any advice wud be nice

[locster]

sup everyone im new here and need some help or advice about some shit that has been worrying me/ pissing me off lately hahah..... sorry its kinda long but any advice would be very much appreciated haha

well ive been smokin ganja and ciggerets for a year and a half now, but for the last couple months quit weed but want to start again. i quit cuz everytime i wud be high... my heart starts pounding and racing and all the sudden im worrying about death or a heart attacc trippin balls. now usualy i wouldnt even trip about anything but im startin to get a lil worried and this is why.... everyday for the last couple weeks i wud constantly find myself feeling my chest checcing my heart and worried about a heart attacc and im not even high... now im starting to have chest pains that arent going away and sometimes it hurts when i take a deep breath. ill be out with all my friends but instead of having a good time, i wud have this feeling that something is wrong when i already know theres nothing to worry about and if i feel those chest pains then my heart speeds up fast...

and another reason why im getting pissed/worried... now when i drink brew or liquor, all the sudden ill be worried that im gonna have a heart attak when i know that i shudnt be worried... i really really want to burn the weed again hahaha but when i do im jus gonna trip out and expect my heart to race.

is my mind playing games with me??? or do i really have something to be worried about like some mental illness.. any advice from anyone would be appreciated because i want to drink and smoke with no worries again like the old days

locster Reviewed by locster on 09-20-2006. any advice wud be nice sup everyone im new here and need some help or advice about some shit that has been worrying me/ pissing me off lately hahah..... sorry its kinda long but any advice would be very much appreciated haha well ive been smokin ganja and ciggerets for a year and a half now, but for the last couple months quit weed but want to start again. i quit cuz everytime i wud be high... my heart starts pounding and racing and all the sudden im worrying about death or a heart attacc trippin balls. now usualy Rating: 5

[fikusroot]

See a doctor and make sure you dont have any major problems. It's probably nothing. How old are you? If you're say, 50, I'd definately recommend going to see a doctor. If you're 15, I'd say a heart attack is not in your near future. I'd reccomend running and getting some exercise. you're probably just out of shape.

[locster]

well im turning 18 next month and i forgot to mention that i hit my head in a pretty bad car accident about 2 months ago, and my doctor sed if i become depressed then to visit him right away, which i didnt do because i wasnt sure if i was depressed or not, and thats why i was thinking it cud be my mind playing triks on me hahah... but what about the smoking??? everytime im high im always gonna be paranoid and trippin balls about my heart for some reason... but im really hoping that i cud have fun with it again soon hahah

[fikusroot]

You need to realize how much your mood going into smoking affects the trip. There's no real easy way to get over paranoia than to smoke somewhere that you know is safe and feel comfortable in. If you're 18 and have a heart attack, you will at least be known as the youngest person to die from a heart attack. Heart failure is a different story but unless you've been deathly ill for a long time I wouldn't worry. My perscription would be to get more exercise.

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Locster. Sorry to hear you're feeling worried and uneasy in the chest. I always think it's a good idea for people who have any questions at all to visit their doctor for a checkup. Young people have heart trouble occasionally, and you might as well rule that out.

My hunch from what you wrote, though, is that you're having anxiety. Weed smoking can provoke that in plenty of people, and Sativa-heavy strains in particular can leave you feeling jittery and anxious, sometimes setting off full-blown panic attacks. You've also had some circumstantial things recently, like that car wreck, which would make it perfectly understandable for you to be experiencing some anxiety or depression after. (They often travel together, anxiety and depression.)

Here's the other thing, though, and it's back to the heart itself. For the first hour after weed smoking, your heart does experience stress in precisely the same way that someone who's had a strong vasoconstrictor medicine like epinephrine does. It's this soon-after-smoking adrenaline rush (adrenaline is your body's own epinephrine) that also causes the panic in many people, making your heart race and making you feel uneasy. Sometimes arrhythmias can show up during that time, and the sad truth is that within the first hour of smoking, people's heart attack risk is five times that of what it normally is. No one yet knows why that is, whether it's the smoking itself, the THC, other cannabinoids, or the tar and other irritants in the smoke, but it's been proven in several studies. Google "marijuana and heart attack" and you can read about this phenomenon.

Anyway, like I said, a visit to the doctor is probably in order just to be safe, and you might think about taking a weed break and seeing if that doesn't relieve your symptoms, too, and help you feel better. Take care, Locster!

[locster]

thnx u guys for the replies and i was hoping birdgirl would reply cuz her replies to other ppl always sound right and educated hahaha... and what do u think i shud do about the anxiety then.. cuz what if i dont wanna take pills or something. and i already have been taking a weed break for a couple months now, but do i have to take a ciggeret break also?

[birdgirl73]

Well, so since you've begun your weed break you're still feeling enough anxiety to want to "do" something about it?

Cigarettes have some of that same heart-racing effect, too, but to a lesser degree. They're just deadly to your heart, lungs and body no matter what angle you look at them from. Yes, you need to take a break from those, too. Listen to a words of wisdom here. Take a break from cigarettes and never go back to them. Not because I think they're making you anxious but because hearing that you smoke them at your tender young age makes me anxious. They make an entire population of medical professionals anxious because we already know they'll kill you if you keep them up. You know that, too, on some level. Stop now.

Back to the anxiety. Try getting some exercise. Bike riding. Running. Anything cardio-heavy. It'll help calm you down. And if you do visit the doctor and want to tell him/her about your anxiety and depression, he or she may suggest a pill. You might not rule that totally out if you're truly feeling disabled from your anxiety, but it sounds like just taking better care of yourself and getting some exercise would do the trick nicely.

[Abattoir Dream]

hey, from what ive heard ur just sketchin, im with birdgirl on the quitting smoking cigarettes thing, i smoke them myself and have for the past 5 or 6 years, and im 17, -i want to quit and wish i had never started.
if the main reason you started worrying was because your heart races, dont worry, seriously, everybodys blood pressure and heart rate increases when they get stoned, and i often worry a little when i realize my heart is pounding quickly too, but its nothing to worry about, when your heart rate increase your blood pressure goes up and makes you feel dizzy, (which is pretty much how you get stoned amongst other things,) and smoking ciggarettes does the same, it takes 20mins for your blood pressure to revert back to normal after smoking a ciggarette, all i can say is DONT WORRY! GET HIGH! lol and quit the cigarettes, lol they suck,

-peace and good luck,

(blood pressure sucks ass, everytime i get high, i go to stand up and everything goes black and i end up falling over where the blood pressure in my eyeballs is way too much,) - oh, and dont start worrying about your eyes exploding haha...

[DenzComp]

This same thing happened to me...kind of...

I don't get high that often and the other night I was pretty baked...I decided to play some Madden...

I'm just sitting there chilling out and all of a sudden I notice my heart is beating really fast..I wasn't sure if it was really beating that fast or if I was just too baked.

I never thought about it until I read this post.

My Madden 07 name is SinnedDennis if anyone plays by the way.

And I hope you get better and are able to toke again man.




One.

[DenzComp]

By they way...

I also had the same problem before I started to smoke weed..

If I took a deep breath I would have a sharp pain in my chest...I thought it was my heart...this happened several times on many different occasions before I went to the hospital.

Come to find out it was just gas...you might have the same problem but may be making it worse.

I notice that half of people's problems are just in their heads.