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[Dominique3188]

I’m a 20 year old female I don’t smoke cigarettes or drink caffeine, but I did smoke marijuana heavily for about a year, I’m not sure if it matters or is even related to the issues I’m having so please keep an open mind before just saying it’s because of marijuana, about 4-5 months ago I decided to reduce my smoking from 4-5 blunts a day to maybe a couple hits every 3 days, when I made this change I felt completely fine! Clear headed, confident, more open minded and not always so stoned! Lol. Anyways one night I decided to smoke a blunt, about half of the blunt I handed it to my boyfriend and decided to lay down. I did feel very high but I was calm. My boyfriend pointed out that my heart was beating pretty fast and I started to notice the same thing after that I felt like I couldn’t breath I started to panic and it went on for about 30 mins, I felt soooo scared I had a feeling I never felt before I realized I was having a panic attack I’ve never had anxiety or anything like that so the feeling was so unreal I thought I was going to die, after the 30 minuets past I started to feel tingling in my hands and feet, all night I felt the tingling. The next morning when I woke up I still was experiencing the tingling now following some chest pains and neck pains. I have had bad anxiety the past couple months since everything has happened and I completely stopped smoking after that. Dailey I deal with back and neck pains, tingling, on and off chest pains, headaches Random body twitches (like eye and other areas) I have random sharp pains in my side and under my ribs, I went to the hospital every other day for a month straight they gave me ekgs chest x-rays every blood test possible, after about 10 times in and out of the hospital they told me it might be a autoimmune disease because of the nerves system symptoms I’m having. then I also followed up with my doctor and she said I have a normal healthy heart and she can’t find anything in my blood I was tested for autoimmune disease and it came back negative. but a little low on vitiman d (which I take supplements Dailey for now) I still can’t figure it out. Don’t blame me for not thinking it’s anxiety because the pains and physical problems I feel are so real and so unreal to think it’s all anxiety half the time I experience and pains I’m not even anxious! I must admit though when I do feel anxiety come on it is very bad and like nothin I’ve experienced. It cripples me Dailey and I feel like I can’t do anything without bringing it on. I’m starting to think I should get tested for lymes diseases. Any similar story’s? Or any advice on what to do next?

[blackcat64013]

Hi Dominique,

Anxiety comes in forms and symptoms as reported by the individual person. I am saying there is no one size fits all diagnosis.

I believe this is the time you need to check in for a mental health assessment.

The mental health assessment and screening tools are the keys to helping you and your doctor or therapist understand what's wrong and what to do next.

The link below describes this in more detail

healthyplace.com/other-info...

It's good that you are taking Vitamin D. Something else that is important for general health and wellbeing is Magnesium.

psychiatryadvisor.com/thera...

I hope this is useful information

[jessicao]

My panic and anxiety first ever started from a bad high. After that night nothing was the same. You can look at my old posts from two years ago. So many random physical things popped up, I became hyper aware of all of this stuff happening in my body, and was FOR SURE something was wrong. Nothing was ever found and I didn't accept that it was anxiety for two years..when I did it went away but I only accepted it because it had been so long and I was just fed up with trying to figure out what it was. I know how real the pains and feelings are. It could be something..but it also could be nothing, especially since you've had so many tests. Anxiety is an absolute bitch and can manifest in the most crazy ways. Mine has recently come back and it has me thinking I'm going insane it's been so rough.

Your mind could be holding on to the symptoms you experienced that night. That's what mine did for along while, especially when it came to heart palpitations/skipped beat feelings. That's what caused my panic attack when I was high and go figure they have stuck with me since and still freak me out. I get random twitches and numb spots all over my body, especially these days, sharp stabbing pains in my head, & all sorts of weird feelings I can't even describe.

I'm so sorry you're experiencing this, but know it will get better and nothing last forever with this stuff even when it seems it will. xx stay strong and keep an open mind to the fact that it could be anxiety related. Get massages, try acupuncture, epsom salt baths or magnesium supplements, cbd oil, rescue remedy, & allow yourself time to heal.

[jessicao in reply to jessicao]

Seriously look back at my old posts on my profile and see if any of them have anything in common with how you feel.

