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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards | negrogesic

Klonopin to treat marijuana panic attacks

This is what I'm saying... ...Plenty of times should now be none of the time...

...Your friends wouldn't have to comfort you if you would do your part to comfort yourself.
You can't possibly tell me otherwise, as it was typed by your own ten fingers.
"I feel like I have a connection to weed... ...let go of." is not an excuse.
"Plenty of times... ...friends do." is not an excuse.
"I so happen to like... ...is called marijuana." is not an excuse.

Doing so is just plain irresponsible on your part. You are just taking steps backwards to helping yourself get a hold of your anxiety.
 
The thing is, I haven't had that problem in over a year. Since being away at school, I have only smoked by myself, taking a hit or 2 after class. I was comfortable with smoking again, and it made me feel alot more stable surprisingly. So after I got comfortable with the fact that I could smoke again a small amount, I joined my friends over winter break for a few sessions.
 
No, we watched funny youtube videos (well, what appeared to be funny at the time). Like the sham-wow parodys, and Old Greg..... We never laughed to hard, I swear. And in no way am I saying that to "prove" that I was able to smoke again.... Idk maybe it was because my good friend had moved back from vegas, and we were all together again, but it was a great night, and I smoked a decent amount of the blunt, without taking xanax. I did however drink a 40 oz budlight

But Jay, you might recall my posts about weaning from xanax to valium, and now lowering my valium. My anxiety has pretty much gone away, and I am just using them to taper.
So I would say that somebody new to anxiety meds should give it a shot if they want, and if they bug out, then stop smoking.
 
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Lucky you you had that alcohol. Things would have been different.
I know you planned to use a GABA drug before you smoked, I used to do the same, but realized that I would eventually drive myself nuts trying to find a stable weed trailer to jump on.
By the way, my quick withdrawal of smoking weed did in fact cause some dulling depression.
So, I tried my best to hop back on, but It kept kicking my ass, so I made the choice to stay off.
I never have not had a day where I want to be stoned.
Since then I had to move on to other things. :(

No more wake-n-bake.
No more weed brownies.
No more space cakes.
No more fudge stones.
No more bong rips.
No more flavored cigar wraps.
No more hemp paper.
No more stoned sex. :(
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( <SADNESS> :( :( :( :( :( :( :(............................OPIATES>>>>>:)+
 
Yea my recent personal bowl hits arent done with any alcohol. But that blunt was. The first blunt that night wasn't, but I drank that 40 getting rid of that cotton mouth. But also, my alcohol tolerance is crazy high, so not sure how much that 40 helped.
 
Alcohol tolerance grows slow, but once it's up there it's hard to get back down.
Then there comes the time where the drunk dose is close close to black out dose.

But yeah, A little goes a long way in the world of GABA drugs.
It's just when they are gone, it's a bitch.
 
Psychedelic Jay said:
Lucky you you had that alcohol. Things would have been different.
I know you planned to use a GABA drug before you smoked, I used to do the same, but realized that I would eventually drive myself nuts trying to find a stable weed trailer to jump on.
By the way, my quick withdrawal of smoking weed did in fact cause some dulling depression.
So, I tried my best to hop back on, but It kept kicking my ass, so I made the choice to stay off.
I never have not had a day where I want to be stoned.
Since then I had to move on to other things. :(

No more wake-n-bake.
No more weed brownies.
No more space cakes.
No more fudge stones.
No more bong rips.
No more flavored cigar wraps.
No more hemp paper.
No more stoned sex. :(
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( <SADNESS> :( :( :( :( :( :( :(............................OPIATES>>>>>:)+
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He is fine smoking, using benzos if he wishes. He has a script for them anyways. Nothing you post here is going to change his mind. There is no point in arguing about it. If he wants to enjoy weed still which he can, then it is his right. Everyone is different.
 
Tbh Jay is over reacting.

The key is too smoke a LITTLE BIT. Not too much. Smoke until you feel it lightly, then stop.

Xanax is probably your best bet. To be on the safe side if you don't want to risk a panic attack, take about 2-3mg (no tolerance).

Obviously you can't do this too often, as you could get benzo addiction. Try it out.
 
Violenza666 said:
He is fine smoking, using benzos if he wishes. He has a script for them anyways. Nothing you post here is going to change his mind. There is no point in arguing about it. If he wants to enjoy weed still which he can, then it is his right. Everyone is different.
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Did you not notice I was talking about myself there.

