Misc I get panic attacks every time i take ANY drug( Other then xanax)

[Thenewyorkboy]

I'm not 100% sure if this is were i should be posting this but here we go anyways.

If i take any type of opiate, amphentamine, tobacco sometimes(cigs and even ecig) weed, spice basically everything but xanax and alchohol.

I'll get heart palps, my heart will beat faster and harder, ill get sweaty, pressure where my heart is and on my back of my left shoulder blade(No pain tho) basically thinking I'm having a heart attack. This never started happening until i overdosed on ritilan awhile back... worse feeling of my life and had a extreme panic attack. And even when I'm not on any drugs it happens. I guess what I'm asking is can the overdose on ritilan be the cause of my anxiety and panic attacks, or can i actually have a heart problem...?? I'm only 18. And i took a EKG once and they said my heart was fine(But when they took it i wasn't having any of the symptoms i explained above, so what i'm asking is even without the symptoms if i had a heart problem would the EKG find it?) Any advice...? Thanks

 

[Captain.Heroin]

All those drugs you listed can cause anxiety.

Other than Xanax and alcohol, except for extremely rare cases.

Are you a generally anxious person without using drugs ?

 

[Thenewyorkboy]

Not really, unless i'm doing something that would normally cause some one to be anxious. It just happens randomly(or instantly with drugs), sometimes multiply times a day and may last a few hours. Even right now i have slight pressure. A nurse at the ER said it might be due to stress, which i do have alot of, but like i said in the previous post i use to be able to do any drugs without any problem(Use to smoke weed everyday and now if i take a more a couple hits i think I'm having a heart atack).. basically never had a panic attack ever, until after the ritilan OD.

 

[pinpoint]

This happened to me after a terrible mushroom trip induced the worst panic attack ever. I never really had 'anxiety issues' before that night. Now I can't smoke weed, use psychedelics, or stimulants without freaking out. The good news is that if you give your neurochemistry a break you'll recover. That memory of panic is pretty well scorched into your mind though so just be cautious of future drug use. I think it's a form of PTSD that is triggered whenever you put something known as a 'drug' in your body. Case in point: You ingest chemicals that affect your neurochemistry every day in the form of food but it probably doesn't cause these symptoms, right?

Opiates, benzos, alcohol, and a few others don't give me any problems so that leads me to conclude it is most definitely non-cardiac related.

Most people experience panic attacks as one or a combination of the following..

A) I'm a healthy 25 year-old going into cardiac arrest
B) I'm going to end up starring in a remake of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
C) I can't breath without thinking about breathing

 

[beforethebeginning]

a bad trip also caused me to panic attack everytime i used any kind of upper ish drug, including weed.

i am finally starting to enjoy weed again, after many years of not being able to enjoy it.
in fact i never enjoyed it as much as i do now.

i guess i learned to let go of anxiety a bit.
i'm not ready for shrooms yet but i'm well on my way i think.

a sureway to induce a panic attack when doing drugs,
is to even think there is just the POSSIBILITY that something is wrong with your health.

so you have to somehow believe the possibility is not there,
regain confidence in your body... but at the same time, accept that if something would really be wrong with your health...
you won't drop dead instantly... and even if you did, then that's not such a big deal.

i guess what i'm saying is:
try to be more trusting and accepting towards the "unknown"

panic attacks are pretty hard on the body,
and you survived several so your hearts probably in a good shape :D

PS i had all the exact same symptoms.
real heart attacks dont give pain on the left side of the chest though, they go for the center of the chest.
and when they're happening you're so tired/out of breath/in pain you can't move.

when you're experiencing heart anxiety you might imagine to be out of breath/in pain,
but you aren't really.

 

[ComfortablyNumb95]

^^ yeah, strong anxiety can manifest with physical symptoms as well as mental ones, so if you're feeling like you're about to have an heart attack you actually aren't. it's all in your mind so don't worry, you won't die

 

[Flaga121]

Years ago I had a friend who broke down, and was arrested while tripping LSD. For years he couldn't do any drug aside from alch/benzos as well. I strongly believe it was all in his head because he would have massive panic attacks when he smoked weed, but one night at a festival he was half asleep in a car and was passed a bowl. Not thinking he held it up and took several hits. This continued for the session until our laughter awake him. When we explained what had happened he got a lil nervous, then laughed realizing he was happily stoned. It was not the drug that caused the panic attacks, rather his concern becoming a self fulfilling prophesy. The next day he started doing K (and dissociative and psychs had been the worst) and was back, much closer, to his normal self. Mind over matter is powerful shit.

 

[beforethebeginning]

i've been using weed for three days now,
and i smoked weed three times today,two times in public.
and i'm feeling no anxiety at all - i'm feeling really confident and euphoric.

taking into account that i've been social phobic since i was 8 years old,
that i've been having panic attacks for the past 6 years every time i 'd smoke weed,
and everytime longer than 6 years ago when i smoked weed i had social anxiety and some physical discomfort (yet i still smoked it a lot anyway)

i never thought i'd ever be able to enjoy other drugs again, especially not weed.
benzo's are fun because they take away anxiety, but they dont bring euphoria and make music sound amazing like weed does.

i like the oxycodone euphoria as well, but the euphoria is much more trippy on weed...
after years on occasional benzo and months on oxy,
i might convert to weed :D (i'll need to buy a lightbulb vaporizer then though)