Panic attack/trip when smoking weed...

[Thedingus]

I rarely smoke.. maybe 10- 15 times in my whole life, if not.. less.. i smoked out of a bong ( i usually dont ) and the bottom line is i smoked too much than i could handle, and i wasnt used to it. I coughed for almost 2-3 minutes straight and it scared the shit out of me.. when i was calm the high finally hit me and i felt like everything was moving really fast and my heart beat raised and i kept asking my friends "am i gonna be alright", "when does this go away?".. i was so afraid and felt so horrible that i wanted to kill myself.. if i was close enough to a knife i would have.

The thesis of this uninteresting story is that i freaked out from this experience, eventually passed out .. woke up and i felt almost normal.. but i felt kind of dizzy and my thoughts were very blank.. this "cloudy/ blank thought process / dizzy" feeling people tell me is called being "burnt".. if this is true, then why have i felt like this for the past 2 days? nothing feels real, and i feel like everything is weird and diferent.. i keep thinking im "retarded" and that im afraid i'll stay this way, but... i can function correctly ( drive etc) (sometimes i nthe past 2 days i have froze and been confused but midly and probabley because im making my mind into a bigger deal than it is

Ive come to the conclusion maybe im just paranoid? i have read sympthoms of paranoia and how weed and open your mind up to some certain mental illness's.. has this happened to me? is it possible im permantly like this? Will a sauna sweat some of the toxins out of my body? (probabley way off idea).. Can someone please give me a true, helpfull answer?

Thedingus Reviewed by Thedingus on 04-01-2008. Panic attack/trip when smoking weed... I rarely smoke.. maybe 10- 15 times in my whole life, if not.. less.. i smoked out of a bong ( i usually dont ) and the bottom line is i smoked too much than i could handle, and i wasnt used to it. I coughed for almost 2-3 minutes straight and it scared the shit out of me.. when i was calm the high finally hit me and i felt like everything was moving really fast and my heart beat raised and i kept asking my friends "am i gonna be alright", "when does this go away?".. i was so afraid and felt so Rating: 5

[Delta9 UK]

Hello Thedingus and welcome to Cannabis.com

What you experienced was not that unusual and the main thing you need to know is that you won't suffer any long-term effects and in a couple of days you should be perfectly OK and back to normal

There are no toxins to wash out so don't worry about that! Drink plenty of water and get some exercise you will feel 100% better in a couple of days.

[Delta9 UK]

If you have normally smoked joints then you probably would take a small amount of smoke in - its easier for you to control.

With a bong you take in a LOT of smoke and its concentrated. Even if you cough you have already absorbed a lot of the active compounds within the smoke - like THC. You are already on your way to absorbing a lot of the good stuff all in one go.

Your lungs will feel like they want to expand? Right? and you then begin to cough out of control. Your lungs become irritated and produce mucus - this makes you hack and cough some more!

Then your blood pressure probably shot right up and it freaked you out - so your pulse starts racing and you begin having a panic attack. This isn't that unusual if you smoke too much - especially if you smoke it in a short period.

But the effects are short-lived and if anything I bet you won't do it again in a hurry You just need to take it easy and find your own pace - remember that all weed is different and it affects different people in different ways. Just because a 'friend' thinks it isn't strong - doesn't mean you will.

[FlyGuyOU]

for awhile i would have panic attacks, i got this crazy idea that my teeth were going to fall out and then i'd constantly be thinking about it, wiggling with my tongue, looking at the mirror.... and this went on for a few weeks. not everytime i smoked but maybe 40-50%
eventually i realized that it was all in my head. I brush my teeth everyday so no reason for them to fall out. one i got my smarts back, they went away.

i think that b/c you don't smoke that often or much, you just got blazed more than before. obviously that can be a 'trip' once you get used to it, you'll be gravy

[Thedingus]

To delta9uk:

Is it normal after 3 days ( today) to still be dizzy sometimes? i perceive things diferently.. and it seems like my thoughts are kind of "blank". This shouldnt last longer than 3 days? i think it could be these are synthoms of paranoia.. becasue i've read that Thc can open doors to mental illnesses? thanks for replying i appreciate your help,

thanks, TheDingus

[jamesia]

I really think you're just trippin yourself out. Sure, everyone's had a panic high at one point or another... it's similar (but different!) to how sometimes a drunk person can get really violent, but usually they're just loud and goofy. Usually people that are high are just spaced out or hungry, sometimes though there's a panic. Just relax and go for a run or something.

The stuff you read about drugs making people crazy is kind of bunk science. It's impossible to say why peoples' underlining mental conditions come up at different times, but those conditions were there all along, not caused by drugs. I've read the research on the 'link' between schizophrenia and cannabis, and even the papers say that cannabis did not cause the mental condition, it's not a provable hypothesis.

[Coelho]

Is it normal after 3 days ( today) to still be dizzy sometimes? i perceive things diferently.. and it seems like my thoughts are kind of "blank". This shouldnt last longer than 3 days? i think it could be these are synthoms of paranoia.. becasue i've read that Thc can open doors to mental illnesses?

Man... after the very first time i got high (VERY high, BTW), i felt weird, "different", for about one week after it... as you said youre not used to smoke, its perfectly normal to feel this way. No need to worry about mental illnesses... you wont become crazy after only one bong hit, no matter what you heard about it... (reefer madness lol).
The THC is stored in the fat of the body, so whenever we burn fat the THC stored in it is released. It explains why many people feel its effects for a long time after smoking.
So, dont worry, and mainly, enjoy that you can get this high with so few weed... many of us (if not all of us) would love to have a tolerance as low as yours... cause having to smoke one entire joint to feel only buzzed is not nice... :jointsmile::rastasmoke::thumbsup:

EDIT: 1900th post!

[Thedingus]

I have researched it inthe past 3 days about the THC staying in the system and how any trace of it can trigger a mental illness that you may already have (someone above mentioned how it does not create the mental illness) but it has been shown to trigger it..

More importantly, i've also read how thc is stored in fat cells.. would running/maybe being in a sauna release the THC so i can stop getting this "weird" feeling throughout the day were speaking of? or would it just cause me to panic again? heh,

thanks for the replys guys

[Fragman]

Chill out dude, you just had some damn good stuff by the sounds. It's possible that the THC does not like you or rather you don't like it but I can say for sure it's not the weed, maybe something else was already wrong with you, maybe you are already crazy just joking but don't panic to some people it can produce some sort of hang over if you had some good stuff and were not used to it, so just sit back and keep doing what you would normally do and it will pass and maybe next time just have 1 cone and leave it at that. My wife tryed some last year, i rolled her a joint and said now just have a bit...ok she said yeah what ever. I went and cooked some meat on the BBQ and by the time i got back to her she was already saying she thinks she is having a heart attack eheheh i was rolling around on th floor it lasted for 24 hrs before she even felt anywhere near normal an actually lasted for 3 days before she said she feels fine. Yeah and she no longer smokes

Frag

[Coelho]

would running/maybe being in a sauna release the THC so i can stop getting this "weird" feeling throughout the day were speaking of? or would it just cause me to panic again?

Well... running or doing any other physical exercise which need a lot of energy, enough to force you to burn fat, will also release the THC stored in the fat. But this released THC will find its way to your brain, so while running you may feel stoned again... not as much as when you did smoke, but surely more "weird" than you get usually. Anyway, doing so the THC will be released way faster than if you dont exercise and just wait it to wear off by itself.