marijuana chest pain and panic attacks

I have had 2 similar expierences im actually experiencing it right now!! as i type haha, it feels like youre dying almost and theres a beating pain in ur chest making you feel like ur heart is beating faster.

i thought i would share my story also.
i am an 18 year old and i have been smoking for about 2 years now. I smoke about 6-8 bowls a day when i would start to get these severe pains in my chest. I would also get this tightening in my stomache that would turn into a pain. I thought it was nothing so i would just slow down smoking for a while and i stopped or about 2 weeks. I started smoking again and everytime i do it i get that same pain in the middle of my chest and i also get this weird feeing in my neck. It is as if my throat is swelling or something ? sometimes i feel like i always need water because my throat swells up so much that it doesnt feel right at all. Sometimes i will be laughing so hard and my tonsils will swell up from smoking and it feelslike i sucked my tonsil down my throat. I dunno what it is all about but i'm starting to think that it is not good. I have not went through any panic attacks and i'm not crazy. I just wanted to let you know my side of the story and the factis that the more and ore you smoke it just gets worse and affects somewhere else :/ . I to have also experienced the stumble feeling as if you were drunk or week.

I have the same problem. I am a 20 year old male, I use to smoke daily or at least a couple days a week for 2 - 3 years. Never had a problem, and sometimes I'd smoke ridiculous amounts till my lungs hurt but no problems.

Than one day this kid gave me ceboxin. A pill supposedly for people trying to get off heroin. I didn't know this, when he gave it to me he said that it would just make me feel really high. Apparently his definition of high and mine(from weed) were two different things. I than felt something was wrong and got my first panic attack and went to hospital they said everything was fine i was just "excited" but i was convinced more was wrong. Couple days after that i felt panic attack systems and tightening of chest.=, shortness of breath.

Smoked a bit after that again, smoked a lot no problem until one night which I wish I had just avoided because i'd probably be able to smoke right now. Me and my bro could only get regs, so he rolled me a joint he took one I went home, smoked it fast and hard so i could try and get as high as I could. I really really went crazy hits on the joint, I was fine. Than I was sitting down watching tv and about 15 minutes later I realized I couldn't breathe all the way in and felt I could use a little bit more air. Like I wanted to yawn, which would have made everything better. But I couldn't do it, so my chest got really tight, and my face got really tight, I felt like air wasn't circulating to my head so I walked around to maybe open myself up and it didn't work. I looked in the mirror and I was really pale and couldn't get enough air in me. I started getting numb and felt like I'd die slowly. I layed down and my heart was going crazy and I was shaking. I told my parents and they said I deserved it for smoking, and again they told me "i was getting myself excited, breathe normal and not so heavy" But i couldn't remember what normal rhythm felt like. So all night I layed feeling I was gonna die and no one would listen to me and they would feel horrible about it and I started feeling bad for the fact they wouldn't listen to me.

I woke up felt fine, moment I started driving my car it came back and BOOM, panic attack. If i did anything where attention needed to be i'd forget to breathe and get a pain in my head than be out of sync to catch my regular breath again. About 1-2 weeks later I was fine, said " Perhaps I'll smoke again, see how it goes" I took one hit from such a small piece I am surprised I even got any smoke. Tried not to get excited and BAM again really bad, but this I was able to calm myself down by end of night. I smoked around 3 felt alright by 11 - 12 took awhile. Than next day for about a week same thing shortness of breath. Than I was fine and all good.

Now here's something no one else has mentioned. This problem, goes more than just weed butttt to me being sensitive to any kind of smoke, incense, cigs, any smoke in the room or outside. I wouldn't get a panic attack but I'd be straining for that yawn which would cause a tight chest and out of sync feeling where I couldn't be free to be normal.

I have some haze and I want to get high, but it's been about 2 months going on 3 that I havent smoked so I'd get really high and possibly a panic attack. I don't think it's worth it, I hope that it's just in my head and i can move on and get back to it. I mean I went to dr.s and they said i am fine. So Idk.

I used to smoke pot everyday like three times a day. One day i was with my friend who i reguarly smoked with and we went to this guy's house who we know but i have never been there. We went into his garage and smoked out of a bong and the first thing i did was broke the part that held the weed. i was super high and when we were in his room he left for a few minutes and told my friend we need to go i think something is wrong with me and i started feeling like i couldn't breathe and my chest hurt she just told me to lay down because she knew it was a panic attack and it was hard to lay don i wa so fidgety and sooner or later i was okay it was all in my head.

