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Well I will start out by saying I have been a heavy pot smoker since I was a teen. From 16-20 I smoked everday stopping abruptly when I got on heroin then picking up a year ago back to everyday so basically 5 years of everday smoking total. Anyway about a week ago I started feeling short of breath like it feels like I cant take a deep breath and I cant get enough oxygen. I hawked up some phylem today that was very thick and white otherwise I dont have a cough at all. I dont have a fever or feel sick. I have cut back on smoking as much as possible down to 2 bowls a day. I have never smoked ciggarettes. Anyone have any idea what it could be or if I should go see a doctor? im 22 btw
 
^ You have your answer, OP. There IS such a saying as "too much of a good thing".

Quit the marijuana, for the sake of your health. I have a couple everyday-smoking friends whose immune systems have taken a toll and they are sick very frequently.

Moreover, I know it's difficult. Being addicted to anything is difficult. But, for the sake of your health, it's your best option. It takes years for your body to heal after the damage you cause it by using recreational drugs frequently.

You could always get a vaporizer to cut back on the smoke. It wouldn't be my choice of action, but it's another option.
 
How is your posture? I find that marijuana used to make me want to hunch over and as a result my ribcage would impede my lungs from fully expanding. If you feel like you can't get a full breath, this sounds like the most likely cause. Stretch out your upper body so that your stomach is sticking out and supporting your upper torso and shoulders.

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IMO marijuana makes many people rely predominantly on the extensor muscles rather than a balance with the flexor muscles. The extensors hold us upright and the flexors bow the body around its frame. This bowing around the ribcage (upper abs) is what needs to be developed in people with poor posture.

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Notice the compression around the middle of the body in this picture. See how this could restrict breathing?

Edit- Of course seeing a doctor is not a bad idea. I'd see if this helps first, though. Also, try smoking joints or vaping as they are less harsh on the lungs.
 
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I have awful posture like it is so bad that all through school people would call me hunchback or say I had scoloiosis. I guess i could go see a chiropractor? In the meantime im looking into vaporizers but I am definatly going to pursue the posture idea as I have never considered that before. Thanks for the replys!! in the meantime would sit ups or other ab excercise be a good idea?
 
^Yeah, exercise is definitely a good idea, but sit ups themselves aren't a great idea. Push ups are a good start, though stretching around the shoulders is probably the most productive thing you can do. Holding dumbells off to the side of your body pulls your shoulders down as they should be. Also, walking on the toes/ balls of your feet forces you to have good posture while walking.

Good luck!
 
This is a old post. But I think the information never gets old. It is never a good news when you are one of the subscriber of this thread as if means that we all have/had a common issue - Collapsed lungs Vs Weed.

Not sure if I am considered lucky, I only had 1 tube inserted from the right side of my chest. I wouldn't use the word "pain" as a description. I say the feeling was rather wierd.

Just like you guys, the first thing I did after I got home was smoking a big joint. After the first week, I can feel that my lungs are talking to me again. This time is a little bit of stingy pain. I really hope that it is not another air pocket. But I know that I MUST stop smoking weed right now.

I don't understand why. THC never sit too well in my lungs. I've been smoking pot for over 20 years and I still cough.

I feel so paranoid everytime I cough now. Seriously. And deep down ourselves, we know what's the right thing to do. Nothing is the same as smoking it. And it affects our lungs. That's a fact. We just don't want to admit and do what's right for us.... Sadly..
 
Ekot, I know you want to smoke as you prefer it that way, but all you can really do right now is be thankful that you can still eat it. Your days of getting high aren't over, just slightly altered. You may not have to rule out smoking forever anyway, you could just allow 2 days a week to smoke and consume orally on the others?

All the best, mate
 
2 hours ago i had just gotten out of the hospital from my lung collapsing... my story is very similar to you but mine was 25% collapsed. the surgery hurts like a bitch.... You shouldnt smoke weed or cigarretes anymore didnt you hear what the doctor told u in the hospital? thats probably why your lung collapsed in the first place. I previously smoked cigarretes but i know its time to grow up and keep my body healthy. This was a life changing experience for me and after the trauma i will start living my life healthier. Hope this helps bud good luck.
 
Dude. This is insane. Pretty much exactly what happened to me (I literally JUST joined to share this, as a lot of places online have not been too helpful). Here's my story:

http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/o3ciw/fellow_ents_i_require_your_wisdom_spontaneous/

Many (including the doctor who operated) have told me not to smoke anything because it's not good for the lungs. Now, before these two surgeries (if you read the above post) I smoked every single day most of the time more than once a day [Joints (mostly), spliffs (occasionally), bongs, pipes (mostly)]. I am on the road to recovery currently and don't plan on smoking or drinking for at least 8 weeks to be on the safe side. I really don't want this to happen again and I don't think it will *knock on wood*. I recently bought Da Buddha vaporizer as my roommate (who vapes, but doesn't smoke due to asthma) has one and we use it all the time and love it. It gets everyone in the sesh baked as fuck and one bowl lasts probably 15 to 20 minutes, sometimes longer when it's just the two of us (which it more than often is xD). I also have the MFLB and use it when i'm just trying to get a nice calm high for watching a movie or something like that (adding Kief on top is a game changer; shit really sends you soaring haha). So anyway, I guess that's all I'd like to say and I hope someone still responds to this thread, though it's over two years old. Thanks for this thread OP. I really appreciate it! Toke on, brothers.
 
