FrostyMcFailure
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sativa = panic attack. I do not believe marijuana can restrict airway since its proven to do the opposite.
Okay, Im glad I found this thread. I will share with you my story.
I was smoking cigs and weed for about 10 years. half a pack of cigs at most a day and lets say 3-5 joints per week. Never had a panic attack or anything like that before. About 14 months ago, I took a month break from weed cuz I got into a fight with my dealer so I didnt have a link anymore. I replaced the weed with booze. I went on a alcohol binge for about 3-4 weeks. Then I stopped drinking after I was able to link some pot again. I rolled up a joint of this super high grade highly crystallized stuff and took about 3 hits. About 2 mins after the hit I felt my heart pound / palpitate. That lasted for about a min or two, then it went away. Right when it went away, thats when all hell broke loose.
As soon as it went away, I was left gasping for air. It felt like a lung collapsed or something. The only way I can describe it is like I felt and sounded like Myles Dyson from terminator 2 just before he detonated the bombs. I was gasping for air just like him and was freaking out. First thought that went through my mind was that the weed was laced. I fought it off for as long as I could. After about 2 hours I think, I could take it no more and I , for the first time ever, called 911. I specifically told the 911 operator to not send the fire or police, to just send the ambulance. So who shows up at my door first? the fire truck, then followed by police. They kept asking me what happened, what happened. I kept stalling and just kept saying that my chest hurt. I didnt want to mention anything about the weed cuz I was afraid they would raid my room and find the pot and then I would get charged and shit. So when the ambulance came i quickly went into the back of it. the firetruck left but the cops stayed. So the ambulance guys kept asking me what happened, I told them I was working out real hard and then my heart raced and i was left gasping for air. They asked me if I was on steroids. I said no. They asked me if I was on drugs. I said no. They said its ok and that I dont have to hide anything from them. I still didnt tell them. After being with them for about 20 mins or so,. i was decent enough to go back in my house. They tried to convince me to go to the ER to get checked out and I refused cuz again i was scared this would all come back to me. So I went in my house and I was still having breathing problems and that lasted about 8 hours until I finally went to bed. I woke up in the morning and I was fine.
So, I chalked the incident up to either laced weed or smoking the pot right after a intense work out. The next day I called the guy I got the pot from and asked him what was in it and told him my experience. He told me there was nothing wrong with it, that it was fine. I believed him and thought it was simply a reaction from smoking it right after working out. Too much for my system to handle. I didnt smoke any pot for about a week or two. Then I smoked it again, this time just 2 tokes of the same weed. and what do u know? same thing happened. Only this time it was MUCH worse and it lasted a whole fucking 24 hours. I fought it for so long. I went to the docs office and doc made me do a chest xray and told me that it sounds like a panic attack. I told the doc the weed might be laced and that I have it still and that maybe she can look at it or send it for analysis. She told me to just throw it away. I didnt do that, I kept it. So after this 2nd incident. I officially, after 10 years of use, quit pot. Didnt even get to enjoy or remember my last session. How lame.
So then,,. about 2-3 weeks after that I got a large coffee and loaded it with sugar. i drank about 3/4 of it and then bam same shit happened! this time i had enough and rushed myself to ER and they told me I have a panic or anxiety disorder and asked me to stay in the hospital for observations , i was freaked out so I said yes and thats when they started loading me up with benzos and tranqs but thats another story.
Anyways,. my question and concern is... what the hell happened with this weed?
I still dont know if that shit was laced or what. An anxiety or panic attack isnt suppose to last a fucking day. its suppose to last typically 10 mins and then it passes. sometimes residual affects can last an hour or two , but what I went through lasted much much longer (a whole day!)
Too often, I believe that the pot was laced with some kind of pesticide or poison or something! Im still not right to this day. I think whatever it was,. the damage has been done. My nose is 24/7 congested with clear mucus, sticky like glue! never seen anything like that b4. I have chest pains and tightness and palpitations all the time. Ive gone through so many tests, xrays , everything comes back fine. I dont know what to do. When I try to tell a doc about this and how the weed may have been toxic and i was poisoned they think im crazy and ask me to talk to a psych because according to them "nobody would do that , nobody would try to hurt someone like that" bullshit.
if anyone can relate to my story please let me know.
My next step is to get a bronchoscopy and sinus scope done to see if there is any damage done and also to get a sample of this mucous and to evaluate it. Perhaps the weed created fungus in me? i dont know. All I know is, I havent been right since that fateful day and I am not "thinking" myself into any kind of state of anxiety or panic at all, I have no fears , phobias or anything else.
thanks for taking the time to read my story.
