Hey, Beaky, I have asthma and use an albuterol rescue inhaler and also a nebulizer when I need it, which is mostly when I get colds or bronchitis. Nebulizer treatments are exactly the same thing you'd get with a breathing treatment in the hospital or in an ambulance, only you can do the treatment at home and not have to make a trip. When breathing is bad, sometimes there's not time to make a trip, as you know.

Sounds like you just got a bit too much albuterol in your nebulizer solution, and that you also crossed it with the weed a little too closely. Do you use the premixed nebulizer solution or do you mix it yourself? Because if you mix it yourself and add your own broncho saline, it's easy to get just a drop or two too much albuterol, and sometimes that's too much.

Albuterol is a strong vaso-constrictor. Basically, it's just like epinephrine, which is a synthetic form of adrenaline. Albuterol, like epinephrine, shrinks blood vessels quickly, and that's how it stops inflammation in your airways and lungs, by shrinking back the inflamed, swollen passages. It works very fast. And when it does, it speeds up your heart rate, makes you get the shakes, makes you dizzy and woozy for a bit.

Grass, at least in the very early stages practically while you're still smoking it, has very fast initial vaso-constriction action, which is then followed by vaso-dilation, or relaxation, action. That's why after you've smoked grass, you're more relaxed and your blood pressure goes down and heart and vascular system relax a bit. But right at the very first as you're taking it in, just the opposite happens before the THC gets fully into your system.

To my way of thinking, a double-dose of vaso-constriction from both weed and albuterol is probably too much, which may have been why you experienced those noticeable symptoms. After you've entered the vaso-dilation stage, weed and albuterol basically work against each other, one trying to relax your airways (and possibly inflaming them further) and one trying to constrict the little capillaries in your airways and open up your airways. That's why I think it's probably not a great idea to mix them too closely.

If you find you need the assistance of albuterol the next time you smoke, use the inhaler rather than the nebulizer because the inhaler's not nearly as strong as a nebulizer treatment. And if you are one of those folks who mixes your own nebulizer solution, put in an extra squirt of broncho saline to dilute the solution a bit more so you won't get such strong side effects. Even if you use something like DuoNeb pre-mix solution, you can still get a bottle of broncho-saline at the drug store and water the pre-mixed solution down a bit more to help lessen the albuterol side effects a bit.

Weed and asthma are tricky together, as are weed and asthma medicine. Lots of people on here will swear that weed improves asthma, but that's not been the case for me. When I'm having a bad breathing day, it just gets worse when I smoke, so I only smoke on days when the breathing is easy and I know I won't need the assistance of albuterol.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Mixing Weed + Albuterol Hey, I have asthma and I have a nebulizer to use whenever my asthma gets bad. There is liquid albuterol and it is transformed into a gas form and you inhale through a mouth piece. You inhale and exhale the albuterol for about 15 minutes. Anyways, a few months back, after smoking some reefer I was feeling a bit "weezy" so I did my nebulizer. After a few minutes of doing it I stopped... stared off for 5 seconds then I fell back onto my bed and it felt like I was vibrating. My eyes were Rating: 5