Lexapro/marijuana problem.

I went to the doctor the other day complaining of social anxiety issues because i'm extremely nervous around people i don't know for no apparent reason. It's been so bad my whole life that i've been to scared to try and fined a girlfriend. And really don't have many friends in general. So my doctor prescribed me lexapro for it. The first day i definitly felt effects mostly stimulant like effects with my teeth chattering really bad, but no reduction in anxiety. The next day i had the same effects and later on i went over to a friends house to smoke some bud. I forgot to mintion that about a month before this i smoked some bud at a friends house and had a serious panic attack. I went into covulsions and pissed myself as well which led me to think that it was a seizure. But back to the story. I didn't figure that it would have any negative effects to smoke after taking the lexapro because i didn't really think about it which was stupid. Well about five minutes after smoking i had the same feelings that i had that last time i had a panic attack which was an intense pressure in my head, a burning sensation all throughout my body, extreme nervousness, and extreme nausia. So i told him i was going home and me and my friends ryan and joe left. When i got up to the car i told them what was up, and they took me back home. The whole time i was trying to fight it off as best i could. I felt like complete shit, i was dehydrating, and felt like i was dying. But i eventually came out of it without going into convulsions. So the next day i didn't take my med. And later on that night i smoked again, which was stupid, but i figured that it wouldn't happen again because i didn't take the lexapro that day, but it did. So i haven't smoked since that day, but i drank a half a beer a few days later and just about went into another one. So it's almost been a week since i last took my lexapro, and ever since i've been feeling really strange like light headed, nausiated, like i'm not in my head, and just overall weird. my eyes have turned real dark like when i'm really high. And my heart is slitely palpitating. Today i was over at my friends house in the same room that i had that first panic attack, and just about had another one from just being there, and i wasn't even on anything. I've been sleeping a lot lately, and i've been feeling really really depressed. I've also been extremely nervous ever since i first took the lexapro which is funny because it was supposed to reduce that. Also only took it twice. Non of these things seem good and i was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them not only from lexapro, but any other SSRI? Or if anyone has any information on these symptoms? Will this stop? Please help!

 

I already did, but thanks. I didn't seem to fined much more information about it then you shouldn't mix them with other drugs. And that they reduce the effects of certain hallucinagens, which sucks.

 

desert nightmare- why do u have these problems ? did some thign happend in ur childhood ? waht is the cause of these attacks ??

I know waht can help u regardign metnal state... ask in ur hospital or in ur home town newspaper about NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING if i spelled it right... this is msot powerful of all parts of psycheoteraphy... give it a shot i you CARE.

 

My grand parents have put an extreme amount of stress on me. Thats most likely why. My mom died when i was 11, but i don't think thats it. Though if she were here at least i'd probably be sane!

As for that therapy you speak of what is the procedure?

 

I had a panic attack again today and went to the hospital and they prescribed me Vistaril for the anxiety. Is that going to be strong enough, or is that just little bitch shit? And is it ok to drink/do other drugs on this?

 

If you're that concerned about possible bad reaction from mixing drugs and have actually gone through bad reactions before then care for yourself enough to not mix the drugs. Seriously.

Also: Most drugs of this sort will wack you out for about a week or so as your body adjusts to them. If your docotor didn't tell you or prepare you for this then stop getting pills from that doc and go see a therapist who has more experience with these drugs beyond just pushing them on anyone who says they're down and out so they get their kick backs from the drug companies.

 

I would definately recommend telling your doc about the bad reactions if you haven't already done so.
Asside from the medication, consider meditation in quiet places for like 30 minutes a day & see if it helps your mental state. Sometimes the stress can build up so bad that you must release it...consider ways to do so on top of the meds??? Just a thought.
Hope it improves, bud.

 

Desert Nightmare- eh.. these old folks... too bad they've come from diff, generations with more , simple, globalized at that time, even stupdi beliefs and concerns.... But its our History. This treatment i say will help you 75 % because i dont know ur presonally, so u still as in every case has negative percentage. SO ask in ur clinics anywhere, for this programmin.

IT simply works as they talk to u, abotu all ur problems , you have to be honest and fully cooperative with them, and make this fear of society, simply become a BUG,, put it in the box and send it to Africa, in this box that will never come back.... and after that your fear is gone.... you understand ? Live happily adn smartly.

 

For fucks sake dude its the marijuana. Mixing illegal substances with each other is idiotic enough but mixing them with full on meds? For Christs sake! Marijuana gave me anxiety disorder and depression and I cant even consider how stupid you would have to be to keep smoking pot AFTER the panic attack you had and then to keep smoking it while on medicines. This thread has made me REALLY angry.

 

It's sad for me because i really love pot. If it's definitly nesessary that i quit smoking for good then i will, but if there is something that i could do to be able to smoke again and not have panick attacks that would be fantastic!

