So I've been smoking almost everyday for a couple of weeks. Not too much each time, just a couple hits here and there. This makes me feel relaxed and sometimes a little giggly and has been helping with my social anxiety disorder. Last night I went to bed early to get extra rest to ward off a slight cold I felt coming on. But I ended up waking up at 1:30 in the morning. So I thought I'd smoke a little bit so I could fall back to sleep. Well I think I smoked a bit too much. I was the highest I've probably ever been. My vision got so grainy that it looked like there was a screen of pixelated rainbow prisms on my vision. And I've never had so much "breathing" visuals on pot before. On shrooms sure, but this was a little crazy. My hands were tingling so bad. I decided that I should try to meditate on my chakras, ya know to compare the sensations to other states of consciousness. When I focused on my crown chakra the sensation was so strong. I felt so much energy on the top of my head, then it started to travel down to the other chakras. (I usually do this exercise from the bottom up not top down whether I'm high or not...I don't know why I did it this way.) When I got to my heart chakra I noticed my heart racing. Intense fear started taking over. My face felt numb, I was breathing really fast and felt like I was gonna pass out. I thought I might puke. I was scared to lay down. I thought I was gonna die. The terror was unbelievable. I was ready to wake people up and tell them to call 911. I thought the next morning everyone will wake up to find me dead. when I tried laying down I felt like my heart wasn't beating at all and that I stopped breathing. I thought maybe it was laced with something....but I had been smoking the same stuff for months. I've never been this terrified before. It took me almost 3 hours to feel safe enough to try to fall back to sleep. Its the next day and I feel incredibly weak. My hands and arms feel like they've been through a fucking marathon. My muscles are burning. I'm feeling a little anxiety creeping in even as I'm just describing my symptoms. I feel like I can never smoke again. I'm afraid that I've triggered panic disorder in myself since I've always had anxiety issues but never panic attacks like this. Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Been there done that. My advice would be to not smoke weed for awhile, you said you been smoking steady for a couple of weeks, so you have quite a bit in your system. stop smoking for a few months.....You still might have panic attacks as the weed leaves your system.....but jsut wait it out a few months after that, smoke and see how you feel. You say you feel panicy kust tlaking about it, My panic attacks came when i wasnt high., its the weed thats stored in your cells being released back into your system that provoke the panic attacks. 99.99% of smokers dont experience this, i was one of the unlucky few. I had a few bad trips on acid and shrooms, my panic attacks might have related to those trips, i was paranoid i was going to have a flashback and get permently stuck on a trip and go crazy......I layed low for a while let my mind recover and started back up taking a puff here and there. Never went back to smoking veryday though. to deal with you anxiety try mindfulness breathing meditation. Panic attacks due to weed are like a pinched nerve, the best way to deal with them is just relax, you are aware of whats provoking them so just tell yourself its the weed, and try to relax as much as possible. Or talk with a good freind. hope your feeling better.
your stuff wasn't laced (if it was it was you lacing it, would cost the dealer to do it) you probably just smoked to much and you just got lucky to be one of those that have panic attacks unfortunately. Could maybe one of those attacks be brought on by trying to hide it from parents or someone else that isn't cool? That always increases my anxiety. I'd say try smoking a hit or two with a kpin if your prescribed any of those in relaxing setting sometime in a couple of weeks. Perhaps your just like my friends who only need to take 2 baby hits to get stoned? Dunno what else to suggest from what you've given me.
Every so often one of my Ex's would have a very bad panic attack while smoking, then start to believe that she was a 6 year old girl. Creepy as shit. The only difference is that she wasn't a steady smoker.
It used to happen to me when i first start to smoke.When i first get high it was fuckn creppy.I could hear my heart beating.It was beating so fast so i was so scared that i was going to die.I was very paranoid aswell.I was exactly thinking same as you that i will be dead tmorrow and my friends will find my dead body.It happend first couple of times then i start to control my self and my body.After that moment i enjoyed gettin high.
I used to get panic attacks back when I smoked reggie. Now, all I smoke is medicinal grade and I never have those problems anymore. Maybe it's the quality of your weed?
