Strange reaction when smoking weed
A year ago I used to smoke weed just about every day and fully enjoy it. Me and my friends would smoke before we did everything and we had a blast. I stopped hanging out with those kids so I also stopped smoking for about 3 months untill one night I smoked again for the first time. After I smoked, I had a very bad reaction. My heart started pounding, i was a nervous wreck, and I started trembling. My heart was beating so hard I was scared for my life that it was going to stop or somthing. I tried smoking a few times after this and the same thing keeps happening. Noone I know understands what is happening and i never want to smoke again. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
You're getting a strange reaction because the pot is a lot stronger since you don't have a tolerance. Also, it makes people paranoid. Basically, the most likely situation is that the pot is acting as a stimulant on you, which gets you excited and gets your heart going. That, combined with the paranoia makes you worry about how fast your heart is beating, then you get more excited and more paranoid, etc. It's normal after you've gone a long time without smoking.
Also, you stopped hanging out with those guys for a long time, so you're not as comfortable with them anymore, thus making you nervous when you're getting high. Pot has a tendency to amplify however you would be feeling if you didn't smoke. Maybe you're feeling guilty about smoking.
It's very normal. Just have a drink (water, beer, whatever) maybe a cigarette if that's your thing and chill out. Also, put some good music on. Take advantage of your nervousness, because it's getting you higher, and everything will be trippy and fun.
Also, there is the possibility that it's laced, which could be very bad. Make sure it's not laced.
Ok, enough of my rambling.
If you want, try small doses in a comfortable setting with a few people you know. If in the end you don't enjoy it anymore, stop doing it.
I know w/ me, I usually get it off diff' ppl everytime I get it & it always varies...and also yeah, if I'm more relaxed b4 I smoke, it's alway's better. If you're really stressed & have a lot on your mind, sometime's your heart-rate can be faster, doesn't matter what you're doing; it's just common-sense - stress/worry/anxiety speed's-up heart rate & obviously changes your mood, so I mean there's so many factor's to consider - also if it had been say 'month's' since you last smoked, it can be a stronger reaction. I wouldn't worry about it, similar shit has happened to me b4, but some of those factor's came-in - but usually if I'm relaxed I'm fine; so try to relax & not think about it too much...also check it b4 you smoke it, sometime's you can tell if it's laced or not. Not alway's obviously, but once in a while. Know your sources, I try to get off friend's when I can -better if you can, and just relax & ride the wind...you'll be fine :)!
Peace.
So basically, I don't really wanna smoke it ever again cuz I don't want to feel like that ever again. But my friend said that's happened to him before but it's ok if you are alone, watching a movie, or chillin with music. It's just freaky if you are in a room with people talking cuz you can't keep track.
(oh yeah i was about to get strep throat to, so maybe that had something to do with the reaction i had)
The weed we got was Dro, i had never tried Dro. Were out in his hot tub and I took one hit and started coughing a lung up. About 2 minutes later i started feeling a pain in my chess. So i go inside and lay down on the couch. Then i notice my feet are twitching uncontrollable. An i had very very bad cotton mouth (dehydration i believe) so I try to ignore and watch "Dazed and Confused" haha, but i couldn't concentrate on it. So i go into the bathroom stumbling and look in the mirror. My eyes were buggin out. So i go tell me friends that my chest hurts, my heart beat is very high, and im having trouble breathing. So they go tell me to go lay in my friends bed. I do it and i start having migrans, and what i thought were past memories that i had when i was little. And cold sweats too.
about 4 minutes later my friends come in blazed as hell they had each taken like 8 hits, so i tell them that this is going to happen to them (nothing happened to them)
so my friends are sitting and im just tweaking out on the bed, i took my friends airsoft gun and put to my head(luckaly it was empty) then my friend decides to put The Doors (the end) not the best music to listen to while having a panic attack. I pleed with him not to play it and he decides to be nice and turns it off, my friend then tells me to try walking around get the blood flowing. So i do i walk twords the door and BAM i fall over passed out, (I STOPPED BREATHING) my friends go over to me slap me, poor water on my face, i thought he gave me mouth to mouth i dont think so though, He might have shotgunned air to me though. IDK.
i walk up go sit on the bed, poor water on my eyes cus they were incredably dry and try drinking water, but through it up. Then i start getting really weird, start crying but no tears come out, i thought my other buddy looked like the devil, i started praying to God asking him to forgive me and then i cant remember anything
else really. I guess i stopped breathing like 5 times in half and hour.
