Paranoia and panic attacks after smoking weed

that's probably not marijuana my friend, sounds like you got ahold of some k2, some crazy sh*t....i felt like i was going to die, panic'd the f**k ouy and yeah i thought i was going to die because i was so dehydrated, but my friend told me he felt the same and we both calmed down after a while watching comedy central, laying down, 3 days later i felt dizzy as f**k.so id dind't go to school. i smoked this ina bong thugh, so it was crazzzyy. but everytime i smoke now i panic, but i tell myself i'll be okay, and then 5 minutes later i'm fine...this was almost a year ago, now i'm 16..yeah i know young blah blah blah, i'm making a's in school, good attendance so hop off my nuts. you'll be fine.

the same thing happened to me when i smoked weed and was on shrooms and has happened ever since. it happened so much that i tried everything. then one day i prayed to god when i was having one and within minutes it went away. im not trying to push jesus on you im just telling you what worked for me

Wes, I peruse forums on this topic for several hours each week seeing as I am by profession an official "Marijuana Paranoia Management Coach"-- I rarely, if ever, have seen someone express this level of insight and intuitive knowledge of certain of our techniques. There are literally millions of people who are baffled by MIPA (Marijuana-Induced Paranoia Anxiety) and yes, using certain techniques, including the ones you so wonderfully illustrate in your post, MIPA can be significantly abated. I wrote a book on the practice available 

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I have to know though, what line of work are you in? Are you into meditation. Are you on twitter? I'd like to know a bit more about you seeing as it's very rare to find someone of your level of insight into this problem. I mentioned the gene were looking at, COMT, it's a dopamine processor and perhaps the most significant finding is that certain individuals with a specific genotype of COMT can experience pot in a very different way. Among other things, their standard intoxication from cannabis, (executive functioning, short term memory, attention span) is about four to five times more severe,. Imagine that-- these people are getting four to five times more high than other people.

Sure, I'd love to talk more.  I don't have a twitter or facebook though.  My email is

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omg exactt same thing happened to me. Smoked with two friends just had a little too many hits. At first everything was fine and great but then I caught myself like grabbing my face and didnt realize what was happening or what I was doing till a few moments after. S

omg exactt same thing happened to me. Smoked with two friends just had a little too many hits. At first everything was fine and great but then I caught myself like grabbing my face and didnt realize what was happening or what I was doing till a few moments after.
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hey omg, i had the exact same thing i kept telling my boyfriend to ring the ambulance and get me to a hospital, i was shaking like crazy all over, and my heart was beating INSANE and i was so paranoid freaked out so many time, then finally laid down and i was fine after a while... was so scary im never smoking again lol!

Being an avid smoker I never would have thought that this would happen to me. I am a 19 year old male who has been smoking weed since he was 11. I always like the effects of being high... Taking shrooms or snorting a line. Recently I found out that I too experience a panic attack like y'all, but my effects seem to have been worse. About four months ago Is when it happened. Knowing that this was normal quality stuff I decided to take a hit or two after getting back from class one day, I used the trusty bong and toked it up. After several minutes I went downstairs and went to grab something to snack on. Right as I hit the fridge reality faded, I remember looking at myself in the mirror and peering into my eyes I saw multiple distortions coming in and out of my view (My first thought, this isn't real weed, this is legal) and that's when it really hit me. My heart rate jumped. My heart, pounding in the back of my head felt like it was pumping way too much blood into my brain. I literally thought my brain was going to explode. My vision was something else. It was like a stop motion picture with the frames, 1,2,3,4,5,6 repeating and repeating over and over. My sense of touch and hearing was fine... It felt amazing to hear something, it made me realize that I was still there. I was still alive. I went to go lay down in my bed. As I closed my eyes, everything started to turn white. I was dying, I was actually dying, I kept telling myself over and over. Remembering that I had my phone with me the whole time, I decided to call 911. Reaching for the phone that vision effect kept happening over and over and over. I could barely grab my phone let alone dial 911. Eventually I managed to type in 911 and call. minutes turned into days. I remember asking the operator to keep talking to me, that It made me feel like I was still alive. The stop motion picture vision started to get faster and faster and faster. I remember sitting on my couch and I literally didn't think anything, didn't look at anything. I felt like I was dead... Eventually the ambulance arrived after what seemed like days. They put me on the gurney... When they hooked me up to the machines, everything went off, all the bells and whistles. My BPM was in excess of 200, my blood pressure was 220 over 130.. Eventually we drove off and it hurt, everything on me hurt, my mouth was terribly dry, and I had to remind myself, actually remind myself to breath, and when I took a breath I didn't feel the air flow in... It took me over 8 hours to come down to 100 BPM.. Eventually I was released. Ever since I have been home from the hospital I have a panic attack every week. Whether I am at rest or moving. It seems to be really bad when I am done with a workout... I just have to remind myself that this will subside and I won't die. Always having to remind myself I will not die... Take advice from me. I LOVED weed, loved, loved, loved it.. But I will never smoke again. Not even a puff of a cigarette. I haven't really become a religious freak I just know that I pray a little more every night and hope I wake up the next morning... In fact I had one today, I laid back, put the leg rest up, grabbed my cat, turned on Big Bang Theory, and breathed in and out, in and out. If I were you, I wouldn't smoke anymore. Just be done with it, you can have fun without it, you can be creative without it, you can live without it.

