This started about 6 weeks ago. It was the day after Valentine's, and I was at my house alone playing computer. I had this tiny sack of super compressed weed that I had bought a month earlier. The reason I had this sack of weed so long was because I was afraid of it. The first time I smoked from it I was suddenly so high I had to turn off all lights, tv, music, and just lay on the couch. The second time I smoked from it the same thing happened, only the next day I woke up still high. Whenever I'd go to friends houses and we'd smoke I would be very careful when smoking their weed, expecting the same thing to happen, yet it never did. My friends would often have the best weed, yet I noticed my weed was waaay stronger.
I somehow convinced myself that this weed was normal, and it was all in my head that it got me so high. So it had just turned 2/16/2010, and I had been smoking tiny hits off my pipe. I was like, "I don't hardly feel anything." I decided that I wanted to get extra high, so I put a large portion of this weed into the pipe. I took a MASSIVE hit. The bowl looked like it was catching on fire, and strange smoke came out. This weed wasn't burning like normal weed does. As I was exhaling I thought to myself, "I think I smoked a little too much... eh, shut up, I'm fine, it's just weed." I decided to put on a non-threatening movie on my other computer. I put on the DVD Goonies, and loaded up a game of DOTA. Suddenly though, I wasn't in Kansas anymore. My heart felt like it was going a million miles an hour, and I felt adrenaline flooding my body uncontrollably. At this point in time I shut off the movie and video game and said, "!@#$%^&*"
I called my family up, and told them that I was freaking out. They didnt even know I smoked weed, so that was hard for me to do, but I really needed help. So one of them drove over to help me. I felt like I couldn't wear a shirt or pants, as if they were agonizing me. I even removed my necklace. I was in underwear and socks. One second I felt like my body was overheating and sweating, then five minutes later I felt cold and chilling. By this time my family member arrived and I just told him, "Hold my hand, I'm scared." I got up and tried prepared a bowl of soup, water, and a banana. I couldn't eat or drink. This was very weird, because marijuana has always made me hungry or thirsty. I told my relative I was going to try to sleep it off, and he left. So I went to sleep.
Then I woke up about 8 hours later, and the high hadn't gone away at all. Now I felt like I was tripping. There were no visual hallucinations. Just everywhere I looked was hell. My whole body felt terror, pain, agitated, agonizing. I remember driving in the passenger seat to my parents thinking this isn't just weed. I felt almost like I had been poisoned by DDT, only I was tripping. I was thinking was it strychnine? Was it LSD? Was it PCP? Was it Heroin? Was this God-Weed?
I felt like I couldn't be alone, like I needed someone to watch over me else I may lose control. I felt like I was not going insane, but was fully insane. I almost couldn't control myself, like something was trying to take control of my mind and body. Like I was going to throw myself through the window. Like I was going to randomly kill myself. My physical body, mind and emotions was in complete hell. Still adrenaline was being released constantly. I felt terror, fear, suffering, I felt like hell. I tried to eat a sandwich, and after taking only one bite out of it, I felt like I was having a heart attack. The only thing I could do to get my attention off this inescapable HELL was to play DOTA. I'm not even a christian, but I'd singing, "Jesus loves me," just to get my mind off the suffering and insanity I was in. I didn't really even sleep. It's like I kept waking up every 15 minutes, and kept having nightmares like horrible ones that felt real.
After 3 weeks of this I finally began to be able to control the feelings of adrenaline being released. Now something weird was happening... It's like the symptoms would randomly come and go, and switch. Sometimes I'd feel depressed beyond any depression for hours on end. Then it would suddenly vanish and I'd feel normal. Then adrenaline would come for an hour or two. Then suddenly the adrenaline would stop and I would enter anxiety and fear. Sometimes I would have uncontrollable thoughts like I can't stop hurting myself or other people.
The 5th week into it I could now control myself, and for the most part felt good, but still my vision looks like it has some sort of static over it. And now in 2 days it will have been a total of 6 weeks.. 42 days since that one toke of insanity. For the most part I'm fine, but I have problems being alone, or driving. I feel like I know what its like to go insane, to be crazy. It feels like I have some sort of chemical imbalance that is slowly, very slowly correcting itself.
