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ontodanext

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i have been prescribed the drugs lamictal (lamotrigine) and abilify (aripiprazole) and klonopin (clonazepam) as well as take 5-HTP and l-theanine. All of these are to control severe bipolar and anxiety disorders.

I spent my entire teenage life from 12 years old to 19 smoking marijuana very heavily and it never caused any problems other than reducing my school success and causing my azthma to be worse. About a year ago i decided to finally stop smoking everything and doing all drugs including heroin and other benzos recreationally. I went cold turkey and stopped. A few months later my disorders began to peak worse than i had ever experienced. I figured it was withdrawal (mostly from heroin) but it lasted for months.. So I found a doctor and was prescribed my new medications.

So enough background.. my question is this. Now i have been on these drugs which have helped me incredibly with no questions asked. The problem is that I decided to try getting back into smoking marijuana again just to relax with my friends. I had the worse night of my life. I had horrible anxiety and was on the verge of a panic attack. I hated every minute of it....
So my question is why is it that a drug i spent my whole teenage life smoking and loving every minute of it is now having such horrible effects on me? its almost imbarrasing being around my friends and refusing a bowl..

Does anyone know if it could be caused by the medications ive been prescribed?
has anyone experienced anything similar to this?

sorry for the question being so long.. thanks so much if you took the time to read
 
drugs + pre-existing mental disorders =
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Don't do drugs if you're fucked in the head. I'm a prime example. (Not to follow, to be, like, learned from and stuff.)
 
I'm sorry but.

I spent my entire teenage life from 12 years old to 19 smoking marijuana very heavily and it never caused any problems
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severe bipolar and anxiety disorders.
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The 7 yearrs of drug abuse had nothing to do with it then?
 
^ Maybe, maybe not... That's not the question here because none of us can really answer that... though more than likely, it didn't help with your anxiety problems.

OP - Your meds are safe to take while smoking weed, there are no reactions, especially not with the ablify or Kpins... In fact, I'm surprised you had much anxiety if you're on a maintenance dose of Klonopin.

Likely the long break caused your tolerance to drop to nil. Perhaps it's best you either start *very* slowly with psychoactive drugs as they can produce extreme anxiety or trigger other nasties if you have mental health issues. I wouldn't say this means say goodbye to weed forever, but perhaps now is not the right time if you had a panic attack after one bowl.
 
ontodanext said:
i have been prescribed the drugs lamictal (lamotrigine) and abilify (aripiprazole) and klonopin (clonazepam) as well as take 5-HTP and l-theanine. All of these are to control severe bipolar and anxiety disorders.

I spent my entire teenage life from 12 years old to 19 smoking marijuana very heavily and it never caused any problems other than reducing my school success and causing my azthma to be worse. About a year ago i decided to finally stop smoking everything and doing all drugs including heroin and other benzos recreationally. I went cold turkey and stopped. A few months later my disorders began to peak worse than i had ever experienced. I figured it was withdrawal (mostly from heroin) but it lasted for months.. So I found a doctor and was prescribed my new medications.

So enough background.. my question is this. Now i have been on these drugs which have helped me incredibly with no questions asked. The problem is that I decided to try getting back into smoking marijuana again just to relax with my friends. I had the worse night of my life. I had horrible anxiety and was on the verge of a panic attack. I hated every minute of it....
So my question is why is it that a drug i spent my whole teenage life smoking and loving every minute of it is now having such horrible effects on me? its almost imbarrasing being around my friends and refusing a bowl..

Does anyone know if it could be caused by the medications ive been prescribed?
has anyone experienced anything similar to this?

sorry for the question being so long.. thanks so much if you took the time to read
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Alot of people i talk to who smoked heavily as a kid, cannot handle mj anymore because of it. They get severe anxiety and paranoia whenever they smoke now.
 
Yea I had to quit smoking for 10 years because it caused panic attacks and I just started hating it.. now it's 10 years later I can smoke again but I don't know anybody in this town lol... such is life.. but it took 10 years for me to be able to sucessfully smoke again... but I also had to defeat panic disorder first.
 
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