I thought i was the only one who had this thing, i thought i was getting crazy and probably will end up in "crazy house, or what is it called in english" But here is the story.

Me and my friends decided to smoke some weed, cus ive done like 3 times before and i felt chill and just was having fun, and my friends done it really many times.

So we were like 5 people or something, and when i finally came my turn to smoke, i felt like i didnt really want to smoke it cus it might be bad for you or some stupid sh*t, but i did to have some good and chill time. when the second turn came I i didnt really gave a f**k any more, just wanted to get it done with and go some where and just chill,

So every one got done and we went out side, so i was really just first maybe 10 or so minutes, and then i just was walking and look down some where at the ground, then all the sudden i felt weird and different, I just raced my head up and every thing looked like a dream to me literally and i felt stuck in the dream. Every time i was thinking what is going on with me, i got flashed back for few second sound weird and stupid, but its true, it also felt like Deja-Vu to me, and all the sudden i decided to kind of wake of from the "dream" and turned my head to left and starting walking to the left, all my friend were like wtf is he doing, then i kind of realised i got triped, or just some thing is really weird is going on, i was scared and just wanted to go home and get over it.

My friends were like wtf are you doing where the f**k are you going. And there i new i got tripped from weed, and i got so scared and thought i would be retarded like that for the rest of my life, and tryed to act normally.  first i tryed ti ignore them and then they runed after me cus i was walking pretty fast. and they tryed to hold me and i was just pushing away, then some one scream "stop cops are over there" i just got scared as f**k lol i have no idea why, so i just stoped and every one was asking wtf is going wtf are you doing dude did u got triped or some thing? i didnt really say much cus there was sh*t tone of sh*t in my head going on, and the thing that scared me was the feeling i had.The feeling i had was like, every time i thought of what is going on with me i got a flash back, and kind of weird Deja-Vu( what i mean by flash back is that i just got send 2 or 3 seconds back from where i was )

and i couldnt explain any one any thing of whats going on with me, only thing i said was shut the f**k up i feel really bad i have no idea whats going on lol.

I thought i was going to die, my hearth never beated that fast before. They calmed me down a bit cus they explained me what is going on with me. And i knew what is going on but i kind of couldnt control it, i told them to hold me so i dont run away or something, then i asked are many people walking here? they answered yes, i was like let me go then wtf i dont want to look weird. 

And I had this paranoia that every time some of my friend looked at me or said my name i got really scared i dont know why, it was weird.

but after like 2 or 3 hours i got better, and had a laugh about it. But still 3 or 4 weeks later, witch is today i still feel weird, i feel paranoid about mostly stuff, like every time im talking to some one i feel like they want to attack me, sound silly but i dont know why it is like that, it never been this way, Im a normal self control 17 years old kid.

But the thing that got me here today is that, i feel like im going to have other flash back, and ill flash back this 3 week back.

sounds stupid i know, I have changed after smooking that time, every time a person talk to me or looks at me, or something like that, i kind of known what they are thinking, and its sounds like i read their mind but no, i dont think that is possible, just something paranoia thingy in my head, but i hope i get over this soon, its annoying and weird.and btw i have smooked a few times after that too, and I wassent like that, i was chill, but it came a few times back while i was high, but for few seconds not long time at all.

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Same. After i had a few hits I was fine. The car ride with my friends was awesome. I felt like i finally understood music. But then they dropped me off for class and I was waiting for a friend and I felt like all the people walking by were looking at me and i started freaking out. Long story short i was in the bathroom trying to get ahold of myself and then i looked at the mirror and saw that I really didn't look as crazed as I thought I did, and the feeling slowly subsided. I tried going back to class but there were just too many people there and I was starting to get paranoid again so I went to my car and started listening to music and got my high back. I think I just need to stay out of public places while being high. Also i forgot to mention Im 20 and this was my first time smoking.

 

I had weed in a brownie once and had the worst panic attack ever, hospitalized,  that was 2 months ago, and I still get them (panic attacks) but haven't done weed since. Any ideas to why this is happening but more importantly how long it will last? They aren't as bad but it is like constant anxiety. I don't use any other drugs and I still have them. I know I was tramatized but its been so long why do I still have them?

