Flower What exactly causes headaches after smoking?

[Hilopsilo]

BG: First smoked ~12 years ago, on & off, became daily use ~3.5 years ago.

Me becoming a daily smoker can be exactly triangulated to the end being a kid in school and joining the "work force" full time.

I find that, usually caused by higher quantities or starting smoking earlier in the day, I'm left with a head pressure headache after a couple hours. I used to associate this feeling with 4/20, but now it's basically daily. I don't think its dehydration, but it can sort of be fixed by eating & smoking more. I usually wake up with this "weed-headache" that persists until I smoke kinda, even though my daily consumption is probably around .5g og ~20-25% whatever. I've always got this mild headache from it, thats alwayd fluctuating in & out of when the last time I smoke was kind of. Mini-hangovers, mild enough I've just always sort of tolerated it.

I don't think its the strain... I smoke something new almost every time I pick up 3.5g, which lasts a week or so. (also im to the point where all weed affects me the same seemingly, I can never drawn any meaningful differences aside from vast potency variations)

Is this kind of headache caused by the plant matter in flower? Coughing a lot from smoking it? I don't consume enough other forms of THC's to really tell. I know people consumer far more than I do, but I don't see many complaints about this from ppl who smoke like an oz a week.

 

[Mr. Krinkle]

hmmm - that sounds like a little bit of a loop that you're kinda stuck in

i would say try taking a break and then come back and see if it's still happening - maybe a week or 2 break if you can handle that

it'll help reset some of your tolerance too and maybe you'll start noticing differences between strains again

it's good to take a break sometimes

 

[Mjäll]

Yeah, it can sticky up your cranium leading to tension, probably. Repeating that inhale suction combined with the lipid properties of cannabinoids seems a likely culprit.

 

[Shady's Fox]

Temporary collapse of white cells that can't transfer their "dialogue" to your usual blood cells and so. Heart rate is usually common and human heart is around 92-110 with all possible small keypoints in your day such as 3 cups of coffee. Maybe you're new.. man I dunno. Point is many people think green makes them a steelcan robot but drugs for 70 of time shows you hidden illness of your body. Gum decay smoked? Pain.. so on

 

[pupnik]

slight allergy effect all the sticky thc and plant lectins stick to mucosa. really sticky, until it is shed or metabolized, it aggravates the head.

one strategy I use is AVOID EXHALING THROUGH NOSTRILS.

the idea being if you keep your sinuses clear of the sticky thc and plant chemicals, then you will not get a headache later.

 

[pupnik]

except if I have too much soluble thc in water, then I get a headache anyway, so maybe my strategy is dumb