5-6 years of Use

I had been using Zyn for somewhere between 5-6 years. Daily user for 4 years it was a full can of 6mg every day or day and a half. 2 years ago switched to 3mg as I said I was going to quit but still using a full can pretty much daily. I’m 28 a pretty healthy guy, I run and workout 5 days a week but within the last 2 years something was just not right. Spent my ages 18-22 in the marine corps infantry and 22-27 as a lineman. I’m now in an office/field role.

I’m not putting all the blame on Zyn as I have probably had general anxiety disorder undiagnosed for a long time now. But in the last year things have made a huge turn. I’m talking heart palpitations almost everyday, in a fight or flight response probably 80% of the day, terrible mental thoughts just always irritable and in a slight sense of panic. Mood swings constantly, just a miserable person that developed health anxiety, I was anxious about every single little thing. Blood work fine, blood pressure not fine at the doctors because id have a panic attack but blood pressure normalized when checking at the house. I’ve been through therapy, denied ssris and medicines from the VA for depression, anxiety, ptsd all kinds of shit they wanted to put me on.

Let me tell you, I’m only 4 days tapering off, 3 days having 2 zyns and 1 day with 0 and it is night and day difference. Sure I’m a little tired but I’m still getting good sleep, I’m a little snappy and have some mood swings but, the constant anxiety and panic is gone. I feel 10x better and I know it’s going to come and go and I might not feel like this next week or 3 weeks from now but it sure beats the hell out of what I’ve been feeling for so long now. And the proof is in the pudding im a big Garmin stat guy for sleep, training etc. I’ll attach some screenshots in comments of how my HRV, resting heart and stress levels have done a 180 in the last 4 days.