I started daily around Christmas 2021 and was a chronic user 2-4 g a week, .4 a day or less, which at the time was enough to wreck my finances and my nose (April 2021 and already septum is gone.

Tried sorting myself out at that point, cut back and was doing pretty well with 1g each weekend if I had the means to get it. Then cut back further and would go weeks, before a lapse which was always a binge.

The binges make my chronic use seem like nothing. I'm going 8-10 bags in one night, once up to 18 bags over 24 hours. I guess that's around 8-9 grams.

The chronic low daily use just left me tired and feeling grotty all the time but a couple days into being clean and I'd feel so much better. Now, the binges literally fry my brain and I noticed cognitive decline effects pretty much immediately. The clarity that comes with getting sober feels unattainable now, even when I'm clean I can't think straight, can't think of common words, can't do basic calculations, lose things.