For the past couple/few weeks ive had a REALLY hard time forming thoughts, and remembering stuff. I find it really hard to think about anything. I feel like my head is completely empty and just blank. I have a hard time remembering things that happened just a few days ago, weeks, months, etc. It almost feels as if my brain is slightly numb, and it is driving me nuts. For the past couple of months i have been smoking a good amount of weed. Not like everyday all day, sometimes a few times a week, a couple days in a row, once a week, once every two weeks etc, basically a moderate amount for the past couple months.This is very unlike me and ive never done this in my life. There was a time in my life when i was about 15/16 that i would smoke occasionally and then shortly after i quit for about a year. Ive always had connections to free weed (aunt grows it, sister dad grows it, sister boyfriend smokes it, etc, etc) so i have always been able to get it whenever i want to, but i never did. I would smoke maybe once every 6 months MAX but never like this.I guess it was a phase that i went through, which was partially influenced by my best friend. He bought a hookah, i have connections to weed, so it took off from there. We would just get high and go walk around town from about 11pm-3am, we would bring a mini pipe with us and smoke all around town to stay high, and just venture around. Go to the gas station, safe way for munchies then make our way to the beach to lay down and enjoy ourselves. That started to become habit but we both decided we were done. He wants to be a cop someday and i was just TODAY told i could go Pro in MMA within a year-1.5 years, its my choice.I havent smoked for a week, maybe two now and im having all these problems. I dont like to blame the weed because i cant imagine the side effects hitting me this fast, and its not like ive been doing this my whole life, just a few stupid months, but its the only thing i can think of.I feel clouded, empty, frustrated, etc. I cant remember, i cant think, and im having a HELL OF A TIME trying to learn anything new. Is this from 2 months of weed smoking? Has this every happened to anyone? And most of all will it go away????P.S. Sometimes i feel like theirs something wrong in my head, like something is missing, like a part of my brain is blank. I can physically feel it in my head that something isnt right, like i have a chemical imbalance or something. I often feel like something is wrong when their isnt, and i often feel like my visual perception (on objects and everything i see) is different, but i cant figure out what it is. This has been going on since i was about 16.Whats wrong with me!!!!??
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Trouble thinking and remembering
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How many times you been hit in the fucking noggin?How often do you take a smack in the head?I have smoked alot of weed in my life, and never had the effects you talk about.I mean hey I might be laughing like a little girl and if you ask me what was funny I may well forget what it was that made me laugh so hard, but not shit that happened when I was sober.I have had all that same shit in my head as you talk about though, guess when?When I was fighting all the time.I fought on the street for fun, and i fought out of a gym. Boxing.I have had uncountable concussions, a total of 2 skull fractures, a seizure, 3 broken noses, 2 broken jaws, more stitches than Frankenstein, and a few rips in an ambulance. Even more trips in the back seat of police cruisers.Its the violence, its the blows to the head, its the bruises and bleeds that fuck with you.Don't blame the weed, if you cant recall shit from when your high thats one thing, if its all the time, its not the weed, its the brain damage.What? Brain Damage?fucking right thats what I said, brain fucking damage.brain damage is what got me banned from boxing.Ever had an EEG?Mine shows a background static in my brain, fucking brain damage, from what?From being hit in the fucking head repeatedly for years upon years. Lay off the violence, especially with such a light frame as you have.At least boxing I had head gear, and gloves and mouth pieces, what do you have fighting ? not nearly the protection I had.I still fight, when a need arises, I do not take shit from anyone. But I don't box, I don't train, and I rarely get hit in the head these days, but my functioning level has greatly improved.
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Son of a bitch, right on cue....
Read it.
Make damned sure ya read the captions and scroll through the two pictures.
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Ive never had a concussion, never been knocked out, never fought with head shots in a tournament only body shots. When we spar in class we dont do head shots, and when we do its with boxing gloves and head gear. Plus ive only been at it a year now, do you really think its from MMA? Also when we spar we dont usually go 100%, theirs not many times in class where i go "Wow that rocked me". I know the risk of MMA and the brain damage i could get, but i honestly dont think thats settled in yet. Its possible its neither of the mentioned and something else? Maybe being out for 8 weeks and not doing anything that exercises my brain? I have no idea honestly.....ty for the insight though.
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Not using your brain may make you dull witted? its possible, I do not know, but its possible.
I just know I used to smoke for years, daily and we are talking 1/2 oz or better each day, by myself. I wa also dropping acid and shrooms alot during that same time and while stoned off my ass took a IQ test in psyc. class and scored 140. I never have a memory problem, unless its what I was doing saying or thinking while I was high.
I know many people who are accountants, a lawyer, tile and stone setters, construction workers, Health physics (rad tech field) mechanics, welders and pipe fitters and electricians who have no trouble functioning at work and smoke daily and have for years. Its not just me that it doesnt have that effect on, its many many people. And the only time I do have that worn out, fucked up somethings wrong in my head feeling, its never when I get high. -
I never wanted to blame the weed in the first place as i thought it was BS, it was just the only thing i could possibly think of. I really dont think ive been hit in the head enough or hard enough to cause this either. I really dont know man.....
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I think you should see a doctor. It might be completely unrelated to both cannabis and martial arts, and it shouldn't be ignored. I have no idea what it is, but something suddenly feeling quite wrong with mental function could be something important. It really needs a neurology specialist.
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Yeah i will be getting one sooner rather than later anyway, its required before you get licensed as a Professional Fighter.
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right now i have the same thing as u, but its since iv stopped smoking weed. i smoked pretty much daily for about 8 months with a break to 3 days a week during the summer. i havent smoked since black friday, and i am stupid now. when smoking a lot, my memory would be shitty short term (forget where i put my keys, forget my school bag in the car until it was time for class...) until about 12 hours after smoking and then i would be back to my normal near photo memory. iv smoked heavily through high school and achieved damn good grades by studying high the night before tests.fast forward. i quit, and my memory is shit all the time. we just had finals and i got straight up Cs on them, having studied more than i ever had and taking pretty easy classes (iv taken physics twice already both times with As and this time i got a B- and a C- on the final). i used to enjoy playing brain tune up game on my lil bros game boy stoned and then seeing the different sober / generally enjoying it (dnt ask) and when i try to do it now, all the puzzles i do slower. i used to be able to solve suduku in my head, and now it takes me FOREVER with paper and notes to do the bullshit easy ones. im getting akward in social settings, not knowing what to say/respond to whats going on. i can no longer hold a steady beat without a metranome while playing guitar.anyone know whats up with this or heard of it happening to anyone before? Why after i stopped?
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My main issue is if these effects are long term. Yours sound similar in some ways. I'm hoping they are all short term and will pass with time. Part of me thinks me making such a big deal is making it worse. Like im just freaking myself out. I think i just need to be a little more active with my brain, get back in school etc. Once semester starts i can get my brain working again. For this whole break ive had nothing better to do then train and sit around nad play video games and shit. I go out when i have the opportunity but other than that...yeah.
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Sounds like something Ive been through. Ive been smoking Ganja almost everyday for about a year and a half. I feel like my brain is fried. I have trouble remembering things and sometimes even comprehending thoughts. about 2 weeks ago I had a pretty bad experience. I rolled me and Josh and fat joint and then his bro comes along with two blunts! I was so fucked. (SOOOO FUCKED). I was having problems breathing and I thought I was going to vomit. I was extremely dizzy and was having problems seeing.I havent smoked weed since!! Im done! It really scared me. Id try cutting back on the amount ur smoking.