WoW. Thank you for your replies. I apologize to the Original poster, I kinda hijacked his thread. My bad, I shouldve started my own.
FrostyMcfailure: you are totally right, sativa is very stimulating and does = panic attacks. The weed that I smoked that caused the "panic attack" was DEF high grade sativa.
Christopher Biggins: You know , I have a ton of allergies since I was a kid, most to pollen , weeds, hay fever , dust, pollen etc.. but I smoked weed for 10 years and never had a problem with it so I dont know.. but allergy attack def crossed my mind. When I brought that up with a doc, they told me that it wasnt an allergy attack because if it was I would have gotten Hives, itchy throat, etc.. and I did not, so I guess it wasnt an allergy attack? It was either a reaction to a chemical or pesticide in the weed, or there was something in it that was toxic. Or because I smoked it 2 mins after I had an intense weightlifting workout without letting my body, heart and breathing return to normal. The reaction happened because of one of those things OR because of..... (read Floters reply)
Floaters: Floaters Ive given a lot of thought about what happened , why it happened, the events leading up to the reaction and have come up with different theories. I explained a few theories just above to Christopher Biggins and now I will explain the final theory which I think you probably have already thought of as well. I think that by our long term smoking and then stopping our bodies started to detox from the THC and chems. And while it was doing that we started throwing alcohol into the mix which raised our stress hormones and stuff. So after the time away from weed, our bodies kinda returned to a level of homeostasis and then what did we do? we re-introduced the stuff and our bodies kinda got pissed off/confused and reacted in that way. Its either that OR the stress hormones that were secreted into our bloodstream by the alcohol did not get along with the weed at all and we had such a terrible experience. Both alcohol and marijuana create panic attacks and panic/anxiety disorders. Im not saying what we had was a true panic or anxiety attack as im sure our minds are clear and we have no serious fears or phobias, all we wanted to do was have fun and enjoy the high. Ive tried telling psychs and docs this too but they dont understand and try to tell me that people who habitually smoke weed and do drugs and booze are just self medicating themselves from their anxiety and/or depression problems. Yes there are people who do this but then there are people who do it just for the fun of the high on a fri/sat night at a club or concert or chilling with homies etc... and I think thats the category that we fall into.
Ive also had a pulmonary test and it came back normal. I havent tried an asthma puffer, but thats sumthing else thats crossed my mind. that It may have been an asthma attack. Did you try an asthma puffer and did it work? I miss smoking too but to be honest, I am not going to take the risk again of having that day long gasping for air marathon. Its just not worth it. Its so hard and frustrating when people tell you its in your head or its just anxiety or whatever,... especially when its your family. They just dont get it and wont until they go through it themselves. I dont know if its wise to smoke again man,. It might turn into a disaster. But if you do decide to re-toke, make sure its indica and make sure you take 2-3 tokes to test it out. Take a few tokes and wait 10-15 mins and see how you react, if you are fine then go for more. OR just dont even smoke at all,. your older now, not to be rude , but with age you get more frail and sensitive (thats why most pot smokers are under 25) its a youth thing IMO. Let me know if you used an asthma puffer and if it worked for you. Good luck and I hope you dont get a reaction like you did 20 years ago.
To add with my own story, 14 months later, being clean from pot, cigs, booze and even caffeine and now off of a year addiction to benzos, my lungs and sinuses feel like they have been covered in a thin layer of crazy glue. I dont know if that pot was dipped in glue and I smoked the glue fumes or what but if that was the case I would not be surprised. I dont know what to do to get rid of this feeling. Im considering going in for a sinus scope and a bronchoscopy but its next to impossible convincing a doc to let me get one, especially when my chest xrays come back normal. I just wish they felt what it felt like when I breathe with my lungs and stuff so that they would understand how It is to live and breathe with the lungs that I have each and every day.
thanks for the replies fellas.

Yes, I first ate a big sub before the stones concert and did not toke until after I ate.
if anyone can relate to my story please let me know.
My next step is to get a bronchoscopy and sinus scope done to see if there is any damage done and also to get a sample of this mucous and to evaluate it. Perhaps the weed created fungus in me? i dont know. All I know is, I havent been right since that fateful day and I am not "thinking" myself into any kind of state of anxiety or panic at all, I have no fears , phobias or anything else.
thanks for taking the time to read my story.