Mine started 3 years ago on march 29, Prior to that date i had never had touched any kind of drug. On that night i was at a friends house, who had weed brownies, i think i had about 3 peaces of a brownies, not a whole one just 3 small chunks. I will never forget that night. after i ate it, 3 hours have passed. 45 minutes after that , BOOOOOOOM. The first reaction i had was I could not breath, i felt that my throat was closing up, second my mouth started to get numb, third my legs started to get numb, fourth my heart was racing over 200MPH. As you can imagine i was in full blown panic attack. The episode lasted 3 hours. i started to drink water after glass of water trying to flush the weed out. Eventually i did. I went home, trying to go to sleep. all i could do was sleep for 5 mins then my racing heart would wake me up. I lasted like this for 2 days. Monday after noon comes around i had not eaten anything but cereal that monday morning. I invited another friend with to get some food. i drove maybe a mile when the second attack hit me out of the blue. While i was driving. Same symptoms. paresthesia of my hand and feet, mouth to. Rapid breathing and heart rate elevated pretty high. Im guesing from the panic. My first initial thought was, OMG im having a heart attack. My friend lol was the most scared of all. He called the medics for me, and in no time i was at the hospital. My vitals turned out fine nothing wrong with my heart. They probed me with a bunch of questions, the doctors chalked it up to stress related panic attack. I ofcourse never told him it was the weed brownie that did it to me because my parents at the time were with me at the hospital. Flash forward 1 week later.
I have now developed insomnia from the panic attack from that episode while driving. Here we go again back to the hospital. The next time i booked to go to see a pshych . I went through 3 doctors who seemed to really listen to what was going on with me. But i saw a pattern with those 3 doctors, " they llistened" then they sent me on my way with pills. prozac and ativan. like a dumb ass i took them. Only took ativan when the attacks flared up. and the prozac everyday. I literally felt like a zombie no emotions what so ever.I stopped taking both cold turkey. Heh another 2 weeks of insomia was added to the original week i had insomnia. 20 mins of sleep each day. o.O I had now missed work for 1 month. So i go back to the pshyc doctor and told them i didnt want to see them because all they do is give me pills. So i looked around for one that did not. And i found one. I liked this one because like i said he did not approach me with me pills, but with talk on how to control and understand what was going with me. I saw him for maybe about 1 month. On the last day i told him for someone in my particula situation, how long does this type of thing lasts?, he said " 1 year". Then i said oh ok. I believed him and went on my marry way.
So i strugled to keep my now recurring panic attacks. Still wondering what to do about it i started to do cardio exercises. I believed that by doing cardio it set me on my way to recovery. And yea the panic attacks started to go away slowly i wasnt having them frequently as i use to . 1 year later..... Success i stopped having the panic attacks, whatever i did they stopped, finally i was able to sleep for more than 8 hours.
Later i find out that the THC thats in the weed stays in our bodys , in our fat cells for later use by our bodies. Which in my opinios caused my panic attack while driving. All i can say is for those who suffer from this from marijuana is, "stay positive there is light at the end of the tunnel, stop taking these drugs the our doctors gives us, they just add problems and keep us depended on them".
Good luck everybody, report back.
Rick.
Good point FARSCAPER
Pills are not the answer. I went to 2 psychiatrists and they just listen and in less than an hour they prescribe 2 pills. Thanks God I didn´t take the antipsychotic but I accept the benzodiazepine to calm me down and guess what happened? I become addicted to this sh*t.So before I had to go through dank weed withdrawal that was driving me nuts. And than I have to deal with the weed and the benzos withdrawal. This is no joke.
To Bambi27 - thanks for helping us out with that great story. You are a great writer so it was much easier to follow and understand. Good job and I'm going to think of this everything I want to hit a joint. It has been 20 yrs and I'm ready to get free!!!
I am experiencing the same issues. I smoked heavily since I was 15 then started smoking less and less after college. Thats when the anxiety attacks started. I am now 21 and suffer from anxiety everday. My therapist told me that marijuana cuts off certain things in the brain and once you stop they start to re-open which can cause anxiety. Just a thought id share. Good luck.
Anxiety disorders characterised by the emotion of anxiety, worrisome thoughts, avoidance behaviour and the somatic symptoms of autonomic arousal (palpitation, chest pain, sweating, dizziness, trembling, shortness of breath and fear of dying).
Among the withdrawal's- anxiety is more crucial, because it can be both challenging and stressful for you. You can get some intense panic attacks and generalised anxiety when you stop. Anxiety develops when your brain is trying to compensate for the THC, received while you used marijuana. Brain will accommodate it within 7 days in most of the cases.
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