still feeling awkward 4 weeks after smoking marijuana

I just turned 20 years old and have been smoking weed here and there since my sophomore year in high school. For a long time the only reason i smoked was because my friends did it and i was just always with them. I never really wanted to because it always made me really really f'd up. Especially if I smoked alot. I never wanted to feel like a wussy so i just did it anyways. I would have some good times smoking especially if I would just relax. There have been a few times though when I felt like total c**p and once I felt like i was going to die. So i stopped smoking for a while but this past year being in college i started smoking on the weekends mostly by myself just to do something fun. During this time my highs were alot better and they were actually fun because I knew that If i didnt smoke alot I would be fine, and I was.

Going back in time now, a year before I started smoking on the weekends regularily, for the first time in my life I smoked for 5 consecutive days, not even that much at one time maybe 2 hits. One day I woke up and I still felt high and it was a super scary experience. Even after all those times when I actually had what i guess you could call "panic attacks" it always would go away after I slept it off. So after about a week of feeling that that I decided that maybe there was just marijauna still in my system. So what I did was put on like 3 layers of clothes (sweatshirt, sweatpants, hat and other stuff) like you would if you were trying to cut weight, and I went and ran on the treadmill for 30 mins. the next day after that I woke up feeling a little better so I did the same thing  the next day and every day after that i felt a little bit better until it went away completely. 

Now bringing us back to recently when I started smoking regularly on the weekends. This went on for maybe about 2 months (still only taking a few hits each time). I was pretty much fine after doing this, but some days I would have residual effects where I would still kinda feel high. But I had absolutely no freaky highs or any panic attacks or anything. After those 2 months I came home for chirstmas break and right away I had nothing to do so I smoked every night for about 4 days straight, the last day being the day before christmas eve. After that last time I woke up still feeling high. I wasnt real concerned at first because I had been there before and i thought I would be ok. Unfortunately I wasnt, and for the next 2 weeks I felt like that (like a lingering high. not an intense high but just like a brain fog type of thing that is very annoying). I thought that I was starting to feel better , so one day my friends asked me to smoke with them, so I did and this time I smoked alot of weed probably more than i ever have at one time. I didnt really want to do it because I still felt kinda out of it but I did anyways.

I am here today just about 2 months later and I still feel the same way I did. I have this lingering high feeling that will not go away.  I have tried the same things that I did before (sweating it out and drinking a ton of water) but nothing has worked. find my case a little different than everybody else's because I dont have panic attacks and I dont have anxiety or anything. I have done some research on depersonalization and it just doesnt seem to fit me. I havnt had any really tramatic events in my life, I was raised in a good home and i dont have anything terrible that is going on in my life. At this point I have just kind of accepted it and lived with it. It doesnt effect my daily life and my brain pretty much operated normally. Nobody that I talk to regularily would say there is something wrong with me, and I just got the highest score in my class on a Calc II exam so that says that my brain has to be working fine. It is just really annoying and frustrating and very mentally draining. I havnt told anybody about what is going on yet and i dont really want to unless I have to.

Is there anybody else that has this? most testimony's I read are people that have panic attacks or lots of anxiety but i dont get either of those and I never had except for maybe once while I was high years ago.

 

Sorry about the length but once I got to typing I didnt stop haha. I just thought I would share my story because it is a little different than everybody else's and maybe there is somebody else that has had something similar.

 

Thanks

Alright listen you all have anxiety now

what do you mean?

It's simple ..marijuana has made you OCD like , you have anxiety now. pot heads don't like to admit it but it does happen when you smoke weed sometime it doesn't but most of the time it will.. Go ahead and argue with me I'm 20 ,smoked weed when I was a freshie ever since my mind has been drastically differnt ..you won't understand but I'm actually greatfull for it , it's a useful mindset..and by the way , yes your fine, but you still have anxiety. Try not to smoke , it can couse an attack but as long as you reaserch you'll be fine..

yeah i had the same feeling right after smoking a joint, then i passed out. but right after the next day i started to get my head back so you sholud be okay.

