Suffering anxiety after a panic attack from weed???

I KNOW THIS IS LONG BUT PLEASE READ
I would really like to hear from people who are going through the same thing and have GOOD advice

I'm 19 and have been smoking weed every day for a few years straight with out having any problems and loving it. I went on vacation for about ten days and didn't smoke the whole time i was on vacation. So I get home sunday night and on monday august 15, i was with a friend and was excited to start smoking again. I took one really big, massive hit and got pretty stoned and was feeling fine for a while until i started feeling really woozy. My heart rate started going crazy, my hands and feet were tingling, my chest had a lot of pressure, my left arm went numb, i felt very nauseated and anxious and it felt like i would maybe pass out. Very scary feeling! I tried to calm myself down and about after an hour of the same feeling, i asked my mom to take me to the emergency room. only when i got to the hospital did i start to calm down. they ran just about every test on me and everything came back fine except a really low pottasium level.

Well i thought that if i just start eating better and get more pottasium that i'd be fine. NOW THIS IS WHAT IS WORRYING ME.

I got out of the hospital monday night and the next day, tuesday august 16, i woke up feeling pretty okay, just a little weak, but started off my day like normal.
and then out of no where i started feeling really anxious and nauseated along with strange vision, like everything is kinda dreamy or sharp looking. It wouldnt go away so i decided to take a nap after a while. when i woke up a few hours later i still felt the same anxious, nauseated feeling. I even tried to hang out with my friend to see if I would stop feeling anxious but that didnt help. It finally went away a few hours before i went to bed and it was such a relief. BUT the next day, wednesday august 17, it pretty much happened the same way. i felt really crappy, anxious, and nausteated for apparently no reason. I kept asking myself why i'm feeling anxious cause i have nothing to worry about but it didnt really help. I went to the family doctor that day(and by this time the anxiety feeling was gone) and they did a few more tests, and i tried to explain the axiety feeling i was having but they said not to worry and call back in a few days if I still feel the same way. well i had to go to work right after the doctors visit and i felt fine for about thirty minutes and then it hit me again. but this time it didnt last as long as the other times, maybe an hour and a half of it and then it went away. I felt pretty okay for the rest of the night, ate a good dinner, had a happy-tired feeling and was glad to go to bed.


BUT i woke up suddenly out of nowhere feeling very crappy, anxious, nauseated, shaky, heart racing with a weird and scary dreamy feeling along with weird vision again. I felt hot one minute and cold the next and tried to just go back to sleep but couldnt. I have been up since that time and have been feeling the same way, with a really spacey and woozy feeling. It feels like its not going away this time. I've tried to go back to bed since i hardly got any sleep but everytime i lay down, i start to feel dizzy and worse.

It is now saturday, august 20th, and i'm pretty much still feeling the same way. yesterday on friday august 19 I felt really bad most of the morning and afternoon with all the same symptoms and then it went away for a while.
That night on friday my doctor prescribed me .5mg of xanax to see if it helps with my anxiety. so that same night i went to the gym and felt really good after wards (in fact the best i've felt in the past few days) then picked up my prescription and took only half a pill of the xanax around 9pm and just felt kinda weird and normal but after a while i began to feel anxious again so i took the other half of the pill around 11pm and began to feel really drowsy and tired. I went to bed and felt kinda weird and hot but was able to drift off to sleep. But I woke up around 2am feeling really strange and shaky along with blurred vision (not the same as the dream like/sharp vision that I explained earlier) So i just tried to go back to sleep and was finally able to around 3:30am.

This morning on saturday august 20, i woke up around 10am feeling HORRIBLE. Really tired and shaky, heavy body feeling, anxious of course and just pretty much out of it. this feeling felt a bit worse then all the other times anxiety hit me in the previous days. so I just tried to sleep some more and was drifting in and out of sleep until like 12:30pm but still felt really bad and still pretty tired and STILL anxious. So around 2pm I took another xanax pill and it made me better but still felt slight anxiety. It is now 9:30pm and i have just gotten back from another visit from the gym and feel pretty good.
Im just hoping that i dont start feeling really bad again.

How long is one dose of .5mg supposed to last anyway?
the directions say take one every eight hours so i'm guesing it last about eight hours but i dont know because i've also heard that it can also last only 2 hours or something.

Also if this helps, i usualy feel really bad right when i wake up in the morning and it'll start to go away around early evening like 4-6 but then ill start to feel bad again around the time i go to bed like around 10

So in summary, ever since that one hit of weed, and after that first big attack, It seems like i've been having anxiety problems. It's an off and on pattern, I'll feel fine for a while, and then really ****** for a while. I havent smoked since that one hit on monday so that's why i'm scared that i'm having these affects even though its already been five days

From what i've read from other posts that are similar to what im going through say that the weed triggered some kind of disorder that'll take a few months to get back to normal? that makes me worry even more because only a few days of feeling like this is horrible so I dont know if I can handle several months.