You know when someone gets shot and stats to die in movies in first person view, that what it looked like to me.
so finally my friend goes and tells his mom that something really really bad is happening to me and she calls my parents my dad comes helps me get through it, tells me im hyper ventilating and tells me to slow down my breathing.
then when i get home i go sit in a chair and tell my mom to ask me questions about the clock i am making in woods. To calm me down. It helped
then my dad videotapes me freaking out and shows it to me the next day
about 3 months later(i hadnt done anything in that time period) i go and chief with some other buddies and guess what they got "Dro" they pretty force me to take a hit, and like a retard i do it. but i was ready this time i had a paper bag, some bread, water, and i told them what to do if anything starts to happen to me.
the first hit feels great(god did i miss that feeling) but about 30 min later i have trouble breathing, so i go sit down grab the bag, water, and bread and watch tv
luckily i was able to concentrate on the tv. Thankgod my friends were inside and able to calm me down not like last time being alone and having a panic attack. i get through and i am never going to do "Dro" again, knowing now that is wasnt cus i was sick its the drug that fucks me up.
but i thinkin bout starten up again, but im gonna start with swhagg(i dont know how its spelled)
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I started smoking weed in the summer of 1974, just as I graduated high school. It became a nightly habit, then, a couple of years later I was smoking it throughout the day. On the way to work I would take a few hits. As a teenager I had a job as a delivery driver. I would also smoke on the road. At lunch. On the way home and also at night with friends.
For TWENTY years I was smoking weed habitually. I was buzzed pretty well much throughout the whole day. Being high was my normal state.
Around fall of 1995 I was on the way home from a friends. It was late, about one o'clock in the morning. I was driving down a major highway. As usual, I took a few hits on a joint. Within a few minutes I began to feel very strange. It began to feel as if I were going to burst. That I was going to just wink out and die. I became quite terrified. I began to think about pulling over to flag someone down to get me to a hospital. After a few minutes it seemed to be subsiding. I finally made it home and felt much better.
At that point I thought I should lay off the weed for a couple of days. Then I smoked again and the same thing happened. So I quit for a couple of weeks. I smoked again but could feel the effect just about coming on. It was uncomfortable. Again, a few days later it happened again big time. That was it. I decided that I had to quit.
TWO YEARS LATER I am at a party and thought I would try smoking again. Just a couple of hits. I joined a couple of friends and took TWO hits. Within a couple of minutes the same feelings came on again. I had to leave the party to take a walk to calm down. Ten minutes later, after the feelings subsided I had a nice little buzz and everything was OK. I have not smoked since then. That was about ten years ago.
When this started happening to me way back, I searched the internet to find nothing to help me. I felt as if I were alone in this. Obviously they are panic attacks brought on by the weed. TODAY I find that I am not alone. This is becoming quite common.
From what I can find they have discovered that with SOME PEOPLE, marijuana lowers your trigger level for panic attacks. They also contribute it to more powerful marijuana that has been hybridized. The MJ of today is near eight times more potent than the weed of the eighties and early nineties.
POSTER, you are by no means alone. Stop smoking weed.
Leave the drugs out.
weed scares the shit outa me
i love it tho but im to scared to smoke. wtf is wrong with me@?@?@?@?
The sick part is that there was NO WAY IN HELL I could enjoy that. I felt disconnected from my body...like my soul was slowly being pulled out of my body. I thought that I was DYING. My heart was beating very fast and my breathing was very rapid. I was numb from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. It was a scary ass feeling! Then the weird part is that I KEPT getting high. Like 30 minutes later, I'd have another strong episode and that process continued maybe 7-8 times. I thought that I was never going to see my family and friends. Then I thought about how I had never confessed Jesus as my Lord. So, I confessed right there in that moment and prayed to God. I asked God to please let me live and to get me through this. I told God that I would NEVER smoke again, but if only he could get my mind right. I seriously thought that my mind was totally gone, never to return.
