Panic attacks and marijuana

so true its lazy calm weed verses anxiety energy weed! usually DRo! stick with the shwag! but you areright there are so many kinds its hard to tell. im done smoking cause im scared im gonna have a panic attck again too.

I don't think it really matters whether it's schwag or not to be honest. I have gotten freaked out on great stuff and bad stuff. I think it's more if you're prone to anxiety or not to be honest. What do you think?

I agree with you BLUE, it dont matter the weed, it matters more on you and your day and state of ming and environment. You could smoke shwag feel great, than smoke that same shwag a day later and feel horrible best just to stop. Drink beer or do something else that makes you feel good - the panic attacks.
Bike riding does it for me :-)))

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I get tired of the people posting like they know what others' experiences are like it's not possible to have a bad experience with marijuana! It's just like any drug--there's good and bad experiences with anything... :-)

there are diff chemicals in diff types of weed, it depends on what ppl put in there soil to grow the pot. i can smoke shwag and be fine..but i smoke dro and its a totally diff high and i have diff reactions. i know alot of growers thats the only reason i know. but i guess if ya dont believe me look it up! it does depend on the person too! but from my experiences adn the 5 ppl sitting next to me the only time they really got tripped out was only on dro. i dunno im gonna do mmore research. i just know there are tons more chemicals in dro than shwag, im not gonna argue with anyone on this but well.........

Vangie I think were all right theres no wrong answer here. If we all reacted the same there wouldnt be any need for this board... the problems is everyone is so unique and always changing so even you and your five friends can have an opnion now and in a few years you might think differently.. Four years ago I was jumping out of planes snowboarding down the apls and flying all over the world i flew to hongkong for 16 hours sitting beside someone who weighed 400 lbs i think now if i had to do that i would have a panic attack HAHA SHEEEET but yeah dro is more potent forsure but shwag can be the little push some people need to have a mental issue. For me it got to the point that anything i smoke made me feel wacked, I had a great high off some shwag smoked it for two days and than pooof the great high turned bad.. too many things not enough answers

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dunno never had anything happen to me on shwag couldnt even get high from it cause all i ever smoked was dro... everyone is diff i know that. But coming from a family that grew the sh*t i know many types and strands adn diff weed does diff things. some weed calms the anxiety some weed brings it out! like me and bambie were saying they put so much diff stuff in the c**p now you dont know what your getting anymore unless you grow your own. my brother smoked before i did and never had a problem with quitting and never had a problem during. he was just that type of person i guess.

Im 29 yrs old and been smoking for 13 years every day. About 2 years ago i started feeling really bad anxiety after i smoked. I have never experienced anxiety before in my life. The thing is i would think it was the weed for some reason was causing it but i know that weed couldnt cause a heart attack. I would smoke and think bad thoughts like maybe i was going to die. It started mild for a few months i would smoke and feel the anxiety for a while and it would go away. Then one day i smoked like i normally do and felt anxiety coming on but this time it was 100 times more intense. Before i would get high and think..i might die but i wont...well this time it was so bad i was in a state of extreme panic and i was sure i was going to die. It was the scariest experience of my life without a doubt. The thing is from the time i felt anxiety that first day, i kept on smokin thinking i will overcome these feelings but they only got worse until that day of the worst panic attack ever. That happened about 2 years ago and at the time i decided i was going to quit smokin for a while so i did. Well here we are today and i recently started smoking again. The first time i smoked again was about a month ago and yes i felt very little anxiety the first day. As the days went on my anxiety would become worse after i smoked. 2 days ago i got high and had a severe panic attack. Today i smoked and had a severe panic attack. All i could think of is im going to have a heart attack and i would tell myself weed cant cause a heart attack but it wouldnt help. I was sure i was about to die. I have decided today to quit smoking. I took 2 years off of smoking and when i started again the anxiety was right there waiting. I feel like my brain is now programed to have these anxiety feelings when weed is in my system and there is nothing i can do about it. I loved smoking for 10 years it was my favorite passtime and i enjoyed it..but my mind has developed a block to it of some sort that i cannot explain. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise that it made me quit. I wish it was like before when i would get high and feel great relaxed and enjoy it. In those days weed was great..a true love of mine..but those days are no more

Well also I think the most important thing to remember is that marijuana as a drug is unregulated--everything you get is up to the grower and you have to trust the guy without knowing what's going on. Do people usually trust their grower?

It sounds to me like you have all had some pot that was laced with PCP (angel dust) or something. That is a horrible drug - and would probably have all the symptoms that you have described.

