Anxiety caused by Marijuana?

Im only 15 ive smoked pot plenty of times and the last time i have no clue what happened but my heart started to race and it was about the scariest experience of my life i got so scared to the point to where i called my mom and she found out and she got all scared and took my checked my heart race it double in half it was at 140 and my normal heart race is only about 60 but that never happened to me all the other times i smoked pot i think people are putting coke or something in weed cause all the other time my heart was fine it was always at a normal pace even when i thought about my heart beat cause i notice everything when im high it never sped up.

I'm 20yrs old, been smoking pot since I was 15. I smoked a lot like all day everyday my ex bf sold it. We were smoking one day and all of a suden my face felt really hot. Then my heart started pounding really hard and fast. I mean it was pounding so hard I literaly thought it was going to burst. After about 20min I started getting really bad shakey while my heart continued to pound. After another 30mins or so it stopped after I had been laying down and trying to take slow deep breaths. Then I was super tierd. Is this an anxiety attack. After that attack it happend about twice a week for a few months. It stoped happening for about a year even though I was still smoking. And it recently started happening again only after I smoke weed.

There's not coke in the weed....it's just thc causes anxiety for some of us...


I've done cocaine hundreds of times, never once had an anxiety attack...


Weed, tried it again yesterday and again another anxiety attack....

trojanhorse21 wrote:

This is the biggest BS shory I've ever heard. Who do you work for? And even if it were true, these weak minded anxiety attacks you keep having would have nothing to do with your being in an altered state of my mind from being high on marijuana and having a mild anxiety attack one time in your life two f@#$^&* months ago, or however long ago it was when you got high on marijuana, as you claim. put the f@#$^&* video game remote control down and go read a science book. boy.

Trojan, I suggest you started offering some useful advice instead of criticizing and tripping that all people are here to promote something (your constant "who do you work for" question smells like paranoia.)

yh and dnt ever touch tht sh*t again nw tht uv got the gd out of it, becus it'l hit u outta the blue one day n ul nvr b the same again. take this warning with up- most seriusness and danger

Cannabis is not meant for everyone. Dont think that because a few people online think thats the root of their anxiety, that it happens alot to other people. You people are probably 1 in 500 with anxiety from pot. Cannabis is my medicine and i was very shy before i started smoking. Marijuana helps me with my anxiety, depression, insomnia, and glaucoma. Its my miracle drug and ill never take the terrible chemical pharmaceutical drugs that the Govt. SELLS to people. LEGALIZE AND TAX CANNABIS! :-P

I have the same exact problem...
this summer i tried smokign weed...while i was high i felt as if i were going to die and i was in a panic for hours. 2 months later i was doing homework when all of a sudden i had an insane panic attack while i felt the same feelign of when i was high...the panic attack never entirly went away and i now live in fear of my own mind. i dont know wat to do i have gotten check ups but i am seeking serious medical help now. I am extremely scared and just talking about it brings on the feeling i feel hopeless soemtimes depressed liek u say and other times it can go away. i dont know wat to do

for what its worth i suggest meditating for at LEAST 15 minutes to get in a deep trance and then smoke [or i suggest vaporizing] your herb [or hash which is much more clear and friendly i think just dont over do it is is CONCENTRATED]. it will eliminate all negative effects mentally and physically [eg, shaking, uncomfortableness, extremely rapid heartbeat and looping uncontrollable paranoid thoughts.] you will finally be in complete control to navigate your experience. and ALWAYS ALWAYS ask yourself if its the right set/setting for your to smoke, don't just smoke because everyone else is and you want to go with what theyre all doing. [example, if you know you you can't handle your self in a certain situation or if it will end up ruining whatever activity you are doing instead of enhancing it.]

please give it a try and post your experience, it has helped me tremendously. i recommend meditating daily, do some research on meditation i suggest 2 types, 1. is where you concentrate on a single point like a candle or the point where you feel the breath entering your nose. 2. you do not try and control or judge any of your experience, just BE and let yourself go deeper you will notice you will get caught up in trains of thought but just let them go like they are water running in front of your consciousness. a gentle stream perhaps. after even a few sessions you should feel a sense of forgiveness and love for yourself and for every-thing.

I smoked weed once and my face started to tingle and my heart started to beat really fast and my chest started to burn so i drank a whole lot of water enough to make me vomit so my mom rushed me to the hospital where they told me I caught an anxiety attack . That was 3 months ago and since then I've stopped smoking weed but I now get headaches stiff neck fatigue muscle twitches rapid heart beat palpitations and many more symptoms I have went to the doctor and had ekgs chest x ray and blood work done and everything comes back fine so does anyone here have a clue what's wrong with me