Im 14 and I started smoking last year and this has never happened to me until 4 days ago. Me and 3 friends were at my house smoking and in the middle of it I start feeling like I'm going to pass out I start falling and sh*t so my ex carries me to my front porch. I sit I'n the chair and I notice that my heart is beating really fast. So I tell them to go home. So I go lay I'n bed and call my mom I tell her what happen and she said it could have been laced or something else but this didn't happen to any of them. So I'm laying I'n bed and my feels like its Beeting 100 miles an hour, and my leg is doing some weird twitching thing, my mouth has bas cotton mouth it felt like the inside of my mouth wS glass. I was trippin mad crazy. But it's tuesday now and my friggin chest is still hurting. I dont know whether to go to the doctor or not ? It was the scariest thing that has ever happened I though I was dien and having a heart attack.!!Quote:

I'm 18 and i had been smoking alot of skunk pretty much every for nearly a year bit then in October I was at mine and I had this sort of tinge I'm my chest and saddle I got up and walked around and tried to relax, but I genuinely thought i was about to have a heart attack. Then a couple of days later I was at my friend and we had just finished having a zoot and then suddenly the pain came back but so mch stronger and I didn't know what to do I was pacing around and he pain was so strong that I though I was about to have a heart attack and everytime the pain would dye down when I thought about it it would come back again eventually after about 20 mins I went to the a&e cos I was worked I was going to have one so I thought I best to go and be in q safe environment. I had an ECG and they told me that I had a panic attack. For a while after everytime I smoked I was worrying about having another panic attack and I would do the same check my pulse and feel my chest and the whole time through my head I was thinking I'm gunna have a panic attack my god not again. But then one day it clicked it was me that was goof to cause me to have a panic attack and that the more I think and stress about it the more likely it was going to happen and all it was was a pain in my left side of my chest. And it was I went to the doctor because I was worried that there was something wrong with my heart and if it was that that was causing the pain but what had happened is that I had pulled my pectoral muscles than run across the chest when I had my panic attack and everytime I smoked it pulled those muscles causing the pain which feels a lot like it is I'm your heart but it isn't. She also reassured me that I was too young to have any heart problems and the only cases that they get of heart problem of people my age are due to cocaine. That information helped a lot too with the control of potential panic attacks. My chest still hurts when I smoke so a couple of weeks ago I quit to try and give my chest time to heel also due to other paranoia symptoms and depression I have been having.

Well i found this post :-) anyways im 16 and i smoked weed heavily for about 11 years well i started getting heavy about 3 years ago (3-5 times a day, or more like the most i could) before that not so much but anyways i for some reason decided i was taking a little break from weed it was a hard thing to do 3 days later i smoked a joint started feeling these weird feelings in my chest like a tingly dull pain i find the less i smoke witch i can take half a hoot and get blasted for some reason the feeling gets lower in my body but stays around my chest my mind goes nuts i feel like everything is new like iv never done it before in my life every feeling every sensation its all new like i was just born again but with my existing mind now you might think im just a big stoner or maybe you think it sounds cool but its hell i want to die and i think im going to i started shaking and my heart pounded out of my chest it didnt help that my mom didnt give a rats ass either i have had a panic attack before but nothing like this could it be just the weed intensifys it? i dunno but if it keeps up its bad enough to make me leave this love forever :-( it can happen to ANYONE and dont think if it happens to me i can calm myself down im very good at knowing and controling my mind cuz it is MY MIND but when im feeling like this i feel out of control i feel paranoid i pace around not knowing whats wrong constantly getting my girlfriend to feel my heart and a few times i wanted to go to the hospital i have been to a doctor says i was conjested another doc said i had a viral infection i think theyr both talking out of their ass i now have to always breath in deeply every once and a while to feel right i have thought of everything from infection to athsma witch i got an inhaler it doesnt do f**k all tho and its pissing me off cuz i wanna get high!!!!!!!

Hey Guys,
I have been a cannabis user for about 11 years, I have had all the usual issues, coughing, spitting up black sh*t, blocked sinus and recently anxiety attacks that include fast heart rate, chest pain headaches, disorientation, vague feelings, memory problems, numbness in both arms and jaw, feelings of ill health, it has been a long haul trying to deal with all of these different symptoms visiting the Dr and being told its indigestion, muscle pain and anxiety.

I am due to qualify as a nurse within the next few months and realise that I have to lead by example.

I have given up smoking cannabis and a cigarettes also stopped all caffeine intake as that I am sure was aggravating my stress levels.
I loved smoking pot and would still probably be smoking it if it were not for the side effects it caused.

What I will say guys is that although pot can cause certain side effects in some people, do not rely on the internet to self diagnose, I have done this for years and it can tell u what can be wrong but it can also plant seeds in your head about other things it could be and before u know it ul think you have a wide variety of illness.

If you feel unwell, go to the doctor.