I never had a panic attack ever before. I had my first one 2 weeks ago, I was sitting in my room getting ripped out of my tree. Nothing was really on t.v that was to interesting so I started watching titanic... lol Anyways what happened was near the end of titanic I completely zooned out on it when the two actors of titanic where trying to get out of the bottom of the ship when it was slowly starting to sink. I got real into the movie and I literally hate Fu** seeing some body stuck on the bottom of a ship like dat. All a sudden my hearts starts racing up and down up and down. Then I started to go latterly crazy pacing back and forth in my room like a f**in retard. Then I started to panic even more till I couldnt even stop my self from panic. About five minuts later I finally calmed my self down for a bit relaxed a bit. Then I flipped back to titanic thinking I was back to normal again then I started to zoon out again then had another panic attack! but this time worse. I thought I was gonna die from a heart attack or som'in. Untill I looked at my self in the mirror how stupid I was, having a panic attack over titanic was pretty stupid to if you ask me lol I started to laugh after my panic attack then I felt completely better than normal. I aint never ever watching that movie again!

man after reading all these posts I am amazed at how uneducated people are regarding this situation. one person recently posted that they thought everyone experiencing panic attacks from weed must have smoked PCP... clearly this person has never experienced what we have all experienced. we aren't getting laced weed people. it isn't really the weed. it's US. it's society. it's LIFE. I too, like so many others here, have been a huge weed lover for 14 years. I started smoking everyday when I was 15 and smoked everyday for 10 years. i started having panic attacks after a bad trip on shrooms and ever since then i've been dealing with this sh*t. Everyone wants to understand the same thing as me. How is it that we can smoke weed for years and years with no problem... it makes you think about things and chills you out... then one day after smoking you suddenly feel super anxious .. and it never goes away...
I LOVE marijuana and I want it to make me feel like it used to make me feel. I still smoke every day, even though half the time it makes me freak out. It's basically the problem of my life that I can't just get high and enjoy it. It's pretty pathetic really. The truth it, I dont like the way I feel. Pot used to change my perspective and I used it to medicate. I prefer natural things instead of a bunch of wack ass prescription drugs. I don't want to take antidepressants. I've been prescribed benzos (xanax, klonopin) for my panic attacks and sure they work... for a while. until you build up a tolerance. then one day you don't want to have to take pills anymore and you find yourself in a world of hell called withdrawl. you take the pills every day and your anxiety decreases. you stop taking them and your anxiety f*****g multiplies. anyway my point here is really that there is no cure... not that i have found. all i wanna do is smoke without freaking out. but i can't. sometimes i smoke & i'm totally fine. other times my heart rate goes well over 120, i shake, sweat, arms & legs go numb, my body is freezing, i feel like i can't breathe/get any air, i just want to scream or cry or die. it feels like you will die. it's always the heart rate thing that gets me the worst. i have a naturally fast heart rate anyway, and weed does speed your heart rate up. I think it's something most people don't usually notice because they aren't anxious, and don't associate it with anxiety. I think that weed is an amazing thing. I know it's not the weed... it's me. I've built it up in my mind so much that I am always anticipating the anxiety to come with smoking. So it does. It is so stupid. I am smoking pot the whole time I type this (very potent cali medical sh*t-small hits though always, and i don't hold them in like i used to) and I definitely feel a little high but not anxious. I always find that if I am focusing on the topic, like reading a message board about the subject, it actually helps me to not feel anxious when smoking. I'm aware that so many others have the same issue and I guess feeling less alone helps quite a bit. I'm sure it seems ridiculous to some people that pot brings on panic yet so many of us still want to smoke and are looking for an answer. It's really not that hard to understand though. We just wanna feel ok. Temporarily.. until the next hit. Marijuana used to do this great thing to our minds now it plummets us into this place full of fear. When its happening you know it's irrational but it's still just as scary every time. We are never gonna die or have a heart attack from smoking weed. Weed is the safest thing out there. It can't kill you. It's just that so many of us have issues that develop. Just cause you have been smokin for 10 years doesn't mean sh*t. The anxiety attacks can just come out of the blue but for a lot of peeps its an underlying issue. Mine is