Hey all, really glad to see this post running so nicely. It's a shame to see how many people face a very similar problem to the one that I encountered. My story goes as follows: I didn't start smoking until my senior year in high school. Finally, I did and felt nothing until probably my tenth time smoking. It still took me a lot of weed to feel anything after that point and I felt a couple of pretty good highs in my experiences. Until one night, my graduation party. The week building up to it had been very stressful indeed, but most of it was subconscious I think. That night, this girl who i goaled to get with before college wanted to try smoking for her first time. I decided to hook her up and thought it would be a great chance to get with her, even though I had earlier in that night. We picked up Sour D (first time with that) and smoked three bowl between the two of us in a small pipe piece. She 'claimed' to feel pretty high, I felt a buzz, but not my usual high high state of mind. She took me into the bedroom and I honestly was not as excited as I thought I would be as we entered. She has about H sized boobs and seeing them was a major goal and triumph of mine. So, we're in her room and she wants ALL the lights to be off. So it's pitch black and I can't see anything. We start hooking up, which I am not a big fan of, and it leads to some more. Eventually, her top if off, but frustratingly enough, I can't see anything...THIS IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN MORE PERSONAL...So, I start playing with them and sucking on them and eventually work my fingers into her "hole" (to be polite) It's my first time there and it's kinda hairy and nasty, but I go with it cuz she seems to REALLY be enjoying it. She wants my shirt off I take it off, then my pants. This is where the story gets screwed up, for whatever reason, be it I was nervous or the weed had gotten to me, or the stress of everything beforehand. Grad party, picking up and almost getting caught by my mom, or whatever...I couldn't get my penis hard...I was pissed beyond belief cuz I wanted a ha****b only but really looked forward to one from this chick. I tried everything, turning on my cell phone light and watching her tits, nothing. Then I used my hand myself on my penis and got way too into it out of frustration. I still couldn't get the f****r up, and I worked my heart rate up like a frigin exercise to tryta get it hard. It wouldn't...All of a sudden, I feel my hands clench up like they had done when I had had arythmic attacks due to Wolf Parkinson Whites Disease (which was successfully cured thank g0d) but I knew the symptoms and they were exactly the same as they had been. Naturally, I got very worried and upon checking my pulse noticed that unsurprisingly, my heart rate was wicked fast. I did my routines to try to slow it down but couldn't. Eventually I had to call my parents to come help me.
I went to bed that night but worried and checked my heart rate paranoidly the next two days rampantly. I thought that if I put everything in the past and moved on, I could feel better. But still, now, 10 days since my incident, I PHYSICALLY CANNOT TAKE A DEEP BREATH. This was a symptom I faced to a much lesser degree when I was 8 years old and dealing with worries and anxiety.
Even though what happened to me and the stress of my parents fighting and girls BS and college of course is SUBCONSCIOUS for the most part now, I still can't take a deep breath.
It doesn't really worry me, because I know my heart and lungs are healthy, it just frustrates the sh*t outta me and drains me emotionally on a daily basis now.
I can't tell you all how much I appreciate any support...anything nice you have to offer would really brighten how I've been feeling.
I think these kinda things just take time, so g0d willing, I will be able to fully breath again within hopefully a week or so (maybe after some psychology or yoga r something)
Thanks all so much.

a few mins ago i did some mj n right now im obviously high...ne ways...i feel like i cant breathe...its like as if my chest was numb or something...i cant feel my lungs expand when i breathe n that kinda freaks me out cuz it makes me feel like ima pass out...getting ur mind ocupied on other stuff makes u feel better tho...

i Dunno about anyone else but i got anxiety after smoking weed the 3rd time, i smoked it and then i started getting some crazy anxiety attack it was like i was drifting in and out of reality and even if im in my room in my own house in the safest invirament for me it's still like im going insane freaking out and my mouth is drying out so so so so! very fast.. ah.. it's horrible but it's been a month now and it's getting better, in the end all of us anxiety and anxiety attack suferers have to wake up and relize "anxiety is just scary it cannot hurt you it is simply" "just scary"

You're heart is probaly beating so fast because you're high on marijuana, that's what happens dude

YOU really will be fine.
Your brain is smarter than you think it is. Some people can handle pot, others cant.
What you experience was a drug induced MANIC EPISODE combined with a DRUG INDUCED PANIC ATTACK.
All caused by marijuana.
At this time, do not try and continue smoking marijuana.
Stay off it for a long time. Maybe forever.
Dont try and force it to go away,
Your body will remember this experience for a long time, and primarily when you are stoned this will return for a long time.
This is obviously a case by case thing, and some people can get over these experiences relatively quickly.
However,
The marijuana IS the cause of this awful episode you had,
so avoid it. It's not bad, its just not for everyone. I've actually read that people are throwing a theory out there now that some brains are allergic to THC (the drug in pot) and that causes adverse reactions, rather than a predisposition for mental illnesses.
Regardless,
Be strong. And yes you will be ok.
As a recoverer of a chronic case of everything you and others have described (it took me years to get over I can tell you the power of positive thinking can help. even when you can't think straight, if you can still think and acknowledge and understand and reason ; You are still here and you will be fine. You are not crazy. Deep breaths, Sleep, Normal activities, Good food, Excercise, Family or Friend visits >> just avoid the weed. Tim

hello everyone...

ive had a similar experience that i would like to share with yall so here it goes...

im 24 years old(male) i started smoking weed 5 years ago and since day 1 i love it....i became a chronic user with no time i used to smoke all day wake up with a joint in my mouth and go to bed with a joint in my mouth...i totally smoked on average 2 to 3 grams a day.Everything was fine i finished my degree had no problem was living peacefully.about 10 month ago i applied for a job and got it and the company told me im starting in a month.After the interview went back home smoked 2 joints went to bed like everyday for the last 5 years. the next day i woke up feeling the worst feeling ive ever felt.i felt something is wrong with me i had difficulty breathing,heart was pounding fast couldnt eat so i siad its probably cause i ddnt smoke yet so i light a joint and those feeling increased heavilly thats when i decided to quit smoking weed.i went to a doctor he put me on cypralex(its a SSRI) and xanax to treat anxiety and depression becuz he concluded that i was in a depression phase.after 8 month of treatment im fealing much better thank GOD but still i have these feelings of not being me and feeling very weird with my self and sometime feeling like am going crazy...i smoked once in these 8 months just to c if i will be able to relax but i ddt enjoy it i ddnt even get high i was a bit paranoid and felt more weird.has anyone had sudden anxiety or whatever it is called triggered that  quickly??anyone with similar experience?does any one know if im taking the right treatment??i mean i used to love weed  nd i still do cuz it made me relax and it made me very peacfull inside outside but i dont  smoke it anymore cuz i get paranoid and scared.

thank you all for you're posts i feel with everyone of you.

ur replies are higly appreciate it.

be strong y'all and tc for now