TheDude0306

Just here to sadly annouce that I am done with weed, after 7 months of heavy smoking I cannot smoke again.

About 4 days ago I was doing some very heavy smoking, about twice a day, and every day in a row.
Something happened in my life, prior to these 4 days that just devastated me, and I thought by smoking I could help ease the pain.

I am normally a very tense and nervous person, I always have been. And of course when I smoke I always felt my heart POUNDING out of my chest.

Always ignored it, even though sometimes it was hard to do. I am sure you have always had the panic attacks when first coming up, on some very powerful weed.

Well, I am not blaming weed entirely, but the combined stress of what happened the prior week, and the strong anxiety of coming up on this powerful last batch of weed did something terrible to me.

For the past 5 days I have had a racing heart. Shortness of breath, etc. Finally late on night 5 of feeling like this, I couldn't take it anymore. I was hoping it would go away, but it just didnt.

I ended up driving myself to the ER late Sunday night.

When I was admited my heart-rate was 180 beats a minute, I felt as though I was going to die, when I finally arrived at the hospital.

Not terribly out of shape, and only 26 years old, I couldn't beleive this was happening. They hooked me up to a some sort of IV, that brought down my heart back to 80. I was 100 times over the normal heart-rate!

This morning I am sitting here typing this message feeling 100% better. My chest still sore like someone punched me about 1000 times in the chest.

Now I know I cannot blame the weed entirely, like I said something happend very tramatic to me during the week, combined with the heavy smoking, lack of excersise, and 5 to 6 hours of very tense computer gaming, before bed every night, all of that combined messed me up.

Going to throw out my nice bowl, and bag of weed today, it was a FUN 7 months, and I am going to miss weed terribly (you know how fun it is to smoke up and play death-match games on your computer stoned?) it feels like your actually in the game! But it does make you heart race.

Guess weed is not for me, with a slight heart murmer, and being generally very tense, I just cant handle it.

What a bummer.

I was also freaking out, because after they got my heart rate down, they took X-RAYS of my chest, they asked when I was admited if I did any illegal drugs, well that is when parents arrived, and I had to lie and say NO. I planned on telling the doctor if parents didnt show up, but I really couldn't after they arrived.

WEED is the ONLY illegal drug I have ever done in my life. I thought for sure they would find out I was smoking from the x-rays of my lungs & chest, but they never said anything. Then again maybe 7 months of smoking is not enough to show up on your lungs yet?

Ohh well, still will hang around and read the messages on the board, but I am afraid my weed days are over.

Although a bit off topic, please answer this one question for me. Would the effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms bring on the same anxiety attacks/rapid heart beat upon COMING UP as good weed does?

Thanx, moderator please dont delete this thread, thank you.