I’m not entirely sure if I am, due to the more severe symptoms that some of you guys are facing everyday it makes me wonder if I have PAWS or just permanent brain damage.

For context: I started smoking a few months before I turned 17 and stopped smoking 1 month before I turned 19. It was CHRONIC. Like almost everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. I greened out once or twice.

Now that I’m around 3 months sober I understand that I was just self medicating with cannabis because of my own mental health issues as well as a coping mechanism for some stuff going on at home. I NEVER plan on smoking weed again, at least not until I am 25, but even then it might be more of a celebratory thing like during christmas or new years.

The symptoms I’m facing include: Brain fog in the form of a terrible memory, slower cognitive function (I find myself having trouble doing math in my head like I used to be able to do), sometimes I just feel dumb when I’m talking(My friends have said that during my weed use I sounded and acted way dumber than I actually nowadays, so there is a sign that my mind is returning back to baseline), I also noticed sometimes the muscle between my left thumb and pointer finger sometimes twitch/spasm. I’ve also had increased anxiety, needlessly worrying about stuff that is out of my control, or asking for clarifications in work and class about things over and over again because I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet standards, even if I did fine. Really dull or light headaches have also been present for me for the past couple of weeks.

I’m really worried because I have hopes to continue my higher education, and eventually become a doctor or researcher. And these symptoms that my brain is displaying is very alarming.

Is there anyone else who abused cannabis at a young age like me who recovered and went on to do fine in college and life?

I also understand whether I have or don’t have PAWS is out of my control. The only thing I can do is treat myself better than I used to and hope for the best.

So uh to keep things short read my last post I quit caffiene after reintroducing it for 3-4 months on and off and I’m on the first day and it’s not too bad tbh but my anxiety is high my vision kinda weird like a disassociation ? I feel tired? I feel real and present so maybe not dpdr maybe idk but things feel so heavier the world looks and feels how it did early paws idk why I didn’t quit this stuff when I first quit and was feeling better when I was only testing it for a month.

It helped my intrusive thoughts ocd and anxiety but even those are kinda coming back so idk… I try not to read cause TikTok triggered my symptoms last night for some reason mental health TikTok is all over my feed and today I’ve just been suffering.. it feels like early paws but is NO WHERE NEAR the severity no matter how I think it is. I can actually move and shit and function rn early paws was bad but there’s some similar feelings,

Hopefully this is caffiene withdrawal and it ends in a few days and I get some sleep… hopefully idk tho I might be cooked and just fucked my journey or discovered I do have a mental illness 😂

Hi guys,

I have an inflamed feeling all in the back of my shoulder and all the way down my arm. I’ve had an mri after I hurt it and I have a minor sprain of the ligament at the front. However the pain I’m feeling is way out of the ordinary for an injury this minor. Feels like massive nots all at the back of my shoulder, and an inflamed feeling all down my arm. I’ve had this before too all down my leg

I recently just hit one year and the amount of times I’ve been ok mentally and physically and happy are way less then how often I’ve been struggling. I’m thinking of going back to smoking because atleast then I was pain free and my life felt happy.

Thoughts?

Has anyone gone back to it? Maybe my life was better with weed.