Since this has started I've been eating very healthy, drinking mainly water, some milk, orange juice, fruit juice, eating bananas, taking vitamins, lifting weights, walking, and some running. I havent smoked a cigarette for over 5 weeks... its like I can't even feel the effects of cigarette craving.. its weird.
I left out a lot of the details of what happened, what horrible things I've witnessed and felt inside my body. And no its not my first time to smoke weed. I have smoked weed off and on since 16, and I'm 30. I have drunk tons of beer in my day, like it never faded me. I've done magic mushrooms and never had a bad trip on them, in fact they always made me feel connected to god. I'd smoked cigarettes, like a pack a day for over 10 years. I've even done xanax and crack and cocaine. But only dabbled in that a few times. And mainly only smoked weed.
Whatever was laced on my weed makes crack look healthy! It makes heroin look healthy! I'm not sure but I think it was PCP. Someone help me, and if you read this.. PRAY FOR MY SOUL.
Take my advice and never do any drugs ever, not even weed. You don't know what you're getting, and what is on it may not be detectable... and it only takes one hit to destroy your entire life. I am lucky to be alive and safe and recovering. I think I will be normal again soon from exercise and eating healthy. But for you other people who are curious about weed or think its cool.. ask yourself this:
Do you want to get arrested? Do you want to lose control and commit suicide or hurt someone else? Do you want to run out on the streets naked having cops chase and tackle you? Do you want to end up in an insane asylum? Do you want to go permanently insane? Do you want to have to take meds for the rest of your life? Do you want to just die on the spot because your body cant handle it?
It's not worth it. Be careful what you put in your body. If anything, I hope this post has touched someone, and made them wake up!
Do what's right. Make the right decision.
I somehow convinced myself that this weed was normal, and it was all in my head that it got me so high. So it had just turned 2/16/2010, and I had been smoking tiny hits off my pipe. I was like, "I don't hardly feel anything." I decided that I wanted to get extra high, so I put a large portion of this weed into the pipe. I took a MASSIVE hit. The bowl looked like it was catching on fire, and strange smoke came out. This weed wasn't burning like normal weed does. As I was exhaling I thought to myself, "I think I smoked a little too much... eh, shut up, I'm fine, it's just weed." I decided to put on a non-threatening movie on my other computer. I put on the DVD Goonies, and loaded up a game of DOTA. Suddenly though, I wasn't in Kansas anymore. My heart felt like it was going a million miles an hour, and I felt adrenaline flooding my body uncontrollably. At this point in time I shut off the movie and video game and said, "!@#$%^&*"
I called my family up, and told them that I was freaking out. They didnt even know I smoked weed, so that was hard for me to do, but I really needed help. So one of them drove over to help me. I felt like I couldn't wear a shirt or pants, as if they were agonizing me. I even removed my necklace. I was in underwear and socks. One second I felt like my body was overheating and sweating, then five minutes later I felt cold and chilling. By this time my family member arrived and I just told him, "Hold my hand, I'm scared." I got up and tried prepared a bowl of soup, water, and a banana. I couldn't eat or drink. This was very weird, because marijuana has always made me hungry or thirsty. I told my relative I was going to try to sleep it off, and he left. So I went to sleep.
Then I woke up about 8 hours later, and the high hadn't gone away at all. Now I felt like I was tripping. There were no visual hallucinations. Just everywhere I looked was hell. My whole body felt terror, pain, agitated, agonizing. I remember driving in the passenger seat to my parents thinking this isn't just weed. I felt almost like I had been poisoned by DDT, only I was tripping. I was thinking was it strychnine? Was it LSD? Was it PCP? Was it Heroin? Was this God-Weed?
I felt like I couldn't be alone, like I needed someone to watch over me else I may lose control. I felt like I was not going insane, but was fully insane. I almost couldn't control myself, like something was trying to take control of my mind and body. Like I was going to throw myself through the window. Like I was going to randomly kill myself. My physical body, mind and emotions was in complete hell. Still adrenaline was being released constantly. I felt terror, fear, suffering, I felt like hell. I tried to eat a sandwich, and after taking only one bite out of it, I felt like I was having a heart attack. The only thing I could do to get my attention off this inescapable HELL was to play DOTA. I'm not even a christian, but I'd singing, "Jesus loves me," just to get my mind off the suffering and insanity I was in. I didn't really even sleep. It's like I kept waking up every 15 minutes, and kept having nightmares like horrible ones that felt real.
