Panic attacks from smoking pot

every time I smoke pot I get theses really bad panic attacks.why is this and how can I stop it?

whoopsies222's post makes me think of Refer Madness.

Pot is a pretty safe recreational drug; alcohol and tobacco ruin far more lives than marijuana.

The worst thing about pot is our Draconian laws. There is little difference between the way the law treats heroin and marijuana.

The other potential downside is becoming a stoner. I've seen people become complete loosers 6 months after they started smoking pot; they lost all motivation and just smoked pot all the time. I know other people who have smoked pot daily for decades yet are professionals and as lucid and cogent as anyone you will meet. Pot affects different people differently.

you must have just started smoking. when I started that happend to me I would get supper high off a blunt and I get freaked out but after a while it stops because you get used to wead so you have to get better weed like try smoking some kind bud and get supper supper high and then you wont get so freaked out any more

same.. you're not used to it try smoking less.. you've got to like ease urself into it.. careful tho you might start to like it 2 much

Stop smoking pot. No more panic attacks. It's simple.

soda and cashmoney are trying to give good advice, but are not. i smoked for 4 years. i started as a freshman in highschool and stopped towards the end of my senior year because i began having panic attacks as well. i never had a panic attack the first 3 1/2 years i smoked, and i porbally smoked the most pot between sophomore and junior year, but my panic attacks didnt come until late in my senior year. i havent smoked for 3 months now and im not having panic attacks. just stop for a while, i havent tried smoking again cause even when im around people smoking in a closed area (car, small room, cause all my friends still smoke), i begin to feel a little nervous and sometimes even have to leave the area. ive never tried smoking again, but u can try it out and tell me what happens.

paranoia is a common side effect of pot.

Being in comfortable and familiar surroundings and surrouded with friends you trust is a good first step.

Of course you don't have to smoke pot. If you don't enjoy it than why do it?

lmfao! omg! well just quit ^_^
i always do it once in ah great while just to have fun. dont get addicted to it.

DRINK SOME MILK!!

I know it sounds weird, but when you feel yourself starting to get too high and panic, drink milk. I don't know exactly what it does to your brain, but it does calm you down a little. Be careful though because after awhile, your high will go back up so make sure you have plenty on hand.

Also, don't smoke so much. Take a couple of pulls and space them out, and you should be okay.

If neither works, you need to stop.

Hope this helps.

what filletofspam said was right; i know the first time i smoked was by myself in this parking lot at night, i had the worst panic attack nd thought i was gunna die lol. it was a combination of not bein prepared for it, bein alone, in a diff environment nd smoking too much 4 my 1st time. If yu wanna keep it up then just try it with yur friends during the day nd try nd smoke less. hope it helps , once yu get used to its fukin great =]

it happens to me everytime i am with a certain friend of mine that i dont trust very much. Maybe your not comfortable with the people you smoke with

its not so much panic its paranoia are its EXTREAMLY coomen to new smokers dont wory more u smoke the more it gose away

I get panic attacks when I smoke too. I was a hardcore stoner for 2 years, and it was really fun. I would get really creative and everything felt wonderful. But just this year a lot of things have been affecting my head in a bad way. And now I just can't smoke anymore, my mind races, I can't focus on anything, I can't relax, I start thinking I'm going crazy, I start shaking, and get sick to my stomach.
And it's even worse when I smoke around people.

I hope you can relate with me and feel a little better that your not alone? Or atleast somebody will..

But the advice to you is about the same as the advice to myself, just stop smoking for awhile, and try it again later.

i wsa a stoner bout 2 years ago and eveytim i did i got hella anxious and i smoked the other day for the first time in 2 years and i got a bit paranoid only thing u got to do is keep ur mind distracted of if not dnt smoke soemthing with too much THC smoke some bammer to get use to it start at low level and build up smoking cigs help to and drinking does also just keep doin more than 2 things at atime when ur high i chew gum dance and talk cause paranioia only occurs when ur THINKING TOO MUCH!

I used to smoke weed all day everyday with the same group of people. Everything was fine, and it was completely chill. Then started doing other sh!t, and then when I'm with the same group of people and I smoke... I can't even look at them in the face. I have panic attacks and can't wait to be home alone again. Hope someone can relate.

Not to mention a high lasting until I go to bed... when it used to only last an hour or two.

man... this same crap has been happening to me. I have been a total stoner since I was 14, I'm 25 now and I've been getting panic attacks from weed on off for a couple years now. what really sucks is it doesn't seem to matter what type of pot or what I'm doing, usually it just comes out of nowhere, my heart starts racing really bad, I feel dizzy and sick and start sweating and it SUCKS A** because I used to love the way weed made me feel! I just had one earlier off a bong hit so I don't have the best advice except to chug lots of water and just really try to distract yourself. As scary as it feels at the time (I'm always trippin that I'm going to have a heart attack) I know marijuana is a safe drug and unfortunately it sometimes causes some really uncomfortable sensations. I think more often it's not really the pot that makes it happen, but once it has happened after smoking your mind re-creates the same feeling, so it feels like weed makes you trip out when really your almost tripping yourself out! It's so stupid because I never used to have this problem. I am just posting this because it made me feel a little better to know there's others with the same problem. Yeah, some people say just quit, that is an option but they probably don't understand how frustrating it is when you have felt the good effects of pot, to then have it give you panic attacks... and you don't know how to control it... it just sucks. taking downers helps but you can't pop pills every day, so I don't know. Every time it happens I just tell myself I've been through this before and nothing is going to happen, it will pass and it's just uncomfortable at the time. Being outside in the nature always helps too, get away from the computer and closed spaces when your smoking!

