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Does/Has Weed Ever Given You A Panic Attack?

pseudononamouse said:
Nope

I do not think weed gives people panic attacks. People give themselves panic attacks which are magnified by weed.
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you're mostly right. people who have a chemical and/or psychological predisposition to panic attacks are generally more likely to have them under the influence of cannabis. but some people with anxiety have the opposite effect. i actually happen to experience the latter most of the time; i experience the former only with very strong edibles. I just stay away from them.
 
Acadian said:
That's where I was, at home
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Me too- at home, not at home, doesn't matter where I smoked, I got them. I wonder if guilt can bring on panic attacks? I just had a baby a few weeks prior. Maybe I was guilty for being a high mom. Then again, I passed out once waiting in line to go to the restroom before I ever had kids. I remember it felt like everyone was staring at me, which brought on the attack.

Anyone else have guilt related attacks?
 
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strong sativa strains often giv me panic attacts, had sum blueberry the other day made me feel like i couldnt breeth, strange tightness in my chest
1.yes
2. both
3.relly high always
4.no, i just try and stay away from alot of sativas,or not take more than 2 hits at a time, whenever i get a attack no matter how intence i always expect it to blow over and it always dose, usally after i eat, itll ease up and ill just be lazy chilled out (high).. or in rare cases ill take a shot of wisky to calm my nervs- hade to do this after smoking some white rhino-
 
Used to smoke weed daily for at least 4 years, No problems at all. Then i was on some amphetamine one night(only 3rd time id tried it) and had 2 cones when my heart began racing severly. Felt like my heart would skip beats and it was quite painfull. Worked myself up into what i now know was a panic attack. Kept smoking for about 2 weeks after that happened but i could only have a tiny bit as i would get the feeling of my heart beating weird. Then i had a cone of hash one day. Cut a long story short ended up calling an ambulance because i thought i was having a heart attack and stroke, heart rate was over 200bpm when the ambulance arrived. After that is when i stopped smoking and started reading up about anxiety and panic attacks which im pretty sure is what i suffer from now. Hadn't smoked any weed for a good month when i had 1 puff of a spliff one afternoon with a friend when i went straight into another panic attack.
So now i cant even smoke weed at all anymore, im pretty devo as i really enjoyed it. No matter where i am, or who im with it seems to just send me straight into a panic attack with a racing heart and feelings of stroke symptoms. God knows how i went from being a heavy daily smoker for ages to this change all of a sudden.
 
Nope, never, 9 years of daily use.

once when I was on probation and had monthly drugtests I smoked and got super paranoid...but I think thats pretty understandable, jail is scary....well boring at least.
 
Here's my worst panic attack story:

My husband (ex) called 911 for an ambulance while I was having an attack, but a fucking firetruck came blazing down the road with sirens wailing. When I heard the firetruck's sirens, I started panicking even more. I could tell it wasn't an ambulance and the station was only a few blocks away. After making their grand entrance into my home, they started asking all the usual questions, said my heart rate was fast, then they asked if I did any "recreational" drugs. When I said I had smoked mj a half hour prior..... I shit you not....they immediately closed up their medical bags, smirked and chuckled to each other and left. On the way out, someone told me to sleep it off. The whole fucking neighborhood was gathered outside my house. Convinced the firemen were lying, that I was really dying, the panic attacks continued all through the night. I finally went to the emergency room. The heart monitor I was hooked up to started beeping faster when the doc came closer to look in my eyes with that thingy they use. Noticing my reaction, he told me to see a shrink. Convinced he was also lying, I left.

I finally gave in on day three of no sleep and panic attack after panic attack and went to a psychiatrist. I'm glad I did. I got rid of them and the meds after a year or so. They returned 15 years later due to stress. I take meds daily to control them. I know it's literally all in my head, but that feeling of desperation, the way I feel them start to happen, is something my brain won't let me forget. I envy people who have never had one. :(
 
Certain strains of weed give me panic attacks. Other strains dont do it so much.


This might be atypical, but its the Indo that gives me panic rather than the Sativa. I know Sativa is more stimulating but its the indo that makes me feel too stoned or not in control of my body. Its not the awake stimulation that gives me anxiety its the feeling like I am not in control.....a nice clear headed Sativa never gives me anxiety.

Is anyone else like this?
 
I used to freak out when I first started smoking dank but I think it was because I wasn't used to it. My heart would beat really fast, and I would just freak out. I also remember one time I was freaking out after I smoked some dank after x-mas, I was with my friend walking though my garage, walked past a christmas tree and it rubbed against me... I didn't feel it for like 3 seconds after was the weirdest thing. Just felt like I got scratched... Anyways nothin like that happens anymore I think it's because I smoke so frequent now it's not getting me like it used to. It's been 3 years later and i love my nuggies, so it hasn't stopped me at all ;)
 
Yes, to the point that I have dramatically had to lessen the amount I smoked over the years. I have smoked for about a decade. High quality stuff only for about 8 of those.

Simply cannot smoke as much as I used to and I am fine with that. I do not enjoy getting really baked now. Its all about smoking a few hits of grade B to A grade stuff once or twice a day for me when I am done for the day.
 
Suffer from superventricular tachycardia so I suppose to summarize yessss. But that being said besides official episodes I have always been fine on weed so no I have never really had a panic attack on it where I didn't instantly know what was going on.
 
yep. made me super anxious whenever I smoked it and I got an anxiety attack the last time I did and said never again. over 1.5 years ago

MDMA is my doc
 
ok i normally get crazy anxiety when i smoke weed, i'm wondering how the anxiety is for eating cannabis foods?
 
broagan said:
ok i normally get crazy anxiety when i smoke weed, i'm wondering how the anxiety is for eating cannabis foods?
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DONT DO IT!!!!

Ganja food if properly made is TOO STRONG for a lot of people. I flip the fuck out when I eat ganja food. Its stonger than acid or a shot of Dilaudid in my opinion. More anxiety than smoking.
 
Anxiety isnt necessarily 'all in your head'. Some people have a physiological or hormonal response to stressors or drugs which can cause tachycardia, hypoglycemia, constriction of blood vessels, high blood pressure, disorientation....Yes, the mind and body are linked and calming the mind can help, but it isnt JUST in the mind. Its also in the body.
 
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