Input on my issue

Alright, to start it off i'll just tell you a little about my pot smoking days. I didn't start smoking until about half way through my junior year in high school. The first time i did we hotboxed the shit out of my girlfriends car and to say the least, i was stoned as fuck. I couldn't even work an ipod I was so high. From then on i was in LOVE with marijuana. I started smoking more and more after that and eventually got to the point where I'd say I was a full fledged stoner.

I had a passion for it, it was the best part of the day to chief it up with some of my friends. Smoking pot defined last summer for me because it's all i did, and i loved it. btw, i wasnt a sloppy, lazy piece of shit (no offense to anyone) like some stoners are. I had a job and played baseball the entire summer, and as for school i was in all honors/ap/advanced classes, or whatever you call them. I kept straight A's for the most part, played baseball, and graduated in the top 10% of my class of 700 kids.

Everyone knew I was a pothead, and it was gravy. I got so relaxed when i smoked and it put me in the best mood. I really had no stress in my life, and nothing was wrong. I was a happy go lucky guy with no worries. Then one day, a couple of months ago, it all just went down hill.

I was smoking with my girlfriend on what we call here "the route" which is just a road that leads from one main road to another down by the lake. It's a residential area that is just perfect for driving and smoking a blunt. ALL the stoners in this town use that road, so its pretty popular. Anyway, we had just finished smoking, and i was driving. I stopped at a stop sign and something just hit me. I got the weirdest fucking feeling ever. Just one of anxiety, i felt that nervous feeling in my stomach reeeeeal bad. Then my heart just started racing. That's what really freaked me out. My heart was beating so fast, I thought i was gonna have a heart attack or something. I had to pull over and just get out of the car and walk around. I finally calmed down and bit and we headed back to her house. But for the next couple of hours I was just shaky and tired, and really freaked out to say the least.

Well I continued smoking pot and sometimes it would happen and sometimes it wouldnt. But after that it wasnt as bad as that time. I would get slight anxiety and my heart would still beat faster, but not as bad. Progressively it just got worse and worse though. As of now, i'm to the point where i cant smoke at all in fear of having a panic attack. I just HATE the feeling and when my heart races like that it freaks me out which only makes it worse. Because of this, i've lost all passion for smoking pot. I have no urge to do it anymore and just the thought of it drives me away from it. It really sucks because i really liked it and it was a good way to just waste time because there isnt shit to do around here. I miss it but i dont at the same time. It's just one of those weird things.

Anyway, if this sort of thing has happened to anyone else or if you just have some input on it let me know.

 

It happens to taylor I beleive. (seized by anger)

 

My advice: stop smoking for like a month or 2, whenever you feel comfortable to smoke than smoke- just a little bit.
I got a freeky 15 minute panic attack on shrooms once and I freaked out when I smoked weed a few times later. Then I stopped for a month and started up again at a low dose, slowly working my way up, now im sweet.
sobriety isnt bad, its fun when you get used to it.

 

yeah, i've actually been enjoying sobriety to be honest. I haven't smoked in a couple of weeks and dont plan to for a while longer at least. I may give it a try again at some point but i just dont know yet. Maybe once i get back into school and working where ill have that to think about instead of thinking about freaking out when i smoke.

 

today i smoked a joint with tobacco in it, and it was literally horrible. it made my breathing really shallow and I felt so god damn dizzy. it was awful and i will never mix pot with baccy ever again.

 

all the time man.......it kina scares me then i remember that noones ever died from it.....after that dosnt help i try to examine why my heart is beating so fast and its usually because im so high i forget to breathe so i just regulate my breath manually if thats not it because it sometimes isnt i soon realise its just you tripping on the in out of the heart noise, like when you hear it, you think it beat twice instead of one time so your like oh shit, my hearts racing....or when you put your hand on your chest and feel....thats the weed making it feel like its beating hard because your concentrating on it.......its all mind games.....and your the home player.....dont let a plant beat your ass......no offense to beautiful mrs marry

 

to circuitry: yeah i smoked a blunt with papers that were actually tobacco leaves and it fucked me up even worse. On top of being high, i had the biggest nicotine buzz i've ever had and i felt like i was about to puke.

to heeh2: you're absolutely right. when my heart starts going crazy like that i think its like irregularly beating or something and it starts freaking me out even more which makes it beat even faster. i try just telling myself that its all in my head but so far it hasnt quite worked yet. as of right now mary jane is whoopin my ass on my own home courty but hopefully ill find a way to fix it