After 3 weeks of this I finally began to be able to control the feelings of adrenaline being released. Now something weird was happening... It's like the symptoms would randomly come and go, and switch. Sometimes I'd feel depressed beyond any depression for hours on end. Then it would suddenly vanish and I'd feel normal. Then adrenaline would come for an hour or two. Then suddenly the adrenaline would stop and I would enter anxiety and fear. Sometimes I would have uncontrollable thoughts like I can't stop hurting myself or other people.
The 5th week into it I could now control myself, and for the most part felt good, but still my vision looks like it has some sort of static over it. And now in 2 days it will have been a total of 6 weeks.. 42 days since that one toke of insanity. For the most part I'm fine, but I have problems being alone, or driving. I feel like I know what its like to go insane, to be crazy. It feels like I have some sort of chemical imbalance that is slowly, very slowly correcting itself.
Since this has started I've been eating very healthy, drinking mainly water, some milk, orange juice, fruit juice, eating bananas, taking vitamins, lifting weights, walking, and some running. I havent smoked a cigarette for over 5 weeks... its like I can't even feel the effects of cigarette craving.. its weird.
I left out a lot of the details of what happened, what horrible things I've witnessed and felt inside my body. And no its not my first time to smoke weed. I have smoked weed off and on since 16, and I'm 30. I have drunk tons of beer in my day, like it never faded me. I've done magic mushrooms and never had a bad trip on them, in fact they always made me feel connected to god. I'd smoked cigarettes, like a pack a day for over 10 years. I've even done xanax and crack and cocaine. But only dabbled in that a few times. And mainly only smoked weed.
Whatever was laced on my weed makes crack look healthy! It makes heroin look healthy! I'm not sure but I think it was PCP. Someone help me, and if you read this.. PRAY FOR MY SOUL.
Take my advice and never do any drugs ever, not even weed. You don't know what you're getting, and what is on it may not be detectable... and it only takes one hit to destroy your entire life. I am lucky to be alive and safe and recovering. I think I will be normal again soon from exercise and eating healthy. But for you other people who are curious about weed or think its cool.. ask yourself this:
Do you want to get arrested? Do you want to lose control and commit suicide or hurt someone else? Do you want to run out on the streets naked having cops chase and tackle you? Do you want to end up in an insane asylum? Do you want to go permanently insane? Do you want to have to take meds for the rest of your life? Do you want to just die on the spot because your body cant handle it?
It's not worth it. Be careful what you put in your body. If anything, I hope this post has touched someone, and made them wake up!
Do what's right. Make the right decision.
that was really long to read,
and you were smoking saliva by the way, look it up.
lmao at the guy above, its salvia bro, not "saliva". it wasn't laced man, weed is known to cause depression later on down the road for some people, and even "ghost highs" sometimes. i used to get those. and everytime i smoked i also got super hot or super cold and so forth. i was also in the exact situation where i smoked more and more as i felt nothing, then BAM- that 7 or 8 bowls just hit all at once. you just smoked too much and thought the worst, you're alright
whatever your going through don't panic, just let it wear off! its all in your mind, everybody reacts to weed differently, personal experiences and mental thinking are important factors when it comes to your reaction to weed, if you are someone with a lot on your mind constantly like myself, stay away from weed or at least moderate it or compensate by leading a somewhat healthy lifestyle....weed unlocks a part of the mind we're not always accustomed to using, when you begin smoking weed you really may have no problems but with progression it's starts to have persistent effects...look at this way if you had a 2 minute swim your skin may be left unaffected but stay in the pool for a very long time and it looks like you have just stepped out of a time machine, maybe not the best analogy but you get what i mean, i am also struggling with derealization and de-personalization but i'm trying not to stress too much because that will only make it worse! another analogy for you, if you build a house on a strong foundation it is very unlikely it will get knocked down by the wind but a weak foundation and your standing in the middle of a rubble trying to work out where all the furniture goes...just chill, be healthier and if needs be, smoke some good weed!
