Anxiety caused by Marijuana?

I smoked marijuana for years and stopped at the age of 24yrs old and then started back at the age of 35yrs old and started experiencing panic attacks. Well long story short, I have developed allergies to most plants and trees. So if I smoke weed often I'll have a panic attack due to what I think is a allergic reaction to the build up of THC. It seems that if I only smoke occasionally Im ok and my doctor gave me these wonderful little pills that work wonders for me it stops a panic attack in its tracks in about 20 mins Im calm as a cucumber. They are called Hydroxyzine pam 50mg cap. Good luck to all who read this post !!!

Hey im not gonna lie i feel a lot better after reading all of these posts. ive smoked weed a lot before but then i had it like all u guys. i would smoke before and feel great i loved it. i mean i would have increased heart rate but that is normal for weed. but then i got this GIANT head rush which scrared the living daylights outta me! at first i was like wow cool! but then i was like no that wasnt cool at all..then it happened again. it kept hapening and i got really freaked out. i went to the ER that night. im not sure it that head rush was intensified cause i was stoned, but it was scary. i had a lot of them. but i thought i was gonna die too. im not a wuss or winer by any means, but i was flipping out. i told my parents i needed to go the the hospitol. they didnt know i was stoned, but they took me cause they knew something was wrong. i went there and got an EKG and stuff like that and fell asleep there. woke up and felt better.

Next day i felt ok, but i had those head rushes again. it scared me alot. i wanted it to go away so bad. people love to be high, and at the time i thought this was the effect of some bad weed or something, i was freaking out. of course my panic attack thoughts led me to think that i smoked something that was laced with meth or crack and i thought i was like gonna pass out and die. i was scared. like i said im not a baby or a whiner but i was scared out of my mind. i tell you it really maked me appreaciate life! fearing for your life makes you apreciate the every day. but anyways the head rushes started to go away. but i would still have panic attacks.

I felt so scared that i have seen a cardiologist because i felt that something was wrong with my heart after this. i had numerous test and am awaiting on the results. but all doctors so far have told me that i am healthy. i am only 18, there shouldnt be anything wrong with my heart, and there most likely wont be.

I ended up going to the ER again when i thought i was going to die. headaches, tingles, lightheadedness, fast heart rate, and really bad chills. the chills are from your fight or flight sense, which make your body focus more on your internal organs instead of your hands and feet and outer body. this may be why you might feel decirculation in your fingers and toes. but i checked out ok again. its about three weeks from the day. i had only had a few other bad panic attacks, but i have had loads of other ones. this would be my one tip for getting rid of them. going to sleep! take a nap. it really helps. notice everyone in these threads has said they think they felt better when the woke up. it calms your body and your mind down. but anyways i am still having theses attacks, but i think that they are starting to go away. i am getting a prescription for an anxiety reliever, hoping that after i take it for a while, it will help the attacks go away. therefore, i will no longer fear having these attack (which can trigger one) and i will be normal again.

It seems like they are starting to tapper down, which i am glad of. although i had a bad one last night. i think they are starting to go away. i do not have a majic remedy for getting rid of these, sorry. i am still experiencing them myself. it seems that they are starting to go away. i have learned this though, well atleast these are the things that have helped me: listening to music (music you really enjoy), going out and doing something (getting my mind off of it most likey), and sleeping! (really helps me!) i feel so much better when i get up.

Dont hesitate and please dont sit inside all day doing nothing! do everything you regularly will. i know you may not think that you are "dwelling" on it all day like i said i wasnt, but it was true i was. i was trying to figure out what was wrong with me, which was really troubling me. i wish you all the best of luck! and i hope we all get rid of these attacks and resume our normal lives! good luck to remember that these attacks will not kill you! or even hurt you! they are harmless, although they seem terrifying! my advice is that if you do really think you are going to die, go the the emergency. better save than sorry. and it will help you calm down. but if there isnt something else wrong with you, and its a panic attack, you will be fine, trust me! remember that when you are having one, say "I will be perfectly fine" because your brain is playing paranoya and just playing tricks on you! youll be fine! good luck to you all! and get well!

