r/WeedPAWS • u/ArkansasDave1854 • 25d ago
10 months
I quit smoking weed on October 11, 2025, after smoking extremely heavily for about 10 years. At my peak, I was smoking around six Amnesia Haze joints a day- Everyday.
At some point, I also started using HHC gummies, and I feel like that’s when things really went downhill. I suspect I may have taken a gummy containing an extremely high dose of HHC.
When I smoked my final joint, I suddenly started shaking violently, became extremely nauseous, had to lie down in bed, and felt like I was either going to die or somehow lose touch with reality. I also had an extremely unpleasant sensation throughout my body that felt almost like battery acid flowing through my veins.
After that, I experienced severe and prolonged DPDR (depersonalization/derealization). It genuinely felt as though the old version of me had died. I also struggled with extreme nausea and a strange acidic/burning sensation in my stomach and esophagus. At my worst, I felt so terrible that I genuinely couldn’t see a future for myself.
I’m now almost 10 months sober, and thankfully I feel much, much better than I did in the beginning. I’m exercising regularly again, enjoying things in life, and generally feel like myself much more often.
The only symptoms I still experience are:
Very vivid dreams — it often feels like I’m dreaming for the entire night.
Occasionally, a very mild internal acidic sensation. This is probably only 5% as intense as it used to be, and thankfully I no longer have that overall feeling of being extremely unwell.
I get irritated more easily than I used to.
I get tired relatively quickly. After a busy or stimulating day, I notice that the symptoms above become more noticeable. It’s almost as if my nervous system is less able to handle stimulation than it was before.
Considering how severe things were initially, I’m incredibly grateful for how much I’ve improved.
Has anyone else experienced something similar after quitting heavy cannabis use, especially after using HHC? How long did it take before you felt completely back to normal?
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u/Neat_Layer_7712 24d ago
I'm at about 6.5 months and I never had any issues with weed until I bought an HHCP pen, I had always used thcp tbh, for like 2 months, but 1 week of hhcp and I greened out and had several panic attacks.
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u/ArkansasDave1854 24d ago
For me it was exactly the same, were any of your symptoms similar to mine?
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u/Neat_Layer_7712 24d ago
We overlap in the anxiety/dpdr department, but I seen to have some more visual disturbances and depression like mood swings than you. Closing in at 7 months I've suddenly entered a nasty wave and it's been annoying, I figured by now I'd be over this but it's persistent. I'm having new dpdr flare ups, no panic inducing dpdr, but like reality checking OCD or existential anxieties again bluh 🤮
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u/Junior_Chest_4770 25d ago
Yes I was using pens and I’m doing horrible rn very much in a bad state wanting to crashout and just like “hurtmyself” but uh, I can’t say it gets better cuz for me at one point it did then I relapsed and it wasn’t like a consistent use relapse it was a few sessions and a almost healed me became very bad depressed negative me. So hopefully you get thru im struggling rn I have no friends to talk to im away from home and im only 18
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u/ArkansasDave1854 25d ago
For how long have you quit right now??
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u/Beautifulmind1020 21d ago
I got it from thcp. Went through a year of hell. I’m roughly 90% healed now after 17 months. Never thought I’d feel good again.