Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

To the person above, You've described exactly what happened to me 5 months ago, What i want to tell you now is that don't ever smoke it again unless you've completely forgotten the experience you've had because henceforth it will always be on your mind and your mind will always go back to that time and youll have another attack again, email me if you want to talk more about it

WOW!! Ive been smoking weed for years and years, i remember one time me and some friends must have smoked a pound in a week. Anyways i stopped for about 2 yrs and started smoking again. Everything was fine id just take a few hits at night to help me relax and work on graphic design stuff like album covers logos etc. Anyways i got ahold of about a quarter pound of trimming and decided to make up a batch of bud butter. Then i decided to make some chocolate chip cookies with the bud butter. The recipe said to put half a stick into 1 dozen cookies, i decided to put the whole stick. Well i ate one cookie and my roommate ate 3. I'm sitting at the computer and decide to try out this telekinesis test well i started to feel high and was like cool these are some pretty good cookies but they could be better so i went and told my roommate that i was feeling a little bit high and i was cool so he could go ahead and eat the rest of the cookies if he wanted so he ate the other 8. Well like 5 Min's later i Begin to get really really high. Then 5 minutes later i was so stoned that i had to lay down so i turned off the computer and light and layed down..... WOW bad idea the dark totally intensified my high 100+ times. I was so freaking high that i started to hallucinate, all i could see was a face the its hand in like a triangle shape pressed against its face and it turned into like a kaleidoscope vison where there were like 20 faces all around each other. I tried to shake this out of my head but just couldn't the picture wouldn't leave and then it happened i Begin to think " Oh no, I've done it this time, Ive smoked myself retarded and I'm going to either be stuck like this forever or worse i going to die". I quickly got up and ran to the bathroom and rinsed my face off with cold water, guess what it didn't help a bit. Then i ran into the living room and banged on my roommates door and woke him up and was like dude are you high? He came out of the room and was like man I've never been so high in my life, I was so happy to see him and had to give him a hung. We talked a bit and drunk a cup of coffee and i Begin to snap back into this reality so i went to lay back down. As soon as the lights went out it started to come back so i had to lay there until daytime with the lights on and couldn't fall to sleep for nothing. Well needless to say i was high as hell for the whole next day after. I swore to my self i was never going to smoke pot again. Well 2 days later i started smoking again and everything was fine until i got high and thought about what happened to me a week ago, and there it was again another attach, this one i didn't see the face but the feeling was just as worse, but this time i kinda handled it a little better, by telling my self " this is only a effect from the weed, I'm going to be ok" this attach lasted about 2hrs. And just like the last time it was scary as hell and i told myself i wasn't going to smoke ever again. A few days ago i took a small small small hit of a joint just to see what would happen and  the thought popped into my head again and i felt another attach coming on so i got up and went and talked to my roommate for a few minutes and got my mind off thinking about it and it  went right away. So i suggest like the guy above my post says, don't smoke again until you forget about the attach you had completely unless they will just keep happening everytime you smoke. Oh and i haven't smoked again since the last small puff, Hell your mind tells you your going to die you actually believe it and something like that is freaking hard as hell to forget. But damn i do enjoy Maryjane's company. Hope this helps someone.

 OK im really late on the reply but i googled this to see if it happned to other people as well and whoa i didnt expect to see so many responses but ya so about a month ago i was chilling with my older brother and best friend and we smoked weed i smoked like half a blunt and then hit the bong at first everything was fine we were all hanging out and watching videos on youtube and listening to music and ofcourse grubbn on some munchies lol but after i was sittn there eatin some chips for a while my  mouth started to feel really numb and it felt like my throat was closing up and it felt like my chest was heavy and i couldnt breath ( i had smoked many times before though ) so i got up and got a cold glass of water thinking this would help but as i was walking back to the room i felt really sharp tingly pains in my chest that hurt really really bad i thought i was dying so i started talking to my bro and he was like calm down lets go out side but when he started talking it was like i was sitting there listening but i would zone out like i wasnt there so i couldnt hear him it was super wierd so then we went outside thinking the cool air would help but i got the really bad chest pains again and started freaking out really bad i blacked out next thing i know im on the way to the ER with my mom and my they said i was having a really bad panic attack and i needed to calm down so my pulse would slow down Bottom line Scariest day of my life never want to nor will experience this I havnt smoked since and NEVER WILLL NO MATTER HOW COOL "" SMOKING WEED "" IS NEVER .

