marijuana chest pain and panic attacks

I have a similar issue. I have been smoking pot/ concentrate heavily for about 6 years. I can comfortably say that I could smoke most people out. Not anymore that's for sure. Every time I smoke evem a little my chest guests tight as well as that burning tingling pain. No matter what I do even after 4 months of a break it still happens. I was the kid who could study high show up high take an exam and still get an A. But now I'm too scared to smoke for having that feeling in my chest. Two hits makes me feel like that. But when I smoked heavily I would smoke two joints and a few dabs just to actually get my high and I never felt a thing. Looks like I'm gonna have to quit unless anyone as a sure fire way to fix this. I'd like to know because smoking is great for me anyway.

I think ur greening our.

I have two daughters 19 and 21 both of which were smoking marijuana on a regular basis. After about 3 months of them actively smoking, they both started coming to me with numerous symptoms described in teach of your post. As a mother this is horrifying to watch. I immediately blamed the marijuana, however my girls refused to believe it is the cause. Just last week I was in the ER with my oldest daughter again for the same issues. I have begged and pleaded for them to quit, I think after this last trip to the doctor my oldest daughter believes me. My 19 year old however still supports it and I worry about her daily, although she says she is not using now because of her job, she lives with people who are daily users . I don't know how to make her understand these are the bad effects of marijuana.

Some of these sound like heartburn. I used to get a panic attack thinking I was gonna get a heart attack. Once I found out I had acid reflux and heartburn then I was more at ease. You have to smoke less and don't swallow any smoke. Smoking weed opens up your esophageal sphincter (the flap that's between your esophagus and stomach) and you get heartburn. Or it could be an esophageal spasm from the smoke irritation

Hey I also have been having the same issue after pulling a pectoral muscle I’m letting it heal and not smoking how has that worked for you with the chest pain and anxiety after smoking ?

The same things happens to me aswell ive use to use party drugs and drink and i still smoke weed but one day i thought i was going to die so i quit a year ago or so and i still smoke weed bucause its helps with stress and depression but nomatter how much i smoke my chest hurts really bad and i feel like i cant breath but its just shortness of breath i think

I have been smoking for years, but I have been having the same reaction, I think the red haired weed does it to me. I can smoke green cannabis with no red in it I am fine. I think the weed has a lot to do with it I took allergy medicine to calm my self. like you I became concerned. Sincerely

Hey guys im Kyle i just turned 18 I’m really fit I’ve been on varsity now for 3 years and I’m really happy to see I’m not the only one in this situation like holy f**k I really thought I was so I’ve been toking since 8th grade easily and I absolutely loveddddd weed I’ll always remember freshman year taking my first dabs and not being able to walk straight and laughing my ass off just having a blast now side note i was a heavy smoker I mean I was the guy who just always wanted to smoke even when everyone was cashed I’d be down for more and I loved it and things were like that all the way until my junior year when I started getting a bit uncomfortable when I smoked i noticed I was very aware of my heart and my chest got a little tight nothing too serious then a few months down the road it got to the point where I’d get really uncomfortable and have to gather myself but it gets worse due to all the trouble I was getting in for pot and just life sh*t in general I needed to fix I quit for 3-4 months and one day I went into this trail that’s absolutely beautiful has two nice ponds and just some really dope scenery I had got this pre rolled joint from my friend josh and it was a morning so I decided why not take my dog down there and spark up I sh*t you not 7 drags later I start walking back towards the house and my heart is just going nuts and this wasn’t a type of anxiety I was used to and it started to freak me the f**k out before I could even get to the end of the road I called the ambulance and they ended up getting me long story short my parents were really pissed and I was left not knowing what to do basically what happens when I smoke now is in the center of my chest it gets soooo f*****g tight like really bad as if there’s something heavy just chillin there and my heart rate is fast for no god dam reason and I’m always gasping for air and it’s honestly made me so pissed off smoking was really something I enjoyed like honestly if anyone has something to help or you’d wanna talk to me about it hit me up on my number I mean I’d love to meet more people especially people who have gone through what I have cheers!

hey man, i was celebrating new year with my friends and we baked like dragons ahha, day after 1 january, suddenly my heart beats started getting quicker,my palms sweat and i get paranoied,but not paranoia atacks,just naturaly paranoid, i scared and that bringed even more beatings,i was sure i was getting a heart atack, luckily we went to do ekg and pressure,it was all fine, and i imidietly calm down,so paranoa is half of that i guess, next day i went for walk,and my heart beats are getting faster, it was just normal walking, no reason for that, and it starts to beat every time i eat something heavy, so i suppose its the stomack that is causing the problems, doctors say its somekind of late stress, and i just have to let it go for a few days and il be okay, but i cant say im smoking weed to doctor,i smoked last 6 months every day, im definetly quiting now, and im sure it is stomach problems caused by the weed.

