OP here. Incoming long post.
Dangerman - "I just signed up for this forum after reading every single page of this topic and all i can say is im suffering the same effects of the thread
poster. EXACTLY! the same. i cannot do anything but lay around and suffer with these "headaches" im beginning to start to think my brian is swelling or i dunno im just fucked up from all this jwh. i was on it for one month in july , 2010. once or twice a day.to this day im still fucked. i recently just got rid of all drugs in my life and all my bongs all the weed i used to love . im scared that this will effect for me the rest of my life and theres nothing i can do about it. i noticed the only thing to help is sticking my head outside of a window in the passenger seat of a car going about 100km/h. i hope someone can find a cure or some more information about this garage. fuck JWH. After smoking regular weed for 3 years. and one month of jwh i cannot smoke either. its ruined my life as well, i cannot work nor focus they need to get this jwh banned asap, its really worse then real thc."
ouchie - I feel you man. I'm on about month eight and I still have terrible head pains everyday. It really fucking sucks. I'd do anything to just feel normal again and chill with some weed with my buddies. But of course weed makes it much worse. Have any messenger or email we can talk about this
more on?"
"Why the fuck was a stoner banned from this drug? But I would much rather just feel normal sober than smoke weed again. "
I'm sorry man, I feel your pain.
myntz - I spent the entire day trying to find answers to what I am going through and am so glad I found this site.
Being out of good herb and the local connection was out for a while I decided to give this K2 thing a whirl. At first a couple of hits and I was feeling ok, weird but ok. Not nearly as clean as herb but what I got from k2 was satisfactory until the real deal came around again. Every time I smoked it, the effect seemed to dim a little quicker than before. So after a few days of smoking K2 and the effects diminishing a little more each time, I figured I would just smoke out a couple of bong loads and I would be good... I was very wrong.
About 5 minutes after smoking, I was walking back to my house from my "smoking spot" and this extremely intense rush hit me. My mind started racing, my heart was beating extremely hard, and I was definitely undergoing a panic attack. I had never before felt that way in my life.(Just for the record I have smoked herb for about 20 years, with some occasional sprinkles of LSD, Speed, shrooms, etc. Your typical concoction of experimental drugs for a youngster. However, the ONLY one I ever stuck with was good old mary jane.. So I am no stranger to different feelings from different substances but have been only a pot head for the past 10-12 years. I rarely if ever drink alcohol..)
I felt as though I had completely lost control of myself mentally. I tried frantically to find the right key to get into my house and the only thing I could think of was someone was going to find me dead in front of my house. I finally managed to get into the house and the only thing I could think of was to eat something to help bring me down. I could not focus visually or mentally. Trying to open a box of crackers resulted in a cracker explosion on my kitchen. I could not get it open so I just ripped it open and began stuffing my face full. At this time I was in total panic mode. I desperately tried to call my wife and couldn't do it. Luckily my phone rang and it was her. How I managed to answer the phone was beyond me, maybe it was muscle memory from answering it so much.. Who knows.. I told her I thought I was having a heart attack and she told me to lie on my left side in an attempt to lower blood pressure until she arrived. As I laid there tons of terrible thoughts ran through my head.. Am I dyeing, am I having a stroke, is it blood sugar related, wtf is happening to me. I was more terrified than I have been in my entire life. After about an hour, the effect stared wearing off, I actually ate real food not crackers and began to feel a little better. She convinced me to lie down and take a nap. I napped for about 5 hours. When I woke up I did feel a little better but I was still dizzy feeling and kind of sick at my stomach. I stayed up for a couple of hours and went to bed. This was Tuesday of his weekWednesday morning I woke up and felt much better but still had this odd, trippy feeling in my head. As the day went on it got better and I went to my cousins house who is a nurse. Her husband is an EMT. I told them what I did and how I was embarrassed / afraid to go to the doctor. We went to the fire station where he ran some tests on me in the back of one of the ambulances.. He said my blood pressure was fine, my blood sugar was fine and he did some other test and said that as far as he was concerned I was ok but probably needed rest. After I left there I felt 100% mentally and physically and went on about my day. It seemed like my dizziness had subsided and everything was going to be ok. I flushed the K2 and felt good about things. Chalked the experience up as something to never do again and move on. That night my buddies came over, we smoked some herb and it hit me all over again. Not with the same force as before but very, very similar effects. I started to freak out but pulled memories from my LSD days and just acted as if nothing was wrong and rode it out. Later on I went home and went to bed.