Yea dude Im a former stoner of 2 years but just moved so I havent smoked weed in 2 months and I just smoked a blunt the other day and my vision got really fuzzy and I basically passed out infront of a bunch of kids I hardly knew and then stood up and passed out again and hit my face on a wall. Totally embarrassing. But they seemed understanding. The point is, that never happened before, I'm wondering if it was my tolerance being so low or what. It would suck if I couldnt smoke more than a blunt again without passin out!!!

I been smokin since I was 9 and I never felt nervous or anything so I don't know wut yall are so upset about

Dude the best thing to realize is that you aren't alone with this problem. I never had a problem smoking the stuff until recently; after I had been diagnosed with a panick/ anxiety disorder. millions of people in the us alone suffer from sort of panick disorder. I was forward with my doctor about the panick attacks after smoking cannabis. He informed me that more than likely the marijuana was just one o the hundreds of triggers that can set off a panick attack. Just realize that you ARE going to be ok. Also, keep in mind that I am not a doctor and im just relaying information I recieved from a licensed medical professional. Also, studies have shown that the risk of a myocardial infarction (heart attack) increases by 50 percent within the first hour after consuming marijuana. the same study showed that the risk decreased almost immediately after the first hour. so that is one thing to remember if you are at high risk of a heart attack. your best course of action if you cant remedy the problem on your own is to go see your physisian. he can explain more to you about panick and anxiety and can also offer ways of treating it. im a 22 year old from ohio. Im at very high risk for a heart attack due to being an over weight, smoking cigarettes, and being a daily pot user. so I understand how it feels to have the panick attacks. I have them for about the first 25 mins of my high everytime. but I always get through it. you will to. hope this information helps. and please remember that I am not a doctor. just someone whos been there.

Dude the best thing to realize is that you aren't alone with this problem. I never had a problem smoking the stuff until recently; after I had been diagnosed with a panick/ anxiety disorder. millions of people in the us alone suffer from sort of panick disorder. I was forward with my doctor about the panick attacks after smoking cannabis. He informed me that more than likely the marijuana was just one o the hundreds of triggers that can set off a panick attack. Just realize that you ARE going to be ok. Also, keep in mind that I am not a doctor and im just relaying information I recieved from a licensed medical professional. Also, studies have shown that the risk of a myocardial infarction (heart attack) increases by 50 percent within the first hour after consuming marijuana. the same study showed that the risk decreased almost immediately after the first hour. so that is one thing to remember if you are at high risk of a heart attack. your best course of action if you cant remedy the problem on your own is to go see your physisian. he can explain more to you about panick and anxiety and can also offer ways of treating it. im a 22 year old from ohio. Im at very high risk for a heart attack due to being an over weight, smoking cigarettes, and being a daily pot user. so I understand how it feels to have the panick attacks. I have them for about the first 25 mins of my high everytime. but I always get through it. you will to. hope this information helps. and please remember that I am not a doctor. just someone whos been there.

Same thing happened to me, I just simply quit. Why smoke if you don't even enjoy it?

it's releiving to me to see that this has happened to other people but I feel bad for feeling that way. I used to smoke pretty much every weekend and some throughout the week, don't know if that makes you a stoner but that's just how often I did it before. I noticed my heart rate increased and I was a little paranoid but once I started getting used to it I enjoyed it so much and the way it made me feel. I slowed down to smoking maybe 5 times a month at the max. I haven't smoked for maybe two months and last night after drinking tequilla and whiskey I decided to smoke with my boyfriend and his brother who I feel extremely close to. I don't ever mix drinking smoking because I don't like the feeling it gave me and it usually made my boyfriend sick so I didn't think it would be a good thing. but I wanted to do it last night so I did. I was around them outside and ended up having to go in a room by myself because they started freaking me out. I noticed my heart was racing and there's a lot I don't remember that my boyfriend had to tell me. he came in and said I was talking gibberish and my eyes kept rolling in the back of my head. I remember seeing a bright light and other lights and crap but all I know is it was really freaky. I told my boyfriend and his brother that they were really scaring me and to leave me alone. my boyfriend said he tried turning music on becuase I love listneing to it when I'm stoned and I told him to turn it off that I can't listen to that. he said he turned the lights off and layed down beside me as still as he could be and I got to breathing more reguarly and seemed fine and then I had to go throw up. right after I threw up I felt fine and my boyfriend knew that I was okay. he just started crying because he said he honestly felt like I was going to die. that he couldn't get me to talk to him normally and my eyes kept rolling back. I woke up this morning and had the worst headache I could imagine. I am still freaked out by what happened and won't be mixing pot with anything or touching it for a long time. sorry for such the long post and I hope ya'll don't think I'm crazy lol.