anxiety and smoking.

[Peach.Optimo.Bluntz]

Since I have been smoking my anxiety has almost gone completely.. it has worked for me very well.

man... your so lucky.

[braddog10]

Thanks, Brad. I gotta tell you that I worry about your taking all the meds you've mentioned in various places, especially with a diagnosis of bipolar. Everything I've read about that particular condition leads me to believe less medication rather than more is better. It's dangerously easy to get into a pharmaceutical up-down roller coaster with that problem, and you already have a huge roller coaster to deal with with bipolar alone. If you start with lithium salts. Then mix in an amphetamine like Adderall and a narcotic-like sleeper such as Ambien. Then account for whatever other prescription meds you take. Plus grass. Plus alcohol if you use that, too. The end result is a huge tossed salad of medicines and substances that don't do a thing for anyone but the pharmaceutical industry.

I find myself wondering if a single doctor or pharmacist knows about all your meds and blesses them or if they've been obtained from several prescription-writers who don't know what the other guys are prescribing. If you can, please get one intelligent, sensible doc to look at everything you're taking and let him try and simplify things, starting with lithium as a base, so your mental and physical health won't be in peril from the all-too-frequent problem of too many pills.

Bird your right and I do go thru just one Dr. for all psyc meds. I knew It was time to drop adderall,. which would remove need for ambian. Alcohol, does not agree with me. Lithium and Lamictal have been the most on target so far, Weed I have dropped, since it would move me toward mania.

So...... I'll currently stay with my drug of choice, which is excessive work, and tossed salads, Oh...... I can't believe I said that!! Well, We'll keep that In the bed room.

Summary; Work, Sex when avail., Lamictal, Lithium, and Thyroid. Since, the chronic pain is gone(thyroid issue). My need for weed is diminished greatly.

You are absolutely on target. I also am trying to find homeostasis. Its like we pass each other, to find ourselves turning around and again watching as we both pass by each other again from across the median. YoYo would be a good metaphor. Howbout, two YoYo's on the ends of the same string.

Nicotine, Has been one of my most stupid habits, which screws with all of the above.

[muncheemama]

I was on effexor for a long time for depression, and I felt dead...no highs, it sucked..the I tried to get off of them, and it felt like a herion withdrawal(ive never done herion) or something, it is a horrible medication...but then I tried wellbutrin...OMG its awesome, I have a sex drive, i get HAPPY, i have energy, but I have to say I am paranoid as hell...all the time, I feel like im being watched..its wierd...but then i get embaressed that i feel like that, because, I mean, why are poeple watching "ME" ?? duh...i dont know..quit staring at me

[birdgirl73]

I had the very same experience with Effexor--and just felt flattened out and nothing. No emotions of any kind, and no sex drive, either. Wellbutrin worked much better for me, too, but I still didn't like the way I felt as well as I did when I wasn't on anything. Now I just exercise and am trying to make sure all my vitamins and minerals are at the right levels. I'm sure I'd feel more upbeat if my sister weren't so sick, so I've just gotten used to the fact that I'm in an unhappy-making situation with that.

[UncleChunky]

Wellbutrin will exacerbate bi-poler disorder, it is not fun at all. Paxil was ok but gained alot of weight on it. Lexapro is the best I have found so far.
I can't smoke alot without replaying moments or conversations in my head. I can twist around the most innocent conversation to seem like either I said something sinister or someone else said something that I took way out of context. That snowballs into intense anxiety, I swear if i get too high I spin every conversation I had in the last week. So what I do Is take one hit, wait 30-45 min and take another, slowly build the high and then it isnt so bad.
None of this used to happen until I had a real bad acid trip.

[WhiskeyGirl]

For me Anxeity, well Im not really into toking, just once in awhile, not really into to drinkin,I dont drink that I cant stop, which is good.But I do steal my hubby's valiums(which he knows, gives me some but hides the rest.LOL)
But i find the anxeity creeps in when I dont take a V-- I know you saying, well your addicted, I guess I am, but I try my darnest to go without n just have like a wine cooler to take the edge off, that works
But i dunno...nothing calms my nerves like a valium NOTHING.
WG
Also, this is funny , but ide rather pop a pill than keep drinking, cause i gotta P all the time!!!LOL[/QUOTE]

[Big Calhoun]

It only happens to me the first time I smoke after taking a long break. After the high sets in, my heart is fluttering and I get real paranoid. Always think the cops are going to walk in on me or whoever I bought from was really a cop. But once I realize what's happening, it takes me about 5 minutes to get back to normal and I'm fine until my next break. Weird. I couldn't imagine experiencing it EVERY time I smoked. I'd have to quit.

[L3G10N]

Smoking Mj for me gives me anxiety. My body gets tense and my stomach tightens making me think i feel sick. It really sucks. It never used to be like this, mj used to make me feel so damn awesome, laid back, euphoric as hell. Im thinking my anxiety is diet related. I know i am deficient in many vitamins, and because of that i have stomach problems and anxiety.

[braddog10]

I had the very same experience with Effexor--and just felt flattened out and nothing. No emotions of any kind, and no sex drive, either. Wellbutrin worked much better for me, too.

Hey Bird,

I should really stay off the boards,. until this adderall withdrawl is over. I felt aggitated at a meeting tonight. Hope I'm able to chase down homeostasis in traffic.

Man, Effexor? .. .. Did you mean Sideffexor. How about the shooters?...... remember those bizzare shooting, nerves thru the body.
Almost as bad as this...............ahhhh............not really.

Come on Bird......................The tossed Salad....................Now thats funny!!!!!

[muncheemama]

Hey Bird,

I should really stay off the boards,. until this adderall withdrawl is over. I felt aggitated at a meeting tonight. Hope I'm able to chase down homeostasis in traffic.

Man, Effexor? .. .. Did you mean Sideffexor. How about the shooters?...... remember those bizzare shooting, nerves thru the body.
Almost as bad as this...............ahhhh............not really.

Come on Bird......................The tossed Salad....................Now thats funny!!!!!

yeah...those brain shiver things..i stayed on them a year longer than i wanted to because of the withdrawals..tried to quit at least 5 or 6 times...i was told it was from the long half lifes or some garbage like that....absolutely unbearable