Terrifying feeling in the heart after smoking marijuana!!

I feel for you, i Had a similar experience i used to smoke as much as i could as often as i could which was ALOT by the way between me and my boyfriend at the time we would roll up at least a nickel everyday and just bake fest all day. Then one day i was a little stressed, well maybe alot stressed about something and we got high, I have never been the same. My heart was goin a million miles an hour my vision went all black like i was fainting i started heaving it was horrible. Ever since that day i havent been able to smoke pot i've tried believe me but it starts happening every time. It is panic attacks i know it sounds stupid since that is the exact opposite effect your goin for but thats what it is. I turned to Other rec. Drugs for my high WHICH I DONT RECOMEND!! just talk to your doc. i'd leave out the part about gettin high but tell him how it felt when it happened they might be able to help. Also there is all different kinds of marajuana that have different affects like some that can trigger this panic attack and some that will mellow you out more like anti anxiety weed!! I havent tried it yet but if you know someone with a mary jane perscription that can use the  marajuana dispensarys ask them to get u some. Just a thought. of course you could just quit! but that sucks too.  I hope i could help, or at least now you know your not dying. It'll be ok.   

It happens every time I smoke by myself and I hit really hard :( I've searched this up and I think you're right I keep seeing panic attacks everywhere! But I tried to be calm... I'm never doing shrooms that's for sure, seeing stuff and having my heart act like that? My god scariest feeling I could imagine. It kinda happened when I took an edible too, but I didn't get that high so I was like crapppp it'll only happen if i get REALLY high and what's the use of doing it if I can't get that? Lol I'll try that maybe but I'll bet she'll think I was doing weed. Anti-anxiety weed? That sounds awesome!! I'll try to find someone who knows that stuff. Ehh I could just quit but I kinda depend on it when I go to events and stuff I'm quiet but when I do that I get all talkative and stuff. Alcohol helps me too but that's not as easy for me to get as weed! lol But that feeling... every time I'm just sitting there waiting for my heart to explode and it's ughh lol this did help thank you!

....leave out the part about gettin high... lol, are you serious?? Ofcourse you need to mention that!! Just ask if he or she will talk to your parents about the reason of your visit. I don't know the laws where you live, but probably they cannot do that without your permission. They swore an oath you know!? Other than that, very recognizable. Stop using it or do it in a much more moderate way. If you can't keep yourself from smoking your MJ, try something that has more comforting CBD in it (hasj, indicastrains, autoflowerstrains). Maybe it helps. Do avoid the sativastrains, as they are said to have low CBD content and often have incredible high THC concentrations. They might make you more energetic than the other strains, but they highly increase the chance of experiencing the stuff you mentioned. As your sixteen it must be difficult to get your MJ from reliable sources. A good provider should know this stuff and advice you what to use and what not to.If they do not, don't buy your MJ from them. Avoid edibles in your case, they are unpredictable in strength and the high can last for hours. Not good if you experience a panic attack... Last but not least, as you are 16, don't make too much of a habit of using MJ. It will affect your brain permanently as it is still in the process of developing. Sorry, but I had to say it. :)

Ya I know I will aha. I think they're supposed to be confidential about that kind of stuff I'll find out. That's good then my parents would freak out. I got a vaporizer with my friends and I don't know if I should hit hard with it but it seems safer. I don't know what those things are but I'll google them :P. Ya I just get it from people my age that get it from who knows where. Eeek I'll stay away from edibles then. Ya I understand that makes sense Lol but I gotta do something so I don't just sit there at a party or dance or somethin, and I don't think I do it much the longest I've gone is 8 days in a row but usually it's one or twice a week

The pain in your chest... Every doctor has seen at least seen one person that had exactly the same experience as you. Read the forum and you find hundreds of people describing your story. Will you die? Probably not. Is it good for your health? Probably not. Do not ignore signals that your body gives you. The pain is in your head, but the source is physical!. If I drive a nail in my hand, pain sensors will send signals to my brain. My brain will then decide to let my conscious know that there are 'pain-signals' coming from my hand. I can be in excruciating pain or in moderate pain, which depends on many factors like personality, anxiety, state of mind etc. When it comes to pain in the chest, the THC will raise your bloodpressure and will raise your heartbeat... which is controlled in your brains. So that's true :) Lots of people have pain on the chest once and a while. It is a defence mechanism of your body telling you to stop what is causing it and protect the body from aggrevating a condition. The effect of THC is that it will make you focus on the pain and therefore make you feel more pain plus it makes you more anxious about the pain and therefore raises your bloodpressure and heartbeat. The anxiety will make you focus even more on the pain and therefore enhance the pain plus your body will send more painsignals as it doesn't agree with the high bloodpressure and fast heartbeat. If you can't find a comfortable way to use your weed, stop using it. It ain't worth it then.

