Panic attacks and marijuana

^^ yea i was just about to ask....

i guess u can say im like the rest of u... except i havent smoked in about 4 years since my panic attacks... but lately ive been questioning myself whether or not i should just smoke again. Im thinking since its been so long maybe i wont have one... suggestions?

i can relate i think somewhat to these stories, how awful panic attacks are, perhaps abstaining from smoking pot is the best solution. On my occasion I had eaten magic mushrooms, was outside at a party and upon smoking some pot my body starting spazing out, what felt like electric pulsations were moving up my stomach and chest, when i got up i was struggling mightily to breathe, i walked for a spell, convinced i was dieing, and recovered somewhat to a very sore body, particularly my legs. Now i have ahistory of far less severe panic attacks in the past, and anxiety and ocd have plagued me somewhat over the years. I have had several panic attacks of lesser magnitude triggered by pot. I wonder if it's because of the highly concentrated stuff being sold right now or what, but moe often than not getting high ain't so pleasant for me anymore.
but i think this is in part why
it needs to be legalized, sos one can know the potency of what they are smoking. and avoid panic if they are prone to it. cuz it never happens to me on milder stufff.

i was also on prozac at the time, i wonder at the interactions negative/positive/indifferent whilst stoned/tripping? anyone else?

I thought i was the only one who did this until i looked it up on google.

I dont smoke much maybe 10 times in my life and the last 2 times i had really bad anxiety. I couldnt remember anything after 2 seconds of thinking about it. it seemed like i couldnt focus any thought. i thought i was dying

the reason for that is because i kept hearing echos in my head of something, at first it would be quiet, then start getting loud. i never heard anything so loud in my head. The last time it was a song that was in my head and i was freaking out. for some reason i thought it was what your mind does to you before you die. So i started to freak out. i fell asleep and woke up fine.

but the next 2 days after that i felt like i wasnt myself, and nothing was real. its a hard feeling to explain. the last time i had smoke was a week ago and i think im stopping

i realized pot just isnt for me

i smoked weed about 4 days ago and had a racing heartbeat and had a panic attack. how long does this feeling last where you think your heart is no good and it bothers you?

Wow, reading all these stories was like having someone else in my body. The symptoms I felt last Friday were exactly the same as some of you have described.

I have smoked weed almost daily for 10+ years and had never experienced any sort of anxiety. Then, last Friday evening after a couple bowls with friends I felt like I was having a heart attack. I don't get much exercise, I smoke cigarettes and I don't eat the healthiest food all the time so I figured a heart attack might be reasonable. I'm 35, which is certainly young for heart problems, but not completely out of consideration.

I guess it's nice to hear that I probably don't have a heart problem (knock on wood) but the prospect of ever having another one of these attacks has me scared to death. I love smoking weed and most of my friends do too.

Has anyone gone right back to smoking as much as they did previously? Results? Any other holisitic or natural remedies? Interactions with alcohol? I'm not looking to get myself on daily medication... but I guess marijuana has been daily meds for me so maybe I shouldn't be so judgemental about the pills.

I just want to go back to the way I was before last Friday. This constant, nagging fear and worry is really not my style.

Thanks for sharing everyone.

Well,

I can certainly relate. As I write this email I am having a panic attack, my abdomen and lower back are killing me and I am getting pin an needle feelings all over.

Every time I smoke, I go through a period of time where I get a panic attack. Some attacks are manageable, but recently, they are really bad.

I found that a good immediate remedy is to sit in front of a fan and turn it on high. The loudness of the fan and the cold air on your skin will cause your mind to focus more on those things. Breathe deeply and close your eyes while in front of the fan, this will also help you focus. I used this on a bad trip on mushrooms and it helped a lot!!!

Some people are just not meant to enjoy ANYTHING.

i smoked for about 2 years and loved it
i was always a relaxed kid and smokind just made me act lazy and stupid, nonetheless i loved it. then i smoked one day and felt like sh*t. i had to force myself to take deep breathes and my stomach was making a weird gurgling noise. i thought eating would help but after that i really felt like i couldnt. this episode passed and the next weeknd i shared a joint and a blunt with and and all the suden i felt like sh*t. i felt like air wasnt getting to my lungs and like my adams apple was blocking my breathing. my heart beat was insane and apparently i looked like a zombie. i repeatedly sed to my freind dude im gonna die do u think im ok. he answered ur fine but it was little help. he took me home and i told my mom and dad averything and they nearly took me to the hospital. i ended up showering and sleeping and woke up the next day alright but i felt like my mind was permanently changed. i have smoked since then and only felt shitty ever since. i quit for 3 months and am debating to start. i also hav acid reflex which apparently is triggerd by smoking. anyways i just wanted to kno if i should start and what i should do if i really start to freak out agian

