Gecko420
05-02-2008, 08:44 AM
Hmm, where to begin..
I'm an ex-pothead, smoking nearly every day for nearly 5 years. One day I woke up and started having throat problems that no doctor or poison-control-centre can explain to me. I'll later get on to why I've contacted poison-control. The feeling in my throat (when smoking) is centred around my adam's apple, a feeling as though it is shifting about or out of place or simply swollen... it hurts to swallow, and it causes me to have panic attacks. I've been to the hospital a few times because of this. I've asked my doctor about what's happening, and the "help" he gave me was simply laughing and telling me to quit smoking. I explained it to him that I've quit smoking reefer as of Jan 12, but he still couldn't help me out with my situation.
Now, to explain why I decided to try contacting poison control today (just got off the phone with them actually, no help there either): a while back one of my noob-stoner friends took some advice a little bit too literally.. they were trying to mask the scent of marijuana with a bounty sheet, and as opposed to wrapping the BAG with a sheet, they wrapped the actual BUD. I smoked it, complained about a foul taste, hacked my lungs up, etc. I was able to smoke marijuana just fine for I'd say a few months after this incident (I have a horrible memory, don't ask when this occured or for how long after I was able to smoke), and then my throat started to act up. Now, recently I decided to give smoking another shot (after my above quoted quit-date of Jan 12), and I was doing alright for a few days. On about my third day of smoking weed (you have no idea how quickly you'll lose your tolerance by the way, I got baked eeaaassiillyy) I smoked a bong at a friend's place and noted that it "tasted like laundry". Thinking nothing of it, I came back to my apartment with my friends with a fresh ounce of ganja, when we decided to take my friend's van to a park and hotbox it. Same thing happened, I complained that my hits were tasting like laundry, my throat started to act up, I started having some anxiety, and I had to step out of the vehicle.
Just last weekend I went to a friend's college, got really fuckin hammered, smoked some pot and felt fine at the time, but the next day on the ride home my throat felt awkward and it's all I could really focus on.
If anyone's experienced or heard-of any of these symptoms please let me know. I live in an apartment with a lot of potheads, and a lot of potheads that come to visit and toke up. The temptation is always there, and stoned memories of good times are always running through my head. I love marijuana, much like most of the members of this site probably do. It's driving me nuts not being able to smoke.
I'm an ex-pothead, smoking nearly every day for nearly 5 years. One day I woke up and started having throat problems that no doctor or poison-control-centre can explain to me. I'll later get on to why I've contacted poison-control. The feeling in my throat (when smoking) is centred around my adam's apple, a feeling as though it is shifting about or out of place or simply swollen... it hurts to swallow, and it causes me to have panic attacks. I've been to the hospital a few times because of this. I've asked my doctor about what's happening, and the "help" he gave me was simply laughing and telling me to quit smoking. I explained it to him that I've quit smoking reefer as of Jan 12, but he still couldn't help me out with my situation.
Now, to explain why I decided to try contacting poison control today (just got off the phone with them actually, no help there either): a while back one of my noob-stoner friends took some advice a little bit too literally.. they were trying to mask the scent of marijuana with a bounty sheet, and as opposed to wrapping the BAG with a sheet, they wrapped the actual BUD. I smoked it, complained about a foul taste, hacked my lungs up, etc. I was able to smoke marijuana just fine for I'd say a few months after this incident (I have a horrible memory, don't ask when this occured or for how long after I was able to smoke), and then my throat started to act up. Now, recently I decided to give smoking another shot (after my above quoted quit-date of Jan 12), and I was doing alright for a few days. On about my third day of smoking weed (you have no idea how quickly you'll lose your tolerance by the way, I got baked eeaaassiillyy) I smoked a bong at a friend's place and noted that it "tasted like laundry". Thinking nothing of it, I came back to my apartment with my friends with a fresh ounce of ganja, when we decided to take my friend's van to a park and hotbox it. Same thing happened, I complained that my hits were tasting like laundry, my throat started to act up, I started having some anxiety, and I had to step out of the vehicle.
Just last weekend I went to a friend's college, got really fuckin hammered, smoked some pot and felt fine at the time, but the next day on the ride home my throat felt awkward and it's all I could really focus on.
If anyone's experienced or heard-of any of these symptoms please let me know. I live in an apartment with a lot of potheads, and a lot of potheads that come to visit and toke up. The temptation is always there, and stoned memories of good times are always running through my head. I love marijuana, much like most of the members of this site probably do. It's driving me nuts not being able to smoke.