Speakeasy2009
New Member
Hi all,
I’m new here and found this forum because I recently had a bad experience with cannabis that’s forced me to stop using it. Like let’s put it this way, it terrifies me to even think about smoking again but at the same time, I miss the GOOD in smoking. Here is my story….
I have been, for the last 13 years, almost a daily user of cannabis. As we all know, nothing beat the feeling of getting high when at a concert, out with friends, or at a family BBQ where smoking makes everything so much more enjoyable and fun. But a recent bad reaction has me so confused, and kind of scared..to ever go near it again.
We all know, that for some of us smoking makes us paranoid, and I was no exception. It didn’t happen all the time, it just started happening these last couple years. I would also get that bad body high, where my body kind of felt crappy but after about 20 minutes that reaction would go away and I felt fine. About 3 months ago, I was with my GF and we smoked. We then watched a scary movie, ya know one of those movies with demons and crap..and I was fine… after the movie we smoked again and when my head hit the pillow all of a sudden my head started ringing, like the flat line of an EKG machine, but in my head. My GF didn’t think much of it and started to freak me out which made the situation worse..but I was high so I fell asleep. Woke up at 4am, ringing still there, very LOUD I could hear it over a fan on full blast. The next day it was still there…. Next day and the day after..it was still there and it made me panic because my mind was racing. I had this high pitched sound in my head that wouldn’t go away. It drove me insane. All I could hear was this ringing, so loud it was heard over everything around me, I could even hear it driving on the highway with my cars top down!! After 3 days I went to the doc, who did a hearing test and looked at my ears. Everything was normal. The next day I end up going the ER having a panic attack due to the constant ringing in my head. The ER gave me Xanax and it didn’t help, just made me tired. I was panicking, what did the weed do to me? I didn’t know what to do.. I was terrified I had somehow done brain damage from smoking so much. This had never happened to me before in all my years smoking up…
The ONLY thing that made me feel better was going outside at night and hearing all the crickets. The high pitch of crickets masked the sound, and I was able to relax. My father came over and we were sitting out on my deck and I was honest with him, I told him what had happened after I smoked. He is almost 70, old school, never tried weed ONCE in his life…but he was non-judgmental about it…His reply was “You pissed off a nerve in your brain by smoking too much, I got just the thing for you to try. "
My dad then handed me a few .5mg Klonopin pills he uses for times he cannot sleep. He left and I went and took one. Within 20 minutes the sound in my head was almost gone. I was so happy for relief I almost cried, and as a grown man at almost 40 I hadn’t cried in maybe 25 to 30 years. It took a few days on Klonopin to knock it out, but it never went away fully. My mind was racing still. My doctor put me on Buspar 30 MG a day to stop the obsessive thoughts and I’m back to living normally. I still have the sound in my head in the morning sometimes, although it’s very subtle and I usually forget about it within minutes. I bet this sound (tinnitus) was always there, and was somehow brought out via a severe weed induced panic attack.
Why am I telling you all this? Well a few reasons. First off, even though I haven’t gone near weed in 3 months, sometimes I do miss the good times with weed. I loved to smoke when I was out for a night with friends, or at a family BBQ, or just to relax at home. That’s my dilemma, I’m scared to have this reaction again, but don’t want to say I’ll NEVER smoke again in my life. Like I said I generally enjoyed weed and am sad this happened to me. Second, I don’t know a lot about how weed is grown, but maybe there are strains that DON’T induce paranoia?? Not that would run and try it now, but maybe a year from now..
I dunno, like I said it sucks I cant smoke anymore..and wanted to share this experience because its something I needed to talk about with people who use cannabis and understand what im talking about. Part of me says to try again and see if the same thing happens, the other part of me says NO WAY…so im torn..
Thanks for reading…
I’m new here and found this forum because I recently had a bad experience with cannabis that’s forced me to stop using it. Like let’s put it this way, it terrifies me to even think about smoking again but at the same time, I miss the GOOD in smoking. Here is my story….
I have been, for the last 13 years, almost a daily user of cannabis. As we all know, nothing beat the feeling of getting high when at a concert, out with friends, or at a family BBQ where smoking makes everything so much more enjoyable and fun. But a recent bad reaction has me so confused, and kind of scared..to ever go near it again.
We all know, that for some of us smoking makes us paranoid, and I was no exception. It didn’t happen all the time, it just started happening these last couple years. I would also get that bad body high, where my body kind of felt crappy but after about 20 minutes that reaction would go away and I felt fine. About 3 months ago, I was with my GF and we smoked. We then watched a scary movie, ya know one of those movies with demons and crap..and I was fine… after the movie we smoked again and when my head hit the pillow all of a sudden my head started ringing, like the flat line of an EKG machine, but in my head. My GF didn’t think much of it and started to freak me out which made the situation worse..but I was high so I fell asleep. Woke up at 4am, ringing still there, very LOUD I could hear it over a fan on full blast. The next day it was still there…. Next day and the day after..it was still there and it made me panic because my mind was racing. I had this high pitched sound in my head that wouldn’t go away. It drove me insane. All I could hear was this ringing, so loud it was heard over everything around me, I could even hear it driving on the highway with my cars top down!! After 3 days I went to the doc, who did a hearing test and looked at my ears. Everything was normal. The next day I end up going the ER having a panic attack due to the constant ringing in my head. The ER gave me Xanax and it didn’t help, just made me tired. I was panicking, what did the weed do to me? I didn’t know what to do.. I was terrified I had somehow done brain damage from smoking so much. This had never happened to me before in all my years smoking up…
The ONLY thing that made me feel better was going outside at night and hearing all the crickets. The high pitch of crickets masked the sound, and I was able to relax. My father came over and we were sitting out on my deck and I was honest with him, I told him what had happened after I smoked. He is almost 70, old school, never tried weed ONCE in his life…but he was non-judgmental about it…His reply was “You pissed off a nerve in your brain by smoking too much, I got just the thing for you to try. "
My dad then handed me a few .5mg Klonopin pills he uses for times he cannot sleep. He left and I went and took one. Within 20 minutes the sound in my head was almost gone. I was so happy for relief I almost cried, and as a grown man at almost 40 I hadn’t cried in maybe 25 to 30 years. It took a few days on Klonopin to knock it out, but it never went away fully. My mind was racing still. My doctor put me on Buspar 30 MG a day to stop the obsessive thoughts and I’m back to living normally. I still have the sound in my head in the morning sometimes, although it’s very subtle and I usually forget about it within minutes. I bet this sound (tinnitus) was always there, and was somehow brought out via a severe weed induced panic attack.
Why am I telling you all this? Well a few reasons. First off, even though I haven’t gone near weed in 3 months, sometimes I do miss the good times with weed. I loved to smoke when I was out for a night with friends, or at a family BBQ, or just to relax at home. That’s my dilemma, I’m scared to have this reaction again, but don’t want to say I’ll NEVER smoke again in my life. Like I said I generally enjoyed weed and am sad this happened to me. Second, I don’t know a lot about how weed is grown, but maybe there are strains that DON’T induce paranoia?? Not that would run and try it now, but maybe a year from now..
I dunno, like I said it sucks I cant smoke anymore..and wanted to share this experience because its something I needed to talk about with people who use cannabis and understand what im talking about. Part of me says to try again and see if the same thing happens, the other part of me says NO WAY…so im torn..
Thanks for reading…