This happened to me 8 days ago- I've smoked bongs pretty heavily in the past 10 years, and all day every day for the past 6 or 7, even longer. As soon as I started smoking I loved it and wanted to do it as much as I could because what there was before it was pretty shit (depression) - recently, I had my heart broken and after crying about it for several hours my lung collapsed in the early hours of the morning. I didn't go to the hospital until later that night, where on the way there I was abused and ran into the ground for needing to go to the emergency room. At about 1am I found out what was wrong and it seriously bummed me out- I cried a little because I felt so unloved and there I was with this strange, unknown condition I'd only ever heard about and imagined in my mind. I thought it was something that happened to people who were buried alive.
They tried re-inflating it or whatever they do, and that didn't hurt, but I loved the numbing as I spent the rest of the time trying to click my fingers to gain control through the numbing (I get bored easily) - anyway, about 4am or so, after another x-ray, they told me it had failed, and they wanted me to stay in. I had been there all night, by myself, un-showered since the day before, forgot to brush my teeth before we left (would you remember if your parents were screaming at you for being an inconvenience?) - though of course I had another bong or three before I left - anyway, I also had work to do so asked if they would let me go and come back later that same day to be admitted then. They said it was at my own risk.

I stupidly came home and before long had my first bong- then another- I tried to stop, honestly, and then I ran out of pot, and all I had was tobacco. I was spewing, I didn't want to smoke cigarettes, I had smoked many the night before and I feel it contributed to the lung collapse along with stress and too many bongs- plus, if I'm being forced to not smoke I'd rather know there's some there as it's harder to go witout when you don't have any. I usually don't mix the two and had done socially. So there I was, straight out of hospital, puffing away until I went back to the hospital later that evening. There was lots of people there, and whilst they let me through within 10minutes to get an x-ray, I had to go back to the waiting room for 2 hours. The doctor said it was starting to heal (?!) and that I should go back 5 days later for another x-ray and then to the emergency room to see the doctor. So the days went on and I was suffering from a heart break as well as the collapsed lung, and of course I bought more pot, didn't I? Because I'm a loser who can't stop. The person who broke my heart had found out only days before that I am a heavy smoker and I was really hoping he would stick by me while I tried to quit, but not once has he. He's also the only person who knows the severity of my addiction.

So here I am, 8 days later, with a tingling pain in my chest because I can't help myself and stop. What do I do? I'm so lost and broken inside that I know the stress wouldn't be helping my body at all. I'm far too depressed at what happened with someone who I thought was special to even care, but I don't want to die, not like this. I have barely any desire to eat, drink, do anything normal. I just want my lung to be better and that's not going to happen because the part of me I'm listening to is the part of me that wants another bong.

I doubt anyone will read this and since it's so personal may have left by now, but I just really don't know how to get myself out of this hole I'm in of smoking constantly.

The way I feel at the moment; I don't want to die, but I'm also done surviving. Thank you for reading.
 
A friend of mine had a collapsed lung in 1979, and he'll sometimes smoke herb, and he still smokes cigarettes but has for decades and he's got COPD. :(

He's also thin and I am as well and he said how that's also a risk factor in getting a collapsed lung and he'd seen a lot of guys who are thin who'd had a scar from surgery because they'd had a collapsed lung.

Since I'm thin I've completely stopped using herb even though when I was younger I smoked it a few times a month or on weekends, and there was a period when for about a month I did smoke it daily.

LostNLonely I would talk to a doctor and stop smoking.
 
You would be far better off sticking to eating it in brownies, or magic muffins, even ground fine and added to melted chocolate.
 
I suffered from a partially collapsed lung, after smoking about an ounce a week for 2 and a half weeks. I was also smoking atleast a pack a day of marlboro reds.

I thought i was having a heart attack so i called an ambulance for myself. Hospital sorted me out and told me not to smoke.

I started smoking within about a day or 2, it hurt for months after, but slowly faded away. Im all good now an im back to smoking a pack a day. The weed wasnt such a problem, it was more the ciggies that hurt.

Anyway, since then ive got my cardio up pretty high, taken cycling to the next level and all that so it hasnt held me back despite not quitting smoke inhalation. Go for it mate.
 
The same reason why ANYONE risks ANYTHING when taking drugs - because it 'feels' better. Because its 'easier'. Because its 'cheaper'. Because well, vaping sucks, eating takes too long to hit you and isnt similar at all, same goes for drinking, and for the majority of people, putting drugs up there ass just isnt ideal.
 
You could say they are excuses, or you could say they are reasons why i make my decision. Eitherway, collapsed lung is not the end of the world. They are a very minor injury, unless you suffered a MAJOR collapsed lung in which case defintly think twice about your smoking habits.

Lungs are one of the few organs that self repair, just remember that. A collapsed lung isnt a life long injury, its a short term one much like a cut or broken bone.
 
true - all true - but seriously if your lung collapses and the first thing you think about, over just plain rehabilitation, is whether you're going to be able to blaze again - you got some serious psych issues.

Also - smoking HABITS aren't a good thing to have.
 
I had these same worries my lung had jsut recently collapsed it happen on november 10th i got stabbed twice and it punctured my lung and i smoked weed often and cigs i have permanently quit cigs i quit weed but i dont want to i want to smoke so bad but i dont want it to collapse again it was my left lung i had a tube in for 8 days im in alot of pain im going to try making weed butter you just get some butter put it in a sauce pan and throw in some finely ground weed and let it simmer for 30 mins or until the butter is green and cook with it or throw and egg in there with the butter and eat the egg and you will be good i havent tried it yet but im going to THC is fat soluble so it works with fats, oils , and waxes so milk butter cream etc .
 
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