its not salvia im sure you wouldve noticed the difference in taste plus salvia wears off in like 10 minutes. the shirt and pants thing sounds like LSD but its not LSD you would have hallucinated more and you would never be able to sleep, I doubt you would be able to sleep on PCP either although i wouldnt know
i maybe was laced with god knows what, or maybe it was just super strong weed
i have smoked a ton of weed all my life and loved it until recently i started having massive adrenaline releases like what you describe and major panic... but never for weeks like you describe... and that not craving cigarrettes thing that maybe a sign of major dopamine release in your brain...
that is a crazy story man i cant imagine. but a fun read haha. i will pray for your soul. jesus loves you
i maybe was laced with god knows what, or maybe it was just super strong weed
i have smoked a ton of weed all my life and loved it until recently i started having massive adrenaline releases like what you describe and major panic... but never for weeks like you describe... and that not craving cigarrettes thing that maybe a sign of major dopamine release in your brain...
that is a crazy story man i cant imagine. but a fun read haha. i will pray for your soul. jesus loves you
i had same experience .i took only one hit and felt like i was about to die of heart attack. and now i always afraid of getting this feeling agian. so it did happen again when i was stressed ..and now i feel i am going to be sick like this entire my life...i dont what i should i do to avoid this thing happen to me again .
so my good friend for the first time ever smoked some good grade stuff to relieve pains from tmj and other pains even a nerve pushing against her brain etc.thinking this would relieve the pain as doctors seem to be giving her the run around now shes scared and freaking long after 24 hours of smoking this it was her very first time now what will it go away
Yeah, same stuff happened to me too. My issue was that I got pretty drunk before smoking, was quite tired, and hadn't smoked much in the last six months. My buddies and I decided we wanted to smoke a giant blunt, and my buddy who's a dealer pulled out what he described as "diesel" and smashed it into a blunt. We passed it around, the smoke was a dark brown, and immediately after my first big drag sh*t hit the proverbial fan.
I feel as if someone was pulling back the skin on my face, I could hardly breathe, and could not express any emotion. I also began to experience severe derealization. It felt like the people I was with were stuffed animals, and I was in some cardboard-created skit. People seemed to have no "person" to them, just globs of flesh. I, too, felt like I was trapped in my own body. I started scraping at my arms, and drumming my hands.
Then we thought it would be a good idea to drive home, 20 blocks, through the ghetto of Kansas City, MO at 3am. I was paranoid as hell, and literally felt like the world was crashing in around me. I was horribly afraid. Then we were driving through some back city streets and there were prostitutes at every corner (45th and Troost-area). It sounds funny now, but I was mortified by them. I was panicking inside and was too fearful to even get out of the car at my own house, where I knew I was safe. I then made it inside, and my reality continued to be totally surreal.
I managed to drag myself into work 5 hours later, not at all sure how. I was a total zombie all six hours of my shift. Also had blood shot eyes that made me look like I was a spawn of the devil himself.
I think I will swear off weed. I have also had some pretty severe anxiety attackes in the last six months, so much so that I've been seeing a psychologist. I haven't told him that I get blazed every so often. He'd probably smack me.
I feel as if someone was pulling back the skin on my face, I could hardly breathe, and could not express any emotion. I also began to experience severe derealization. It felt like the people I was with were stuffed animals, and I was in some cardboard-created skit. People seemed to have no "person" to them, just globs of flesh. I, too, felt like I was trapped in my own body. I started scraping at my arms, and drumming my hands.
Then we thought it would be a good idea to drive home, 20 blocks, through the ghetto of Kansas City, MO at 3am. I was paranoid as hell, and literally felt like the world was crashing in around me. I was horribly afraid. Then we were driving through some back city streets and there were prostitutes at every corner (45th and Troost-area). It sounds funny now, but I was mortified by them. I was panicking inside and was too fearful to even get out of the car at my own house, where I knew I was safe. I then made it inside, and my reality continued to be totally surreal.
