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About a year ago i quit smoking weed because one night i started getting a really bad panic attack about 15 minutes after smoking. I had smoked everyday for about 2 years. I didnt know what was going on. It felt like i was detached from reality, like the first few seconds of a salvia trip. So i went to the hospital and they gave me 2mg lorazepam. that helped but i was still feeling really bad. :X So the next morning when i got out of the hospital i decided to smoke again. i was fine, then i thought maybe smoking weed was what made me feel bad. Then all of a sudden i started happening again. I had difficultly breathing. My heart started racing, i barely knew what was going on. I started freaking out. I decided to quit smoking after that point. But the attacks kept going on and off for about a week. so i went to the doctor and was proscribed zyprexa 5mg. After that point i felt that the attacks were lessening to some degree. Eventually the attacks let up. And i was ok. So about 2 months later i stopped taking zyprexa. I was fine up until about a year later. This time i didnt even smoke weed and my attacks came back. so i was put back on zyprexa. but this didnt seem to help. Has anyone had this happen to them? i really just wanna burn again and have everything return back to normal. but these attacks make it so i can barely function.
 
when i smoked weed, i did it for many reasons. i smoked for about 3 years straight once and quit after a related arrest. i began getting pretty serious panic attacks about two days later. i went to the doc and got benzos (xanax). from what i've noticed, the withdrawal from weed is mostly psychological and any related anxiety is probably underlying, pre-existing. stopping weed made this anxiety worse for me.

only advice to give...do relaxing things and see a doctor further about your anxiety issues.
 
chairmanma084 said:
, the withdrawal from weed is mostly psychological and any related anxiety is probably underlying, pre-existing. stopping weed made this anxiety worse for me.
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Or manifested from a drastic change in lifestyle. And I think the OP manifested theres from thought. Gotta love the placebo effect.
 
chairmanma084 said:
when i smoked weed, i did it for many reasons. i smoked for about 3 years straight once and quit after a related arrest. i began getting pretty serious panic attacks about two days later. i went to the doc and got benzos (xanax). from what i've noticed, the withdrawal from weed is mostly psychological and any related anxiety is probably underlying, pre-existing. stopping weed made this anxiety worse for me.

only advice to give...do relaxing things and see a doctor further about your anxiety issues.
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Its all psychological, you should be more worried about getting physically dependent to that xanax
 
When you're having an attack, just remember that you aren't going to die - and it will subside soon enough. I used to have panic attacks once in a blue moon, and while they are extremely unpleasant, they aren't life threatening. Try to gain your composure, and hopefully you'll come back down to reality.
 
this has to be the most discussed topic in CD. use the search function. there are like 908253 threads on bluelight about weed induced panic attacks.
 
yeah. except these have came back without the weed. i saw the docotor and am now on symbyax which is fluoxetine and olanzapine(zprexa and prozac) these dont seem to be helping though. so overall im pretty confused because i was on zyprexa before and it helped these attacks go away
 
Well, I think if your doctor gets you on meds (and maybe therapy?) that make your anxiety manageable, then you will be able to smoke. The anxiety isn't from the weed. The weed just helped you notice that anxiety the first time. Now the anxiety is bad enough that it is affecting you while sober. So, if the anxiety is taken out by the root, you should be able to smoke normally again.

- I am not a doctor, therapist, scientist, chemist, etc. I just post from my own experience and limited knowledge. -
 
yeah...thanks. true that. Its just that this stuff feels so wierd. It doesnt feel like normal anxiety. I get dizzy and i get that hot and fuzzy feeling all over my head like from a roll. Except it doesnt feel amazing it just feels wierd. My life is completely perfect at the moment though. thats why this confuses me. It makes me wonder if this is some big deep down issue i need to face. I just wanna burn again=/
 
jajaj good old panic attacks.two other friends an i used to smoke all the time and then all of a sudden one of my friends tells us his heart beats pretty fast and he dosent feel normal.my other friend and i think hes just being stupid. so then were smoking and he gets a panic attack and starts freaking the shit out and asks my friend to drive him to the hospital. my friend looks at me and im trying my hardest not to laugh and then my friend tells him to relax and calm teh fuck down. he wasent about to drive to the horpital and tell the doctor it was all from weed. so my friend as panicking and he feels his heart is about to explode and so we get tired of his shit and we drop him off on the border(mexican border) and on the way he is caling his mom(she works in a mexican hospital) and tells her that he dosent feel right. his mom screams at him what the hell is wrong with him and hes all freaked out(made it worse) and so he starst crying(funny) and we drop him off and we dont see him for a couple of months. we used to smoke almost everyday. so next time we smoke with him we teased him and he tries to act tough and saids some bullshit. so were all smoking a fat blunt and i asked him if he was going to smoke he says yes. so where smoking and i see that he is not inhaling the smoke. im like wtf ar u doing. wasting weed. he said he gets panick attacks and he cant control them. so moral of the story "control ur panick attacks". i've had a couple of them because i've over smoked.i mean a shit load of weed. but after like 10 to 15 mins. the good buzz kicks in. its all mental. do not, i repeat do not think about panicking or anything that involves panicking. either think happy toughts or go to ur happy place:) or think about how potent weed will be in 30 years:)
 
