Question on withdrawal symptoms
Hope everyone out there is doing well, and thinking positive thoughts for all of you. This is a really minor question, but one i wanted to ask out of curiosity and to compare notes.
I was a pretty regular user for about a year and a half. Started with a teaspoon of powder a day, eventually to 2 teaspoons or tablespoons a day, then started using the extracts out of convenience more than anything else.
Eventually, i started to feel a bit numb to the effects and decided i wanted to stop. I didnt have a crazy high usage pattern. A 1kg bag of powder would last me 3-6 months, and generally with the extract tablets, i wouldn't have more than a half, or a whole tablet split in half per day, so i don't think my usage was too excessive, but i just hated the idea i was starting to rely on it to relax, and i realized it wasn't having the effect it had before, so decided to cold turkey stop.
Withdrawal for me was fairly easy thankfully. I was able to go cold turkey, and other than hot flashes at night for a few days, and just some general sleep issues, i didn't encounter too many problems.
I went on vacation after being off for a couple months, and picked up a pack of extract tabs and decided to just have some for a few days to enhance the experience, and then i had the weirdest week of absolute complete lack of energy, and some depression issues that i assumed were related, but it improved pretty quickly, within 4-5 days.
Few months pass, and a similar scenario, took a couple of tabs over a weekend, and Monday morning woke up just feeling tired, with a similar pattern as before.
This time I've decided that I'm not going to partake even casually at this point. I figured a few months off would be enough to reset my body and brain and make it acceptable for me to take it for a short term use, say over a weekend, but i was really surprised how exhausted physically id feel afterwards, and there would be a real emotional dip immediately afterwards that lasted for a few days.
I'm just curious if anyone has experienced a similar feeling after stopping and then deciding to try it again.
One of the weirdest symptoms i noticed was that when i wake in the morning, my legs and feet feel tired like they would the day after a vigorous run.