Diminishing tolerance--what is going on?

[TheAtomicPunk]

Yea, i had that a few days ago. I just started weirding out.

Well, i'm not a doctor, but i would say sit back on the smoking for about a month and your tolerance should build up again. If not, i don't really know what to say

[Shai Hulud]

Dude.. I feel the exact same way, and it's just been happening the last few weeks.

Do you guys ever get 'relapses'? Like 16 hours after you smoke everything will be normal than all of a sudden everything goes crazy and it's like you're high for a few moments.

I do, but for me these "relapses" don't involve feeling high, but rather sudden decreased cognitive function, extreme sleepiness, and a general feeling of being in a half-awake stupor. It happened to me the other day in differential equations class. I was sitting there taking notes, then suddenly I realize I've been staring off into space the last twenty minutes and I'm completely lost. I also tend to feel confused a lot, forget what I'm doing, etc. I have had some strange visual effects come on at random times. Not really hallucinations, but just random spots and effects in my peripheral vision.

[bmxtoker]

happens to me too, i could smoke as much as i want some nights, while other nights 5 pulls will put me on the ground. recently its been like 3-4 pulls and im out. it sucks.

[Shai Hulud]

Oh yeah, my sense of touch sometimes is really weird, too. My skin just feels tingly or itchy and everything I pick up feels weird and cold. In fact, it's happening right now. I've been trying to do homework but can't concentrate for the life of me.

Now that I think about it, I seem to be having an awful lot of side effects from doing something everyone says has little to no negative side effects. I think I'm quitting for at least a month. Then maybe I'll try again and see what happens.

[Green Screen]

you should be happy dude, smoke less to get highter... i cant see the downside to that.

[nickx760]

ya, i get relapses sometimes.i didnt know that is what they were though. igot one at school once, and it lsted for about half an hour. i really couldnt explain it, but i felt really stoned.

a relapse is when you are clean from drugs and or alcohol for a period of time and then you use again.

maybe you mean flashback??idk

[lateralus]

I know what you're going through; I still experience those moments every once in awhile. You getting blazed easier than usual is a reverse-tolerance, which also appeared in me a couple years ago. I used to be able to smoke an 1/8 like nothing, often ghosting my hits, then one day found myself blazed off a bowl. I think it was around this time when I started smoking by myself more often. When I'm around people, I don't think about the high very much, and I focus on the conversation and the experience, whereas when I'm alone, I'm forced to be alone with my thoughts and my concentration often strays to negativity. What if this, what if that. That's when the paranoia comes in. You said that in one particular instance of the anxiety, it occured right as your girlfriend left the room, so it has to do with where your concentration lies, no? Weed, at least for me and many others, is something that's best done with a head free of worries, responsbilities, etc, and once those enter your head, the high goes to hell.

[Scyman]

I can tell you almost 100% that you do not have schizophrenia. I mentally Ill person has no idea that they are mentally ill. I of course dont have a degree (yet) im a 3rd year psych student though. I have had a simular experince though, normally i can smoke multiple bowls an hour. Then all of the sudden 6 months ago a few hits would get me blazed out of my mind. I started worrying and wondering why, and while driving I would think every car was a cop. (luggage racks) LOL. Anyways it got kinda bad for about a week i thought i was gonna have to give up smoking becuase of the paranoia. So actually i quit for 4 days, then tried again. But when i smoked i did it in my house in my room with some Bob and a couple of buddies. I didnt try getting stoned off my ass or anything like that. Just a nice relaxing puff and pass circle, and i didnt experince any paranoia. My tolerence was kinda screwey for the next 2-3 days then I was fine everything back to normal. If anything i would say your paranoia might be caused becuase your so worried about it. Next time you smoke do it with a couple buddies, try to relax as much as possible, maybe drink some calming tea or herbs. Light some relaxing incense and just try to make the whole experince as pleasent as possible and see what happens.

[Scyman]

UGH! i hate that stupid 5 min edit thing! sorry for all the typo's.

I know that was a lot of opinion, but my experince sounds close to yours. So I think if you try that out it might really help. If not I would highly recomend you quit for at least a week or two, becuase that much mental stress isnt healthy either. GL man, and just toke and try to chill!

[yzstoned]

okay something similiar happened to me last summer. one day i took 2 hits of a bowl and got really fucking high so i figured it was prolly just amazing weed. but than it was happening everytime i smoked. the highs were getting really scary nd i was starting to worry a lot.

what i did was i just took the hits it took me to get high which was practically a hit or two. than one day i had 3 decent hits off a jay nd i barely got high. so than later that night i got about 8-10 hits off a bowl nd i was more than normal. but lately my tollerance is like 5-8 hits