depression for sure. I hate my life, I don't want to be here. I didn't use to feel like that. When I smoke my thoughts all compound and I guess when I was younger I went to a good happy place because I wasn't so jaded. Now when I smoke, I'm faced with the reality that I am miserable and I think it's my brain and my body trying to communicate.. saying what the F has happened to you? You need to change your life! But I am a m***n so I ignore the signals... cuz I don't know how to fix it. I don't want to take pills. I try & exercise since that is supposed to help. Doesn't do sh*t for me. I try & eat bettter food... yeah I'm here to break the news people that nothing really helps. I've been getting panic attacks off weed for years now yet I still type this with a mini bong and jar of nug in front of me. I know some people are so afraid of panic that they would never smoke again after the feeling. Yet every day I willingly put myself in the situation. I know I might potentially freak out, feel like I can't breathe and I'm gonna die, over something as harmless and smiple as getting stoned., yet I still do it every day. I guess I'm just a stupid weed head. I'm just a severely depressed person who used to have a pretty cool life, now I never even want to hang out with my friends. What so I can watch everyone else smoke and enjoy it while I take small ass hits without even holding them in so I can... fit in? Try and pretend I'm as stoned as everyone else and act cool, meanwhile I'm just hoping I don't start feeling my heart start RACING so I can uh,, excuse myself (pray nobody is in the bathroom) and try and talk myself out of it... just chill dude, it's all in your head man... this has happened to you a million times... your gonna be ok... just breathe.... my heart keeps going faster... my left arm is going numb,, oh f**k what if this time it's really gonna be a heart attack? i can't stand this. fumble around in my purse for the pills... the nightmare pills that were so horrible to come off of. the pills I now secretly take once at week at minimum because, hey... I feel better when I take em I guess. Sort-of. I can smoke more weed and not get a panic attack. Of course I have still gotten panic attacks off weed when while on benzo's. there is no magic cure for me. NOTHING has been able to fully take my anxiety away. I'm too smart to just say f**k it and take mad downers every day. The tragedy with the pills is when I'm on em I don't get high off weed the same. The pills kinda block a lot of the weed effects. So yeah I'll just take an addictive drug all the time in order to be able to not freak out off weed. That makes perfect sense. a smarter person would just quit. but my whole existence revolves around weed, all my friends smoke... it's such a huge part of my life. i love the way it used to make me feel. i'm just this person who is trapped in a hell of wanting something i cannot have. i want to feel a sensation that no longer exists. i want the herb to calm me but i might as well smoke speed with the way it affects me now. but i keep doing it and living the most idiotic lie. oh yeah i'm this cool stoner chick and yeah sure let's go smoke on break at work when i meet someone who seems cool and we bond over weed. then we go smoke & most of the time i indeed start freakin out but pretend i'm ok. excuse myself.. of course the times when you can't get away... HA i'll just beg some random stranger for a hug... anything to soothe the fear. someone just help me. what the f**k is wrong with my life? how the hell did my brain get so backwards? why is it so difficult for me to accept the fact that suicide would be the best choice here. i'm miserable and everything is meaningless. if i can't smoke weed i can't see the beauty in the world. it's sad but true. if i smoke weed sometimes it helps a bit but i can never fully enjoy it because i'm too afraid of the fear.i have tried meds, i have tried exercise, i have tried EVERY kind of herbal supplement, i have tried beta blockers to slow the heart rate, i have tried breathing, i have tried the linden method and other (ANY) anti anxiety methods that are natural... well nothing has f*****g worked because the problem lies within myself. i am a screwed up loser and i should just kill myself. but i'm too much of a p***y to do so. people think my life is great because i appear to have all these friends and i'm skinny and pretty but hardly anyone knows the truth. well here i can post it all... and i can write this super long rant that you are still reading for some reason... probably thinking "f**k this person really need to shut up", or, I'm an id**t or whatever the hell negative things you think... and will probably post... well this is the real me and i don't know why this all came out but i was just searching google because i don't know what else to do and i'm not god damn tired... somehow got here and wow a spew of BS from someone you don't know, don't care about... you just wanna smoke weed without getting anxiety... yeah well me too buddy. when you people figure it out be sure to let me know. i won't hold my breath.

