Strange Reaction the day after smoking weed.

[RIGHTxWINGx9]

I'll give you some background on myself first. I used to smoke a lot like 7 years ago (in HIGH school) but I had to stop. I had a CRAZY panic attack after puffing and I went to the hospital and everything. Thing is, no one told me that I was having a panic attack and I felt like the doctors and nurses had somewhat made a joke of me being there because I smoked weed. So I quit for fear of having another (what I thought at the time) OD. Recently I started having panic attack symptoms without using weed. I got it all straightened out and now I realize that it was simply a panic attack back in the day. So I decided to try smoking weed again, everyone I know does it and loves it.

So I bought some and a pipe. I had ONE hit last nite (a fairly big hit but regardless it was just ONE hit). I had my pulse speed up a bit, but I have read that that is normal after smoking to go up about 40bpm, and I didn't freak myself out at all (that was what caused me to panic the first time). I smoked out at about midnight. I went to sleep at about 6am. I woke up at 1:30pm (I don't work until 3pm) with my left hand and foot completely numb. I also had strange things in my vision (it looked like little red triangle things in the top left of my vision.) Soooooo I got out of bed and proceeded to drive myself to the urgent clinic a block from my house. By the time I got to the clinic my vision was normal and my hand/foot were no longer numb so I just went to work. All day I have had a headache and felt "out of it."

My question is: Anyone ever have similar things? I remember there being a little bit of a weed hangover when I smoked a lot in HIGH school, but not like this! Please let me know what you think... I do not believe that my weed was laced because I was not that Eff'd up from it and I only took one hit plus I trust the dealer a lot. One other thing was like right after I smoked my pulse got up to about 98 and the vein in my neck (carotid, where you take your pulse) was visibly beating out of my neck (I could take my pulse simply by looking at my neck like with a baby how you can take their pulse by looking at their head sometimes) It was a strong pulse but under 100 is nothing to really worry about I think...


I am just really confused and I wanna get back into bud but it would INSANE if I woke up like that after every session!


PS Extra points for any nurses or doctors who can contribute to the feedback! Also anyone who gets migraines and smokes weed would be much appreciated for your input!

RIGHTxWINGx9 Reviewed by RIGHTxWINGx9 on 08-06-2009. Strange Reaction the day after smoking weed. I'll give you some background on myself first. I used to smoke a lot like 7 years ago (in HIGH school) but I had to stop. I had a CRAZY panic attack after puffing and I went to the hospital and everything. Thing is, no one told me that I was having a panic attack and I felt like the doctors and nurses had somewhat made a joke of me being there because I smoked weed. So I quit for fear of having another (what I thought at the time) OD. Recently I started having panic attack symptoms without Rating: 5

[NextLineIsMine]

maybe youre just too high strung to be smoking weed

[RIGHTxWINGx9]

Believe me, I have thought of this. But I have been getting my anxiety under control and that is why I want to start to smoke again, plus EVERYONE I know does it and I feel like a loser when I don't partake (I know this is a lame excuse... but I want to be "cool" LOL)

[fourkicks]

if your mates are all smoking heroin!..would you???
wait until your in a better place mentally until you take a hit..are you a hypocondriac?? some people just cant handle the strains that are around these days. find a strain that is a bit more mellow and built up your tollerence and then move on so somthing stronger.. lol

[RIGHTxWINGx9]

LOL! I don't think you can smoke heroine. I am a hypochondriac, and I am trying to fix myself, part of it was that I always starting panicking around people smoking weed, or even seeing it. I am more calm about my anxiety, my hypochondria and am in a better place mentally than I have been in a while, I just view this as the next step. I just hate getting migraines and I am pretty sure that's what I had, so I need to find out if anyone else gets migraines the day after... Thanks for all your guys' input, but I really want to fix myself on this!

[JohnnyZ]

You seriously just need to relax man. I know it's hard for someone with anxiety to wrap their head around that simple fact, but it really is just that easy. You have to understand that you cannot OD on weed, and you have to place blind trust in your friends and dealers that your weed is not laced, because 99.9% of the time it isn't. Weed is too cheap of a drug for dealers to lace it. They'll lace blow or the more expensive shit because it's a different calibre of user that shoves that in their face. But this is just weed man.

You should be looking forward to that first toke every day. Let the reefer enter your lungs and slowly calm you down. Keep yourself busy when you smoke too, so you don't pay attention to every little nuance of your body. At least listen to some music so you don't have to listen to the voices in your head. Have you never slept on your hand and it's numb for like half an hour the next morning because of that? Happens all the time dude. Don't go running to the doc with every little issue.

And you can definitely smoke heroin my friend.

[Coelho]

Well... getting numb the day after smoking weed already happened with me several times... and i think it isnt a very unusual thing... after all, some strains of cannabis are used as painkillers, and getting numb seems to be just it, the painkilling effect of the weed.
So i think you really shouldnt worry about it. This effect decreases as your tolerance to weed increases.

The visual disturbances also seems to be a not-so-unusual effect of weed. Whenever i smoke too much my vision gets a bit weird next day.

Another important thing is that there are two very different kinds of weed.

Cannabis sativa gives you a "mind high", one gets energetic and the mind thinks a million of thoughts per second... but in large doses can cause anxiety, paranoia and anxiety attacks. Im pretty sure its this strain of weed you smoked when you had the pannic attack.

Cannabis indica gives you the "body stone", one gets very mellow, relaxed and even couchlocked. Its used for treating anxiety and as a painkiller. I think its the one you should smoke.

Cannabis is also very useful for treating migraines. Granny Stormcrow can tell you her story as soon as she read your post, so i would wait for reading her reply, as it can be very useful for you.

[smokers]

by the way you can smoke heroin i know plenty of people who smoke it dublin is full of junkies who start smoking it only to start injecting it what a horrible drug it is
:rastasmoke:

[RIGHTxWINGx9]

Do most people who sell it know the difference? I've never been offered an option between the two strains. This most recent time I got offered "CRAZY SHIT" or "REGULAR" and I took regular as I haven't smoked in 7 years.

[RIGHTxWINGx9]

You have to understand that you cannot OD on weed, and you have to place blind trust in your friends and dealers that your weed is not laced, because 99.9% of the time it isn't.

I know, that's why I said I thought it was an OD (or I was allergic or something) years ago when I was young and ignorant because no one ever told me what happened exactly. Also I said I don't worry about it being laced. I know I do need to just relax about a lot of things, and reading all your guys' messages about it has helped me relax a little bit more about toking. I am gonna try it again tonite or tomorrow, and I am gonna be more relaxed about it (try to be).