Suffering anxiety after a panic attack from weed???

Orithil

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I have an anxiety disorder (or two, if you're a shrink who wants more money) and I actually USE sativa to treat it. I've had panic attacks bad enough to have me in the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack - I think the key with smoking is to find which type/strain suits your individual needs. What a bud may do to someone else, it may not do to you.

Every person has a unique brain chemistry, so no one can tell you exactly how ANY chemical you introduce into your body will affect you, but rest assured the key to passing a minor panic attack is within your grasp...because no one has EVER died from cannabis. Neither will you.
 
i know that no one has ever died from cannabis. but I have alot of abdominal problems and i'm not sure whats wrong with me( the doctors think its crohn's disease but not sure) and thats were my anxiety comes from and it's like the last time i got high i worried about it more and it caused a huge panic attack. and on top of that i quit cigarettes and coffee and junk food 3 weeks ago and the withdrawals were horrible and i still think i might be going threw the withdrawals. but anyway i'm just afraid to smoke weed cause i'm afraid i'll have another panic attack but i really need the weed now for all the pain i'm in. it's just a really shitty situation.
 

Orithil

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i know that no one has ever died from cannabis. but I have alot of abdominal problems and i'm not sure whats wrong with me( the doctors think its crohn's disease but not sure) and thats were my anxiety comes from and it's like the last time i got high i worried about it more and it caused a huge panic attack. and on top of that i quit cigarettes and coffee and junk food 3 weeks ago and the withdrawals were horrible and i still think i might be going threw the withdrawals. but anyway i'm just afraid to smoke weed cause i'm afraid i'll have another panic attack but i really need the weed now for all the pain i'm in. it's just a really shitty situation.
I have General & Social anxiety disorder, bi-polar, intermittent explosive disorder, borderline and anti-social personality disorders, gastroenteritis (I can't afford the colonoscopy for specific diagnosis, I have no appetite and if I don't smoke the things I do manage to eat don't even get digested properly, I'll lose 3-5 pounds a day pretty easily.) migraines, several damaged discs in my back and neck, degenerative joints and my teeth are soft and randomly break off when they feel like it.

If it wasn't for cannabis, I'd have been dead some time ago, I feel sure.
 
intermittent explosive disorder sucks I have it too. I also have scoliosis and really bad impacted wisdom teeth, but the abdominal pain is by far the worst and i know how ya feel when it comes to not digested food right, food comes out looking like it did when i ate it. thats why i need to smoke weed right now. thats also why i quit smoking cigs and drinking coffee and eating junk food. and i havn't drank soda or alcohol over a year. i'm trying to eat healthy and exercise and try and turn my life around cause i'm only 21 and I feel like i'm dying. I just ordered a vaporizer too. cause i really don't want inhale smoke anymore.
 

Finshaggy

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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
Ok. I've talked to a lot of people that have anxiety problems with smoking. I was a Collie Man, so people opened up to me, thinking I'd be best to talk to.

You're:
1. Anxiety just happens for some people when they smoke. You could get over it, could not. Who knows.
2. A Lightweight. Maybe you just need to smoke more(over time). And don't go to the hospital for weed stuff. It's just...Like this:
[video=youtube;FHTzpXyXO-4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHTzpXyXO-4[/video]
 

OGEvilgenius

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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.
For sure. I love that feeling now. I used to hate it. It made me sad that it's become hard to find true C99 seeds... I gave some to a friend of mine a few years ago and I shouldn't have :(

It's funny how we can train ourselves to deal with things. I find I get some of my most intense thinking done in these moments.
 

squarepush3r

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I had this exact same thing happen to me over 10 years ago. Went from being an everyday stoner, to having panic attacks at even the smell of smoke sometimes. I still dont smoke much to the day, do more growing now.
 

xKuroiTaimax

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intermittent explosive disorder sucks I have it too. I also have scoliosis and really bad impacted wisdom teeth, but the abdominal pain is by far the worst and i know how ya feel when it comes to not digested food right, food comes out looking like it did when i ate it. thats why i need to smoke weed right now. thats also why i quit smoking cigs and drinking coffee and eating junk food. and i havn't drank soda or alcohol over a year. i'm trying to eat healthy and exercise and try and turn my life around cause i'm only 21 and I feel like i'm dying. I just ordered a vaporizer too. cause i really don't want inhale smoke anymore.
I feel for you. I'm sorry you feel you can't enjoy weed anymore. I love relaxing with White Rhino, or some kind of Kush. I have Anxiety, have experienced extreme hysterical panic attacks, but never after smoking pot. I mean I've had a racing heart and twitching occasionally but not freaking out because obviously I knew I just went and smoked- nothing was wrong with me.

Maybe the problem was you hit it too hard after that period of not smoking. Be gentle with your body and ease yourself back into your smoking routine after a break. My longest break was 3 weeks, then I smoked 6g over 5 hours. Skinny joints, then fatter joints, roaches added, then blunts, but I didn't touch a bong until after the first couple of days. Gentle... Like that.