I managed to drag myself into work 5 hours later, not at all sure how. I was a total zombie all six hours of my shift. Also had blood shot eyes that made me look like I was a spawn of the devil himself.
I think I will swear off weed. I have also had some pretty severe anxiety attackes in the last six months, so much so that I've been seeing a psychologist. I haven't told him that I get blazed every so often. He'd probably smack me.
thanks god after two months of suffering from anxiety and panic attacks i have recover from those symptoms ...all you guys need to do excercise and follow only one source of information which helps about anxiety .i found Helpguide.org website very useful and its free...after 3 round to hospital i would have belive that i will not recover from this stress and anxity entire my life ....but it is true you can recover fully ...
Hi everyone, I would also like to know if my weed was laced weed, it was a regular day my gf had just gone out with her ex so I make a massive joint, I'm relaxing and all in the backyard smoking up, and then I go inside to masterbate, :P I acted like a robot for 5 minutes when suddenly I get a message from my gf saying she just got attacked by a some guy near her house, I suddenly start to fade in and out of reality while my heart beated like it had never done before, I started feeling like I was having a heart attack, the next thing I know I'm outside my house looking at the post man. I told him I was having a heart attack, he then called up the ambulance, he told me my life was over and that it was my own fault( not that I think he was wrong I just though it was a inappropriate thing to say to me in this state) suddenly I'm in the ambulance getting taken to hospital, they told me I had taken something other than weed seeing as my heart rate was off the charts, I can't remember what it was but they kept trying to make me say I had taken something other than weed, so the next thing I know I'm sitting on a chair waiting for them to put me in a bed, I'm tripping major balls thinking I'm going to die and so the staff is laughing at me lie on the floor biting my nails, finally my mum arrived crying and thats all I remember...? So those anyone know if this is a normal sort of thing to happen :/
First off, weed itself brings panic and anxiety in some. As the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid pathways cause effects that are largely seratonergic, they are set and setting dependent similar to direct acting seratonin agonists like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline, 2C-B et cetera. So their effects are largely dependent on one's expectations going in to the event. Needless to say, anxiety about pot in the first place can create a closed feedback loop. In the event of any bad trip, relaxing distractions like a warm bath or excercise seem (at least personally) to help the situation. If distractions do nothing else, they don't harm you and might provide a placebo effect relief (although excercise directly stimulates endorphins which will relieve anxiety).
Although not a long term solution, and one that should be used rarely if ever (and only after doing your own reading, I am NOT a doctor), sedative/hypnotics such as the barbiturate and benzos have a LONG history of being used to counter negative reactions and comedowns from uppers like yeyo and speed, psychadelics like LSD, and weed. Barbiturates like reds if they can still be found at all are really not safe...that's how hendrix and marilyn monroe died. Benzos are far safer UNLESS taken concurrently with other central nervous system depressants (which cause multiplicative effects not additive) i.e. booze, benadryl, opiates, barbs or ludes. Examples of benzos encountered frequently (at least near my college in CT) are ativan, xanax, klonopin, valium. Again, they are a controlled substance similar to weed but are perscribed by doctors for among other things anxiety. Note I am not advocating drug use, merely in the interest of harm reduction providing information about other effective treatments.
Secondly, some things that your weed COULDN'T have been laced with:
LSD degrades rapidly under heat, moisture and even time. Thats why people put blotters inside books or painted vials.
psylocybin and most other classic psycadelics: degrade similarly to LSD
DMT and some other even more rare psycadelics: degrades if touched directly to a flame, also lasts for only 15 mins or so, usually vaporized
heroin, other opiates: provides as one of the primary desired effects anxiety relief. Anxiety is kind of contrary to that, huh?
Last is the rare case the weed was laced, which is unusual for you not to know it as most other drugs are far more expensive then weed so people don't like do give them away for free contrary to the republican media on Fox news. Some candidates for possibile adulterants:
procyclidine (PCP): Unfortunately this has been known to happen. The main effects include feeling disconnected from your body and numb. That's why it was originally and still is in some countries used for some types of surgery as a pain reliever when opiates are contra-indicated.
ketamine: similar effects to PCP. They both work along the same mechanism of action and imo ketamine is far more common then pcp.
methoxetamine and others: similar to ketamine and pcp
organophosphates: pesticides mainly (although also used in nerve gas, you wouldn't see nerve gas that outside of a place like iran or a government facility somewhere). This might not even be intentionally added, a lot of id**t growers don't know about how things effect people or don't care. These would cause cholinergic symptoms which would include anxiety, but also include the SLUDGE toxidrome i.e. salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, GI issues and emesis (vomiting). Even if insufficient to cause full blown problems, you would notice a sick feeling.