I Have been smoking Pot for a little over a year. I am also 16. I love pot the smell taste everything. Its amazing! My bestfriends are super stoners all day everyday smoking. So was I. Over the summer I smoked too 8ths a week! Thats a hell of alot of pot between 2 people. Well I quit for a month cause I started to get really really high off a little bit I thought I had smoked so much my tolerance was killed. Then I tried smoking some dank before school like normal. I went in my room and started forgetting what I was doing I was in the shower and I forgot why I was in there I freaked and thought I was gonna die! I couldnt breathe my heart was racing and I swear I was gonna drop dead I couldn't even move! This has happened multiple times since. its kinda like the high a lil different everytime. One time I felt half my body go numb I was loosing feeling. I got very dizzy also. I dont know man I get depressed for awhile then im happy for awhile sooo many ups and downs. Its very depressing. Now with all my stoner friends its hard to say no but I just can't smoke in fear of a panic attack. i tried to smoke and just handle it but its a kill for the high and a waiste of weed. Anyways the only time I can smoke without a panic attack is when im super drunk and I smoke and feel the anxiety I just tell myself its stupid and make myself forget why I was causing anxiety. The only other time is when im on Xanax that stuff makes me feel good calms me I can smoke a ton and just relax. The most scary part is the heart rate once you get over the beggining of the high when ur pulse increases if you havent had a panic attack yet you should be good :-)

you cant OD on THC, you would have to vapourize a pound or two of pure crystals all in one toke, and even still i think you would just get really high....

It's easier to OD on potatoes than weed...

Also, weed does not cause anxiety. It actually helps it. I have had several anxiety attacks... When it happens, all you have to do is calm yourself down as quick as you can.... relax... sounds like MJ to me....

If you did any research on Marijuana instead of just smoking it, you would have found it fixes A LOT of things. Anxiety is one of them :-)

whats good, i'm 23....

i have been smoking pot excessively since i was 14.. We're talking every single day since then. since about 2 years ago, i started getting panic and anxiety attacks very seldomly.. now, i get them up to 3 times a week sometimes. the fact is that it is all in your mind. the worst thing that can happen to you is that you faint and its embarrassing. i have fainted only once from a panic/anxiety attack.

also, i just read an article recently that many adolescents that smoke pot excessively will be prone to panic/anxiety attacks as an early adult. whenever i get in that zone, whether i'm high or not (because now i get attacks when i'm not high at all), breath deep through your nose directly into your diaphragm. DO NOT BREATH INTO YOUR LUNGS, BREATH INTO YOUR STOMACH. Hold your breath for about 7 seconds, and then exhale through your mouth slowly, taking about 7-8 seconds to fully exhale. This will FORCE your heart to slow down. Also, put your hands together with only your FINGERTIPS touching each other and breath in the ways i said.

fact of the matter is that i have not found any concrete cures to this; but there are coping mechanisms. when u feel yourself having an attack, try out the coping mechanisms i said and stay hydrated (thats very important). i hope it helps. it makes mine better but it does not take them away.

peace

I've been having similar experiences. I'm 16 and I smoked weed for the first time like a month ago and a few days later i was taking a test in school and started freaking the ***edited by moderator*** ** inappropriate posting** out. So I went to the guidance counselor at the school who's a real chill guy and I told him what was up cause I was legit freaking out. I thought I was gonna have to kill myself. It was the scariest experience of my life. I got so many ideas and epiphanies when I was high though. I'm still coming up with all these ideas about life and random ***edited by moderator*** ** inappropriate posting**. My brain went into overdrive for a couple weeks and I felt like I was thinking 5 different things at the same time. It sucked. Now I'm continuously getting depressed/anxious. Sometimes mixed, sometimes isolated feelings. I think it's getting better though. The feelings get less intense over time and it's been a month of on and off normal to depressed to anxious. Sometimes I change moods 4 times in a day. It's all normal though from what I can tell. For whoever reads this, don't worry about it. I like the idea of when you get a panic attack to challenge it. Like the mind over matter idea. Bring it on. What's been helping me lately has been hanging out with close friends because I have felt very isolated and alone. And doing what you love helps, too. As does physical exercise. For anyone. My best advice for anyone having panic and anxiety attacks or depression and anything like that is to talk to a good friend about it and do what you love.

