Allergic to THC?

Although there's so many replies, and comments on here.. No one will probably even read this.
But, I had something very similar to this happen to me a few months ago. I took a lot of e that night so I believe that made it alot worse, and I thought it was the e until it happened again two times.
The first night this happened, I blacked out everything that happened before smoking weed, during and somewhat after. I remember now, going out and smoking the weed. (It took a while for it to come back) The Pain started to kick in about 20 minutes after I smoked the weed. All of my muscles froze up, and I got this feeling that I had felt before, I felt disconnected, like my body was going from hot oil to cold to swaying in the wind - although that really doesn't make sense, it's all I can do to explain the first ten minutes. Then it felt like there was metal smashing together in my head. (Imagine the worst migrane you ever could have.) I couldn't move until every nerve in my body felt like it was being dragged on razor like pain. Everything I touched hurt. I touched my own face and it hurt. I was paranoid and hallucinating my parents walking in the room and yelling at me to wake up. I thought I would die. I tried to sleep it off, but all that happened was when I was about to sleep I'd get a sudden rush of pain and it wouldn't allow me to. This lasted for about ten hours and then gradually wore off for the rest of the day.
I decided it was a bad reaction to the ecstasy, and a couple of weeks later I blazed up a bowl. I wasn't even baked, but I was getting these anxiety rushes. I'd start feeling super tingly and it hurt to touch jeans or anything rough. Nothing felt good. That also lasted a few hours but wasn't nearly as bad as the first time.
The third time it all happened the same, I waited twenty minutes and bam it was almost as bad as the first time. Now, this being the third time it happened I was used to it. I would remember to grip things tight until that didn't work. Walk around and not think about it, drink cold water and not wear pants that hurt to pull down. Sitting in the tub didn't help because I would hallucinate. Listening to music with no 'hurtful' beats helps. Like, purely accoustic mellow music.
Now I have been sober since March andI still get flashbacks.. All of the time. I think it's because I've done it three times now and I just remember all of the time. Nightmares of this experience still haunt me all of the time.
I hope someone who hasn't had this experience reads this and decides to stay away from weed, or maybe if they've had this experience even one time... It's better to not try yourself. Granted tons of people smoke weed and never have a problem, but so many of my friends had about a year or two of smoking it and now they get all skitzo when they smoke it. Some people even are diagnosed with skitzophrenia or phsycosis after only smoking a year, maybe less sometimes. I'm not an anti drug nazi, I just sometimes wonder if it was really worth it. I smoked pot for a year every day, before that two years occasionally. It really screwed with my head, and now I'm crazy paranoid all of the time.

Guys, all of what you are describing is a panic attack. very scary and if weed triggers it then weed is not for you. simple as that.

First of all it's such a relief to know I'm not the only one!
Almost exactly one month ago in October, I was with a group of my good friends and we decided to smoke up. I hadn't since the summer, at which time I was really drunk at the same time and ended up just passing out. Previous to that, I'd smoked probably a handful of times without weird side effects. When I smoked the one time this past October, as soon as I blew out my last hit, I put on my ipod, and I instantly started to trip, then started freaking out (knowing that this was not a usual reaction to weed) and I was suddenly completely blind to the real world - all I saw was hallucinations. My heart was racing to a point that my chest was in pain, and felt as though my heart was going to collapse the second I stopped consciously trying to keep myself alive - because I quite literally thought I was going to die. People's faces were distorted and when I looked at my wrists, blood appeared to be pouring out at first. Every sensation I had was magnified and I was shivering/convulsing uncontrollably. I ended up in a puddle of water on the bathroom floor (because I felt the need to drench my body in cold water), and asked for an ambulance to be called. Two of my friends came with me to the hospital and I was assured that the weed wasn't laced. Paranoid is an understatement. I felt like I was in the Truman Show in that everyone around me was acting. Even things that my friends said felt contrived, as though they were trying to act "happy" around me so that I'd calm down. I thought the nurses and paramedics were doing the same. A few hours later in the hospital and I started coming down.. though my heart still beat spastically. It was really strange because if I really forced a calm into my mind, the convulsing and racing heart would stop momentarily, but would creep back and then I'd have to just let it go. Eventually, about 7 hours from the initial few hits of weed, I was able to fall asleep.