Well I was at a concert yesterday for Wiz Khalifa and smoke Grand Daddy Purple Kush and got a panic attack. I don't know if the weed caused it or the crowd or the almost 100 degree weather. But I had another one today completely sober. I have been smoking a long time and used to everyday and never experienced this. I got kind of scared at a fireworks event a year ago because of the people. My advice: stay away from crowds and know what happens to you from each strain.

i am 17 years old and have been smokeing since 13. iv never had a problem until my mom just recently found out that i have been smoken. she surprisenly wasnt mad because lets face it just about everyone has smoked weed....yes this means your parents probably smoked/smoke. she said her boyfriend was a drugdealer and captain of the wrestling team in high school and  she stoped because it started maken her paranoid.

i am an athlete, played football, lax, and wrestled. im in perfect shape and have never had allergies or asthma or panic attack in the past. but the past few couple of times i smoked my heart has been beaten really hard and fast so i can here it. i can look into the mirror and where my heart is it appears as if i could almost see it through the skin. i cant even stand goin to the movies high anymore because of last night i felt like i heard people noticen how high i was and they were keep on talken, it took forever for the movie to actually start but i was wearen a highlighter shirt nd just felt like ppl noticed. it didnt help tht there was a lil kid kicken my seat behind me. i got nervous and walked out to go to the bathroom. i thought there was a door to my left but i ended up spinning into a wall lol. i noticed and walked too the other side and procedded to the bathroom. i felt sick and wanted to puke but couldnt. this couldv been becus i was dehydrated from cutten weight for mma but yea. i tried sucken it back up and goin to the movie which was cars 2 but couldnt focus on the movie until like the last 10 minutes nd i felt fine. i love smoken weed and its easy to get away with bcus im an athlete but i just dnt know anymore. i got a new job at ups and they dnt piss test so ima have hella bread but yea...sh*t sucks

My family suffers from Anxiety and panic attacks, I smoked Marijuana for the longest time and suddenly I had a panic attack that lasted for 4 days before I got put on medicine to help me calm down. The thing I learned is if you're having a panic attack, listen to meditation or sleep music, It helps calm you're nerves and relaxes you to a point. Panic attacks are scary but you always need to remember they wont kill you, don't even think about you're breathing and be calm :) Best of luck to you!

i have been smoking weed ever since i was about 16. it hasnt become a regular thing for me until probably may where i would smoke every weekend. one day i was at my friends house and he had this new stuff called guava kush. he said it was almost as strong as medical weed. anyways we smoked it and everything was fine for me i only took one hit because we were using this bong that ripped the biggest hits. about 15 minutes later i started to blackout for about a half a second multiple times. i thought everything around me was just a dream didnt think it was real until about a couple minutes later. i began to feel very lightheaded my body was super heavy my heartbeat was going so fast i thought i was going to have a heart attack and i was sweating. i took advil before i smoked so myself and my friends thought that was why it was happening but then the next day i asked almost every pot head i know lol. they said it has nothing to do with it. but anyways, i started to shake uncontrollably and continued blacking out for those half seconds. i honestly thought i was going to die i even remember me saying i wanted to go to the emergancy room because of it. im guessing it was a panic attack from everything that i been looking up. ever since then little panic attacks have been taking over my life. i cant smoke, cant drink, cant drive without having a mild panic attack. but those i have learned to control and just take deep breaths to take those away. but for those couple seconds of the panic attack i get a memory of the night i had the big panic attack. pretty much that has taken over my life. i dont know if i could go see a doctor or something about it but i do mias smoking A LOT but im terrified to do it again.

ok that is the same as me rite now all i have id a one skinner and my heart is beatin fast very fast my left arm feels weird and it feels hard to breath ive been smoking for 5 years but a week and a half ago end i descided anoth was anoth and decided to quit unfortunaty i lapsed and bought a teanth yesterday and another today but during that week smd for 3 years actully everyday even wen im not stonned a thought always runs through my head that if im goin to make it to the next day or when my heart beast fast from walkin im always paranoid and feel my palse 2 see if its beating fast and if theres a chance it feels its going to stop.i used to smoke bongs everyday start at 6 am finish at 9 pm but stopped cuz it was messing with my head even when i was sober but when im stonned i think to much into deatil and freake out when that happens i get u quick and walk outside nd ary 2 god that im not going to die anyone ever experience anyhtink like that?

