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I've been smoking pot for over a year now, off and on, and mostly daily. I had never experienced anything close to a freak out, and I was commended as being able to take the biggest hits, and it felt like I never had a limit of smoking. I could smoke all I wanted to and feel great and euphoric, it was amazing.

About a month or two ago, I decided to try some off topic syrup, and I had a really interesting, somewhat scary trip on it. I didn't enjoy it, so lesson learned I never did it again. I smoked 3 bowls about 2 days after I did the syrup, and had a full blown anxiety panic attack. It was the most horrible physical experience I have ever had in my entire life. I felt my heart racing, and would experience brain shocks every 10 or so minutes where the mind feels like it's blowing up. I was freaked and scared. Almost every time I've smoked weed since, I've had these feelings. Sometimes I can calm myself down and they go away, but last night I had the same feelings and I'm just getting sick of it. I am for sure feeling extra anxiety ridden these few weeks because of school and stuff, but I've smoked pot with way more anxiety and not had anything close to these kinds of trips and experiences. I have been smoking a bit more than usual though, and was newly introduced to sativas which may be the cause. I'm extra depressed now because I miss chilling out on pot. Truth be told, I think I may be smoking too much each session, because it seems that a few hits now are enough to subside me and make me feel fine, rather than taking bowl after bowl.

Now, to pinpoint the anxiety precisely, it all comes from my heartbeats. Ever since that first anxiety attack, I check my pulse constantly while high, and when I feel it speed up, I start getting panicked. A few times I force myself not to feel my pulse, and I usually have a pretty good experience, minus some tightness in the chest. I'm 19 and pretty active, but I just get scared my heart is beating too fast or something and that I may have some condition that will kill me. It's quite frightening

Anyone know if this is a permanent thing, I really don't want to quit smoking pot.

 

Cassius

It's not permanent. Just take it easy and be careful for a while, monitor yourself and make sure you do it in a comfortable environment where you are able to control your feelings (with friends you trust, etc). After not long at all you'll get your self-confidence back and be okay.

I was kind of the same way, all my friends always marveled that I was able to take the largest hits (by far) and also hold it in the longest (by far, we were young and too ignorant to realize holding it in that long serves no purpose except to asphyxiate yourself). Well I started smoking with a group of friends I really wanted to impress and for several weekends in a row we went down there and I always took as large of a hit as I could, I'm talking the kind of inhale you do before the first bar of an opera or something. Well, one of the hits one weekend I took in so smoke smuch, and so THICK of smoke, and held it in until my lungs decided, no, you're coughing this out NOW. I got dizzy and almost blacked out, and for weeks after that whenever I smoked at all, within the first hit or two I could start to feel that feeling creeping up in the back of my mind, almost as if I could feel it coming on again. I just watched myself and smoked a LOT lighter than I ever did before normally for a while, and like I said above, it wasn't long maybe a few weeks or a cupla months not sure, to where I could take monster hits without blinking again.

Of course, this is all based on the assumption that there's not something physiologically wrong with that occurred as a result of what you experienced. However everything as you describe it to me, especially the way you refer to the anxiety, sounds like it's a temporary thing like what happened to me. In fact, lots of people have anxiety attacks almost identical to what you described, although I haven't myself personally. My best advice is to just do as you're already doing -- be careful and monitor what you smoke and how you smoke it, try and smoke around friends you're comfortable with or in a comfortable non-paranoid place, to minimize that amount of anxiety-stimulating factors. You can judge better than anyone else when you're ready to go back up a level... and you now know where your limits are so you won't try to push it as hard the next time.

In fact, the experience I had taught me a LOT. Lesson learned the hard way, I guess. In fact, now that I think about it I'm not sure that I ever went back to level of hits I was taking before that happened (it was about a year and a half ago, maybe 2 years). I just don't really have the desire to, because I know that even though I can do some pretty amazing stuff when it comes to inhaling (of course I was in choir for several years in secondary school too, I guess that helps), even I have my limits and I know how much it sucks if you push yourself harder than you're able to handle. And I still take larger hits than most of my friends, anyway, so I can still hold my own if they start trying to brag =P

PS: I really hope you're serious about learning a lesson about cough syrup -- that crap is not worth it. Cold medicine is even worse. The reason that **** is over the counter is because they don't expect people to be stupid enough to **** up their kidneys royally just to get themselves temporarily high. Sadly, a lot of kids (and some really stupid adults) do it anyway. But it is sooo not worth it. You don't get high just from using it, you only get high from an overdose, which by definition is more than your body is supposed to have and can handle. A friend of mine from high school to this day (I think, haven't talked to him for about a year) has a problem with corecedrine that started in High School -- last time I talked to him he just got out of jail for shoplifting from Wal-mart. You don't wanna end up like him.

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PS: I really hope you're serious about learning a lesson about cough syrup -- that crap is not worth it. Cold medicine is even worse. The reason that **** is over the counter is because they don't expect people to be stupid enough to **** up their kidneys royally just to get themselves temporarily high. Sadly, a lot of kids (and some really stupid adults) do it anyway. But it is sooo not worth it. You don't get high just from using it, you only get high from an overdose, which by definition is more than your body is supposed to have and can handle. A friend of mine from high school to this day (I think, haven't talked to him for about a year) has a problem with corecedrine that started in High School -- last time I talked to him he just got out of jail for shoplifting from Wal-mart. You don't wanna end up like him.

Which cough syrup or cold medicine are you talking about? More specifically, which ingredients are you talking about? In general, such medications contain some combination of dextromethorphan, acetaminophen, guaifenesin, chlorphineramine maleate, pseudoephedrine, diphenhydramine HCL, doxylamine succinate, codeine, and/or hydrocodone. It is true that some of these chemicals are physically damaging to the kidneys. Some are damaging to the liver, some are damaging to the brain, some are addictive, and some are relatively harmless. Do YOU know which, and at what dose? I take exception to your blanket statement that all of these drugs are bad, and that taking them is a one way street to bad health, crime, and jail. No chemical is inherently evil. Replace the words "cough syrup", "cold medicine", and "corecedrine" (sic) in the above paragraph with "marijuana," and you've got grade-A Prohibitionist propaganda.

I can see the truth that you are getting at, Cassius, but be careful how you say it.

Peace.

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I felt that once because i was smoking at home and my house is scarey as hell so i started smoking in places like the park with some friends or something but i stop doing that cuz i may bump into someone i have beef with and i may not be sober to do anything.