Thanks for reading

Baz

I'm going to give my story as well since everyone else is.  I am 17 years old and I have been a pot smoker since the age of 13 and was proud of it.  When I turned 17 I screwed with dope a little bit. Not much though.  I used cocaine since I was sixteen and wasnt fond of dope (Crystal Meth).  A few months ago my sisters boyfriend texted me and said he had some lines and I thought he was talking bout cocaine.  When I got there he only had dope and we snorted about 8 lines each from 2 pm to 7 pm.  Well I left and went to my ex gfs house and stayed up all night.  Next morning I go to a friends house and I hit a gravity bong full of weed and it did the job. I was doped up and high as hell.  I started walking back to my ex gfs house and all of a sudden my heart started beating out loud like it was struggling to pulse and I got this bad chest pain and numbness through my body. It felt like a mix between fear and adrenaline rushing through me and it scared me half to death. I thought I overdosed. Went to the ER and freaked out for about two hours with a heart rate from 170 to 110.  Well we got that all sorted out and I kept rushing back to the ER for weeks to come thinking I was dying.  They kept saying I was having a panic attack. I didnt think it was the weed so I continued to smoke getting some minor chest pains. Then one morning it happened again while smoking and I decided to quite smoking.  Waited a couple of weeks and on 420 I smoked again it happened. Waited a couple of weeks again and smoked and of course it happened.  What I really posted this was to ask. Why does this happen? Will I be able to ever smoke weed again?  Is there a cure or something?  I want to fix this that way I could go back on with my life =(

i wanted to ask u? i have the same feelings! is it normal would it go away its been a month since i stop smokig n i hate it cause ive been having the weirdest thoughts ever i just want to stop worring about it! what do u think? thank u for ur time to answer

It doesn't go away, your better off not smoking unless you want to have another "panic attack"... whats happens is you were smoking before and were fine but once you invite the panic attack while smoking and identifying with the smoke as being the reason you had it... the mind then feels the smoke is a threat and the gland in the brain i forget what it is called goes into panic mode...

Its is like a fear monitor.. rest at low then in situations when you should be scared it goes higher in dangerous situations... but like i said above, having panic attack while smoking now has it identify with the smoke as a threatening situation.. so anytime you smoke unless you can figure out how to deeeeeeeply remove that new program that is running in the background of your subconscious then you will freak out. A program called the linden method helps with this... not to smoke but to take control of the anxiety and panic attacks... i have been lazy to trying to do it so i could smoke again. lol   because its not designed for that.. though it may work. Just know its a lot of work and you have to do it everyday... you can download via torrent. Get the biggest 2 gig file if you can... even if it takes days.. its the whole program. then if you ever feel up to it.. go for it. :)

           Man I quit smoking marijuana the exact day of May 26th,2011 I was driving home, blowed off some chronic. All of a sudden, I went into a severe panic attack. I was so scared, I rushed home. My hands all the way up to my arms began to tingle and feel numb. My eyes start to water it was horrible. I got home and my hands were so numb, I couldnt even turn my key to turn my car off. Ever since then I been totally different. Im super afraid to drive my car, and now i began to have fear of even beeing alone at home. I hate that I ever even smoked cause today I am totally different, and I cant change it. I hate being fearful cause thats not me, but its actually hard to get over it.  And I wouldnt recommend anxiety pills cause they dont work, all they really do is help keep your heart from racing, but it really never helps with the thought. But also youll be addicted and still wouldnt be yourself. This anxiety has affected me in alot of ways, far as working, staying home. I dont want to get a good job and be walking round all the time, and ready to leave cause Im having an anxiety attack. All I can say is if you never smoked, dont try it, its not good at all. But God calls us out at times when we are doing wrong, so just pray and depend on him. O yea, a list of every symptom i have.  Heart racing, headaches, pain on my temples, weakness, tiredness, lost of energy, chest pain, dry eyes, dizziness, and so much more. I just hate it. Just let go and let god.

you had a panic attack because you were'nt used to that upgraded herb and you've inhaled too much ususally when panic attacks occur is when you think your gong to die, or feel that your hart is feeling or beating to hard and fast, usually you have to air out for 15 minutes and you'll feel a normal "high."

Ive had similar problems recently. Ive been smoking pot for close to a year now and never had a problem but recently when ive smoked weed I get really bad trips my heart pounds, I get extremely hot and my ears were even ringing a couple days ago. Ive recently had stomach problems which I believe has been from a bad weed trip where I felt like my heart was getting ripped out of my chest. Stomach problems still apparent and its been about a month. Im hoping all is well for me too as I would like to smoke and get high again without worrying

i can relate to everyone of these stories, but i just want to know how can we make the chest pain and heart rate to go away and still enjoy weed