Very strange reaction

[professorchaos]

My friend last night had a very strange reaction to smoking that frankly I've never heard of before. She was already drunk when she smoked but she said it's happened in a much more minor form before from just smoking. I've smoked with her a few times and I've never seen her do this.

So anyway, suddenly she started shaking uncontrollably in a muscle-spasm sort of way. It would start in her shoulder and would get worse and worse til it was happening in her whole body, then she'd suddenly pass out and drift in and out of consciousness, still shaking the whole time, then suddenly come out of it and sit back up and be better for a while, then the cycle would repeat. This went on for maybe an hour and a half, with the episodes getting progressively shorter and less violent. Has anyone heard of or seen a similar sort of reaction?

 

[imahustler420]

Does your friend suffer from anxiety/panic disorder?

Depending on the strain (sativa/indica), it can cause a panic attack in some individuals which sound a lot like the symptoms you describe. I have an extreme anxiety disorder and that is exactly what a bad panic attack is like: The shakes and spasms, lose of breath, extreme fear, etc. In smoker's terms it might also be called "pulling a whitey".

Sativa strains usually will cause panic attacks in individuals prone to them while indica is the opposite. Plus your friend might of just had a bad mindset and smoked a strong sativa. I recommend a diagnosis if it's anxiety, they will help treat it with SSRI's and mild benzo's most likely and that will stop these episodes. Does it only happen when your friend ingest's cannabis?

 

[XC(A)libur]

yeah sounds like anxiety or depression. i still have depression today supposedly, and i've gotten so cold and shivvery in places that are like 90 degrees. i kept telling someone to turn up the heat, but they were just like "it's up all the way" and i would shake uncontrollably for some reason.

 

[The Winner!!]

Happens to me sometimes... Usually if i'm outside though. Like if i'm in a friends place, then leave to go wait for the bus, i'll start to just jitter and shake (my limbs) and it gets sort of uncontrollable, but its not like huge spasms

 

[Dog_of_WAR2000]

thats only happened to me once and yeah only when im outside but its never been that violent, it usually only happens to me after smoking alot, and i have anxiety and depression, and my ills keep me level my friend did usually freak out kinda like you exlained after smoking, it was panic attacks and he thought he was dying thats all i know about that

 

[The Winner!!]

What is it about weed that makes people think their dying?? Do you think it COULD be ego softening? Or maybe just a little dissociation?

 

[professorchaos]

She doesn't have anxiety disorder and she has no history of this reaction. She also didn't seem emotionally anxious and was very calm when she wasn't having fits.