Have you ever had a great trip... but a horrible 'sickness' days later?

[Effex]

Hi guys, this is a long read so I'm sorry, but I'd really appreciate if some of you could take the time and check it out and see if you have anything to tell me, because I'm clueless and honestly a little worried about my well-being. I understand if you don't want to, but any insight at all is very much appreciated. So, here goes:

Last Friday I had an awesome trip. I was laughing and I was DAMN high. I've never been an avid smoker, only ever having done it maybe 5 times in my life now. However, I had never been as high and feeling so good as Friday - but then again, I had never felt so sh*tty in the past as I have had recently, after Friday.

I don't see how I could blame the pot, because the two friends I was with were just as high as me and they felt perfectly fine on the days I felt like ass afterwards, and we smoked the stuff off of the same stems. Another reason I don't want to blame the pot is that on Saturday morning and all the way up until about 1AM Sunday when I went to bed, I felt fine, perfectly normal and I even played an ice hockey game and held a pretty intellectual conversation with my dad. But come the time to sleep...

I was shifting in my bed, could barely sleep and when I finally did it felt like I had gotten no sleep when my dad had woken me up around 8:30AM to go play another hockey game. I felt like I couldn't get up. It wasn't as if I didn't have the will to get out of bed, I just couldn't. I didn't feel like I had the strength or energy to actually lift the covers off of myself, get out of bed and walk around. This was personally disappointing for me because I love playing hockey and I had to miss out on a game for a reason that made no sense to me. I went on and slept all the way until about 5, maybe 5:15PM later that day. When I got out of bed, my entire upper body felt like it would collapse on itself. My vision seemed darkened, although not blurred. My hearing was light. The shower I took, admittedly, felt incredible. I didn't feel like I had the strength to lift my arms or even wash my hair because my fingers felt so fragile and feeble. When I got out, I had to let my hair air-dry because I was too weak to do anything strong enough with a towel.

When I got out of the shower, I went downstairs to try to do some homework. I was OK for maybe half an hour, but around 6:30PM I was continuously dazing in and out of consciousness feeling extremely tired and exhausted. By 8:30 I was back in bed and I slept until about 7:50AM the next morning. I was able to get myself out of bed on time and to school, but it was a very, very strange school day for me. My vision was continuously darting back and forth between objects, much like it does when I'm high. My hearing was skewed horribly, talking too soft because I thought I was obscenely loud and sometimes talking way too loud because I thought I was talking at a normal level. I felt like I had ADD, and I couldn't pay attention to anything for more than maybe a minute - I would continuously pick up on outside noises like bird chirps or some side conversations. I tried, but I couldn't give my teachers any attention. When I went into weight training, (with a spotter) I couldn't bench the bar as stable as when I do with two or three times the weight.

As I went home and the day passed, I continued to feel better and I've been able to pay attention, etc. I didn't go to school today and am feeling quite a bit more recovered, though when I woke up my upper body still felt fairly weaker than it normally does. As well, three remaining effects linger: I have a lack of hunger and even though I am trying to eat, my stomach continuously rumbles and it's as if I have a perpetual-mini-stomache-ache. That, and whenever I make a sudden movement with my head, such as just rotating it to look behind me or when I stand up off the couch, I get a quick sharp pain in my head. It's not never-ending, it just comes and goes very quickly at strange times.

To me, it just doesn't make sense how I could get high one night, feel perfectly normal and athletic and healthy the next, and then just go completely downhill feeling weak and sick. Do you guys even think my smoking had ANYTHING to do with this?

Effex Reviewed by Effex on 12-13-2006. Have you ever had a great trip... but a horrible 'sickness' days later? Hi guys, this is a long read so I'm sorry, but I'd really appreciate if some of you could take the time and check it out and see if you have anything to tell me, because I'm clueless and honestly a little worried about my well-being. I understand if you don't want to, but any insight at all is very much appreciated. So, here goes: Last Friday I had an awesome trip. I was laughing and I was DAMN high. I've never been an avid smoker, only ever having done it maybe 5 times in my life now. Rating: 5

[Effex]

I believe I forgot to mention that my desire to eat has decreased incredibly. I'm generally a very heavy eater, usually necessary to fuel myself for hockey practices and games. However, I ate nothing on Sunday and had little desire to eat yesterday or today, though I am doing my best to make sure I DO eat.

[slipknotpsycho]

could be a combination of a virus (regular sickness) and burnout from the weed... i've never really heard of weed causing all of that so there has to be something else to it... i've been sick for 2 weeks now....

[biohazard]

right when i took the leap from smoking a bit every now and then to smoking herb every day, i think my mind and body went through some interesting changes. after this one time when i got WAYYY too high and had a great time, i felt shitty for a whole week since. i felt really down, irritated and out of patience. also, that was when i started using weed daily. the shitty feeling passed after that week, and ive been feeling fucking GREAT ever since :stoned:

[misspotn]

I'm pretty sure that an after-effect of pot is depression. Go to erowid.org. It lists all the various effects of it, ranging from desirable, neutral, to undesirable. I think I read that depression was an undesirable effect, specifically after the high...obviously.

I know the first few times I got high (actually in the last couple months), I felt super awesome the next day. Now, I don't feel super awesome, but slightly irritated and tired. But that could just be the drag of work and school. Dunno.

[Stoner369]

dude, topic creater, what you described happens to me somtimes and to bit of a milder version of it every other day, damn, it sucks dosn't it bro.

[mafyew]

happend to me this week. I JUST started smoking more then a couple times a month. I smoked 3 days in a row last weekend, and have been sick ever since. On tuesday i slept from 12pm to 6pm, then 10pm to 8am. I felt sooooo shitty, and still do. I actually had a question about this too. On the other hand, the thing that bothered me was the weed crackled and tasted funky, someone said it was b/c it was a different strain. I was thinking along the lines of pesticides, but i really dont know.

One more strange thing, the way i am sick is i have a constant body buzz, and an intense headache. Along with that, im dizzy, and light headed, i had difficulty concentrating, and my vision was blurred. What makes me think its not a virius, is that i haven't puked, or had stomach problems. The way i was describing it was like being high but with a normal mind, and a migrane, heh.

[Effex]

What makes me think its not a virius, is that i haven't puked, or had stomach problems. The way i was describing it was like being high but with a normal mind, and a migrane, heh.

I'm thinking it's not a virus too because I haven't puked all over the place, but my stomach has been seeming pretty upset recently. As for the way you say you were feeling; being high with a normal mind and migraine - that's almost a much, much easier way to say what I was trying to say.

[mafyew]

heh, i guess its just my body getting used to the weed. One other thing i did notice was that i may not have an upset stomach, but for some reason i have no appitite.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

My vote is on a virus.

The weed will hit you harder if you're already sick.

Happened to me recently too, but I needed the rest to get better from my virus anyway, so I didn't mind