I had a full on 3 hour panic attack the other night from making Thai Weed Cookies with such a small amount of weed but it was the worst experience of my life! I used to smoke loads as a youth and never have any paranoia but this was unreal! The buzz was ok at first and then I went to bed cause I was tired and suddenly woke up with the most intense buzz and paranoia. I was getting hot and cold flushes down my back with the waves of the buzz which kept getting more and more intense with time. Because my sense of touch was  heightened so much, every time I got a flush it physically hurt and freaked me out. I ended up pacing about non stop trying to breathe and concentrate on the breath to distract myself from the feeling that I was going to die it was just awful. I made myself sick, drank vitamin c caffiene anything I could to get rid of the buzz but it just made me feel worse and worse! I feel upset that I can't experience getting stoned without this now even on a once off for a little release, but I will be staying away from it. Weed seriously messes with your mind, especially if you are a very sensitive person like I am. Anyone who has had these attacks should stay away from it! x

Paranoid highs and panic attacks are the absolute worse. Usually they come when you smoke for a long time, stop, then start back up like i did. It really is the scariest thing ever. I hit a blunt with me and two friends at the park one day. It was hot as hell outside so that was the first mistake. We all finished the blunt and we were fine. we went to shoot some hoops (which i do almost all the time when im fried) and after about 5 minutes i swear i tripped my mind away. Me and my 3 friends legs collapsed under us and we were just laughing about it at first, then i swear i felt like i was possessed and i was going to die. We walked to the store to get slurpees and try to cool off but when we got in the store and around people, it felt like i was in another world. Like everyone was staring at me weirdly and it really scared me. I remember walking home and every passing car looked as if it had some possessed person in the front seat. I went home and took a shower (well tried) and i was in the shower crying, not wanting to die. I kept scrubbing the soap off my body but it looked as if it kept coming back that's when i knew i was done. I thought somebody had laced the blunt so i called 911 and got rushed to the hospital. Since then, i always get paranoid of the same thing happening again. It hasnt, but the paranoia feeling isn't good man its so scary. If that happens to you, my advice is just stop smoking. Its no point it its not fun. Sorry for the long post but hope i helped

You're traumatized from the first attack bro. I Think thats what it is. i had a panic attack and since then whenever i think about how bad that experience was, i freak out.

   One thing to keep in mind if you plan on smoking pot, the weed today is much stronger than it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Take one small puff and just chill for about 15 minutes.  If it does the trick for you great... if nothing happens take another small puff and wait another 15 minutes, find what amount works for you. I only need 2 hits from a joint for a good relaxing buzz.  I know if I had 4 hits it would be too much for me and I would get all wiggy, paranoid, and have the heart/breathing issues as many have stated in all of these stories.

 

Marijuana takes a few minutes to really hit you, so slow down, what's the rush?  If you do find yourself in that paranoid state just remember  reading all of the stories here and realize that no one died, and the majority of what you're feeling you are bringing on yourself by over analyzing what you are feeling.  Paranoia invokes fear, fear kicks adrenaline up in your body to prepare you for something, your blood pressure rises, your heart rate rises.  Marijuana can make your heart beat faster, it can make your mouth dry, it can make you overanalyze thoughts and actions... those are just some of things it can do. If that's something you can't deal with then just don't smoke, it's not for everyone.

 

     I read peoples stories on here and they say I only had 2 or 3 bong hits, or we just split a blunt.... that's a lot of THC to take in 5 minutes. 3 bong hits of todays "average" weed is probably equivalent to smoking 2 joints of the average commercial weed of yesterday. Think about it,  if you wanted to enjoy a buzz from alcohol you wouldn't split a bottle of vodka and drink it all in 10 minutes would you?  No, you slowly consume beers or cocktails and the buzz increases until you've had enough. Drink too much in one setting and your body will tell you in its own terms...puking on your shoes, spins, hangover, etc.   Smoking too much in one setting and you will have negative results as well.  (equate puking on your shoes, spins and hangover to pounding heart, panic and paranoia..... it's your body and brain saying you've had too much.). Individual tolerances vary, you might get high from 1 toke whereas your friend needs 4 or 5.

 

In conclusion you should keep in mind that pot just might not be for you, just like alcohol isn't for everyone. I would suggest that if you decide to try pot for the first time or try again after a long hiatus, take a small puff from a joint and evaluate after 15 minutes.  Leave the bongs to the folks that have no paranoia or panic attacks from pot. One bong hit is equivalent to about 1/4 of a joint, which in turn is 3 or 4 hits.  MOST people will get pretty high from 3 or 4 hits.  Don't rip 4 or 5 bong hits, or split a blunt with your 2 friends unless you plan on getting really high, and if you get really high the odds of getting a panic attack, or paranoid are pretty high as well.  It's difficult not to get a huge hit from a bong that's why I avoid them. If you have to use a pipe or a bong just put a small piece of bud in there and take one puff.  And if you do experience a panic attack try to calm yourself by knowing there has never been a documented case of someone dying from smoking a joint. Peace.