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[MEGA]Idiosyncratic/Unusual Responses to Cannabis

According to wiki:
"A palpitation is an abnormality of heartbeat that causes a conscious awareness of its beating..."
Then yes, all the time do I get palpitations. It grabs my attention, and thinking about it makes it worse.
Stupid cycle.
All a symptom of anxiety I'm sure. I should probably just talk to a stupid shrink... I hate shrinks...
 
Serious, I get palpitations. When I get really high and try to do something physical, I can feel my entire heart lurch.

I don't care anymore about death, so I don't care anymore if I get bad anxiety when I smoke.

If I have a very strong edible I can feel the old panic attacks returning.

It is unnerving, but I look at it like this.

Right now, reclining where I am, high as fuck, reading BL on the laptop, Aretha Franklin in my ears. I do not have any reason to feel anything but awesome, and awesome is how I choose to feel.

This works for me.
 
If I find something funny enough, laughter seems to help. :P

I should just try smoking every day all day again XD
 
had the same problem, got prescribed xanax last year...problem solved. ANXIETY REALLY SUCKS.
 
I definitely heard that. reason: I can't get xanax. My doctor stopped giving them to me. Fucker.
 
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Racing heart is pretty common. As your tolerance drops, the effects will be more noticeable. You may also be developing the anxious response to cannabis that many heavy smokers eventually end up with; it sucks, but what can you do? I'm merging this with the idiosyncratic responses thread, but you should look at the anxiety and paranoia megathread too.
 
Really this happens to heavy smokers? Sonofabitch....
Does this mean I either have to deal with it or stop smoking altogether?
I never saw a reason to quit smoking weed before... I don' wanna!! lol...
I don't really want to smoke all the time by any means, but it's nice once in a while.
It just seems the more "once-in-a-while" my smoking becomes, the more I'm negatively affected.
 
^It doesn't happen to all heavy smokers, but it does happen to some, particularly those who started smoking heavily at a young age (no proof, just anecdotal). It happened to me, and at first I was absolutely gutted, but these days I see it as more of a blessing. I still smoke, but only occasionally (well, not all day every day at least), and usually when I'm doing something active rather than just sitting around. I find exercise is a great cure for anxiety. Have a look at the anxiety megathread (link in the directory).
 
Yea you would think that if your heart is racing, any strenuous activity would be counter-indicated.
But I get the impression that if I were actually doing something physical, my heart would chill out.
Weird how anxiety works. Fuckin hate it...
 
Lost my tolerance, almost lost my lunch...twice. Normal?

Lemme preface with this: I used to be a huge stoner. I used to smoke at least once a week--I never smoked every day because I didn't want to be a complete burnout. After I had a bad interaction with alcohol and pot (read: hallucinated my brains out, vomited like crazy, passed out), I stopped smoking entirely. The occasional hit once a year, but never enough to get stoned. I'm almost 23, and the last time I actually smoked up was when I was 15.

A few nights ago, I took three hits off a blunt, and immediately, my pulse started racing, my chest got hot, my entire esophagus felt like it was on fire and undulating like a lava lamp, I had no idea where I was, who I was with, or which house was mine. That lasted for hours, and it scared the shit out of me.

Last night, I had a few hits off a pipe, and I was feeling slightly better, but still pulse racing and not sure where I was. I also got extremely hyper...amphetamine hyper. Couldn't stop moving my legs and I had the undying urge to climb a tree.

I honestly don't remember if I ever have gotten that stoned before. It scared me to death. I was beyond lightweight status, and if people weren't worried about me, they were annoyed by me (blabbing on and on about stupid shit, or long intervals of silence and giggling).

It seems like I'm the only person I know who gets "up" on weed, and I know I usually get a bit nauseous when I smoke. Is this normal, or is it a sign of an allergy/intolerance?

(also, side question: why do some people get really sick off of pot and booze, but others have a blast?)
 
You need to be even more conservative with how much you smoke, particularly the first time you smoke in a given day. The best way to get your tolerance fixed is to stay high all day (not sure you need to be told that) - you can smoke in the evening every day, and not see your tolerance move much, but staying high all day will push it up. Of course, you would likely want to not to get as high as you got last night...

As for weed + alcohol, IME it depends more on the order than anything else. If you're at least a little high before you start getting drunk, you'll likely have a good time (you can keep smoking into the night, too). If you don't smoke until you're already hammered, you'll spin out and puke, or at the least be surprisingly and usually unpleasantly fucked up. Some of my friends used to say "grass before beer, you're in the clear - beer before grass, you're on your ass".

If you get nauseous smoking, i'd say you're smoking a bit too much, and a bit too fast. I get nauseous if I take too large a hit, but come out fine if I smoke the same amount of weed more slowly.


Oh, and to be a "huge stoner", i'd say you need to be smoking every day, or at least frequently. It's probably best though that you didn't smoke every day while at that age - smoking daily at that age seems to have a larger impact on one's studies and success in school than it does later.
 
Some of my friends used to say "grass before beer, you're in the clear - beer before grass, you're on your ass".

Hehe, I've always gone by ''Bud before beer, you're in the clear; Beer before bud, you're in the mud''

And this effect still rings true after 10 or so years of daily smoking. I'm curious as to how this would be affected if I consumed alcohol on a regular basis though.
 
funny,.....I've been smoking weed and drinking beer for over 40 years and I never gave a thought to which one should go first...
 
swing that cat in here and you're liable to hit a lot of people...:\

Oh no, I don't mean to offend anyone. I was young, I didn't want to fry my brain. I have a very addictive personality, so while I smoked up a lot, I tried hard to avoid doing it consecutively.
 
I had the worst "mental anxiety" and "physical anxiety" like burn one or two and worry about silly mental awareness issues "am i losing it, is there a possibility to psyhosis ect ect" and then somatic stuff like the over awareness to heart feelings. not long ago i took no more than say about 2-3 mini held in tokes, not long and the whole thing was the anxiety and heart stuff.

It felt like my veins and circulatory system got constricted my heart didnt feel like it was beating too hard but rapid and 'tight', tight is the feeling i can explain it as, i felt very nervous and "squeezed" and the stuff was very good i guess. all this before drove me to go see a Dr. at a clinic where after i detailed him on everything and he did his routine blood pressure hear my heart rate and even EKG he said there was nothing wrong at all just anxiety.
 
@heavyriffer
All makes sense, weed causes anxiety. Period. It can be mentally fished out but it generally takes lots of smoking weed to be able to do it.

It took me 3 years to appreciate Marijuana. Now personally, I smoke every day, at least once a day for at least the past 6 months. It does slowly take a toll on you mentally and especially in regards to your respiratory system. Last year as I approached winter I got bronchitis from smoking, and now strep throat because I irritated my throat so much. Still love it though, Just try to take week breaks every 2-3 months and most side effects should stay on the down low.
 
yeah because the whole anxiety nervousness thing didnt come up till about 3-4yrs later, i mean the buzzes sometimes were instense but not anxiety at the time. But i was one of those guys once i got into it i smoked ALOT and i mean ALOT. pack a bowl 3-4X big hits before going on to 2-3 good rolled joints kinda thing in one sitting and this throughout day pretty much if i had the money for it id be smoking.
 
bad experience with marijuana while on depakote!!! anyone else?

i have been taking depakote. now when i smoke weed even a small amount sometimes i get somewhat of an out of body experience. i keep feeling detached from my body and extreemely uncomfortable. not to mention i twitch a bit and feel like i may have a seizure. can anyone explain what the hell it going on.
 
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