Has Smoking Gave You A Panic Attack?

haloman420

haloman420

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Been smoking for 18 years now. The last few months I've been feeling weird after toking up. Faint, dizzy, tingling in arms. Feels like a stroke if I had to guess. I went to the hospital a couple months ago. They couldn't find anything wrong. Idk. Now when I get that feeling I tell myself I'm just tripping. Last a couple hours each time. Scary shit.
 
TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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Weed today is much more potent than it used to be. I suffer from anxiety issues and I started having severe anxiety when I smoked certain strains. It got to the point to where I quit weed for awhile, but I don't drink or do any other drugs, so I really wanted to find a way to enjoy weed again. The first thing I did was I quit combustion all together and got a dry herb vape (I use a Dynavap). Switching to that, alone, helped with the panic attacks a bit, but I still had to be very careful about how much I vaped. What I found that pretty much completely stops the panic attacks is to get some high quality CBD Hemp flower (I get mine from Berkshire CBD and they ship it to my door) and I mix it 1 to 1 with with my weed. This gives you a nice mellow high without the jitters or anxiety. I also vape the CBD Hemp flower, straight up, during the day when I work, and it helps calm my nerves with no risk of getting high during work hours.
 
sarahJane211

sarahJane211

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haloman420 said:
Faint, dizzy, tingling in arms.
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.......... all those plus tingling lips then a head that feels slightly 'stuck on' .........

I thought this was what we wanted?
Although comparing purchased brick to home grown hybrid, home grown gives 3x the feeling.
 
Bareback

Bareback

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sarahJane211 said:
.......... all those plus tingling lips then a head that feels slightly 'stuck on' .........

I thought this was what we wanted?
Although comparing purchased brick to home grown hybrid, home grown gives 3x the feeling.
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You may have done a better job growing it, or picked it to soon . Harvest times can have an effect on the results you feel.

However the CBD idea is a good alternative.
 
curious2garden

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Bareback said:
You may have done a better job growing it, or picked it to soon . Harvest times can have an effect on the results you feel.

However the CBD idea is a good alternative.
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The best fix is to take a bit of a break like you first suggested and when coming back to take 25 mg of Benadryl 15 minutes prior to smoking a racy strain. It's an antihistamine and will blunt or stop those symptoms.

I'm currently smoking through a new table and I always take 25 mg of Benadryl prior smoking a new strain or pheno. I like SSH so I prep just in case I get a particularly racy strain or pheno.
 
TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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curious2garden said:
The best fix is to take a bit of a break like you first suggested and when coming back to take 25 mg of Benadryl 15 minutes prior to smoking a racy strain. It's an antihistamine and will blunt or stop those symptoms.

I'm currently smoking through a new table and I always take 25 mg of Benadryl prior smoking a new strain or pheno. I like SSH so I prep just in case I get a particularly racy strain or pheno.
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Is there any reason you don't use CBD instead of Benadryl? There's been some interesting writeups about how CBD and THC work together.
 
curious2garden

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TreeFarmerCharlie said:
Is there any reason you don't use CBD instead of Benadryl? There's been some interesting writeups about how CBD and THC work together.
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Yup there have been some interesting write ups on that. However Benadryl is an old, safe and FDA approved medicine because of it's paucity of side effects and reliably demonstrated effects that calm down the H1 and H4 receptors during the histamine response.

CBD may or may not and it varies from strain to strain. We don't know enough about it yet. If you have good luck with CBD then continue to use it but I prefer to use something I know will work in almost every case of Cytokine cascade.

This is a good article on the histamine response
 
Bareback

Bareback

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TreeFarmerCharlie said:
I agree. Breaks only helped me at the beginning...probably placebo effect going on. Then it just got worse and worse as time went on for me.
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If it’s any comfort to you, you are not the only person this has happened to. And there’s other threads on here about it, search for those and you should find lots of information that has already been shared .
Good luck to ya.
You can also try yoga, meditation and anything zen like. Or Xanax
 
TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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Bareback said:
If it’s any comfort to you, you are not the only person this has happened to. And there’s other threads on here about it, search for those and you should find lots of information that has already been shared .
Good luck to ya.
You can also try yoga, meditation and anything zen like. Or Xanax
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I'm on a low dose of citalopram, which helps with my day to day anxiety, but the CBD flower has pretty much eliminated my issue with anxiety being cause by weed.
 
Just Be

Just Be

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Someone try Neil Young's method of chewing on peppercorns to get rid of cannabis-induced anxiety and report back here.

Keep calm and listen to Neil Young's advice on how to cure weed paranoia

Next time you have a crippling panic attack when you're smoking weed, listen to Neil Young. No, no not his music ... we're talking about his medical advice. The guy's got a cheap, occasionally-delicious cure for weed paranoia, and he might just be on to something. Keep on rockin' in the...
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TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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Just Be said:
Someone try Neil Young's method of chewing on peppercorns to get rid of cannabis-induced anxiety and report back here.

Keep calm and listen to Neil Young's advice on how to cure weed paranoia

Next time you have a crippling panic attack when you're smoking weed, listen to Neil Young. No, no not his music ... we're talking about his medical advice. The guy's got a cheap, occasionally-delicious cure for weed paranoia, and he might just be on to something. Keep on rockin' in the...
therooster.com therooster.com
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I've never heard him talk about it, but I've heard that actually works, and that it helps calm people down who have eaten way too many edibles.
 
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