You don't need to take hard hits or leave the smoke/vapor in your lungs for a long time to get a better effect. Moderation is key, just take one or two sucks from a normal sized joint and see how you feel. Take another one 20 min later. It should take you to a comfortable state for about an hour. It's the same with alcohol, you could drink 2 or 3 beers once and a while that makes you slightly but comfortably drunk or you drink 20, which makes you loose control, gets you sick, makes you feel like @#$% the next day and in the long run will destroy your body and mind. Regarding your age, I think once a week should be the absolute max. None would be even better.:) The moderation is even more important when you get your weed from unreliable sources. Take a huge hit and then find out it is strong as hell or full of c**p is not very advisable in your case.

Now for the social part, difficult because I know how much you want to join your friends and fit in at social gatherings. I hate that age. :) Don't feel pressured by anyone to use more weed than you really think you should. Don't pressure yourself either to use it because it changes your personality. Because that is what you are doing. You do not really like a party when you are sober, so you want to use weed or alcohol to fit in. I can't really give you advice other than to follow your good sense (that little voice within) and do not let yourself get sucked up (too much) into something that isn't (good for) you... the danger in every drug is that you become dependent on it to either function in a certain social community or because it makes you feel better when you are alone. If you feel that's true for one or both reasons, you are on the road to addiction. If somebody tells you you can't get addicted to cannabis, then that is only true if you mean a physical addiction. Mentally however there are millions of people who are fully addicted. They can't go without it even for one day. Take care

What do you mean by the Pain is in my head but the source is physical? My heart isn't really beating that fast and doing all those weird things to make me think I'm having a heart attack and dying?! Ya that makes sense, so is the high blood pressure and heartbeat dangerous, what's the worst that could happen from freaking out too much, heart attack? How do I find a comfortable way to use it then :( I'll try to take small hits from the vaporizer, but I doubt it would do anything to me. No one pressures me to do it, but I do it to get more social that's the one and only reason. It's no fun alone Lol I won't get sucked in I can say that much, and Ya I will watch out for that. I just woke up today at 4:30 in the morning on a school day, first thing I noticed was my heart beating like I just ran a couple miles, it was horrible. I walked around and drank water and listened to music and told myself I would never do weed again, I jsut stayed in my bed for 2 and half hours til it was time to get ready for school. How did this happen? It was beating so incredibly fast... I was sleeping... and the sad thing is I'm planning to smoke next week.. I forget about the bad experience and I think it's not that bad. Thank you for your help!

I found a better explanation for you in another thread:

"Panic Attack - The first time it happened because sometimes when you are without food in your stomach, it leave a lot of empty space so your heart can be felt in the thoracic cavity more pronounced. They reason why your heart beat faster is because THC, once inhaled drops your Blood pressure very quickly. Our wonderful bodies will try and make up for the drop by your brain telling the heart to increase beats and blood flow for the lack of pressure it just experienced. Thus you have your rapid beats. Now that you have experienced that once before, you think something is wrong and worry about it. BAM!!!! Full blown panic attack. The other symptoms you feel are the effects of adrenalin coursing thru you body. It's in full blown fight or flight mode. Blood is pumped faster to your legs, lungs, prep. you to run from danger.(human response to fear, and part or our evolution) You might feel like you have tunnel vision. Unless you have a congenital defect of the heart or have heart disease of some sort, you really don't have anything to worry about. Remember.....weed makes you paranoid..... Take deep breaths....hold for a second or two, blow out of mouth. everytime you do this you will slow your heart rate down a little.. Or hold your nose and mouth and bear down like you're gonna have a bowel movement. You should feel an immediate jump in your heart rate, followed by a slowing."

So in short, the chances of dying from it are slim to none.

It could also be that there is already something going on in your body and the weed makes you more aware of sensations (like pain). For example it could be a stomach ulcer or heart burn, which can give pain on the chest too. There are more benign but also more serious possibilities for having chest pains, I suggest you search the internet if you want to learn more about them.

THC is stored in your fat tissues and it can take months for your body to get rid of the last traces. Therefore it can give you aftereffects especially the first few days. Another thing it could be is something that people experience when they withdraw from weed. All of a sudden they start having dreams again and more often than not those dreams are not the ones you'd prefer :) Maybe you just woke up from such a dream...