Thursday morning, this morning. I woke up feeling just like I did the night before, nothing had changed. I ate, still the same, figured I was just over paranoid about the previous events and tried to mentally block it out. I loaded a bowl, took two hits and went on about my day. About 30 minutes after those two hits I felt the panic attack feeling again, only this time I controlled it much better. However, I still feel this lingering drunk feeling and am hoping that in days to come I feel better. I do plan on detoxing for a month or so and giving real herb a try once again. I really, really hope I have not ruined my taste for herb because like so many posters here I enjoy the creative and calming effects I get from it. I am a design engineer and herb helps tremendously with mental blocks and creative flow. Right now I am just scared that I did some permanent damage to something in my body. I know this first post was very long winded but I felt the urge to tell my story. I am all for marijuana legalization and have been for many, many years. However, this K2 stuff is not right. I regret ever even knowing about it. That episode scared the shit out of me and in all my drug induced states over te years, I have never felt even remotely that way. People will do it anyways but I am just warning you. Some people have zero issues, so I read, and others have issues like I had. It is not worth the chance.
Thanks for reading..
Just realized that I missed a day in there. I meant to say Friday morning, this morning.. Thursday I slept most of the day and tried to work on the computer for a while still feeling dizzy and odd.."
Jdrumma said the same but I can't find his post.
These are just a few examples I've found on this thread. I won't post them all.
There's obviously something wrong, if only in 5% of people that smoke this mixture of chemicals that has claimed to be "legal". It is no longer legal in my state, Missouri, and Arkansas I know as well.
I'm on ~10months of feeling like my brain's melting, and I honestly don't know how I'm alive right now. First off : (Sorry if I seem all over the place, for the past 3 months I can't stand to look at a computer screen or read a book without the pain rising exponentially, unless I drink at all, which I do on a daily basis, as a medication, or I couldn't work, or talk to anyone, and a bunch of other messed up shit.)
I've had a few theories about this, and...the only way I think we're going to figure this out is the relation on alcohol on the brain and breaking down every reaction that we know of, and getting it prescribed in a pill form. I can't stand to be in a car for even 10 minutes without having to pull over it hurts so bad. I have no idea why. Your guess is as good as mine. The only way I can take it is to drink, wish is obviously not a viable choice, and it is a terrible drug to take on a daily basis.
I'd like to regularly talk to these people who are suffering from this curse. My email is
[email protected]
I'm thinking maybe my brain is swelling...and drugs make it swell..or blood vessels expand...and I know alcohol constricts blood vessels. It's an idea at least.
Just an update on my situation: Can't drink coffee. Can't smoke weed. Can hardly ride in a car. Can't eat candy or eat anything with sugar. No ramen noodles either, or anything with a high amount of sodium. I have such a hard time getting through each day I can promise a psychadelic drug would kill me. No tylenol/advil/any medication designed to help with headaches. I smoked weed all day, everyday for 2 years with basically no side effects to memory. Right when this happened it's all but destroyed it completely. It's pretty fucked up that I'm a stoner at heart and have to resort to only drinking alcohol...I hate being associated with the alcoholic stereotype...I have no problem with marijuana. I fucking hate alcohol. This is killing me both emotionally, and 1,000,000x physically it feels.
sorry, my ADD is horrible..if I could drink some coffee this would make so much more sense I promise
Anyways, everyone suffering please let me know, if it is life threatening which I think it is, the sooner the better.
Be strong.