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I have been smoking for about 2 years. My fiance and i smoke about an 8th a day between the two of us..About 3 blunts a day. We pretty much stay high all day long.

About 4 months ago i got strept throat. I was put on some pain medication and antibiotics. I looked up the medication and other people have posted that they smoked weed while using the same medication and had no complications and had normal highs. I know everyone is differnt.. I decided to smoke. I had a horrible high. My heart raced, i couldnt sit still, i felt like i was going to die. I have had this problem happen a few times and i had been able to talk myself out of it and than calm down and enjoy the high. This time was very different...extremely scary. I decided to just go to bed and let it pass and wait until i was finished with my meds. A week after i finished i decided to take a few hits..The same thing happened again! I freaked out, my heart fell like it was going to beat out of my chest..I just wanted to not be high anymore. I gave it another week, took 3 hits and AGAIN! Im not smoking good stuff. Just mids $10/dime. We even bought stuff from another dealer just incase it was just a bad batch not reacting well with me..I have read this has happened to ALOT of long term smokers and they have just said they quit. Im very very scared to try again! I wont even let my fiance come around me when hes smoking. But i really miss the feeling of being high. Life was enjoyable, easier, ect.

Has anyone had this problem and than smoke again after a few months and have a "normal" enjoyable high. I feel like im just going to freak out reguardless and trip myself out because now im expecting it. UHG!!!!

<--- wishin to be like this guy one day again!!! Thanks for the advice!

I don't know, i always answer questions like this the same way. I had the same problems, smoked heavily for 2 or 3 years and developed a racing heart and paranoia when i smoked...probably because of other drugs i was doing in combination. It took years, but i was persistent (maybe a little dumb) and eventually it got better. Now pot actually reduces my anxieties.

its probably something mental; you expect it to happen so it does; or your uptight about something else, did anything big change in your life before that happened (you say fiance, are you nervous?).

Only you can answer this, but when you do you'll know if you should quit or not. I believe our brains are 90% nurture and 10% nature (as some psychologists say, right) and by that I mean that I think most shit about people is learned behavior; you weren't born with it (well maybe you were, but you probably werent). So you have to answer this question, really.

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Pretty much my answer, it might be something mental, you had this reaction when you started taking the medication, maybe now you just expect it to happen, so it does, try to mellow out before smoking, you said you could keep calm and enjoy the high at times. Do that before hitting the blunt, or, if you drink on occasion sit down with your partner, so you know you have someone there, have a drink or a few sips, and try hitting the blunt then. I'm not sure on your reaction, but if I've had a shit day and weed doesn't help on it's own, I usually drink a little and smoke at the same time. I'm not much of a heavy drinker either.

I hope all goes well for you, if you quit or not.

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Mankind has progressed to a point in it's Dim-witted history, where life has been drained of all it's enchantment. All I gotta do is sit back and enjoy.

This is probably the fifth thread along these lines that I have seen in these forums in the less than 2 months that I have been here. I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a "darkside" forum like over at Bluelight???? Just to keep this subject together and make it easier for people to find resources.

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Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on.
Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there.

In my teen years i had a similar thing..not a panic attack though..we were at a get together gettin drunk and smokin..we made a homemade gravity bong outta a cooler and a milk jug..well after smokin all night and being pretty wasted i went to take a rip and a friend thought it would be funny to knock me down while takin it in...i went basically head first and the jug went all the way in the water resulting in me gettin a nice swallow full of dirty bong water...was nasty as fuck and i ended up pukin the rest of the night..for weeks after that everytime i smoked i got that nasty taste in my mouth and i would puke...i just quit for a month or two till i felt that it was safe to smoke again and ended up fine..10yrs later im still smokin with no problems..im no doctor or anything and i havent really researched it but my theory is maybe the meds you were on made your body's immune system or something to trigger a defense. id suggest just chillin out for a bit longer than a few weeks and try again..worked for me.

You may want to consider doing a cleansing of your system. Some of those pharmaceutical meds stay in your body for LONG periods of time - go to your health food store and tell them you want to cleanse post-strep and tell them what meds you were on. They'll know what to use.

Might help with the head trip too if you have tied it to that.

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OMG exact same thing happend to me

except i moved from alberta to ontario with my bf
away from everyone i know!!!

i got wasted drunk one night and felt like i had to throw up
then the panic attacks kicked in bad
heart racing..

i still get them on and off all the time

i got so bad that being around ppl who smoked pot was to much
im not a people person to i get panicy if i smoke with ppl i dont know.

last year around this time i was having sever anxiety attacks and i wished i could smoke sooooo bad i missed it, i was so scared so one day i took a joint down in the basement alone and had like a tiny puff....(if you smoked everyday and you didnt for so long your gunna get really high off the stuff) i got a lil stoned and i found that if i do something like clean or organize that the anxiety would go away to a degree..

at this moment im smoking again but i dont smoke and get wasted stoned i just get high...

i'm on effexor and starting a new to get off the effexor.(deppressent pills) that i was told would take the anxiety away.

dont know if you live in the states but maybe get some blood work done beacuse having panic attacks could be a imbalance of something in your body....

not sure how bad yours where but even when i wasnt smoking i couldnt leave the house without feeling so ill and like i was going to die.(makes life suck).

Im getting through tho....
you should look to see if there are support groups in your area.

ill stop blabbering....wish you the best feel free to pm me!