triggerfinger

this is kind of a continuation of a previous post concerning Lamictal and marijuana (http://www.marijuana.com/420/showthread.php?t=41048). I quit smoking more than a year ago, and just started again recently. In the time that I have abstained, I have had my medications for bipolar disorder changed to lamictal and amytriptoline. I have noticed that my highs aren't that great now that I've started up again. Instead of everything being humorous, etc, and all that comes with a good buzz, my highs have been rather crappy experiences. I get paranoid, my body hurts, and everything seems in a painful, trippy slow motion. Last night I got really sick from a hit on a gravity bong (believed to be a panic attack). I started tripping really bad, threw up, and passed in and out of consciousness. I was in so much pain I wanted to die, and thought I would. Heart palpitations, uncontrollable twitching, sweating, the whole works. I thought I would have a heart attack, and felt that I was falling and being crushed by a large weight (I know these two things can't really happen at the same time, but it's how I felt.) I also felt like I was going to lose control of my bodily functions, and piss myself. I couldn't walk without help, like I was really drunk. To sum it up, it was a bad high.
What I want to know is, could my meds be affecting my high? Was my really bad high last night just a panic attack, or could it be something else? I'm still sick from it, almost a day later, and still feel like I'm fading in and out of an alternate reality. Please help, thanks

jstoner

It has everything to do with your meds. It sounds to me like it was a bad panic attack, but yeah, I would say with a pretty high level of certainty that it's the meds.

I'm sure someone else here will be able to go into much more detail, but I just thought I'd give you a quick response. Meds fuck with your brain, bottom line.

daytripper2564

I used to have those highs were everything is funny and u just laugh like crazy and u feel like ur floating.

Ever since this one incident, i dont get those highs anymore

The incident was, i ate 1/2 gram and passed out. It was the most painful i have ever gone through. Every heart beat was like needles shooting into my heart. i honestly expected to have a heart attack. After waking up from passing out i vomitted several times and felt like shit for a few days.

Ever since then i notice that my highs are NEVER happy funny laughing kinds of highs.
I always thought it was the different breeds of weed, but i noticed that its only happened since this incident.

I think my body interprets it differently now i guess.

Now my highs are like, i just want to sit there and stare and not say anything. If I get really high, then i want to get out of the high so bad! It is painful in my chest/heart and i talk really quietly and i dont want to talk or anything. I hate it! it sucks so bad. I wish i could cleanse my body and restart so i have the good old days highs again. :-(

Delta

Most likely you can, but you'll have to quit your meds for a while. Have you ever considered treating your condition with marijuana alone?

dinkydew1

stop the weed and wait till your meds balance out in your system. Try to smoke a small amount of pot. If you have any probs with your well being then by all means quit and get a health check up.You will have to decide to stop smoking or drop the meds. If I personnally dropped my meds. Nobody could be around my manic episodes or I would not get outta bed for days. I do hope it all works out for you and good luck.

dinkydew1

Forgot to mention: talk to your shrink

Jake

It might have something to do with the medications. But you might be following into a pattern. You expect the same bad thing to happen to you, so it does.

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dedbr

Having taken amitriptyline for awhile, I could almost say for sure that it is the problem. The feelings and moods that you describe are identical to what I experienced with it.

Lamictal is a more benign drug, and is also a newer drug. Amitriptyline is an old drug, so I would ask the doc to maybe switch you off to something newer, because there are newer and better drugs on the market.......

But, as I always say, consult with your doctor before making any decisions one way or the other. Better to be safe than sorry.......


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Dr.St0ner

I have bipolar syndrome as well, and I am also on amitriptyline, although my doctor / psychiatrist have taken me off of amitriptyline for anti-psychotics (please don't ask). I can say I've felt almost the exact same as you have, although strangely enough, while not doing pot. I find I can still smoke bud without having any bad reaction, but after I sober up I'll have a similarily described episode, minus the high.