Good luck.
 

Finshaggy

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I say try your luck with a legal JWH, take down a gram in a week, and once you've survived that...

Weed honestly can no longer have negative side effects for you.
Once you've had too strong of a JWH experience, your Cannabinoid Receptors can handle anything :)
 

sunni

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Staff member
a lot of posts saying its no big deal.. but if you have ever had an anxiety attack it is a big fucking deal. anxiety is all in your head yes, but it creates physical symptom. such as chest pains, tingling feeling in your left arms ect ect.
it is excessive worry
for example i hit my head once on a ceiling and because I suffer from extreme anxiety my first thought that crossed my mind even before ow that hurt was
" im going to die of a massive brain hemorrhage"
so when people post these post, if you dont have anything to help them I strongly suggest not posting. It is a very serious illness and it causes a lot of problems.It also effects 1-4 people around the world.
It cannot be cured.
It is very scary living everyday like that, you can't help it.
If you cant relate to this be happy , but don't put others down.

In regards , its trail and error with weed stick with indica strains, try not smoking from sinkers, bongs, and pipes. go with joints and dont smoke all of it. smoke half. wait. then if you feel you can handle it smoke the rest. Dont put yourself ina room with 12 people smoking, try doing it with a friend /family member you feel safe with.
 

lostNug

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That's crazy. I personally I think u got some laced weed.

I had a crazy experience with my friend. We blazed a joint, he started havin a panic attack (never had one before), then straight up went blind for a good 5 minutes. Im not joiking either. His sight came back slightly after a while and after few hours and a zanax he was ok. Shit was nuts tho. Really tripped me out. Nothing wrong with the weed cuz I smoked it n was fine.

Good luck with everything man.
 

mars

Active Member
Could be the Devil. The jerk will attack anyone and everyone. Seriously. Demonic attacks happen constantly, if not stopped it will lead to disease and eventually premature death in an attempt to get you to die in your sins.
Peace and may God Bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
 

Finshaggy

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a lot of posts saying its no big deal.. but if you have ever had an anxiety attack it is a big fucking deal. anxiety is all in your head yes, but it creates physical symptom. such as chest pains, tingling feeling in your left arms ect ect.
it is excessive worry
for example i hit my head once on a ceiling and because I suffer from extreme anxiety my first thought that crossed my mind even before ow that hurt was
" im going to die of a massive brain hemorrhage"
so when people post these post, if you dont have anything to help them I strongly suggest not posting. It is a very serious illness and it causes a lot of problems.It also effects 1-4 people around the world.
It cannot be cured.
It is very scary living everyday like that, you can't help it.
If you cant relate to this be happy , but don't put others down.

In regards , its trail and error with weed stick with indica strains, try not smoking from sinkers, bongs, and pipes. go with joints and dont smoke all of it. smoke half. wait. then if you feel you can handle it smoke the rest. Dont put yourself ina room with 12 people smoking, try doing it with a friend /family member you feel safe with.
Maybe it's a "Big deal", but nothing we can help, all we can say is "Maybe you can smoke through it..."
 

Finshaggy

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That's crazy. I personally I think u got some laced weed.

I had a crazy experience with my friend. We blazed a joint, he started havin a panic attack (never had one before), then straight up went blind for a good 5 minutes. Im not joiking either. His sight came back slightly after a while and after few hours and a zanax he was ok. Shit was nuts tho. Really tripped me out. Nothing wrong with the weed cuz I smoked it n was fine.

Good luck with everything man.
I know someone from NY, when they were little they used to get "Bomb ass weed" but then she moved to Tx, and weed was different. She visited NY some time later, and her friend told her, "That was laced with PCP". She tried some of that, and it was the same. She had NO IDEA for years.

So maybe it WAS laced for OP too...
 

Finshaggy

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Could be the Devil. The jerk will attack anyone and everyone. Seriously. Demonic attacks happen constantly, if not stopped it will lead to disease and eventually premature death in an attempt to get you to die in your sins.
Peace and may God Bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
One post, and it's gonna be something to scare someone into loving Jesus? Tsk tsk.
 
I suffered from the same thing at your age, it never really went away i just learnt to deal with it, i dont have panic attacks now just sweaty palms, Until i started cultivating and smoking strawberry cough, look for strains with anti-anxiety traits! if not i suggest you do as i did and quit for awhile, then gradually start smoking again, that or change to joints and when you do smoke go for a walk in the bush or anywhere that you feel safe and relaxxed!!, if you have a panic attack again just get a paper bag and breathe into it, it slows down the heart and calms you down!

Hope this helped!
 

BA142

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Only anxiety attack I've ever had was after I ate 6 grams of cubensis. :-(

and even then it was manageable...I can't imagine weed doing this to me. I guess it varies from person to person
 
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