Yesterday night, I figured I'd try it again - little did I know. The overall trip was a little bit less severe, and maybe because it had happened before I knew what to expect. The only difference was that it was much less visual that the first time; spots still appeared and some objects were warped, but it wasn't a full out mind trip as it had been the previous time. I still convulsed uncontrollably for a few hours, felt paranoid and had an alarmingly fast heart rate. This time I remained in my bed with my friends sitting beside me, also knowing what to expect because they were there the first time too. My tongue felt swollen, and like the first time, I was parched and no amount of fluids could satisfy my thirst. And I DID eventually come down, but same as last time, my chest still hurt long after, and still does this morning and feels like if I over-strain it, it may collapse.

There's no way what I experienced can be simply classified as a "bad trip."
I know that neither of the batches of weed were laced with anything as I'd thought was a possibility after the first time it happened, or possibly that it was a combination of other drugs that may have still been in my system that caused the trip. The second time it happened though, it proved that it was a reaction strictly to the weed. It's weird because I'd smoked numerous times before with none of the crazy trip stuff - although I will admit, I've always felt weed brought out a slight amount of anxiety in me; for example, if I wasn't in a group of people I was completely comfortable with, I'd second guess everything that came out of my mouth.

It’s the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had, and after having it happen a second time, there’s absolutely no chance I’m ever going there again. Hope this helps anyone with a similar reaction.

has any1 considered mayb its the type of wrapping paper they used....i used a kind of clear plastic type of wrapping paper 2 times and only those two times did i ever hav a horrible feeling afterwards .....i had smoked in regular paper just before i used the clear paper and was really high and happy but as soon as i smoked the second blunt with the clear paper i felt horrible .....it had a horrible taste even ....iv never felt like it before and i am a fairly regular smoker ....couple times a week. i say the paper because there was nothing out of the ordinary i did for the 2 times before i had the bad reaction. the first time i vomited and cold sweated and then knocked out for about 2 hours ..sleeping.. second time i was sitting and slumped in the chair woke up to my friend asking if i was ok , got up to stand and leaned on a wall and fell on my back...then a couple minutes later i vomited and then i felt better .....this has never happened anyother time. and i hav never used the clear paper before.... mayb that could be the answer to some of u guys problems too .....stick to normal regular paper.

Alrite people. I have been smoking weed for 4 years now on and off. When i was smoking, I was smoking at least 10 or 11 bong hits a day. I always had bad anxiety in the beginning, including extremely high highs, dizziness, terrible nausea, and stomach cramps, then it would go away after an hour or so. Dont ask me why I continued to smoke when I'd get so sick, I have no idea. I finally recently was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, and I got a prescription for Xanax. I was feeling great the first time I took a xanax so I decided to smoke a J with my friend. I felt good, and good high, for the first time in my life. I bugged a tiny bit, but I took a bit more xanax and that wCould ent away quickly. So, I am now smoking successfully on xanax with none of the "bad trips". However, my nausea is still persistent. Could it be that its not the anxiety, that I'm simply allergic to THC?

Hey all i did not really read to many of your posts, started to get boring :-P
i've been smoking for at least 5 years now, and i would have to say that i doubt that there is such a thing as an allergy to weed/thc.
OP said it himself, he was drunk, 3rd time choof, the one rule we say all the time in Australia is 'Beer b4 grass, your're on your ass, grass b4 beer, you're in the clear' i used to "green out" all the time, and Drinking and Smoking was the quickest way to lying on the floor for 3 hours minimal, and Vomiting 9 out of 10 times.

You might also 'White-out' or have a 'Whitey'

Whitey is a drug slang term for when a recreational drug user, as a direct or indirect result of drug use (usually cannabis), begins to faint and usually faints. The term comes from the way one's skin turns pale during and after a fainting episode. While fainting is usually only a problem for those with low blood pressure, it can become possible for those without hypotension to faint after using cannabis or other drugs which have the short-term effect of lowering the blood pressure. Whiteying is perceived by the stoner subculture as the result of using too much cannabis within too short a period of time. (more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_(drugs) )

The terms and names we use are different everywhere you go, but we all go through the same sh*t. my 1st year of smoking was tragic, much the same as most other smokers.
I would argue that i don't believe in a THC allergy till the end of time, however if someone finds a reason to not smoke it, i'm not going to turn around and say something stupid like "your're robbing yourself of a good time" or " you don't know what you're missing out on" It's just another drug and none of us need it.. really.. i like to tell ppl i do, but i don't. and so if smoking makes you ill, just like "JG" up there you're only going to be left asking yourself why.

