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LouC

Hi everyone - long time toker, first time poster here

I've been a heavy weed smoker for about 12 years now - usually daily, after work etc...

A couple of years back i started getting this weird thing when i smoked heavy weed (skunk) - my head began to twitch uncontrollably.

That freaked me out so much that i stopped smoking skunk and instead began to just smoke grass.

About 6 months ago it started happening again on grass, but only when i was really stoned. Now it happens every time i have even one toke.

I hate the thought of giving up weed completely, but am constantly worried now that i've done some weird neurological damage to myself.

At the moment the one consolation is that it's never happened when i've not been stoned.

Has anyone else had this? If so, let me here about it. Is it perminant? Temporary?

Just what the hell is going on?

I've had my first J for over a week today and i can't enjoy it because i'm so paranoid about twitching. This may be my last joint ever...

 

Richi

Hehehe, you're just tripping. Even though you don't know me, trust me.

No, you are not doing any damage to yourself. Marijuana, in any shape or form, has never caused any neurological damage like you speak of.

This has happened to me, and the only damage it caused was embarrassment. It's just the weed getting to you, try to forget about it or concentrate on something else, because it's probably partially psychological in nature.

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sterbo

Don't know if this will help but give it a shot -

http://www.marijuana.com/420/medicin...twitching.html
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nerphroll

In some regards, cannabis is a neurotransmitter, and therefore twitching could just represent an external byproduct of an altered motor system. Are the twitches any more harmful than plain embarassment (for some)? Your guess is as good as mine...but probably not I would think! Otherwise the world would be full of spazzy jerky potheads, which clearly it is not.

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gege

dude my legs use to twitch, until I came upon the realization. that hey, its just in my mind! and it stopped slowly from there.

 

No-Strokes-w-sm

Does this happen with ANY weed? Smoked ANY way? or have you smoked everything through the same pipe/bong/whathaveyou?

I try not to smoke out of anything that is not a glass bong or a brass pipe.

No one should ever smoke out of copper, aluminum, plastic, compressed and carved wood, and a list that goes on and on and on and on.

You can walk into any head shop nearly anywhere and see dozens of toxic devices that are promoted as 'smoking' de vices. No wonder people say it causes problems.


It sounds to me like you're smoking out of the same device or the same way and need to look at that instead. If you're going to use a pipe.. make it glass, brass or titanium. Don't use steel screens use brass. Nobody has medical grade brass screens anyway so you're still opening yourself up to toxins.


I would love to switch to ingesting only oil.

sterbo

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, my friend.

Briar, the most common wood to be used for pipes has been tried and true for centuries.

There are many other woods that are "non toxic" that one can use for smoking.
However, given that there are also many woods that are toxic I suggest that unless one wants to do some research you stay with briar, which of course,you can find anywhere...
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Mike-db

Why not just start smoking shake now?

MeTaL^SkUnK

dude i know excatly what you mean.ive felt the same way before and i never thought there was anyone like me out there.....but ive never had the head twitching...just like my leg and back muslces and arms forarms and fingers and sometimes eyes......i had to stop smoking to for like a couple of mounths
and then i was still smoking but even if i would take one hit from a joint or pipe or bong i would start to have anxiety big tme and i would think im dying and i would just break down cuz i wanted to smoke so bad ,but i knew that as soon as i take a hit im gonna trip out ........its been about 4 or 5 mounths now
and i can happiely smoke weed ,but always in moderation(i dont get hardcore stoned )i just smoke what i think i can handle...

but even now i still get anxiety atacks from smoking ,but just not as much....
just got to not think of it ........

but if you think something is wrong....
trust your heart and go to a doctor or see a nuerolegiest
please go,

good luck peace and love from me and everyone who goes through this

matrixrips

It's your brain...That is it.
Your brain thinks your sick, it makes you sick
You think your twitching, your brain makes you twitch
You think your hand is shaking, your brain makes your hand shake.
Your brain is the most powerful thing your body, remember that.