Would marijuana cause permanent anxiety?

I was a heavy smoker when I was 19. I quit for 10 years. After 10 years, I took a hit on a couple different occasions and I did experience mild anxiety, but nothing that ever lasted a couple hours. I quit it again for another 10+ years.

I'm 46 now and led a pretty clean life. I don't smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, eat very little sugar, gluten frre and dairy free. I recently had 3 buldging discs in my neck and radiculopathy running down my left arm. I can't take opiates for pain so I tried to manage using Excedrin. It wasn't helping at all. If anything it was hurting my liver. I was taking 6 Excedrin a day just to cope with the pain. So I tried using just CBD oil. It kind of helped but it wasn't enough. I read that you need THC along with the CBD to effectively help pain. So I got a MM card and bought a single joint of a strain that was supposed to help pain. I took 1 puff each day for 2 weeks then eventually upped it to 4 puffs (micro bat) per day. I was pain free. I was able to go to PT , do exercises, and I resolved the 3 dics and radiculopathy without needing surgery. So after 2 months ( 1 joint) I quit. I was fine for the first 6 days, after the anxiety and panic started setting in. Days 8-10 were horrific. I was dehydrated, nauseous, and went through intense withdrawel symptoms like coming off of benzodiazepines. I had cold sweats, uncontrollable shaking, rapid heartbeat, shallow rapid breathing, burning skin sensations, blurry hazy vision, and insomnia. There were a couple days my urine was dark copper color, I'm assuming dehydration. The symptoms were intense for a week, then would ease for a week, then intensify the following week. The symptoms cycled weekly. I just suspected I had gerd along with anxiety and things should clear up. I eat healthy, drink a lot of water, took omega 3 suppliments, detox teas, lavender oil, frankensce oil, lemon grass oil, no coffee or sugar.

Its 65 days later and I still feel horrible. My vision is still blurry. Even though its technically impossible, I still feel high non-stop. I started taking .20 mg of Meletonin to help me sleep at night and slightly boost Seritonin. It helps with sleep and kind of took the edge off the panic attacks.

I've had mild improvement since I quit. I can deal with the constant sedated feeling, but the anxiety, nausea, and physical symptoms are taking a toll and its hard to keep "sanity". I just keep telling myself its anxiety and it's all in my head. It doesn't help that I deal with this all by myself....no real support system. Guess my next step is to go to the doctor and run a panel of tests to make sure my liver, kidneys, gallbladder are working, and my vitamin levels are ok. Need to rule out underlying medical issues. If everything comes back normal then I'll know my brain chemistry is out of balance.

I'm happy that MM helped me avoid surgery and got me through the pain, but I regret ever taking it due to the side effects. I can only guess the symptoms are caused from MM being so reduculously strong vs the marijuana from back in the day or its chemical residues left behind on the flower. My intent was not to get "high", I only wanted pain relief. Now I only want the horrible physical side effects to go away.

I've been experiencing this the past couple weeks, and after blood tests and a couple doctor visits I've been diagnosed with anxitey disorder. And man does this message hit allllll the way home. I understand that fear, and frustration. Thank you for sharing this, helps to know I'm not losing my mind, well a little but not completly

Have you tried it again since? I'm going through the same thing and I want to smoke again (more CBD rich strains) but I'm scared it will make it worse.

Same thing happened to me. I smoke for about a year and then had a SEVERE panic attack. I had intense suicidal thoughts during it and thought i was fading away from this earth and was going to die of a heart attack. I thought I was never going to smoke again, but I did. I took it easy and was fine. Then, I smoked again after that and the same thing happened. I took a month break and have smoked twice since then and I was fine. It is very strange. I believe it has something to do with how much Im smoking and whether or not im stressed out. Luckily though the affects havent carried over into my normal every day life. But my view on weed has certainly changed. It is not entirely harmless.

I'm 13 and anxiety ruined my life. I had a lot of friends in 8th grade and I had to switch to homeschool bc i would panic abt what the other kids thought of me having panic attacks.

I had something similar and I thought that weed was to blame but then I discovered that it was from the energy drinks. Caffeine from energy drinks is way worse for you than weed. After drinking 2 Rockstar energy drinks I started getting anxiety and having a major panic attack. My heart started racing and I was worried that I was going to have a heart attack. I called up poison control and they told me to go to the emergency because I might have a seizure. Now I've had bad trips from weed before but those were nothing to compared to this feeling it was the worse feeling in the world and the doctors said it would take about a week for the anxiety to go away and it did. My heart rate was above normal for what it should've been while resting and I had to go through a period of a cleansing where I didn't drink any caffeine, no sugar, no chocolate, no smoking, no alchohol and very low sodium foods. And after a week of that I started feeling a little myself again. I'm still nervous to go back to smoking weed again though because I know it raises my heart rate and at the moment I'm not gonna push anything to throw off the calm balance I have now. Also I will never have another energy drink in my life again. It was worst than any drugs I've done before. I don't even understand how they aren't being regulated more when being sold. So possibly if you're a caffeine drinker it may be from that.

I had this happen to me I almost lost my job because I couldn't function I was always worried another attack was going to happen and I thought I was going crazy I found out that only some weed does it I stopped smoking for awhile and still had some attacks most not as intense I smoke lightly and still have a moment or two I feel panic but I know what is happening so it goes away but I have been dealing with this for a few years its nothing compared to the beginning and I feel it gets better with time

Currently experiencing terrible panic attacks here and there. I've been on Zoloft and Effexor for a long time because I have OCD and panic disorder. I've been prescribed clonazapam but I try my hardest to not use it.