I am 18 years old and have smoked pot 3 times in the past month. The first two times I did not get high or feel anything weird. The first time I smoked I did it out of a glass pipe, and the second time out of a blunt. This third time I smoked out of a metal pipe and a bong, and the pot was kush. I was with my 16 year old brother, his best friend, and my 30 year old sister. I took about 3 hits from the bong and maybe 5 or 6 from the pipe. At first I didn't feel anything, it just felt like the first 2 times I had smoked. I saw my brother and his friend getting all stupid and giggly and i remember rolling my eyes and thinking what idiots they were. Then I went to walk inside of my house from my garage where we smoked, and it hit me. My sister was barely high, as she only took 2 hits. I started laughing hysterically and then my brother and his friend came inside. By this point I was on the floor laughing. After all of this I do not remember what else I did, I am just telling what I was told. Apparently I started crying my eyes out and freaking out that I was going to die so my sister took me downstairs to the basement to calm me down. They put in Pocahontas to try and chill me out, but I started singing every word to "Colors of the Wind" (this I remember vividly). My heart raced and my whole body tingled. I felt like I was in a dream sequence and that it was not really me. I can't remember talking to anyone but I was told I babbled on and on about me dying and going to hell. My brother smoked way more than me, even though he is an avid smoker, and he did not have near this bad of an effect. Before I smoked I drank a vodka cranberry cocktail fairly quickly, but my brother did a double shot of vodka. I was having panic attacks and I had no sense of time; 10 minutes felt like 3 hours to me. I don't understand why this happened to me, but I know I never wish to relive this experience.

From reading most of the posts, my experience is oddly different. I never experienced the racing heart, flashbacks, vomiting, stomach or head aches or ever thinking I was going to die. This is what I HAVE experienced though...
I remember my VERY VERY 1st time inhaling weed. It was out of a homemade water bottle bong my friend made. We went to the roof and I took 3 good hits from it. I was feeling fine, we were talking, then we got up to go back downstairs, while I was going down the flights of stairs I started hysterically laughing!! Literally...at the pattern of the stairs....don't ask. He told me to shut up because people would hear us. We got to the room, I was still laughing, but that's the only thing I felt....like laughing. Other than that, 15 minutes later I was sober again. Huh? I know.
My 2nd time smoking it was from a joint with a couple friends, I went back to the roof and I smoked like it was nothing and coughed a bit. Once I started going down the stairs again I was laughing and talking and when I got to my door it felt like reality punched me. Everything was happening TWICE. I started freaking out and kept asking what was happening to me. They said to calm down and that I was just really high. I knew my mom was coming home but that was the least of my worries, I just didn't wanna feel scared anymore. I told my friends to go home and even though everything was literally going in circles and I felt like I was watching myself through a movie, I still knew exactly what I was doing. Just knowing the fact that I was in my own home, alone made me feel better. I watched my friends walk down the block from my window until they disappeared. I went in my room to lay down. That's when I started shaking and I couldn't stop moving my legs and hands in a circular motion on the bed (as if I was on E and loved the way my bed felt), called up my friend and told him I was high and shaking so he told me to drink cold water and sit in the tub full of cold water which I did and it actually helped. When I laid back down I was still high but it wasn't as bad that's when my bf's mom called me to tell me he was in bookings so I had to keep cool and I did and after getting off the phone I totally forgot I was even high but then I came back to reality. My friends kept telling me I would come down in about 2 hours and I did. After that night I was able to sleep and woke up normal and everything was good. I was scared to smoke again because of the trip but then I made friends with this cool chick and she told me if smoked with her she wouldn't let me have a bad trip. So I did, I started to get a bad high but she quickly told me I wasn't and everything was fine and we were gonna have nothing but fun. And so I had fun.
After THAT night I started smoking frequently and I became a pothead. Sometimes I couldn't feel myself at all or I didn't know what was going on or I kept hearing things but they didn't last very long. All I had to do was ignore those weird feelings and keep my mind off of it like watch something funny or interesting or just do something FUN.
Months later I started drinking, the 1st time I got drunk, I smoked a blunt and blacked out but still woke up fine. Then one day I went to my bro's house and I drank and got super trashed that I woke up with a bad hangover. I decided to smoke some weed. Didn't help. I was watching TV and saw "Dooms Day"(zombie movie) was on and watched the part where the guy had to shoot himself in the mouth before he turned into a zombie. That's when I freaked out and started thinking a whole lot about death. It scared the sh*t out of me. I wasn't feeling good and got a little sick. I laid off the booze for a while and still smoked, my highs were fine but every now and then I got paranoid when it came to death. I always knew when when I was high I wasn't gonna die or anything but the thought of being dead is what got to me. One day I got high alone and imagined what it would be like to be dead, everything in my head sorta went BLACK. That's when I started rocking back and forth saying "I don't wanna die"10x From then on I had very bad trips and everytime I came down I felt like I was still numb or there was something wrong with me or in my brain there was a certain piece missing or I couldn't feel. I quit smoking but I kept getting anxiety @ random times/places. I couldn't go to bed without thinking I might not wake up in the morning. There was even a time I went to sleep and woke up at the middle of the night and I literally couldn't feel myself! I thought I was dead! I had an anxiety attack and went to the ER. They told me to drink gatorade and get sleep. They also told me to take benydrill(or w/e. allergy pills) that they calm your nerves and that's how allergies also go down. It really doesn't help that much. So since then for about 3 months I had the same problems.
Till this day I haven't smoked for a little over a year. I drink but the drinking also makes me paranoid and feel sick @ random times. So now I decided I want to smoke again and quit drinking because drinking can alter your high which isn't always good. I'm gonna be sober for a month. Then take a couple hits from a bong because honestly I do think it's better to not smoke paper. I came to my own conclusion that it's really all in your head, allergic or not, you can control most of your high. I have a mild case of asthma so they say I shouldn't smoke but that's bull. If you know you have strong mental control then you should be fine. Just take it slow.