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I went through almost the eexact same thing. its nice to get on here for the first time ever and see that someone else has gone through this and im not alone. im 15 now and the freak out happened when i was 13. i took 2 hits from a bong and this was my first time to smoke, it was normal weed and normal equipment (im sure of that because my older brother took hits right before and after me and he was completely fine). for the people who say "only pussies freakout cause they think to much) have no idea what they're saying. this was something that i couldn't control andit happened much quicker than anyone could explain. it wasnt a "bad trip" or and of that BS. literrally 10 seconds after i smoked my mind started racing, i lost all sight (everything spun and was a massive blur), my hearing was echoing ever sound i heard, my body felt like it was falling down a vortex. i was absolutely freaking out yelling, grabbing onto my brother saying "holy ***edited by moderator*** ** inappropriate posting** dude im freaking out, please help me god. please!" for an hour after that my brother walked me back and forth back and forth in my friends backyard (this was like 2am in the morning) and it didn't get any better. so i finally had to force myself to go to sleep.'t when i woke up, it was all over and it was completely fine. for the next week or so i lived my life with no problems. but after that week, my mind state was all f***ed up. i felt like i wasn't fully there, my mind was making itself believe it was feeling a certain way when it really wasn't. I cant perfectly describe to you what my mind was doing..but i felt this "weird" way and my mind would think about this weird feeling alll the time for the next year and a half!!! twice in the next year after my freak out i had the freak out feeling reoccur..once out of no where. it just happens when my mind started worrying about it (as much as you tell your mind that you no nothing is wrong and that youre playing games with yourself, you have absolutely no control over your subconcious) and the other actual couple times it happened is when i smell weed or even get close to it. since that time i have neither smoked or drank because altering my state of mind at all will throw everything off and i will freak again. for almost 2 yeeeears i never went more than a couple hours not feeling weird and being anxious/depressed. but i pushed through and i have a ton of respect for myself and others like Eminem for their ability to persist. but i am not 100% better to this day...i have learned to cope. i still feel strange sometimes but 95% i feel good and happy and i love my life. i think it was a life lesson. i hope this helps with any questions. i cant explain what it is but i dont want to go to a doctor. i dont need to talk one on one with someone about it because its MY mind and i have built it up strong. so good luck to you and i hope you find your way to cope, you will eventually. you may feel hopeless but i promise you a solution will come and out of no where you will start to feel better little by little. just try to keep your mind off of it to the best of your ability, relax, and have fun with life :)

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Hi, I''ve experienced the same things as well. It was the summer of 2008, and I've just graduated and started freshman year college. On my half way through the first semester, I've started smoking weed. I was scared at first, but 2 of my closes friends suddenly did it one day, and they look so happy on it I thought, "why not?" So I tried it and was amazed how fun it was; that same day we convinced all of are closes friends to join in, lol. It was so much fun that it went from once a week activity to daily ritual; throwing and going to parties and such. Now, around this time, my grades started to plummet. I started off strong in school, then slowly by slowly, started turning in late and incomplete/average assigments. My smoking habits was taking over school, because I've started to get high before classes. Guess what?, huge mistake! I've experienced my first panic attack. Days to weeks later, I've again experience a panic attack, even if I wasn't high. I was confused and scared, because it started to happen in the mall, school, and at my friends house. I soon learn that I have an anxiety disorder. I didn't know how to deal with this disorder, so I've stayed in my apartment and put myself into deep thought, "why was all of this happening to me." I got so scared to the point where it made me agarophobic. I could tell my friends noticed that I was, so it was embarrassing. Soon, my life will be dramatically altered by 2 worst/painful years of my life. Out of agarophobia, I lost in touch with my friends and the world which led into a deep depression, which soon turned into suicidal thoughts. I even wrote a suicidal letter, but aborted in the last minute and fell into tears and pain. The aftermath, since I didn't want to kill myself, I've decided to seek help and now being treated with anti-depresant and theraphy. I have very few friends left due to not hanging out with most of them, and no aquentances. Also, I stop going to college and rarely go out. I lost in touch with any sense of spirituallity. But most of all I've lost myself. I keep reminicing how wonderful I was before all of these. I was a fun guy who loved to smile and laugh. Someone who had a 90% positive outlook on life. One who was excellent in all his endeavor, such as sports and school. Somone who has traveled the world, experienced different cultures and people. Someone who was secured, motivated, inspired, had a peace of mind, and most of all, happy with life. How I wish I could go back 2 years ago and stop that first hit...