just a few months a go was my second time to ever smoke weed. i'm 14, just turned 15, and i was at a friends house. we had smoked some kush under this bridge by my friends house and then after we were done we walked home while smoking a cig. when we got to her room, things started to happen. my veins felt like they were about to burst out of my arms, it felt like my whole body was tingly. like it feels like when your foot falls asleep. i layed down on her bed and i felt like i was in slow motion and my body was bouncing off of her walls. i asked her if it was normal to feel like your veins were popping out, and then thats when things got even worse. i took off my shirt thinking it was constricting blood flow and even then it didn't help. i looked at my friend. she looked really weird, and i said 'i think i'm dying'. she tried to convince me otherwise. i started screaming, on the top of my lungs. she couldn't get me to stop. her mom was right upstairs, and she had no idea that we had been smoking anything. but she didn't come down to check. after she got me to stop screaming, she called her sister and her friend who knew a lot about drugs and stuff. they came over and tried to calm me down. told her to lay me down and massage my temples. we did, and it felt like she was digging her hands into my head. i couldn't be touched. i wanted to just sleep but i was too scared to and i couldn't sleep over at her house. I had to be back home at a certian time. i couldn't concentrate, i couldn't remember their names the second after they told me, and finally they drove me home. i acted like i was okay when i got home but my mom immediatley knew something was wrong. i told her to not get mad, i had a bad experience, and to just be calm. she took me on a ride and i seemed to calm down. the next two weeks, i was fine. after that, it seemed to happen again. i hadn't smoked anything or been around anyone who had. i was sitting in my bathtub, and i felt it again. i ran down to my mom and said 'its happening again.' she didn't know what to do, so she ran me to the E.R. i was there for the whole day.. they couldn't find anything wrong with me, drug tests negative, they couldn't see when my heart was racing on their little heart monitor. after the ER, they just gave me some sample zoloft or something to keep me okay for the time being. the next two weeks, i stayed home from school. went to the doctor several times. since then, the doctor has put me on two prescriptions. one that i take everyday, and xanex as needed. i hate what its done to me and my thoughts make me go crazy daily. i keep questioning whether i'm dead or what..because nothing feels normal and it seems as if i'm living the same day over and over again.
i just wanted to share my story and i would suggest to people who are thinking about smoking again to not. if you do, keep it away from people you know who think they want to try it. chances are, they could end up like me.

wow. after reading all these stories/experiences I have come to a conclusion that I am not the only one feeling this way.

Im a male and I am currently 18. I started smoking my freshman year in high school. I smoked pot every several months. until my sophomore year began, and then I went clean for 2 years until my senior year. When my senior year came I went back to smoking cigarettes and doing pot every now and then.

Well last week on monday may 11th, I right after school me and some friends went to our chill spot to smoke some pot. We were passing around two fat joints and all of a sudden I went from being in reality into being into a dream.

After a while it was time to go to baseball practice and I totally wasn't there (mentally) so I asked coach if I could be excused from that days practice. I went home and I had the craziest panic attack. I had never experienced a panic attack so I was totally freaking out. Shortness of breath, nausea, and excessive heart speed rate were part of the things I was feeling. It go so bad that at one point I like threw myself on the floor and It felt like I was going into the light as In I was dying, all these weird past memories came to mind. My uncle & brother called the paramedics and they said I just had a really bad trip.

Then on may 13th on that wednesday I pulled an all nighter because I felt like I was going to stop breathing. I asked my dad to take me to the ER and he did. I told them what I felt and they checked me out, took xrays and stuff, checked my heart rate, blood pressure, and nothing was wrong. The doctor ended up prescribing me an Inhaler.


Every now and then I feel real emotional, and I don't know why. I know that it wasnt the weed that caused these attacks. The most the weed could of done was triggered it.

Ever since that monday I have been having small panic attacks so I am going to make an appointment to try and get some pills or something. I have realized that the best way to get over a panic attack is to just not FIGHT it and let it happen. All that has to be done Is calm down.

If anyone with a similar problem and feels like talking to someone to get that stress of there chest you welcomed to talk to me on AOL INSTANT MESSENGER : LilWeezy9999.

God Bless All.