Freebase cocaine AKA crack: if your mouth or lungs didn't physically feel numb there wasn't coke in there. Cocaine in all forms is the strongest local anesthetic. If you ever had novacaine from the dentist, they are closely related chemicals and the numbing is the same. Also, crack lasts like 5 minnutes but I guess it is possible to have an anxiety attack that builds.
Other stimulants like meth: Unlikely as unless you had a tolerance they would probably make you feel good before bad. However still possible.
MOLD: a likely contaminant in a lot of weed, especcially if stored improperly as a lot of it is. A ton of people have or develop mold allergies. Due to negative reinforcement from an allergic reaction a panic attack is possible as the behaivior that causes that reaction will provoke the body to force itself towards psychological allostasis through extinction i.e. in classical/operant conditioning.
Sources: Many years reading journals like the journal of clinical psychopharmacology, personal experience which involves use of weed, benzos, cocaine and crack, pharmie speed (dexies, addys and rit) and meth, opiates inc. vicodin percs morphine and fentanyl, psychadelics including LSD psylocybin and DMT, empathogens including MDMA, previous experience having smoked PCP laced weed, and conversations with others.
You know, if you are honest with your psychologist they'll be able to help you better, I saw a psych a few years ago and it didn't really help as I wasn't honest about everything, drugs,etc... but since I went back a year ago and properly opened up about everything he has been able to analyze everything and provide the correct treatment/advice.
OMG, ive smoked a couple of weeks ago and that same exact thing happen to me, i mean everything that u said happened, i really thought was going insane, i smoked before i went to work one mourning, everything was cool until after i got to work, suddenly my mind started to go everywhere, it was like i had no control over my thoughts at all, my mind kept thinkin of satanic and thoughts of hell and the devil over and over for about 3 hours,my adrenaline was constantly, my heart kept racing on and on, i tried to go the bathroom to get myself together and put water on my face, but it didnt work at all, i tried to keep my composure so my coworkers wouldnt notice. luckly i found some way to. Basically the worse 3 hours of my life, some how i manage to tuff it out. When i got home the whole feeling kept recycling on and off for the rest of the day. its been two weeks since the incident, slowly but surely im gaining some of my insanity back day by day. i have no clue what the weed i smoked was laced with, ive been smoking weed since i was 15 and im 26 and of all my days of smoking this never happened. i was hoping someone could shed some light on this crazy bad trip off of weed. trust i would be more cautious of where i get my weed from.....ur post helped alot thanks, i hope everythings cool and back to normal for u. peace and blessings
This started about 6 weeks ago. It was the day after Valentine's, and I was at my house alone playing computer. I had this tiny sack of super compressed weed
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Never smoke super compressed (brick weed) from Mexico. Smoke good stuff or better yet you sound like someone that should let it go.
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Never smoke super compressed (brick weed) from Mexico. Smoke good stuff or better yet you sound like someone that should let it go.
I'm going to go with the salvia explanation. Ive smoked plenty of weed, ate mushrooms, LSD, DMT, little bit of coke, opiates, MDMA and a plethora of other drugs, including salvia but not PCP. The agitation on your skin with the clothes seems to be one of the tell tale symptoms of a salvia trip. if the "weed" seemed to have burned hotter or harsher than most other weed, it would also sound like salvia. As far as salvia only lasting like 10 minutes, it seems to be that way with me and a few people i know, but i had a friend once who seemed to be totally out of his mind for hours. It seems as if salvia can be very unpredictable and effect people verry differently. After a few unpleasant experiences with it myself, i choose not to smoke any more salvia. You shouldnt either. However, a little bit of dank green always did help to take the edge off that trip