I've been smoking for roughly 3 years and I was an extremly heavy user. Bong rips all day some times. I'm typically a shy and reclusive person so this was my way to have fun without really going out and doing anything. I noticed the panic attacks were getting worse when my parents came into town and they had planned on staying 3 weeks (I think this may have triggered anxiety because I like being alone in my own house) and since then I have quit. It's been about 6 days now and it has been really really tough. I program for a living, which is nice because I don't have to really deal with people, but it's been hard getting work done due to the massive amounts of anxiety. When i first wake up in the morning is the worst. It's starts in my stomach and over 2 hours it just becomes almost unbearable.

I decided to look into the natural medicine route. I heard promising things about Kava Kava and decided to pick up a bottle of it from Natural Pharm. There are some combinations that can make it more effective (like Chamomile) and I have to say...it actually works. I keep my clonazapam as an "emergency" medication which also helps soothe my mind.

I'm a rare instance, and weed may have not been the culprit. Like I said, I've been dealing with this stuff for years. When I first started smoking 3 years ago I felt like it was the magical medication. i was cutting down on my medication, started working out, got really in shape and then one day the chips fell. I still continued to smoke after that point. Anxiety comes in spikes and normally, at least mine, is associated with being out of control. The OCD on top of it is what fuels the fire so it's a matter of learning what to change.

Looking back on it now, I feel maybe if I go back to a proper diet and excercise may cure my issues again. This is biology so it makes sense.

Either way, don't give up and don't think you won't get a break. Everyone has demons to deal with and sometimes it feels like we got the crappy end of the stick. I look around in jealousy just wishing I could be calm like everyone else, but then I realize: maybe they're not so calm? The don't call it the silent suffer for nothing.

That's tough. Really tough. I actually went through the same thing when I was in high school. Fear not, this will pass. It's a matter of learning to "tolerate" anxiety. There's some psychology to go along with it but for what it's worth you're going to work harder for things due to the anxiety. Kids are and will be cruel, this is a given. Don't let this stop you from living your life, though. I'm 28 now, and have been through a lot of bad anxiety, obsessive thoughts, depression among other things. It made me stronger. I succeeded in college and am doing what I want to do: Build video games. It's a curse and a blessing.

Everyone has tragedy in their life. Some bottle it up (brain chemistry) and end up reflecting their anxiety through their actions (drugs, reckless behavior, alcohol) and others just can't rid the anxiety and have to deal with it. It's those anxious people that push the hardest in life.

I know it's hard, man, but you WILL make it. Throw yourself into a hobby...be a nerd...play games...HELL...MAKE GAMES! Find a joy you can always pull your mind to in times of worry. I used to always think about coming home and playing EverQuest (think world of warcraft but much older) and for some reason that always helped. Not saying just play video games, but find something that genuinely gives you joy so when you find yourself in the dark, cold depths of anxiety, you have some light to help you come back.

You got this buddy.

About a year ago I called myself smoking marijuana. I wasn’t being pressured or nothing I just wanted to see what being HIGH felt like. So I kept puffing back to back to back and it went on and on after I was done I started Galton my friends and I started to feel real funny it’s just a feeling I never felt before and it started with feet to the upper part of my body I couldn’t feel nothing at all so I jumped up screaming because I thought I was about to die , lol I don’t even know what death feels like but I felt as if I was dead . My heart was pounding and I was praying out loud , crying , and trying to call 911 I actually thought I was dead . All along I was high but never knew what it felt like . My cousin told me that that’s who you going to tell your first time especially if it’s loud so I tried it again and I’m the samething happened and it’s like while I’m panicking no one takes me serious and my heart be racing as if I’m about to die . That was my first time experiencing panic attacks !! My second time having one a man that was on pcp came and got in my cousin car while we was at the store and he was acting real strange but at the time we didn’t know he was on drugs he just got in the car and wouldn’t get out and he told my cousin to drop him off somewhere so my cousin took him so the whole drive there he was acting really strange I looked in the back seat and seen him eating a lot cigarette and instantly got scared and said that he was on something and when I said that he started curing at me and I was curising back at him but the whole time he was on pcp and I didn’t know so he pulled a gun or on me and hat when I got scared as if I smoked weed again so I knew then I was panicking real bad but my cousin was scared to we couldn’t talk or nothing we was among eye contact Or text through our phones he was telling me to just be quiet and agree to everything he say because he’s on pcp . Every since that day I been having panicking attacks everyday of my life and I regret smoking weed but that was god letting me know I need to get my life together yes I regret that deeply but you I’ve and you learn and that changed my life forever because every day my heart is racing and I’m crying and panicking for no reason . I hate this so bad and wish it could go away!!!

*talking to my friends



I’m may have a lot of errors due to my auto correct

* my cousin told me that’s how you going to feel



I’m correcting myself

*eating a lit cigarette

I had bad anxiety and derealisation ( the thought that nothing is real) from smoking weed for about 9 months. I would go through phases of daily smoking and weekly. I would have severe panic attacks and I thought I was brain dead. Since I stopped smoking I had less and less anxiety and the derealisation seemed to fade but then once a month it would return. I haven't had a panic attack In three months now and have no longer any derealisation. Time cures everything

Hello, I know this was a year ago but can you write me back if you can.