[Dominique3188 in reply to jessicao]

Thank you so much for your reply gives me hope knowing you also have experienced a bad High like myself. I will take a look at your old post and I hope you also feel better and get your peace of mind back. Thank you for your time. ❤️

[helen4enjo in reply to jessicao]

Me too .

[kevoreally]

Agora1 do you have any idea? Jeff1943 how about you? Yall are knowledgeable so i tagged you in this for this young lad to get some answers shes seeking

[Jeff1943 in reply to kevoreally]

I've noticed so many posts here from people whose anxiety began from smoking reefers, and the LibDems want to legalise it.

[kevoreally in reply to Jeff1943]

Wait thats it? I thought you would have knowledge on this post other than that haha

[Jeff1943 in reply to kevoreally]

That's all I know, an awful lot of newcomers mention that smoking marijuana triggered their anxiety. There is no special treatment for anxiety caused by marijuana that I know of, just the same self-help methods including acceptance.

[Agora1 in reply to kevoreally]

At least Jeff answered....I'm still thinking about a response I don't just pull my answers out of a hat.

[kevoreally in reply to Agora1]

Haha i know your answer will be great always is!

[Agora1 in reply to kevoreally]

Kev, somehow I feel like I work for you lol

[kevoreally in reply to Agora1]

Haha how is that possible?! I feel as thiugh you guys are very good at giving advice and so since I have seen it i recommend you to each post I visit

[Agora1 in reply to kevoreally]

That's very very nice of you kev but this would hardly be a good forum if it just came from a select few. It is the combination of all of us that makes this one of the better forums out there. Keep posting, keep advising. Yours may be the one that turns someone around and on the path to recovering.

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Hey weed head,

Weed kills magnesium and magnesium deficiency causes all the symptoms you say. Also, taking vitamin D along with magnesium will help you a lot !! Buy some magnesium glycinate and you'll soon be chilled and feeling healthy once more.

[Agora1]

Hi Dominique 3188, sorry for the delayed response. I read over your post several times because I didn't want to just blame it on marijuana. I always respond to questions on the forum through my own experience, which in this case I've never had.

For some reason, something else stood out in your post that may be what happened. *and that I am experienced in for many years....that is "Anxiety". My theory (and it's only my belief) is that the state of calm you were in that night made you vulnerable to any comments made while in that altered state. I believe that when your boyfriend pointed out that your heart was beating quite fast, you immediately went into reality mode and had a true panic attack. Power of suggestion..

Focusing in on your heart and what was happening caused the adrenaline to run wild throughout your body and turn calm into chaos. With that, your breathing got erratic and you started hyperventilating causing the tingling in your hands and feet. I believe that the chest and neck pain are nothing more than over tensed muscles as well as oversensitized nervous system. That night gave you quite a scare and it is spilling into your everyday life now.

Since all your medical tests have come back normal, feel yourself blessed. It's time to work on the emotional impact this all had on you. A therapist may help for a short time but the rest will have to come from within you. Being on this forum, we support anxiety to best of our ability by sharing our life experiences as well as giving ideas of what has worked for us. Working on your anxiety now seems to be the first step to take.

It really doesn't matter at this point as to what caused the anxiety that night. What does matter now is how you address it so that it doesn't keep escalating. You can't go back so now you must go forward and Accept this is anxiety at it's finest. Playing it's mind game with you. You can and you will beat it. Listen to the good advice of people on the forum who know all too well about anxiety and it's effects on us.

Keep coming back to the forum. We help each other through these difficult steps because we care. xx

[Beevee]

Agree. Anxiety is caused by fear. Fear of thoughts, fear of feelings, fear of the feelings of fear. Majority of long term anxiety sufferers can not remember what triggered their anxiety In the first place. It’s fickle and will jump from one thing to another, depending on what “pushes your buttons” or a long held fear which is severely magnified by the anxiety so it bothers you a lot which is what anxiety is designed to do. To make you run, fight, freeze, depending on the type of perceived threat. In this case, you fear the symptoms of anxiety.

My advice is to not dwell on the cause which you cannot change but instead focus on what you can do and that is to recover by accepting all the symptoms and not treating the symptoms as being important. They are not, it is just your heightened state of anxiety which is making them feel important which is why you should learn to let the feelings go and learn to stop fearing them. They are harmless, it’s just excessive adrenalin.