I too have experienced this. I have had mild panic attacks while smoking pot for the past 7 years but only recently have they started to affect my entire being. It all started two weeks ago when I was stressed out driving with two of my kids and I had smoked a rather large bowl a couple of hours before. All of a sudden I got shortness of breath and this feeling like I was going to pass out and I managed to pull over and at this point my kids were freaking out and I just got out and walked around for a minute and went home and slept it off. I woke up feeling okay and decided to quit the ganja but then a couple of days later I had a stressful day at work and was going to FedEx to ship a package and I had a severe panic attack. This one was so bad I actually hyperventilated and passed out and was taken by ambulance to the ER. In the ER I was freaking out the whole time and was jittery, especially when they gave me a CT scan but I managed to calm down through some diaphragmatic breathing. I was discharged the same night and everything was okay with me physically. Since that attack I have had a bunch of mini panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, depression and just generally not myself. So basically I am attributing this not to the pot itself but the enviromental factors (90 degree weather) and stressors (six kids) that I faced while being in an altered state of mind. I have now been to two counseling sessions and today is my first day on an anti-panic drug called Celexa and today I feel a little more like myself but my advice to anyone reading this is if you are not relaxed and have a million responsibilities such as raising kids pot is probably not your best option and to everyone that has gone through this or is going through it you are not alone and just to remember that this to shall pass.

i smoked marijuana a few times when i was 14, but its been about 8 months since the last time. I had a panic attack last night, does that mean the weed is still affecting me? %-)

I smoked marijuanna for years and I loved it. I had the best times of my life stoned.

A few years ago I started having panic attacks. They happened only after I smoked

marijuanna. The marijuanna caused them, I have no doubt. On July 5th 2007@ 11:15PM, after smoking a blunt,

I had what I thought was a panic attack.

I tried to do the things I normally do to lower my level of anxiety. I had a friend with me who

had never encountered anyone having a panic attack and she called 911. Boy was I mad at her. The ambulance arrived

and rushed me to the hospital. I was told I had had a severe heart attack and would have

died if I didn't get to the hospital when I did. I was not mad at her any longer. The heart attack felt just like the many panic attacks

i had. I spent the next 7 days in intensive care.

Simply because you think you're having a panic attack and it will pass is not always the case.

STOP SMOKING WEED please, the next time it happens it may be the real thing as it was with me.

I feel you man, I know that you want to smoke again. I too want to smoke again but I'm too scared.

I'm going to stop smoking, there is no way in hell that I want to have another one of those attacks.

I love smoking weed, all of my friends smoke. It is the most fun we have together. I'm going to

feel left out but to hell with all of it. The last panic attack I had changed my life forever. I will do without it.

seriously.

Hi all. One thing I can tell you from experience with the greens is there are many different flavors. All pot is not created equal. There are definitely strains that will increase anxiety and some that will make it go away. Unfortunately, unless you live in a state where you can access medical MJ, you are usually stuck with whatever strain is for sale at the time and don't have the choice to buy what you know will work for you. It's like having a headache and sometimes there's Tylenol, but sometimes there's Motrin and occasionally something thats not really even for headaches, but it's all you can find.

Pot is also WAY oversmoked. For best effect, try only smoking a few times a week, remaining sober most of the time. Pot can expand your mind because it gives you time to see things from a different perspective thus helping with creativity for example, but if your high all the time, you'll lose touch with reality and lose creativity and focus.

Moderation people!!!

Peace

4 weeks sober today!!! yay!!!! its been pretty tough the first week was the toughest! now all i am dealing with is the anxiety and stuff. im just not used to being sober i guess!! i havent been on in awhile the last time i was on i was in a tough spot. but ive made it through thanks to prayer and family!!right now i take half of a .5 xanex everydayto every three days just depends on how i feel that day! when i start feelin gross like im having a panic attck. ive turned into quite a hypocondrac too. i was before i smoked i guess being stoned all teh time just made it where i didnt notice..i dunno. but i know if i can do this anyone can. i dont have as much energy yet. i would like to just lay around but my kids wont let me do that. i cant beleive i made it this far. im not stopping either. ive decided not to smoke till my 24th birthday in a year and two months. i figured that is long enough. i really dont even know if i will cause i dont want to smoke and have another anxiety attck it sucks!!! if anyone needs any help let me know. i dont have much experience just what i went through. and am still now going through with the anxiety. just got to get use to being sober and not stoned 24/7 and remeber i was smoking about two grams of dro a day. spending about 400 to 600 dollars a month. that money has been great for other things instead of just weed