But here's the thing. I'm thinking it's not just panic attacks that i've been having. I think whatever happened to me calsed a panic attack to go along with it. I'm not positive though. But the reason i think this is because the other day i had just a panic attack, and that wasn't after smoking, or anything. I went to the hospital because it was so bad. It was just extremely anxious for no reason. I've never been near that scared in my life. But when i had one after smoking or something the first symptoms that i would have would be an extreme pressure in my head, light headed, nausia, dizzyness, burning throughout my body, slitely delusional, tunnal vision, everything sounds really weird. Then after this i get the panic attack because it scares the shit out of me.

Most of those symptoms can't be any good for me. I got blood work done today and hopefully they can figure out what if wrong and i can fix the problem. This is a really shitty situation for me.

 

you can't have the best of both worlds... its all about taking responsibility for your illness and problems and sorting them out. Marijuana can cause you to develop panic and/or anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, depression and psychosis. Just because you don't have them right after smoking pot that doesnt mean that marijuana isn't the problem. I never smoked pot again after my first panic attack and I still got them.... still do.
Basically what I'm saying is I know how much it sucks to have panic and anxiety.. but if you are going to mix prescription drugs with pot, not take your medication as required and stopping taking it when you shouldnt (most anti- anxiety and anti-depressant drugs take about a month or two to start working) then you can't expect to get better and you certainly should'nt expect people to have sympathy for you, when you refuse to be responsible for what your doing for yourself.

 

I'm trying to be responsible. I'm going to stop all drugs for 6 months, including coffee. It's going to be hard, but i'm going to give it my best shot. And i know if i hang around people that use drugs i'm going to use them. so unforturnitly i'm going to have to quit hanging with them for a while. Now that i think about it, all of my current friends do drugs. So i guess when i start back at school i'm going to have to start back all over again. It's going to be extremely hard though if i happen to come across some psychedlics. I'm still going to by them.
It's just that i'll have such an erge to take them. I think i'll just start a big drug collection, and not lay a finger on a one of them until the six months are up.

Wiccan you say that you quit smoking pot and still have panic attacks, well how long has it been? What is the best way to treat panic attacks?

 

I went trough a really tough time with depression and the only thing that got me trough it was pot. I took all kinds of meds but they just made me feel worse because I had an artificial happiness, and felt like I depended on the meds.

 

Artificial happieness?

 

Panic and anxiety from smoking pot can be temporary or permenant. For me it ended up being permenant. I'm glad your going to stop the dugs for 6 months and see how you go... and good on you for quitting coffee also..caffeine can increase anxiety. I have had anxiety for about 2 years and 3 months. Its managed now after a course of anti-depressants over about a year (you usually need to take them for about 6 months in order to see proper results), going to see a therapists to discuss what was the real root of my anxiety. For many people pot is the catalyst to anxiety rearing its head and theres often a psycological reason underneath. Finally you need to figure out how to cope with the anxiety when you feel the symtpoms of panic and anxiety coming on.
I used to have all friends who did drugs too.... get rid of them they are no good for you and are going nowhere in life. All my friends now are wonderfull, happy, healthy supportive people and its made SUCH a difference.
Anxiety really sucks but you can beat if you really want to. Give your meds a chance to work.

 

I'm not going to try lexapro because of the severe sexual disfuction it has calsed. If lexapro did that, then does that mean all SSRI's will? i've bought some xanax off the street and it helped my aniety beyond belief, but i don't want to get addicted, and it probably want help fix my problem unless i'm on it. I don't want to be on it all the time because of its side effects like short term memory loss, bad decission making, tiredess. I'm going to admitt that i'm definitly suicidal. I have been for a while. If this anxiety doesn't go away i will kill myself.

 

I hated Lexapro I lost touch of every friendship or relationship I had when I was on it. I went off the anxiety meds and they upped my dose of wellbutrin instead and I feel great; happy, energetic. I still have to deal with the anxiety but it's dealable now. I was just so numb on lexapro and effexor that relearning how to feel, whether it's happy or sad is difficult.
I would try something milder like welbutrin or abilify before lexapro, it's pretty heavy stuff and it caused a lot of weight gain and lethargy for me.

 

When you took the lexapro did you smoke pot while on it, or any other drug?

 

If read the story right:
You smoked some grass and had a panic attack including seizure like symptoms.
Then, you told your MD about anxiety and he put you on Lexapro.
Then you smoked pot with the Lexapro and had a bad reaction.
Again you smoked pot and had another bad reaction.

It sounds like you are going off the Lexapro because you want to smoke pot. (But the first panic attack was withoug Lexapro)

You should probably call the doctor (right now) and tell him

This sounds like a situation where self-medication is a dangerously bad idea.