Been there done that, finnaly have seen the light.Stop Smoking

I have also been getting panic attacks when i smoke. Ive smoked for 8 years and im 22 now, and for the majority of those 8 years i was smoking on a daily basis. The panic attacks started about a year ago after i was having a bad trip off of some shrooms, smoked to help me relax, and that caused my lungs to constrict and eventually i began freaking out. For those who have had a panic attack from weed, i promise that the added hallucinations can make the feelings far worse and last much longer. Anyways, anytime i smoked after that i began feeling like i couldnt breath, and as time went on the feeling got worse and i began experiencing other symptoms such as the elevated heart rate, cold sweats, dry mouth, and feeling as though i would die. Eventually i was getting these attacks when i simply smoked cigarettes, and then they would come without smoking or ingesting anything. I went to the doc and he told me it wasnt any serious health issue like lung cancer, but just anxiety. I realized that the attacks were not because of marijuana, but because of all the other problems i had. I was completly stressed about things like my cheating gf, lack of money, my failures in school and sports, and most importantly the death of my best friend. I dropped the girl, got a job, began to work out again, and quit smoking marijuana. In less than a week the panic attacks were gone. In 3 weeks i felt like a new person, energized from working out and not smoking, and not stressing over some chick all the time. I went from being an unhealthy, suicidal mess, laying in my room all day feeling sorry for myself, to being upbeat and having a new outlook on life. I was doing all of this without the help of weed, which used to be my crutch, my conversation starter, my main social activity. I still loved weed though, and knew that before the panic attacks smoking was nothing but fun and good times, so i figured i would try it again, about 3 months after quitting. I started slow, and i felt none of the bad side effects i had experienced before. I was thrilled, it was the summer, it was beautiful outside, and i could finally enjoy smoking again. I started smoking heavily within a week, and smoking only premium sh*t. I stopped working out as much, began calling into work, and started eating like sh*t again. Towards the end of the summer I started to get the panic attacks again, and soon it was back to every time i smoked, i was freaking out, barely breathing, sitting in my bathroom with my phone ready to call 911. When school started back up again i continued smoking, trying to limit myself to small hits or not holding it in. I still try that to this day, trying to smoke only a little bit, hoping that i wont get a panic attack. Most the time i dont even get high, making it relativly pointless, and if i do get high, i have a panic attack, so its a terrible experience. Yet even still, i keep smoking. Its because im an addict, and have a very addictive personality. We all need to think about this, we get panic attacks when we smoke, we want to be able to smoke and not get panic attacks, why do we get panic attacks? Im not a doctor, but from my own experience, ive learned that fixing the problems that caused me stress have lowered my anxiety, and prevented me from having panic attacks. I learned that when i stopped fixing these problems, (not working=no money, not working out=lower self esteem and lowered health) my panic attacks came back. I also learned that smoking weed was causing these problems to occur. Now im not saying that marijuana is evil and you shouldnt smoke it, in fact my final paper in one of my classes last semester was arguing why marijuana should be legalized. What i am saying is that it has been proven that marijuana can cause users to lose motivation and realizations about life. Many people like myself use marijuana so they dont worry about their problems, which in turn compound and snowball and become harder and harder to fix. I always hear nooo, i have a friend that smokes weed all day and gets straight As, or i know a kid that smokes weed all the time and is the best athlete on his team, so weed doesnt cause anything like that. This is true, its also true that the majority of people we know smoke weed and dont get panic attacks right? So i think we can agree that MARIJUANA EFFECTS EVERYONE DIFFERENTLY. If your mind freaks out and causes you to feel like your about to die, due to a panic attack brought on by stress, maybe you should be spending your time trying to fix the problems in your life instead of smoking weed. I understand its not that simple, i still try to smoke weed almost every day, i usually take 2-3 hits and either stuff my face with food or play a video game, something to keep my mind occupied, so i dont even really get the effect of being high anyways, but im just an addict. Its pretty straight forward though, if you feel like your going to die, or feel like u can breath and your miserable every time u do something, why do it? you'll find that in reality its not that bad, and most of your good friends arent gonna care if your smoking or not, and chances are that if they do, they are probably s**m bags, for real. Ive found its much easier to pass on weed now that it bugs me out and makes me feel like sh*t. Just find another passion of yours that makes u happy, and do that instead.Also work out consistantly, and the key word in consistantly, look up sites online with information or join a local gym and ask the trainers for help (usually they are more than happy to help). And eat healthy, clean foods. I promise that a clear mind and no more panic attacks will make your life much easier to endure.

Im the guy who posted a few posts back im 29 been smoking 13 years. Its been more than 3 months since i have smoked and my panic attacks are completely gone but i still have a lingering anxiety every now and then. I have quit before for over three years because of the panic attacks and when i restarted i still had panic attacks. It will never go away if i smoke weed and i know that. The only way to stop your anxiety and panic is to quit smoking weed for good. The sooner you realize the sooner your life starts getting better. You have to quit now there is no other way trust me ive tried. QUIT NOW!!