Hashbrown77
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- Sep 5, 2017
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I have been a reader of the forums on this site for years but I have never posted a thread so I will give a little background. After 12 years of IV heroin use i am finally now clean and on a methadone maintenance program. I am currently in the process of an incredibly slow taper that I began a year ago this month and now I am only on 55mgs daily. While I have dabbled in many other things heroin was always my DoC. Other than the methadone the only other pharmaceuticals I take are synthroid for hypothyroidism and birth control. I have also been an off and on smoker for about twenty years and although I have tried some edibles I have never had a chance to get my hands on some certified medical marijuana until a trip to Cincinnati last week. I have struggled with migraines for the past decade. I do go to a neurologist for treatment but it hasn't been exactly what I would call a 'success'. Anyways....thought trying some medical mj would be an obvious choice for me. I took 3 average sized tokes from a glass bowl and felt amazing!.....at first......my headache went away and I had a very relaxing body buzz. I just felt so light and so happy. I was with my boyfriend who also smoked and of course his friend who provided us with the experience joined us in the circle as well. About 45 minutes into it I started to feel these weird muscle contractions in my neck it felt like my neck was spawning and every time I would turn my head one way I could feel a popping like sensation as well. I just figured maybe my neck was tight after an 8 hour drive up from North Carolina, but quickly after that began I started having these waves of extreme shaking. It was comparable to how you shiver when you get super cold but it was COMPLETELY uncontrollable and would start at my head and literally pass down to my toes in a long consistent wave. My skin began to feel extremely sensitive and I cannot think of another way to describe it except that it almost felt like I had taken a fairly large dose of MDMA.....at first I thought maybe it had been laced with something but no one else who had smoked was having ANY of the same symptoms AT ALL. My hands and feet turned bluish white and I felt like I was freezing cold but when I got underneath a blanket I immediately felt burning hot, but still shaking violently and uncontrollably. I could barely even walk to the bathroom bc my legs were shaking so badly....and my jaw started to hurt from trembling....after 20 minutes or so of these symptoms I began to breathe extremely rapidly....and I felt like I was not in control of this. As I said before, I really felt like I was rolling but obviously I was not. After sitting next to my boyfriend on the couch for ten minutes or so with him helping me to regulate my breathing and just trying to calm me down....telling me I was in a safe space, getting me a glass of water, etc it just stopped. Instantly, suddenly, and without warning just stopped dead in its tracks. After the shaking suddenly ceased I began to feel all around better and in fact I didn't even feel high anymore. Has anyone ever heard of or experienced anything like this? I have been reading some articles about "white-outs" which can be caused by a drop in blood pressure after a smoking session, but I'm not positive it fits....we had eaten dinner not even an hour beforehand and while low blood pressure can cause shakiness, this was straight up uncontrollable body tremors and shivering. Not sure if it is worth mentioning but I had also taken a double dose of sublingual CBD oil about two hours beforehand. I know that if the THC is not properly balanced with the cbd it can cause some weird side effects but I was under the impression that was if there was too much THC, not too much CBD....which would have been the case in my situation. It was really very scary and while I have been an avid smoker for many years I am feeling wary that it might happen again. Any thoughts? Suggestions?