This happened to me last night for the first time... I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I smoke daily and really didn't want to give that up because of a panic attack. Ive been reading so many forums about this now and I think everyone has to react to panic attacks from their own situation.. Obviously if you have panic attacks frequently you need to chill the f**k out and figure out what's going wrong... My friend actually sees a psychiatrist as she gets really bad panic attacks naturally and he told her that instead of taking some prescribed pharmies she should continue smoking weed ( even though bud is illegal in Brisbane.) So it might not be the bud causing it. One guy on a forum said he got a blood test because of his increased heart beat and the doctor said because e had low potassium levels and had too much caffiene in his system the bud didn't react well so before having cones maybe eat a banana? And chill on soft drinks, coffees etc. Also, theres a herb or something called rhodiola Rosea Which some people recommend for panic attacks whilst smoking. This is what happened last night since we're all sharing... My bf and I were driving my friend home after a sesh and my bf was completely sober and usually he drives pretty fast like 130km/h on highways etc and I'm fine with it.... But last night he started driving fast and I flipped out except I couldn't let him know because I lost control of my body and my vision was blurred. Everything sounded and felt strange and I had a really hot feeling across the back of my neck ... My heart was pounding so quickly I felt like it was going to just stop and I felt like I was going to faint... I began to freak the f**k out when at the time I thought I was having a massive hallucination that my bf and his friend were talking and that what was actuallly happening I was in a major car crash and was dying... I thought that my hallucination was fooling me into believing my neck was hot for no reason when in actuality my neck was bleeding or something. I wasn't convinced I wasn't dead until well after he slowed down and started talking me through it, trying to settle me down. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Like... Imagining that you're hallucinating when you're actually not? Worst feeling. I was so scared.

To the person above me sounds like you had a vision of the future of what is going to end up happening to you if you keep ridding in the car with a fool driving 130 mph, maybe you should take a hint before its to late!!!

I said 130 kilometers per hour. Not miles. And at 2am on a highway with no other cars, it's hard not to speed. I wouldnt get into a car I didn't feel safe in. / with a driver I didn't trust.

Wow. This is the best forum post I've seen...really lets me know i am not alone on these experiences. But please read mine...they're quite interesting. I've smoked for a year now, but been smoking heavy and nothing but good weed since 4/20/2011. I'm 18 and I'm one of the hardest smokers at my school, very tolerant, etc. Summer came and i bought a quarter that lasted me a while, finished with that and i went back to copping grams day to day. One morning i had a wake and bake out my bong. I was fine, i was high as hell at first...and i was online looking at porn (don't judge me but i had to throw that in there) and while watching i started thinking "what I'm doing is wrong" and i exited out...but i still had that feeling that everything i was doing in my life was bad...so here came the negative thoughts. I started feeling scared at first, and i don't know what it was...next thing you know i started shaking uncontrollably. I'm not very religious, but at that time it felt like i needed to turn to God and as i prayed i found myself repeating the same line "please help me"..it was a crazy experience and i was alone so i went to my neighbors house so i wouldn't feel so alone..i lied down and fell asleep. I smoked again the next day and i was good...but the day after that, when I smoked, I kept thinking "Man what if that happens again" and eventually it led to it happening again. My heart was racing, breathing problems, i took an Iboprofen and as i swallowed it felt like i was choking which only made it worse. I hopped in the shower thinking that would help, but it didn't cause i kept thinking "what if this will make it worse" and it did...so i just lied down in my bed and breathed..i tried real hard to relax...it slowly started simmering and i began to feel better. I had stopped smoking for a while..just last weekend i was in Miami and me and my cousin smoked a blunt of some real good purple on the way to the mall...I was so gone..My legs started shaking again and my paranoia began a little bit but i was able to control it, and once we got out the car i stretched and all those nerves were gone. I felt better, still high, and just walked around the mall very collected although it felt like i was walking in quick sand(felt awesome lol).
Here's my advice to anyone who has these experiences. Although it almost seems impossible at the time, tell yourself you're going to be okay. Your thoughts are usually what leads to this kind of things. If you allow yourself to keep thinking about a worst case scenario, it won't help, it will just make things worse. Try to do things that will keep your mind occupied. I try to stay active now while I'm high, walking around, going out places, etc. When i was getting high with my cousin in Miami i had told him about my experience, he was like that happens to a lot of people and that it's all in the mind. It's true, it really is all in your mind when you think about it. If you're scared to smoke again, it's not the weed, because weed won't kill you. It may react different to certain people, but take into consideration any health conditions those people have. MY BEST ADVICE is to try and focus on your happiness. You can smoke and enjoy it, you just need to be strong minded. If you're going through things in life, stressed, or depressed that can also be the reason your led to panic attacks. Once you see that you're progressing more, you're achieving things, and drawing that positive energy, smoking isn't much of a problem. It might always be on the back of your mind that "what if it happens again" but you have to tell yourself it won't, and that you won't allow it. You're in control of yourself, and panic attacks occur all in the mind. Control your mind, and control your panic attacks. You might not be able to completely stop them from encountering, but you can lessen the severity. If you read this post i thank you, and i also thank you for sharing your experiences because it made me more comfortable about sharing mine. One love to everybody and stay blessed.

