Effects - extremely negative effects after smoking

[mullet0224]

SWIM is a pretty big "pothead". He smokes every single day and has been for a couple of years.
A few months ago, SWIM smoked a little bit of some dank (he mostly smokes reggie, very rarely anything else)

and within 15 minutes of smoking something went terribly wrong. His heart started beating really really fast and SWIM started to freak out. his legs went numb and he began experiencing feelings of EXTREME cold and then extreme heat all over his body. His vision was fading in and out and it felt like he was about to pass out.
He chalked it up to just being to high

now its a few months later. SWIM has been smoking his usual amount every day even since that freak out incident. But one day SWIM woke up at like 4 in the morning and decided to smoke a bowl. After smoking the bowl, the exact same freak out thing happened.

Throughout the next couple of days he didnt smoke that much and it didnt happen again. But now it happens more and more frequently, eventually every time SWIM smokes. Now SWIM is afraid to smoke weed because of the terrifying feeling he gets most of the time.

Does anyone else have those problems?
My question is, are those symptoms of a panic attack?
Its so scary, it feels like swim is going to die when it happens. Especially the out of control heart beat and the extreme heat and cold.

SWIM has a bad feeling he's gonna have to give up weed... He hasnt smoked in a few days and it hasnt happened in a few days.

[herbalpatrick]

Well these "freak outs" could be caused by something other than just the weed, try and find a pattern in when these happen, it could be reacting to something else (such as pain medications etc.) Swim had this happen to him once and it was during a time of much stress on Swim's body and mind, (Testing and Sports). These same feelings came over Swim for weeks straight and Swim did alot of testing in that area. Try altering the amount and/or quality of swiy weed, it could be caused by many things, any new stresses on the mind and/or body could bring upon this strange feeling. Try taking a Xanex before smoking and see if that helps at all.

[snowfield]

it depends on the weed as well. every weed from different sources have different hits.some weed make your eyes redder than usual, some weed gives you major munchies, some weed makes you slower than usual, etc.

with the panic attack..i think your just having heart burns or palpitations. i get those too. and my friends as well

[blungblung]

it just happens man.

one time i was hotboxing my shed with my 2 buddies, and all of a sudden i just felt really shitty, exactly like how you describe. it was fucking awful.

try using a bong. or maybe buy some different weed; it could be just the batch you've got right now. i don't know what the source of the problem is. just fuck around until you find it.

[informer_]

Originally Posted by blungblung

it just happens man.

one time i was hotboxing my shed with my 2 buddies, and all of a sudden i just felt really shitty, exactly like how you describe. it was fucking awful.

try using a bong. or maybe buy some different weed; it could be just the batch you've got right now. i don't know what the source of the problem is. just fuck around until you find it.

BungBung try reading the rules and use swim self incriminating yourself and others isnt very clever.

[mullet0224]

Thanks for all the help... Since the time I posted that, SWIM hasn't smoked weed since. He's to scared of freaking out again, the feeling he gets is the most horrible, terrifying thing he has ever felt.

However its been a few weeks now, and the lack of marijuana in SWIMs life is starting to drive him crazy. His girlfriend still smokes it every day, and swim always wants to hit the bong so bad.

He's thinking about giving it another chance.
But after reading alot about this problem, SWIM thinks it probably is from stress. SWIM has a huge stress factor effecting his life right now, in the form of a small heroin addiction. The panic attacks started happening a little bit after he began using heroin.

So SWIM thinks he probably needs to quit the heroin so he can start smoking weed again. heroin feels damn good but it isn't worth giving up weed for.

So basically, he's gonna try to get off the heroin and then smoke weed again. Hopefully it works.

Thanks for the help guys

[m190]

SWIM has just had a very similar experience, I posted it in this forum. Check it out if you want.