Hi so I've been reading through this post a bit and I am curious if anyone here maybe has a stress or anxiety causing 'thing' linked to the smoking of marijuana. Earlier in the thread I was reading how a guy started experiencing the common symptoms being discussed after encountering someone late at night we threatened him and his friend, they ran away as fast as they could back to his friends house and that was when the symptoms started.

This is interesting to me because if more people have an anxiety causing event linked to the smoking of marijuana maybe that could mean something?
For me it was kind of a gradual build up till I really started consistently feeling the symptoms being discussed. For a year or maybe more I was always fine after smoking, however I started to notice a very elevated heart rate when I was lying me head down in class every morning first period(was an easy laid back class that was being taken away the next year, teacher didn't care what we did really). But it started to be every morning I would notice my heart rate go way up (after having smoked in the car on the way to school) and this would make me uncomfortable compounding the problem. It wasn't till after a good time of this that I started to feel the tightness in my chest and along with the elevated heart rate it began to make me EXTREMELY anxious and uncomfortable any time I smoked, the more the worse. From the very start I was extremely paranoid that my heart was going to idk skip a bit and just stop or that I was going to have a heart attack. With this idea in my head all constantly compounding with each other as the experience went on it was honestly very crippling and if I was driving a car I would be squirming in my seat only being able to focus on my paranoia, elevated heart rate, tightness in my chest, and sometimes numb arms/legs.

Now where this comes back to my original idea; from the onset of my consistent marijuana usage (I was a junior in high school) my mom was always 'spying on me' keeping a lookout, searching my car and my room, and just always suspicious and trying to catch me in the act. This didn't spring out of nowhere, from the beginning of all this when my friend gave me a gram my mom had caught me in the basement rolling a joint, this wasn't the first time I was going to smoke but it does mark the beginning of my consistent usage. So from then on it was a very stressful thing when she was around to hide it from her, whether it was late at night, coming home after going out, or even just a quick trip to go get some fast food. Anyways when she did catch me in the act or when she believed I had smoked based on my eyes being bloodshot or could smell it she would then initiate a barrage of questioning and chastisement. Her favorite question was where did I get it from, I would never tell her (like it even mattered I could have gotten it from anyone). So.. this basically went on for over 3 years and I would never answer her questions, sometimes I would debate her but eventually I realized it was futile and gave up, I would just sit there quiet waiting for her tirade to be done with. Sometimes I would just walk away but she would usually follow me and continue, it was not a pretty sight and it took a toll on me. So you can probably see where over time I have built up a lot of anxiety around smoking and trying to do it avoid her finding out every night whether or not I did smoke.

So that's my story. I am very curious if anyone else has a similar story where smoking marijuana is linked to something stressful or something that causes you a lot of anxiety.

Now I don't smoke nearly as often as I used to but I definitely still do it from time to time or for a week or two when I pick up a good amount then not for a few months. This last time I bought an eighth and I had an anxiety 'episode' no less than 5 times throughout smoking the entire thing. I smoke in very small quantities (less than .2~ a gram in a joint) to avoid these things happening but sometimes I either smoke to much or I am already very anxious about something(or SOMEONE).

I've formed some theories over the years about what is happening, one is that the marijuana is just amplifying my already present anxiety and another is that I just get super paranoid about a natural effect of marijuana(increased heart rate) and that just compounds and gets out of my control (although that still doesn't explain the feeling of tightness in my chest). Those are my two best ideas I've come up with. I've dealt with this for a long time and I really enjoy smoking weed but I really don't enjoy when this sort of thing happens. To be clear it doesn't always happen and so far the best way I've found to prevent them is to smoke less, and that's what I do now, although as I stated, they still do happen even when I'm trying to be careful.

