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[theCLK]

Hi. I’m interested in creating a topic for individuals to write a summary on "How I Recovered".  Most of us that are serious about this have diet, sleep, meditation and exercise covered, so this space would be for the bigger leaps and bounds in your recovery journey. This will be a space that other Longecity users can read for motivation in the stressful times of tinkering with one’s brain/body/mental health.

 

Where were you when you started in terms of symptoms and where are you now?

What addition(s) / substances has been completely life changing to you? 

What did you wish you knew when you started your journey that you know now?

 

 

Thank you to anyone that answers or that rights a little bit about themselves.

[jack black]

Like this (not mine)?

http://www.longecity...in/#entry794844

[theCLK]

I don't really see the part about how this person recovered but it was long and I was sort of skimming..

[Autumn Knight]

I know one guy on here who made a miraculous recovery, OpaqueMind. At least, he did some stuff that helped him get almost completely back to normal. Pretty much that's it.

 

I've recovered a decent amount, but still not enough to warrant anything miraculous.

[psychejunkie]

Hi,

 

Here is my somehow related experience.

 

Anyone have been there of strong feeling of thirst after smoking weed, we (in Iran) call it "being desert".

I've been smoking weed 24/7 for almost two-years, one night in the middle of those years, I was heavily thirsty and "Desert" but I looked at mirror and saw my lips and tongue are OK and thought this strong thirst is must be psychological or placebo which weed has for everyone!

time passed and some months later I decided to quit smoking weed, but something got into my attention after several weeks: I didn't feel thirst anymore!

Actually, I found this after I did a blood test and doctor was like "your Hematocrit and Red-Blood Cell Count is so high that I thought you must be much older patient suffering from heart-disease or acute hypoxia until I saw *age* on the test-report", then I noticed I am actually drinking very less to no water and that behavior have thicken my blood. some days I didn't even drank single drop of water except tea or coffee (which both thickens blood and are diuretics).

 

I did everything: behavior regulation (literally auto-suggestion or forcing myself to drink water after several alarm clocks during daytime), supplements, drugs (SSRIs, SNRIs, diuretics, anti-diuretics, etc that my psychiatrist prescribed most of them), exercising, traditional medicine (mostly herbs and Bloodletting), meditation, self-hypnosis!!! nothing helped very much...

Not bad to mention that I had other minor mental/cognitive problems from weed that accidentally resolved by Modafinil and Ibuprofen which I firstly thought might be from thicken blood.

 

Then, one night I decided to leave a glass of water beside my bed on table and something strange happened, the morning after I remembered that during the night I woke and drank the water in a state of not fully conscious or awake with a feeling of huge thirst like I am "desert" from weed.

after few nights of practicing the same (leaving a glass of water beside my bed) I got better and better, slowly but noticeable. 

 

Here I am, ~10 months after experiencing that night, fully recovered from not feeling of thirst and thicken blood.