Pot and panic attacks?!?!? WTF?

I smoked pot for years... all day, every day. I smoked sexy mexi to shit straight from Amsterdam. Then a couple years ago, I started getting panic attacks when I'd smoke... and it still happens. It ruins my high, and keeps me from participating anymore. Anyone else have this problem? Do ya knw a possible cause? HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!

 

smoking in a more relaxed environment?

 

Smoke in a controlled enviornment. Calm music and close smoking pals. Everything will be fine then.

 

it's all in your head

 

you might be becoming schizo.

at any rate, a lot of people smoke weed for a couple of years before gettin panic attacks.

your life has been changing and there are things in your life that you consider now that you didnt before.

so you can either stop smoking, fix your issues that make you panicked, or figure it as all in your head and try to relax

 

what exactly do you mean by panic attack? like totally freaking out, paranoia, depression?

 

maybe laced.
maybe your getting an allergy to it.
do you experience severe coughing and/or sneezing when hitting it?
maybe you're just psyching yourself out.
oh and dont smoke alone.
that in itself makes you paranoid.

 

Take this as your warning light; stop smoking now.

You started very young, when your brain was still trying to develop, and bombarded it with THC it wasn't mature enough to handle. You may now be experiencing the long term effects of this. If you do not heed this warning, you may well find yourself developing full-blown psychosis in a few years.

I have smoked long enough to know, panic symptoms are not a good sign for a smoker; pot doesn't suit everyone, and the younger you start, the greater those risks are.

Do yourself a favour and stop; if the symptoms don't develop into anything, maybe take it up again in few years time. Let your brain finish growing first, though, or you risk irrepairable damage (around 22 years of age).

As a psychosis sufferer myself ( not pot induced; I'm one of the lucky ones), I can tell you, if you can avoid this, then do so. Mental illness is not fun. Don't take risks with your brain chemistry.

 

The same thing happened to me but mine also had to do with a bad acid trip, but try not smoking as much when you do smoke, just take a few hits from a bowl and try just smokin by yourself a few times in a controlled environment, this way you don't have to worry about anyone fuckin with you, then once you start to enjoy getting high again try smokin with other people, just remember not to take too big of hits.

 

and If you do feel yourself start to panic you have to learn how to calm yourself down, cause it's all in your head. You have to learn how to just say "fuck it" when your high instead of worryin about shit thats goin on around you cause remember gettin high isnt supposed to be stressful.

 

stop smoking. I Knew somebody that had a bad trip on some hard stuff and after that when she tried so smoke, she had panic attacks every single time. Severe ones. My advice is to cut back on the smoking.

 

hey mebedru, thanks for sharing your experience, i have had very similar ones myself. late october last year i had a very severe panic attack an hour or so after smoking pot. i felt extreme stress, panic and fear, not just in my mind but also physically. one of the worst experiences of my life, i thought i'd just crack and go crazy. anyways i managed to calm myselves down and eventually was able to sleep. naturally, i quit then. after that i had a few panic attacks without smoking weed, and i was so distressed i couldn't think or work normally, i had mental distortions, severe depressions, thoughts of dying or getting ill... all kinds of shit. it took me months to recover. I've had weird feelings from smoking pot before this, but i've always ignored it. so be careful here. i'd say you should quit for an extended period of time before reconsidering doing it. i could tell you so much more, but i don't know where to start. i actually went to a psychatrist after the the panic attacks were gone and she said that this may develop into a full scale psychosis. anybody saying you just gotta relax isn't taking this shit seriously enough. i have a long history of taking weed and other drugs, i started at 14 now i'm 23, i can tell you it's not all "just in your head...". your whole world is just in your head man, think about, it's all psychological. all your feelings, emotions et cetera, that doesn't make it any less real or serious. nobody would say when your in love its all just in your head, thats bs. so long friends. thats my opion, quit for a LONG time and get back on track. you can still get high way later in your life.
cheers.

 

Man, the exact same thing happened to me! I started smoking when I was about 13. I did non-stop for about 2 years, and then i got caught. Then, the first time I did it since then, I had a terrible panic attack. The only thing my doctor told me to do was to stop, and i did. I've been clean and sober now for 3 years and although I do have the occasional panic attack, it's never been as bad as when I was smoking. So, I'm going to have to agree with some of the people here that say STOP. Altogether. It might make you sick a lot at first, but you'll thank yourself in the long run.

 

i recently started having panic issues. i started smoking when i was early 17, i am now almost 19. i got busted smoking and after that i decided i was goin to quit for awhile. about 4 days after i quit i had a full blown panic attack. numbing arms, numb face, racing heart, sweating alot, tight chest pains, i ended up going to the emergency room thinking it was a heart attack, since i had never felt that feeling before. the doctor told me to stop smoking cigarettes and weed, so i took it east a few days and decided i was gunna have a cigarette (its hard to quit cold turkey) before even lighting it up, just holding it in my hand i was shaking already. i only hit the cigarette like 6 times and the rest i just held it and let it burn. i can nwo smoke cigs again evry once in awhile. i recently tried smoking pot again after a week and i only had 4 or 5 hits and i started to panic again, i alsmot went into another panic attack, my heart was RACING. now i cant even really enjoy smoking weed, becuase whenever i try i just end up panicing and having to lay down and drink some water to calm myself down. the way i see it is if you have problems with panic attacks i would just quit completly or atleast quit for awhile until you get everything figued out in your head.

 

ha, marijuana is amazing.

 

marijuana is the devil. look what it's doing to the youth.

 

actually I had a panic attack once. I sat back down and it went away so i dunno. it was pretty intense too. i thought i would die for a second there.

 

i've never had one.
so it's all gravy for me.
i smoke it all the time.
it can be your best friend.
and it is most definately for me
but, it depends on the individual.

 

^^ But you're only 18. You don't know what can happen.

A good mate of mine never took the bong out of his hand for years and years from age about 17 to when he was around 23/24. Never had any mental health issues etc etc, one day he smoked and it gave him a nasty ass panic attack. Since then every time he smokes it spins him out bad and he freaks out. He'll occasionally smoke a little if there's a joint going round or whatever but weed fks him up now. BTW he still can happily take ecstacy, shrooms, ketamine and most other things but pot hits him bad. Still no idea what triggered it either so don't be so complacent...


PS) What is All Gravy? A brand?

 

do you think i just started smoking pot or something?
i'll be 19 in july and i've smoked since the day of my 12th birthday.
that was a birthday present from a friend of mine when i was 12.
so, on my birthday this year, it'll be 7 years... so don't put an age limit on me.
and i have smoked all kinds of weed, all different sorts of amounts with different kinds, i've mixed weed with other different strains, i've done everything with pot that you can possibly imagine, my friend.
so don't treat me like a kid and think that i don't know shit.
it depends on the person, you can develop an allergy over time.
i hope that doesn't happen to me, though [knocks on wood].
it depends on the person, their surroundings, the music playing, the ambiance, the people that they are with, etc.
all sorts of things can make or break your experience.
i've never had a panic attack before, maybe i'm one of those people that won't.
i smoke pot everyday, few to several times a day.

it doesn't matter, just don't rant on my age.
because that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with it, man.

it just means that soemthing's good.
that's the way i interpret it.
unless someone else on the forums can explain it better, lol.

have a good day, man.