Hi I'm pretty embarrassed writing this being 28 considering myself pretty much married to weed for the last 12yrs of my life. I smoke Daily literally everyday so I can pretty much handle my sh*t or so I thought. I was at my friends house smoking as we would normally do and out of no where I began to feel a pain in my chest close to my heart mainly on the left side of my chest I didn't pay it to much mind until it got worse it became hard to just breathe regularly at this point I'm still chilling
Trying to figure out whats up with this pain my hands began to sweet and slightly feel numb which was odd to me I had this whole dropping feeling in my body like something yanked my soul it's hard to explain sorry. My heart started pounding like some sh*t out a cartoon.. I stood up and went down stairs scared in my mind but cool on the outside I thought I was having a heart attack it got worse I was rushed to the hospital I had a ekg and everything was fine. Months go by recently it happened again but this time my chest felt numb in the middle slightly near my neck area I fought with myself trying to stay calm and focus on breathing trying not to replay the first time I felt this. I chalked the first time up to something I couldn't explain ppl thought I had a bad trip but I think something else is wrong. Can anyone tell me what's happening to me.

Yes. Im a 26 year old female from india .It has been a long time that I have forgot when I started smoking marijuana, probably it has been 6 to 7 years, I always used to b high as i used to do joints n bongs equally ,and I never had a gap and I used to smoke cigarettes a lot, I used to mix cigarettes with marijuana and recently,probably a week ago I had cold and cough actually a bad cough nd i still was smoking . I had quit marijuana before also but I have different withdrawal symptoms then ,i had anxiety panic attacks ,night sweats ,insomnia but after some days I was ok and I started Smoking again , nd has been 2 years again I am smoking and this time the sudden cough which I had was not going and I coughed a little bit of blood also one day. So i became afraid I quit cold Turkey and since then , its has been just a week, have not smoked anything or done anything and I am coughing black Or brown I don't know but my chest nd upper body is paining like hell, use and I was so afraid still I'm confuse, I also thought it to be gastric or I don't know what and i m coughing bad, not blood or anything but only black or brown specks and my friends, the quitters, have told that with time the problems will subside so I never want to smoke again but I am praying to God that these symptoms go away soon and I will live my life normally and happily since I stay alone out of my my hometown ,I have not visited a doctor yet as I heard many people doing many tests which was negative, Like urs u say so if I will have more n severe problems I will go for tests or else let it b good. So wish me luck my friend and reply if you have any advice for me, thanks.

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31 male here ,smoking weed daily since i was 16. Had my first " attack " about 3 years ago, and i'm not sure what it was, but sure as hell felt like something like a heart attack.

I had some shoulder pain in my right shioulder for many months that the doctor said was a bad rotator cuff.

One day i smoked a joint, and laid in my bed to fall asleep. I was layin on my back and my right shoulder was bothering me... then suddenly the pain went from the right, to my LEFT side, and went to my left shoulder, then down to my heart area. All of a sudden i felt something inside of me .. .and my heart began to go crazy like a cartoon character.. felt like my heart was going to explode out of my chest. It was beating crazy... i started feeling cold and shivering, and sweating at the same time... i thought i was dying.. i got up and stood up and tried to calm myself... after that night, ididnt sleep for 2 days and had severe pressure in my left chest. I went to see a doctor and they put a heart monitor on me for 3 days and said that my heart was fine but it was a bit fast. They said it was anxiety, but to this day i call BS. I never had anxiety and i never had these problems for so many years. After they couldn't help me, i stopped smoking for about a month because after this attack, every time i smoke, i felt pressure on my left chest.


After about a month, i started working out and getting into shape. I was weak and skinny from the month before, because i was trying to recover... so i gained some muscles and started smoking weed again.. i been smokin since the last 3 years, i been having a tight chest feeling everytime i smoke weed. It seemed to be good for a few months, but sometimes it comes back. Still haven't had the " attack " yet though... and hopefully neever again...

i just posted this because a few days ago, i smoked and went to work out and felt that feeling again.. i went to do some chest gains, and felt my left chest was just beign squeezed too much even lifting small weights... and i been feeling the tightness more... so i stopped worjking out again...

Now i also want to add since the first time this attack happened, i have this pressure in my chest, but i also have a feeeling in my bone... my sternum bone... when i press on the left sternum,between my chest, it feels sore.. and hurts... and especially the joint that connects my rib to my sternum... also same thing on my back... my left side back muscles feel very sore, and feel stringy or something... It seems to be one rib, on both front and back, somewhere undernaeth the chest muscle... which is why it also feels like it could be the heart... Like i usually take my right hand and try to reach behidn my back and push on the rib or whatever connects to my sternum... takes a long reach as it seems to be about nipple level on your back.

i searched that up, and poeple say its a condition called costo-chondritis... another thing that we can't find a fix for!
so now at 31, i am dealing with costochonrditis, and a sqeeuzeing chest/shoulder muscle feeling that gets worse when i smoke weed.

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Any one found a way to deal with this and able to smoke again!?!?