Its tough but itll go away in time probably, I'm on some pretty hard medicine. I'd just rather getting over the anxiety without drugs. Since im on an SSRI im afraid to take anything so im always sober as a mother fucker:(
 
and the main problem i'm facing... is that i dont see smoking weed as the wonderful thing it once was. It'll still be the most magical wonderful herb in the world to me, but every time i think about smoking, a feeling of nervousness sets in. Not the typical happy i get to smoke this bowl feeling. So if i were to smoke, the anxiety would set in right away, because im nervous about how burning will make me feel. I dont know how i'm supposed to get my old mindselt back:(. Anyone know of anything at all??
 
dude same here. One day I smoked OG Kush, but it resembles cocaine. Because I became EXTREMELY sensitive to light and soung, It nearly blinded and deafened me just HOW sharp it all was. Then my heart began racing. I don't know why but it was only THIS womans weed. I smoked her middies and it fucked me up WAY worse than KB. I thought middies were weaker but somethings up. Either way, everytime I think of smoking weed, this chilling cold strikes me, and my blood pressure becomes VERY high. I smoked my friends KB the other day and I was fine. Eventually it affected everything. After that day if I think, "ok, now Ima smoke a cigarette behind the shed" or i'm about to drink, or I'm thinking of doing something somewhat wrong this feeling strikes me. I dont why, I guess it was just the mindset that I was in during the heart attack. I actually DID have a heart attack. My friends aunt was used to it, and my friend's heart rate was under control because he was on morphine meant to last for a few weeks so that it could keep his broken, swollen ankle numb. So the only one that got fucked that night was me. Eventually every-time I felt that feeling, I just kept thinking MORE of smoking pot and that feeling so that I may grow out of it. It helped, but still be careful with your heart rate. Now I have cardiac problems. but helping note [THIS IS TO HELP YOU OUT] If your heart rate is extremely high, it might have been laced, or anxiety cause do the following.
1. Keep drinking plenty of water (WATER, gasses, or alcohol may cause you to trip hard)
2. Lay in a bathtub full of cold water (get home ASAP, or friends house)
3. DEPENDING, you may attempt to ignore it if it is only a little.
4. Keep ice-pack on chest, and head.
5. Go to sleep. (The marijuana will affect your subconscious to regulate your heart rate as you drift into sleep. If pot was laced, it may be harder to go to sleep, but at least the pot will help you do so. Pure coke, ecstasy, or LSD will prevent you from.)
6. If all else fails you may want to contact paramedics, or the Poison Control Hotline.
 
yeah it sucks. is there anyone whose ever recovered from this and continued to burn like normal?

opiates are pretty much my new DOC because of this. but i just wanna burn:X
 
I think you should try and smoke one of those legal alternatives they sell online and see if it is in fact weed that is causing the panic attacks. There are thousands of scam websites, but this guy who was on youtube reviewed a lot of them and will tell you the good ones:
His youtube got banned so here is his website:
http://legalhighreview.co.cc/

If you have any questions about the good blends just ask me.

But back to what you were saying, do/did you have any physical problems from the weed like really bad coughing or post nasal drip? Cuz it's very possible that the stuff you smoked leading up to the constant attacks was laced with something that permanently stayed in your lungs, like some chemicals in cigarette smoke take years to dissolve from your lungs. A chemical doing that may have caused a really bad reaction over and over again to you, all from contaminated weed :/
 
Don't depend on something else to lessen your anxiety. Look at your life and see what stresses you out. Then realize it is your thoughts that lead to emotions. You have to think about something before you have an emotion. Input>thought>emotion. That is how it works. Reframe your thoughts to be positive. I'm bipolar and experience highly illogical mood swings, but I stay pretty steady and calm just by using "cognitive thinking". Best of luck.
 
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