Hey guys I'm going threw the same exact thing. I'm 16 I've been feeling really weird. I would describe it as being in a different dimension.i feel like that when I go outside. It's weird.i feel a little bit unbalanced like drunk..whenever I get really anxious I feel almost high or something. My eyes get heavy and feel tired.. Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna loose my mind and scares the living sh*t out of me . It never happens tho.
Can any one reply please I'd really like to talk to someone daily on this thread..

hey i totally am in the same position, just smoked for like the 4th time about 36hrs ago and took 1 hit out of a gravity bong. within 10 minutes i was bugging out, heart racing and i was going crazy. Everyone else was fine though and they smoked just as much if not more and im sure it was just weed (not laced). Ive felt like sh*t since and I still feel like in a haze since and anxious and just lazy. Ive never had any sort of mental or emotional problems before nor are there in the family. I just want this to go away, I know this has only been for not even 2 days but still idt its normal. Anyone know what I can do to help this go away as soon as possible? i just dont want this to last as long as long as some of these people are saying. Thanks

have you been stressed out at all lately? anything that would have been bothering you?

Dude yess i feel the same its just annoying as f**k and like when i wake up i feel fine then it just hits me

This will happen if you smoke too much and aren't  experienced. you should just try to forget it or smoke little bit of weed like 1-2 hits from a joint or a pipe. 

This thing happened to me first time I smoked. it went awey after 2 weeks ( I smoked )

Same type of sh*t happened to me. it got so bad that i didnt even want to live anymore. i kept freaking myself out more and more getting myself into a deep state of depression. my friends started to notice i was different and they didn't believe that weed could cause what had happened. eventually i made things to look forward to in life to keep my mind off of it and after about 6 months of  hell i gradually came out of it. its been about 3 years and i haven't smoked since.. just drink.. keep your mind off of it eat healthy work out and you will be fine i promise.

thanks man this helps.

Has anybody tried taking Xanax or Prozac or some other drug for anxiety to help with any of this?

Its been Three years. Did it go away and how long did it take

for the guy saying marijuana cant effect you after six hours. well. when i was in my twenties  we use to smoke alot of weed. far too much of it. we would sit around smoking pipes then someone would pass you a joint and then another and another then a pipe and so on and so on. and you would'nt say no. because you never wanted to be the one that said this is too much.

we carried on smoking like that for a few years. probably 5 years before i had my issue. there was no need to smoke the amount of cannabis we smoked sometimes putting a hole quarter in 1 joint.

but thats how it use to be back in the day. around at friends houses. so am sat at home one day and am smoking a joint and thinking about things. life etc, all of a sudden.. i just didnt feel right at all. and i could not bring myself to talk to anyone about it, even my best friends. i said nothing at all. i become very silent. and found i couldn't smoke cannabis any longer. because it put me into a panic. and i could not rest. so many years have passed and today iam 41 this month. i still cant smoke cannabis. but 7 years ago. i had a joint. and the fear come back again. and i could not rest my head at all. i tried walking outside because that usually calms me down. but this time it didnt. i found myself changing directions. doing anything walking up to the end of the street then back down it again. then i would go back inside then back outside. i got too panicked and scared then Bang bang! bang!!! my mind shut down. the months after i could not use my head my mind shut down. these effects are of mental illness. people arnt saying there still high off cannabis there saying they feel like they are, its very hard to describe a mental illness when your going through it. only when you get better do you stand a chance of explaining what effects your mind.

these guys are not saying there still high in the sense that there still getting an effect from the last joint they smoked. there telling you how they feel after the cannabis caused them some kind of mental illness. it has taken me 7 to 8 years to put most of my thoughts and myself back together again. i will never again smoke a joint. ever. it caused me to loose a girl i deeply cared about.  now that friendship is broken. but at least ive got through the worst of it. am still talking to councillors and have a worker who helps me with my post traumatic stress disorder  smoking cannabis can cause mental illness. and its scary as hell when your going through it. your not sure if your crazy or not. cannabis should never be legalized. i hope by sharing my experience with cannabis i can stop 1 person from ever smoking pot as heavy as i did. better if they dont smoke it at all