Story and a half? I know. :-P

UMM yah i actually have the same prooblem very often when i smoke weed....almost every time i smoke weed i feel really sick and messed up sometimes it gets so bad that my heart rate has went up to 180 and I literally thought I was gonna die and got rushed to the hospital.....Its just like your body isent able to handle the stress that the weed puts on your heart and brain....you should feel normal in a few days....or at least a little less in the fog....just try not to smoke weed because trust me it will probablly keep happening and the more u smoke the worse it will be...so just be carefull because for certain people weed can cause strokes or heart problems.......But dont worry u will feel better its probablly that your body is still in shock from the amount of anxiety the weed caused. im still trying to figure out why it happens :( cause i completely know what your talking about.

hey chico if your still around have you got better

Well I feel exactly the same as you! Every time I have smoked I feel like that, that is why I dont smoke it. I have an anxiety/panic disorder myself and I think the THC has the opposite affect on us. 

this used to happen to me. Had to quit smoking weed for like a year after regularly smoking 1/4's every day. But one day had the exact same thing u mentioned here.. went to the doctor and talked to them about it and it's because i have a slight case of anxiety disorder that this happened and it triggered a panic attack which is exactly what u had. Where ur body goes all tingly and ur heart races a million miles an hour.. It's happened to me an upwards of about 20 times and now i just keep smoking thru it cuz i realise that it's just weed and it can't hurt me :P been back on my grind smoking agian now for 2 years with minimal problems.. every once in awhile i feel a panic attack coming on or a bad trip but i just try thinking about something else and it just goes away :P

I'm pretty sure if you have done E or Coke it may amplify this quite a bit becauase the first time this ever happened to me it wasn't from smoking pot it was after i dropped 2 caps of yellow playboy ecstasy and about 5-10 mins later i was having the intense tingling my vision started going black heart started racing and started to feel really fuckedup but then it went away after about 10 mins. But about a month after all that went down is when i was smoking weed and the exact same thing happened to me every time i tried smoking weed after that until i quit for about a year then got back on smoking weed... now i smoke weed ALL the time and every once in awhile (6-8 months) ill get a slight hint of the anxiety coming back but i just keep smoking thru it and it goes away :P

I'm just the way you are. I actually have seizures. Stay strong my friend, stay strong

Last night I took 2 inhales of weed and within 10 min had the worst effects from it..I got pain in my heart and in my arm, than it when numb..I went to stand and bloom on the ground, stopped breathing and took 3 mins before I started breathing..My friend was with me when it happened..I was sick to my stomach and very light headed even while I was sitting, and I had to drink lots of water..My friend told me to relax and tried to talk me down..I did realize after that my other medication I take may have caused this..However after4 hrs going through this it still didn't subside..I had to go to the hospital and found out..My heart did stop and going through other tests to find out if I caused more damage..

The Doctor told me it was a bad trip with the hallucinations but my body actually went though a minor heart attack and I could of died..He believes my other medications with the weed caused the reaction..You can't mix prec. med with any street drug even if it's just pot because it could cause you never to wake up...I definietly will never ever do this again...I got scared..Maybe I'm lucky but I sure learnt a valuable leason.. Be care with anything u do...Take care