I was totally paranoid about EVERYTHING. I wanted to drive 150 miles to be with my mother just to tell her how much I love her and how sorry I am. I wanted my mom to hold and embrace me.
Now it's 2 days later, and I still feel the effects. Not as paranoid, but every now and then, I feel increased heart rate, distorted hearing, and feelings of worthlessness. My boyfriend said that it will eventually wear off. The same thing happened to him years ago and it took about one week for him to get back to normal. He did tell me to drink a mix of water and vinegar..to eat plenty of fruit (apples, peaches, oranges, bananas). He said that there is no such thing as "plain weed" these days. Everything is usally sprayed with something. He said finding "plain weed" is like going into Radio Shack and asking to purchase a pager! It's so ancient that they would have to dig in old bins and drawers to find it. He said that when he had his episode, he later found out that it was laced with Cocaine and PCP.
A word to the wise, hopefully you're reading this site and you have not already experienced what I and the rest of us have. Take it from me, DON'T SMOKE WEED. You will never know what you are truly smoking and taking the chance is definitely not worth it!
i was with with my friend at her house, and a couple of our guy friends were coming over. they are huge pot heads and even deal. i had tried smoking a couple of times, but had never really gotten high. this night, they said they were bringing over their huge bong and my friend had recently started smoking quite a bit of pot, so i decided i would try it again. i was so naive about the bong, i thought that it got you to the same level of "highness" as a pipe or even bubbler, BOY WAS I WRONG.
so we went downstairs and started smoking. the bong got to me, and i of course was apprehensive. i took a rip and passed it along. then it came to me again, and i took the BIGGEST rip ever, even my guy friends were geeking out because of how big it was. at first i didnt really feel anything, but about 4 minutes later i started FREAKING OUT. i didn't know where i was and i was making shit up, (i dont even remeber it that much--my friends told me the next day..) so decided to go upstairs and sit on the couch. it was honestly the ODDEST feeling ive ever had in my life. my heart was POUNDING OUT OF MY CHEST and i was shaking uncontrollably. it felt like i was living in 2 different worlds, like i was in a different dimension. i saw the Lord and began to cry uncontrollably. my friends came up and were asking me what was wrong. i was crying so hard i could barely talk. in order to talk i had to calm myself down and try to get out of the "different dimension." i honestly saw God and begged him to get me the hell of out of this state of mind, he was holding me and telling me everything was going to be okay. needless to ssay, my faith is much stronger after this experience...
so then my guy friends left, i think they were honestly scared of me. i was pacing around the room for 2 hours and saw my funeral, i was ligetimetly convinced i was going to die that night. the next day was prom and i told my friend i saw myself at my funeral in my coffin dead. i told her "your going to be the friend of the girl that died from smoking weed and had a heart attack. you know that? how are you going to F****** feel huh????? wow your the worst friend ever. if you dont f******* take me to the hospital I WIL DIE...i tried to call 9 11 and my friend had to disconnect all the phones in her house.. i wanted to call my father and mother and tell them i love them and i need them and how sorry iw as.. i BEGGED my friend to take me to the hospital.....she had to take my phone away from me..
eventually she called my friend who i guess had freaked out from weed before as well, and i laid down for what seemed like hours. i was spinning, and living in 2 different worlds. i would doze of into the other world/dimension and have to calm myself down and get myself back to the normal state, but right wheni did that i would go back to the high world. it was the most horrible night of my life.
finally i fell asleep, and in the morning i was still high. i took a shower, felt like shit, so i decided to call one of the guys i had smoked with and tell him how i felt. i started crying uncontrollably again because i was so scared, i mean it had been like 15 hours! the guy i smoked with also happened to be my prom date, so he calmed me down and thankfully by the time prom pics roled around i was feeling better.
i couldn't talk about it the next day without crying. i told my brother--who smokes quite a bit about it , and he said it had to have been laced. but i dont know how considering the other people i was with didn't have the same shit happen to them??
i still have dreams about it. that i decided to smoke again, andi go tthrought the exact same shit. its unexplainable, and absolutely horrible. in my dream i just keep teling myself how f-ing stupid i am for doing it again after my last experience...
