Weed allergies, how to tell?

[mafyew]

I have recently been smoking a lot. About 2 years ago i started smoking, and was fine with it, only smoking once a month or so. Now i just started to smoke every day. I recently got to the point were every single high, (the past 5) have become extremely trippy. To put it in one way, it was more intense then when i did shrooms. Last week i noticed a break out on my face, i thought it was posion ivy. I have been handling weed, but havent broken out from touching it. I am going to try the rub test on my arm, but i doubt i will breakout. I am just wondering if the rash on my face was actually an allergic reaction.

What does it mean to be a one-hit wonder? Are there people out there who can take one hit, and get trippy from it, but not be allergic?

Im just wondering if im really allergic, cause it doesnt seem to have after effects. My throat feels fine, i can breathe fine, and feel pretty much normal, i just experience extremely overwhelmingly trippy highs.

[mafyew]

one more thing, i smoked last night, and didnt break out at all, but had the same experience. I took about 4 hits of some pretty alright mids. My eyes were extremely red, heh. Its been 2 days since i went off my perscription for the 'posion ivy'

[mafyew]

something else that should be noted: The effects last up to 5-6 hours, towards the end, or as i am coming down i become less disoriented and become anxious. All 5 experiences led to staying up till 7am because i couldnt sleep, mostly relating to anxiety. I was pretty much scared, i would think ghost, and then have to turn on the tv cause it would make me so nervous.

[BioSci]

From what I've read on these forums it seems that you may have smoked some sativa strain.

It appears that sativa strains create an "up" or "trippy" high, whereas indica strains create an "narcotic" or "lethargic" type high. Perhaps its simply a strain difference that your body/brain doesnt necessarily like?

But then again you may have developed an allergy (since nothing is impossible and people can be allergic to things such as water or sunlight).

[mafyew]

ok im totally allergic. I just smoked abowl and then broke out in hives all around over my neck.

[sweet jane]

my condolences dude.

one of my friends tells the story of discovering how their friend alex the vegan was allergic to weed.... he didn't have hives, but he couldn't talk and was like half paralyzed, he crawled under a table and couldn't move to get out. they picked him up and laid him on the couch to get him off the floor, he was totally vacant. this kid is huge on animal rights, and the couch of course was leather. someone leaned in and told him..alex....you're on a leather couch. and a single tear fell down the kids face. then when they brushed it off he finally said the only thing he spoke the whole night, and croaks out in the most pathetic voice 'why'd you do that---it felt good' hahaha hearing that story always cracks me up, it's hard to type out and have it come out right but still. hahaa. i dunno if that counts as allergies, but after that experience he thinks he's allergic.

sucks about your allergies dude. hives is a pretty clear reaction!

[BioSci]

Or maybe you're setting yourself up! You could be creating a "Placebo Effect".

You set it up in your mind (subconsciously) that if you smoke, you will get an allergic reaction, and thus the body creates the reaction.

If you really are allergic it will be hard to distinguish between real allergy, and placebo effect. But then again, lick some marijuana. If your body reacts then maybe its real (people with peanut allergies cant even go near peanuts, so test yourself out using that concept.....touch it for long periods of time, lick it, eat a very very small amount of it....if you react the same way each time, then its probably an allergy).

[mafyew]

na, im not going to mess with it anymore. When my health is it at risk, its just not worth it.

[jaGerbom]

na, im not going to mess with it anymore. When my health is it at risk, its just not worth it.

good call....or u could actualy ask a doctor about it...i dont know how cool theyd be about it but i'd give it a shot

but neways sorry to hear about your problem...that has to be bogus

[birdgirl73]

I knew a guy in college who was allergic like that and broke out in hives. He mouth would also swell. I always thought it was partially because of nervousness on his part, too, but it happened even when he wasn't nervous. He finally gave up on smoking.

I had eye allergies, runny nose, and itchy throat and ears when I smoked, but a couple of antihistamines would keep that under control so it wasn't a problem.

[mr_vega]

allergic to weed. my worst nightmare.

[Mr Rodgers]

damn...allergic to weed.....i am soooooo sorry man...try brownies maybe its the smoke

[mafyew]

i hear things from different people, i wish there was a sure way to tell. I am around weed so much its going to drive me insane not being able to smoke. Every sign that points to it also has other explainations. Like i broke out in hives only around my neck, but i noticed it a week later after shaving my beard- could be razer burn. I broke out in a rash on my face, i have hiked 5 times in the past 2 weeks, could be posion ivy, which im allergic to. I get high really easy, could just be a one-hit wonder. I rubed weed on my skin, didnt break out. My teeth hurt when i smoke, or more noticable the next morning, could just be my wisdom teeth. It doesnt seem like its hard to breathe when im high, i could have just freaked out the other night, which also could have gave me the head ach i got while high, i just dont know. Its really bothering me, like i cant even concentrate cause its on my mind, freaking me out, i just have to know for sure.

[mafyew]

This 'weed allergy' could just be in my head. I have a question, i was on methylprednisolone, which is generic for medrol a corticosteroid, for the break out on my face. If i remember correctly, i started getting trippy highs around the same time i started on this. Would this have any effect? How long after i stopped taking it, would it be possible to effect something?

[mafyew]

o snap, "If Medrol is taken with certain other drugs, the effects of either drug could be increased, decreased, or altered."

i could have found a winner

[sweet jane]

what's medrol? break out like the hives or is it like acne medication?

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Jane! Medrol's a medicine called methylprednisolone, a synthetic cortico-steroidal anti-inflammatory that people take for allergic reactions (and other things, too). It's been given to me at times to treat bad asthma attacks. It can definitely enhance or strengthen the effects of other meds, and I'm sure cannabis might be one of them.
http://www.medicinenet.com/methylprednisolone/article.htm

[sweet jane]

why thank you

[TheSmokingMonkey]

this is a good thread... bump... anybody else have "allergic" reactions or bad sensitivities to weed?

[wtfmatez]

ok first off i had this prob for four years im 21 now, i used to drain "sinuses" about a milk carton full a day on bad days i couldnt keep weight on, but i still couldnt quit weed.... i had a blood allergy test done and a normal reaction is 0.08 like say on peanuts for me ok ragweed is 0.15 for me and yellow jacket is 0.09 to me so im allergic to ragweed and yellow jackets "ragweed more" but ragweed is in the same family as maryjane they are both "asteraceae plants" so if ur having this prob get a blood allergy test not a skin!!!! ok i had sinus surgery because being allergic for so long and draining i had to have sinus surgey i had two infectins "they called em cysts until they found out they were not" one 8cm in maxilarry sinus other 5cm "come to find out not cancer j infection" thank god!! my other nasal was closed shut in the inside the size of a pin needle so i had to have a hole punched in it, wasnt fun at all... after all that surgery i still drain bad when i smoke ok.. so heres some tricks i learned over the years
if u use them u will drain less maybe not at all. but anyways use neilmed sinus rinse u can get it from walgreens and other places use 3 packs of the salt to 8 oz, ok astelin is good <---get a doc to get u, ive tryed everything on the market, i mean everthing another good 1 is glycopyrrolate 2mg its blatter meds but it will dry u the fuck up!!! <--get doc to get u... better have some water wit ya lolz and durahist D.. thats wut i use to counter act my allergy from weed helps out alot, but ive never broke out in hives j runny nose and drainage

hope this helps out alot use the neilmed 3 packs to 8 oz in the morning "when u drain worse" and mid daytime "when u smoke" then before bed thats 3 times a day


anyway this works verry well wish yall luck smoke on bros :S5: fuck allergies :S5: