that ends up lower after two to three months than during use. - Old issues resurfacing as evidence they were underneath the whole time, not as evidence the decision was wrong. - Vivid dreams convincing enough that people wake up sure a relapse actually happened. - The flat grey stretch in weeks two to four, down-regulated dopamine receptors, and why people go back at exactly the moment nothing has gone wrong. - The gap almost nobody is warned about: the physical side largely finished by two to three weeks, the emotional side running four to eight, and what compounds six to eight weeks in.

This is general information, not medical advice.

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00:00 The body acts as if it were injured 00:45 Does knowing it all in advance help 01:49 Sleep takes the biggest hit 02:40 The peak around days four to seven 03:25 Night sweats and the internal thermostat 04:01 Appetite loss and food turning repulsive 05:03 Morning nausea and headaches 05:53 Heart rate, and where a doctor belongs 06:32 Irritability and the short fuse 07:24 Anxiety back at full volume 08:34 Old issues resurfacing 09:13 Vivid dreams and false relapses 09:26 The flat grey stretch, weeks two to four 10:23 Why week four reads as something new 11:47 Concentration, and what compounds later

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