I WILL NEVER EVER EVER SMOKE POT AGAIN!
It was my first time smoking weed and I had 3 friends over at my house. We had just bought some pretty good regular weed, about a ounce from my friends cousin. It was not laced with anything as far as we know. But something happened. And I'm told it's either because I smoked too much or it was because I was on Anti-depressents.. but I still wonder. Anyway.
We roll 2 blunts out with the hole ounce and start smoking in my small bathroom. I kept taking in alot for my first time because I had tried to get high the week before at a friends house but our guesses were that his weed just wasn't going to do it for me. I never felt anything on his and tried 4 days with about 10 hits the 3 days after the first. So we're smoking a shit ton in the bathroom and i'm taking huge hits. Eventually I notice that my chest is hurting and I wasn't worrying about it at this point because I had just started. I stepped out and started coughing about 2 minutes later and actually coughed up alot of smoke. Well some pizza arived and I was feeling the effects of the weed finally and it was enjoyable. We ended up going back for the second blunt and I really regret it.
We're lighting up the joint and I probably stick around for half the thing. I go in my room which is right next to the bathroom and lay down on my bed. I just started relaxing just closing my eyes. I saw that my friends were still in the bathroom smoking it up and I figured it'd be enough for me.
So I kept eyes closed. I don't really know how much time passed.
5 minutes. One of my friends (who is pretty young and stupid) did it for his first time too and he had a really hyper reaction to it and was running around and shit.
When I have my eyes closed all the sudden I see this flashing lights. I saw them go back and forth probably about 4 times. I asked my friends "What just happened what was that light" And I could feel a huge delay. My expectations for being were a little different and this was crazy. They were trying to tell me right after I asked that no nothing happened. Apparently my hyper friend had flashed a flash light in my face a couple of times. I blacked out for about 5 seconds and came back standing up with my arms over my head scared as shit.
I got down on the floor and kept telling myself that I regretted doing it. I heard all the sounds in the room including the music just cycling in my head. It was terrifying. My hyper friend was laughing too, it was all I could hear for a while. I asked my friends to put me in the bed and I kept asking if they could turn off the light because it was so bright and I was scared. I asked them to leave the room because my friend was laughing. I kept hearing whispers that dragged on in time. I thought I heard my friend say "Dude I think we need to get out of here he's freaking out" and this made me think horrible thoughts as I was laying in my bed with my eyes closed. At this point I started seeing alot of things. The thing worth mentioning was how I thought I was dieing. I saw darkness and I kept thinking that "This was it, it's over". I saw the light and I could feel my heart beating extremely fast in the darkness. I started seeing the light brighter, and the brighter it got the more my heart beat slowed down. I'm happy to say I didn't cry to any non-existing deities even at this point. I mainly just kept saying how sorry I was that I screwed up some things and I wish I could come back. I eventually opened my eyes and went into the other room still high as shit making sure I was alive by asking my friends. I got them to take me back in there in my room. Then I went through the stage of me not wanting them to go because I was so scared. I thought I was in a war at one point and all my friends were dieing and I was the only one left also. I made my friend hold my hand all night. I really felt like a bitch at this point but I thought I just died.
I eventually ended up screaming about some things in the next hours and going through a sort of comedy trip and making funny noises, making up lyrics as I sing lol.
Eventually my friends got my some water and I just kept asking if it was going to go away and they just kept assuring me it would. The next day I was pretty scared about the whole thing. I kept telling myself I wasn't going to do it again.
I ended up smoking again, even after all of this. I didn't think that after the first time and smoking too much that it would be like that again. I think I just messed up so I was willing to give it another chance. It has been enjoyable the last few times I've done it because I've done much less. I will probably never smoke that much again unless my tolerance ends up building up, which I doubt, because I don't smoke often. I think to truly enjoy weed you have to atleast know the basics. So please, do not do what I did the first, or even the few after the first. You could end up where I was, and it wasn't a happy place. There's no reason for me to say don't smoke weed, because it can be enjoyable. It's about what you want to feel. Do you want to be relaxed and like your mind is sort of enhanced? Go for it.
By the way, my friends were not feeling near what I was and they smoked just as much. One of them was a first timer and smoked more than me too.