No matter what anyone says, weed is no good for an anxiety disorder. PERIOD.

I'm overreacting, huh?

It's still too unpredictable to know how strong any weed is batch to batch.
People can be fried off as little as a couple of hits.

Therefor, "A little bit" is not an excuse.
If everyone would stop defending weed, as I am not going against it in any way.

All of the excuses stated are indeed "Pothead Rational Thinking" No matter how valid my points are, I will get bombarded with invalid excuses simply because of you guys likeness for weed.

The effort that you put into being cautious preventing yourself from smoking too much, can be simply put into other drugs that cause no anxiety.

Here is your rationality.: Weed makes me freak out. I love weed. I will just smoke a little bit.
REALLY?
 
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panic attacks generally mean u are panicing about something, why dont you address that something, its not like ur gunna die
 
judect said:
I used to smoke all the time, gradually i developed a pretty severe panic disorder. first i would panic every time i smoked, so i quit smoking, but the panic attacks never went away. now i was just prescribed .5 klonopins and im starting to wonder if i took one or two of these and smoked again, would that fend off the panic attack? im honestly a little nervous about it just because i want to avoid a panic attack but if it works id be in my glory!

Does anybody have any experience or insight into this? thanks guys.


incase it helps im 150lbs and am currently on 1.5mgs with minor motor skill problems but thats about it. been taking the klonopins less then a week, every other day.
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Yes, klonopin should take care of the panic attacks. However, you should only take them when you feel an attack coming, not just every other day by default. Unless you are having panic attacks that often.

Marijuana is really evil for people with anxiety. My mom used to smoke a lot of pot in high school and she suffered from severe anxiety for 10 years afterwards. She learned relaxation techniques to overcome them - Definitely don't just rely on klonopin, see an anxiety-specializing therapist to learn more about how to overcome them.

There's a book - The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook - that is supposed to be really good. It works best in combination with a therapist (Most therapists will go through the book's program with you), but if you're on a budget and psychiatry isnt covered with your insurance, it's definitely a start.
 
Also, I kinda skipped through most of the replies, but upon reading them: Psychedelic Jay is 100000% right. The thing is, 90% of people can smoke weed for years on end without developing anxiety issues. The other 10% cannot. Weed triggers panic for them, and as the OP says, it eventually starts to happen even without weed.

For the OP (and people in his position), weed is worse for them than heroin. It is hiiiiighhhlyyy suggested to never ever ever smoke. It'll cause way more harm than good. We live in a society that thinks weed is 100% harmless, and it IS harmless for a lot of people, but not for everybody, just like not everybody that drinks will become an alcoholic, but alcoholics should never drink. Not really a perfect analogy but whatever.
 
skn said:
Panic attacks generally mean you are panicking about something. Why don't you address that something, it's not like you're gonna die.
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Right, but most have no specific phobia, so there is no specific trigger.
As a matter of fact, anything can be a trigger.
Most have no idea what causes their anxiety.

Most is stress related.

This is why I never smoked when I was stressed because I would think, think, and think.
I would just get more stressed this way.
 
I'm in the same boat; former everyday pot smoker but nowadays every single time i smoke i get panic and anxiety issues and it can get real bad. I've found that Alprazolam works the best for this situation. Taking 0.5mg-1.0mg of Alprazolam about 30 minutes prior to blazing up makes the session enjoyable and anxiety free. Without a benzo involved sometimes the anxiety will get out of hand :/
 
Psychedelic Jay said:
I am curious to know as to why only cannabis has this effect on me.
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This is just a guess, but like... you know how amphetamines have the opposite effect on people with ADD? The drug works on the same part of the brain, but because that person's brain is wired differently, it reacts in an opposite way to the majority.

Weed relaxes most people, and so I think it has the opposite effect on certain people whose brains are just wired differently. That, or maybe it's that certain people are prone to anxiety disorders and cannabis acts as a catalyst.
 
Psychedelic Jay said:
Right, but most have no specific phobia, so there is no specific trigger.
As a matter of fact, anything can be a trigger.
Most have no idea what causes their anxiety.

Most is stress related.

This is why I never smoked when I was stressed because I would think, think, and think.
I would just get more stressed this way.
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Yea mine came out of nowhere.. no trigger.. just bam.. pending doom. Horrible shit.
 
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