yes it sucks when you get anxiety attack and yes i always get it when i smoke a bowl. and when ever you get it just be kool about it and just relax it will like go away in like 5 or 10 mins. ohhh and i for got add me on ps3 its EMO-LIFE-666 and yea i know its lame. i bet your thinking what a weird answer lol

I agree pot will make it worse I get anxiety also! call a mentor or someone that suffers from it also when you have one it helps, that's what I do and please don't think it is a curse because it is what makes you realize your alive. peace and God bless you

omg man
i swear to God i just had this panic attack today
dude i was so freaking out
my heart was bumping so fu***g fast , i called ma friend and i told im i had panic attack so he drove me to a restaurant and i didnt know what i was doing , omg its been the second time
guys im not lying its the truth i had it like 6 hours ago
hoollly shiiiit i dont wanna be freaking out anymore
anyway , i knew it was the panic attack so it was easy to go over it but i was still thinking it wold last with me forever


dude just be strong and dont vare about anything



just say im gonna smoke (what happens ,,,, happens :-)

Wow so many people with the same feelings. If that doesnt make you feel better than i dont know. I had a huge panic attack when i was smoking weed 1 time. I had been smoking for just about a year and out of nowhere i started freaking out thinking i was having a heart attack. After that attack, i finally realized i am not invincible and that i am going to die one day. This made me very depressed and i even had suicide thoughts. I always thought to myself, "why am i here? Why am i alive? Why was i chosen to be alive in this body?" i know it sounds like im crazy, but i am not crazy at all. Im fact, i believe i am smarter now than before i had the attack. What makes me feel better is music. When i listen to my favorite bands, i feel sooo much better. You just have to find that one thing that makes you feel good. I still smoke weed today and every now and then ill have a panic attack. Im lucky to say i can pretty much control them now. I also feel ive become closer to God. I try and pray as much as i can and i feel as if that helps me. Thats just me though. I hope this helps some.

I used to be the biggest stoner ever. I loved weed. LOVED IT.
And I LOVED beer.

I stuck to those two things for a really long time,
Then my friends started doing x,
And i tried it,
I loved it,
Until the last time I did it I had a panic attack,
After the drug wore off and I could finally sleep I was fine,
Two weeks later I got a panic attack being completely sober.
I had stopped smoking weed because I move to a new city
And wanted to be clean for a pee test for a new job.
But since that last time I did x,
My mind has been messed up.

I can't smoke anymore, I've tried but I freak out.
I definately don't do x anymore.
And when I drink I get the worst anxiety/depression the next day.

I thought it was my birth control that was making me crazy.
I just freak out, and don't feel like myself, like I'm watching myself,
And my vision won't focus when I try to snap out of it.

I had my birth control removed,
And after that I was fine! For like four weeks!
I got on a new form of birth control,
Now the anxiety is back. I'm not sure if it's from
Drinking two nights ago or my new birth control kicking in
But my anxiety makes me feel weird.
I don't like being around friends or family or anyone!
I start feeling sooo sick and sweaty, and I just wanna run outside for air before I faint or something!
I feel INSAN.

When the attack is over, I'm back to normal?
I'm like wtf just happened?
So, i'm not crazy?

I take vitamin b6 and it really helps.
Just remember you attacks will pass,
And you're not crazy.
Or going to die.
It's your nervous system.

Try to read(distract your thoughts), excerise(yoga helps), breathing excerises or go to the doctor.
There's alot of natural ways online, just read about them
And know that billions of people go through this
And it will pass!

after 25 years of smoking weed the panic attacks were too much and I quit. what a nightmare.