I can't give you any more advice about you not enjoying yourself at social events when you're sober. That is just part of life. Use your common sense from time to time to overview what you are doing and ask yourself if it really makes you happy. If you can't enjoy yourself among certain people in certain settings without weed, there is always the option to change either the people or the settings that you go to. As you wisely decided to ask advice on this forum, I am sure you are capable of doing that. Do I already sound like an annoying adult, sorry, I mean well :)

Like I said earlier, moderation or quitting is the key here. Try to get less strong weed, don't smoke too much at once (avoid the bong!) and don't smoke too often. I have been there, sitting with your family in a restaurant and feeling your heart is racing like never before. I smoked alot back then and it was what they call the high-end quality stuff. From that day on I only smoked less potent stuff less frequently, just one or two normal sucks at a time. I never experienced it again. If I felt uncomfortable, I wouldn't smoke at all or just a little, as I knew it would only aggrevate those feelings. After a while I kicked the habit for good and found happiness in joining a sport club (socializing, exercising and getting high on endorphines and only a small amount of alcohol once and a while). If you carry on the way you did, I put a 100 bucks on that you will have chest pains again some time soon in the future... you can only hope that this time you are capable of getting rid of them by calming yourself down... the choice is up to you... good luck and take care

That would make sense, everything you have said has allowed me to not be terrified of it no longer, but the one remaining question I have is, could I possibly have a heart condition? I haven't had a physical for a year could I have gotten it then?! I did have a dream when I woke up.. it was unpleasant I can say that much someone was about to die, but I was not focused on that, I could feel my heart beating in the dream but I could only notice it once I woke up and felt my heart was beating 3 times a second. Lol you don't sound like an annoying adult I really appreciate what you're trying to say! I get it I will, only using vaporizers from now on, and if there's not one around then screw weed! I try to clam myself down but then I end up thinking about the heart beat all over again...And that you for the other thread above that talked about the empty stomach thing. I'm skinny and tall and I don't eat as much as I need to lol I'm eating the c**p out of any food I see before I smoke that day. Thank you again.

The chances of you having a heart condition are small. I suggest you see your physician about it as you clearly need to ease your mind a bit more. DO tell him/her that you first experienced it when smoking pot, if you don't I am sure he/she will ask you if you do smoke pot. For your own comfort first ask if he/she will share your information with others, which I doubt. Final tip: drink plenty of water (not alcohol, don't use it together with cannabis) when you use cannabis, like 2 or 3 glasses. It keeps you from dehydrating certain tissues in your body, just do it, all the 'sane' and 'responsible' potheads stick to this protocol... :)

Ya I'm worried she would tell my parents or something but Ya I'll try it. And I was planning to do both next week it's called cross faded but never mind XD And ya I always try to drink a lot of water but I'm skinny so I get tired of water after like half a glass but I'll try to now!

Cross fading = asking for trouble. I've seen too many people passing out completely and emptying their stomach from that. I guess that's also a way to see a doctor, doubt that you will be able to ask him about your chest pains... If you just have to and can't help yourself, drink first, smoke later. NEVER do it the other way around, because trouble will be just around the corner. Not that doing it in the right order won't, trouble will just be waiting for you a couple of meters further then. The water tip will be even more important, because alcohol messes up your hydration even more. If you only want weed to get more social and enjoy yourself, why overdo it with experiments like that? Especially if you already hit your limits with just the weed? And it won't get you any more social or make you enjoy yourself even more than with just the weed, in the contrary. Enjoy watching your friends pass out or vomit all over the place, it's much more fun than having to join them. Now I sound like an adult for sure, but this time I won't apologize for it... take care

Ya I think I'll just drink but then again its harder to get then weed... I took very small hits from the vap and i had tiny little heartbeat problems so that was upsetting I feel hopeless. Aha no you just don't sound like a crazy ass teen trying to mess up your life! I will thank you

:) I guess it's just part of being young.

Just remember, moderation, moderation, moderation... Stay away from other drugs that may cross your path in order to get high another way. Their effects are much more vicious, even if the first couple of times they seem great. Weed is considered to be the least vicious of the lot and you already found out that that one is too much for you. Too bad, but you also could consider yourself lucky... Maybe 10 years from now :)

Good luck man

 

Hi there, I have the same feelings when I first smoke weed my heart beating so fast that I think I am gonna die but it doesn't. After that when I asked the doctor and they said it is panic attack you will be fine.