I have another appointment with my doctor on tuesday august 23 and this time i'm going to explain every single detail to her about whats been going on because all the doctor really knows it that i'm just having anxiety problems. The doctor doesn't know about the weed.

by the way, ever since tuesday night august 16, i've been eating very healthy and drink ONLY water and lots of it. but most of the time I'm finding it hard to eat. Just loss of appetite.

Anyway, does anyone have any experience in EXACTLY what im going through? Also any experience with xanax because I like how its kinda helping me but I dont want to get addicted to this stuff because I heard trying to come off it is like the most HORRIBLE nightmare of your life.

I also start school on monday and i'm worried if i'll be able to get through it or not?

i'd just like to have more feed back from people who are going through the same thing
PLEASE HELP

you are addicted






















since cannabis is non addicting this obviously not true, so go see your doctor.

oh, nevermind LOL... all the words really threw me off... felt like homework... sounds like you smoked PCP.

The thing is if someone had the same as you they wouldn`t be on toke n talk!

Weed causes panic attacks I know a right dope guy who quit becase of them...

Are you willing to take the path of training your mind while accepting all our mindsets are fucked up in the first place?

this happend to me, i had to quit for along time, started on joints and ect, going up youll need to smoke pot thats indica strains,

As tenner said it's all about mental training imo.. most people get nerves smoking every now and then, i've had it, you've just got to remind yourself that you've taken something that will cause you to feel different and anything funky is due to that, and that it's not dangerous. Just try and chill and enjoy it. if yo have trouble not smoking weed or feeling fucked when you smoke again you might have an issue with mental dependancy. fuck knows. i'm high.

some strains have no anxious side effects.you should look at the world of seeds northern light x big bud strain.
stay away from sativas,and when smoking weed for a long time,if you only ever ate when you were high your body will have got used to that.so eating when sober will make your body reject it.
so you should always eat breakfast when sober so you dont have to be high when you eat.
for now tho i think you should stop smoking weed for as long as it takes for you to feel well again.

well i have had this happen but it never happened when i was not smoking ,
then i found that it was all in my head, i think mj multiplies what your feeling so this might be related to something else, and for me the something else was something i couldn't get rid of so i had to find a solution, this is not to good health wisse but try taking two or 3 shots of whatever you like when it gets reall bad, i also do it to control my anxiety while high alcohol as we all know is not good for you tho so only do this if your ok with it

are you pregnant

its that schwag, close the borders down god dang it! lol jk thats wrong but
u never know what ppl can put in ur weed homie. im more careful about what i smoke
and who i buy from. maybe weed isnt for u. just my opinion.

sound like your just suffering from a flu bug thats going around.
take 2 asprins, switch strains, and call me in the morning.

maybe it's not all from the weed or something, i mean i really don't know, i haven't expirienced it but maybe get a new batch and smoke a bit, see if that helps? maybe you have like an overload of stress or something and all you need is some good weed to help you relax.

hope you figure it out man, good luck

I get anxiety if I smoke sativa sometimes. So I stick with Indica.

Same thing here with some sativas. Some are a happy, up buzz, some just totally fuck you up and can make your heart race. I hate that kind of high

Its called paying your dues to the herb, ya just gota get back up on your saddle or in this case that bong and fucking rip it!

it is called withdraw.... People say it is not addictive. But Any time your body gets accustomed to something for years straight, and then you stop, your body knows.

I had the same thing happen. I am 27, stopped for a long week for a trip and had a panic attack on the way back. hospital visits...smoking with firends...still freaking out...sweaty hands, rapid heart rate. I stopped smoking after that, but it took a little while for me to settle down. It has been 2 years now and i feel better. I smoke occasionally and dont have problems with it. but moderation was the key for me.

U just had a whitner I had a bad experience a few years ago i hallucinated after smoking a j (never had it happen since) and then after that i was so nervous and paranoid that everytime i smoked it just got worst ur mind plays tricks on you i thought i was living in a dream world like a diffrent parrell universe i stoped smoking and only started again last year now im fine because i just learned to tell myself that im not stuck in a dream or in a different universe im just letting my imigination run wild i think your paranoid that your going to be paranoid

I had this happen to me. I was a heavy weed smoker. i smoked everyday for over a year, several times a day and then I quit for a week and when i started back I had a huge panic attack and i haven't smoked weed since. i'm also having all the same symptoms your having, and i've been like this for 2 weeks.

are you feeling better yet? and if so how long did the withdrawals last? cause Idk if I can take anymore of this.

Its called a bad high