 

just a bad high dont make it that big of a deal

 

yeah at first it was great

then that exact same thing would happen to me, my heart would start to race so hard that i really did think that i was going to die, then i'd feel this terrible pain in the pit of my stomach

then i would get so anxious and my heart would beat faster and faster and eventually, i would vomit. i stopped smoking for like a week, tried it again, and got even more fucked up (in a bad way) then the week before

it's been 5 or 6 weeks since the last time i smoked pot. quit for a month or two, the try again, start off slow. if you still get super fucked then just stop, its the best thing you can do

i've got to go get an endoscopy on my lungs and i have to get my heart checked before i can smoke pot again. but i really think something is wrong with me, seeign as i can't even drink caffeinated sodas anymore as the effect they have on my heart.

so, there are one of a few things that would be wrong with you:
1. you just get anxious and your heart speeds up, it happens to alot of people.
2. you just need to take a break and let your body relax from the pot for a little bit.
3. if your heart starts to beat really fast like that even when you aren't stoned, or your stomach starts to feel like that, then definately see a doctor. i let it go for too long and something in my stomach fucked up and let the acid into my lungs, therefore making it incredible difficult for me to breathe.

if you think you shouldn't be smoking pot dude, then don't do it. take a break.

 

well i try not to make it a big deal but sometimes i just cant help it. for example: i had been drinking and i was pretty drunk and someone was like hey come with me and he lit up a blunt and just out of impulse i smoked it, and i honestly wasnt even thinking about a panic attack but it set in and pretty much ruined my night.

 

oh, im definately taking a break. I dont have any problems when i'm sober. I'm perfectly fine unless i smoke. so im assuming that ever since the first time its just kinda been implanted in my brain subconsciously and it just gets triggered every time i smoke

 

last night me and my buddy snyfin had a few bowls to ourselves.
i was completely out of it.
i felt as if i just done lsd, or another pyschedelic [don't quote me on my spelling of this word] drug.
i was lying on the ground in dissaray, i was staring at my hand as if it were a portal to another dimension.
i literally could not stand up.

 

haha i havent had an episode quite like that so far

 

that could be what it is. even if you don't know you do it, your brain could still associate THC with panic attacks/any bad feeling in general. and because weed naturally speeds your heart beat up some, you'd start to get anxious without knowing it then when you raelize it its pretty much too late and you're falling into a bad high and a panic attack that you won't be able to escape from.

i wouldn't say i smoked alot of pot. maybe in a year and a half i got high maybe 150 times. maybe around high 140 was when i started to feel sick. but i figured it was just a bad high so i would smoke, and everytime i sould smoke it would get worse and worse. then eventually my heart would just become unbearable and i just would not be able to breathe.

but what finally did me in was the fact that breathing had become quite impossible, my heart was speedyspeedyspeedy and i just had an extremely bad trip.

long story short, i smoked some pot, didn't feel it like i usually would, smoked maybe 2 and a half bowls betweed me and my boyfriend, turns out the weed was some kind of creeper and we pretty much smoked 2x or 3x what we should have smoked, didn't know it was some kind of creeper, and got hit with a forceful high like getting hit by a truck. it was terrible. it fucked us both up so badly, we were both throwing up.

i'd say, just take a break dude. but don't give up on mj all together unless it comes to the point where you know mj is just not for you.

 

well i dont have any problems breathing, its just the feeling i get in the pit of my stomach and my heart racing that just totally freaks me out. i smoked ALOT of pot before this ever started happening. last summer i was smoking upwards of 10-15 three gram blunts a day with no problem. it just all hit me at once and i cant seem to figure out why.

 

^ it happens dude

thats what happened to me and it has happened to others


just take a break and try again

maybe pots just not for you

 

Yeah I really know where your coming from. I used to get the same anxiety and the shakes... been there done that. I think it all starts from something wrong in your life deep inside or a problem you may be having, depression or something i dont know? But I know all that shit stopped happening to me when I smoked, after my life improved a great deal, so I'm all good now.

 

i know that it sometimes stems from that, but there really isnt anything wrong in my life.

 

you could be right, i guess ill just have to wait and see

 

I think that you should just relax and smoke a joint, by yourself or with friends that is your choice. But when you do smoke that joint just be relaxed, like go to your favorite place to chill and toke and just smile be happy.