yeah i know what all these people are talking about, alot of people experience some more extreme than others. I've actually gotten so used to having these attacks that when i KNOW that one is headed my way i chill out and relax and put myself in a "f**k it" state of mind where its like "oh well, if i die i die but i'm gonna enjoy these last moments" ...at that point my breathing starts to slow down to the point of where it has the same pattern of when one sleep (VERY slow) and i concentrate on "Not Swallowing" cause when i do swallow it feels kinda like i'm trying not to drown and keep my head above water. Things start to feel floaty especially when i try to walk and no matter how weird and uncomfortable this feeling gets i always remind myself that all i've taken is weed and since no other drug is involved than everything is going to be a ok...eventually over-time. I've even walked around restless at times cause i couldn't stand still due to the intensity of the whole thing. music always helps me remain calm. Rule #1...STAY CALM

Hey everyone, just thought I'd share my experience PLEASE READ

It was around 7months ago my first panic attack. My friend said he had packed a spliff with a ben and said wanna come smoke it? I happily agreed..Turned up at the park smoked it with him, however he let me have most of it. My throat began to feel really dry so we decided to walk to the newsagents to get a drink. I was fine up until 2-5minutes later where i started tripping out. The road started curving in on me. Everything felt like it was twisting and turning and walking to the newsagents which took 2minutes felt like it was taking an age. Finally we got a drink, coca cola. i took a few sips and it tasted of the pink mouth wash that dentists use. I accused my friend of spiking the weed with something, and suddenly became very paranoid. We got near my house he offered to come in and look after me. I refused and entered my house. My head was spinning I felt deluded/dazed and confused. I ran to the bathroom and was projectile vomiting everywhere. All of a sudden I thought i was going to die, panic struck me. In the panic I rang my parents to tell them I was hallucinating and seeing things caz i was so scared..They came back to the house within 30minutes. But by that time I was shaking in shock and panic. for a couple of days after that I felt confused and sketchy........then a couple of weeks later I decided to do weed again. I again took the vast majority of the weed supplied as i felt it wasn't hitting me. 2minutes later, I walked into the house where we were, and I felt a bubble come from my stomach all the way to my lungs...As soon as It hit them I was screwed, my heart was beating at a ridiculous pace. I started shaking and getting sketchy/paranoid. My throat got really dry again. I was taken to bed and constantly looked at the clock just to try and keep my head in the real world. I thought I was going to die again. I woke up the next morning and felt dazed/confused and very paranoid. 

Ever since this experience i havn't touched weed again, however my dazed/confused and paranoid feeling as never left me and its caused me to have such negative thinking, bad memory and horrible panic attacks...its now been several months....does anyone have anything they can say to make it ease the thought of me having to live like this forever?

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