Strange (or not so) reaction to marijuana

[Kyol]

Hello. I have this strange (at least for me) experience smoking marijuana. I started a month ago and smoked 5 or 6 times with very strong effects but pretty nice ones I would say. But then, two weeks ago, a moment after I got high I started to feel a strange feeling in my forearms, some kind of cold and itch. I didn't care about it at first, but then it became so disturbing that I decided to go sleeping.
I smoked again the last weekend and this time I felt a kind of numbness on my hands, feet and parts of my face. It was very uncomfortable. I went again to bed and tried to sleep. I had an erection and my penis felt completly numb too. Awful experience.
Next morning everything was fine. I started searching the net for similar cases, but found almost nothing. Just a message of someone describing very similar effects after smoking with some friends. Everyone felt the same way and he suspected it was bad herb (or maybe laced). But what I smoked was always from the same plant I grew myself. I thought it was maybe some traces of insecticide left. I talked with many people and everyone thought it was just a paranoid effect what I experienced. So (maybe stupidly) I smoked again. The same effects and I think I don't even get high. And numbness stayed for 10 hours...
Yesterday I found a message from someone with a friend that describes exactly the same effects after smoking some herb that others tasted as "good stuff". And apparently that guy went to the doctor and he said it was a kind of strange allergic reaction.

The question: do you know what could it be?
Thanks a lot.

[kstuebin]

I haven't smoked pot in a very long time.  The reason I stopped was because I would get very paranoid and my teeth would hurt. I'm sorry to mention that because they never hurt until someone told me it had that effect on them. Then I could never smoke it again without them hurting. But the point is, I think the power of suggestion is very strong when you're high. It could be just a wierd thing.  It may be you had the experience once for whatever reason and now it's a self fullfilled expectation. But since it's happening all the time, it doesn't sound like you're enjoying the experience.  Maybe you should just stop.

[jennyfla]

When I was a kid (15 or 16), i smoked some pot and had a very bad allergic reaction.  I don't know what was in it, but paraqwat (sp?) was a big deal back then.  It's an insecticide, so maybe that's what was in it.  Anyway, the reaction I had, my body covered with hives, under my eyes swelled, it was horrible.  My parents weren't home, so my best friend's parents had to take me to the emergency room, it was awful.  They gave me a shot of benedrill or something like that, and i started to feel better.  I told everyone it was a reaction to my friend's cat (oops!).
I had the same reaction on my honeymoon in the Florida Keys after being bitten by a fire ant.  I get fire ant bites all the time, and have never before that, or after that, had that kind of reaction!  And I hadn't smoke pot since my mid teens (gave it up, hated it)
I would suggest staying away from the herb!
Good luck!
Jenny

[Duke Roul]

wow, what a weird reaction you have......
sounds like bad weed to me, although perhaps you are just allergic to the stuff.

as regards to the previous message, I disagree that marajuana is a bad substance. I have been doing alot of reading up on cannabis and its side effects...etc..
and from what I can see, it aint all that bad !

being a regular "Toker" myself, I find that haveing a smoke from time to time helps me relax, read a book, sleep, and even if going out for a night on the town, after a few spliffs I kind of get a new energy to burn the night away with.

Well anyway....try smokeing some different stuff, if you still get those strange symptoms...go cold turkey and quit.

Best 0 Luck

-Matt-

oh and what bread of plant is it you are growing.... ?

[Kyol]

So DrSteve, or may I say Mr Cannabis? What a clever answer. You showed me the light, now I know what I should do...
I decided to post on this site fooled by the gold credit cards of the moderators. Harvard Vanguard, Chief of Health, Greater Boston, incredible clinicians. I thought hey, what a forum, I can talk to the pro's here. I posted my inquire and waited. I truly appreciate the answers of the other users, very useful, encouraging and even wise advices and sharing experiences that makes me feel no regret to have posted here. Thanks a lot, people. But then I was still waiting for the professional answer. I received a mail that asks me for money and tells me that the official answer has arrived. I know it's very hard to give a perfect answer (not to mention a diagnostic) thru this media where the persons are just words (sometimes with bad english as mine). But I expected something like "I can't tell anything about your case with these few parameters but it seems that blah blah blah, or That kind of effects could be a reaction to blah blah blah, or Once I saw a case with a very rare allergic blah blah". Or even "I can't tell you anything about your case but I think blah blah". Instead I got a Toppo-Giggio-like answer from the very funny and adorable Mr Cannabis. "Dont' do this kids, cannabis is bad. Bang your head anywhere else". I thought DrSteve was a person, not a muppet. What has happen with your shining degrees, DrSteve? Or is it that you doesn't really exist and you're just a bunch of programmers behind a site or an Eliza-like advanced algorithm?
Or maybe you're just (excuse me for this) a best-selling author of another american self-help-****-book for the regular yuppie who like to read rubbish and continue the addictive american dream?
Wake up America! Do not waste money on this site...

Federico Arturo Pugnali (Kyol)
from Buenos Aires

[Wizard]

What exactly do you mean by the addictive American Dream? Quite frankly I understood what Dr. Steve said in his response to you. If things are so great where you are why don't you go ask one of your Highly Trained experts? No, wait a minute what am I saying.....your the "brain surgeon" here....let me see now, ahh you said you only started smoking dope a month ago and only 5 or 6 times? But you grew your own plant? In a month? Was that some kind of New Age Pot that grows and matures in one month? Grown by a guy who only smoked dope for a month? 5 or 6 times? Who then has his face and arms and then his Hard "Willy" go numb? and then keeps on smoking it? You have the frikken brass balls to insult and question another human being? Kiss my AMERICAN ASS!!!!!!!!!! There is nothing wrong with this forum......it's you jack asses that are looking through PURPLE HAZED glasses. This is an infection gone wild here. ALL THIS RHETORIC is sickening. YOU GOT YOUR HEAD SO FAR UP YOUR ONE MONTH OLD POT PLANT ASS that you actually think we believe you? How stupid are you???????????????

Phil & Cindy, thank you for giving me the forum to get my life back. To all of the people that helped me along the way thank you also. To the ones that went and started a new site with the best intentions I wish you luck and Godspeed. I pray that you will find the love and caring that was a part of all this when I came here. Those of you who insist on coming back here to complain over and over and then go back to the other site and stir it up some more...well I hope you are all happy now! You couldn't just let it die......I've seen a lot of you change from positive people to negative nit pickers. What a shame......Either you were fooling me about who you were then, or you're fooling me now.......I've gone to the new site a hundred times now to try to post and then I'll read some more negative stuff and I just don't want to be a part of it. I tried to stay here and keep a positive attitude but it just keeps coming back over.
Some of you have continued to be confrontational to the point of making me sick. When I start respondind to idiots like I did above then I know it's time for me to throw in the towel. I've fought to hard to feel good. This stuff doesn't make me feel good anymore.
Telby, Butterbean, I'm sorry. I said I'd be here for you through this time. I'm not going to be a part of this negativity any longer....I will be more than happy to corrospond with anybody who wants to at my posted e-mail address.
J.B. God bless you you know how to find me.
To the rest of you who wish to continue bickering, WAKE UP LOOK AT YOURSELVES AND SMELL THE COFFEE!

Happy Thanksgiving,
I'm sorry but the MAGICK is gone.....
Wizard

[butterbean]

Wiz, please come back!  Don't leave us!  I have been reading this site for 2 months now, and I read the negativity and I think for some unknown reason, people who came here for help just got sucked into being negative.  What you said, needed to be said, but, please don't leave us who truly want help.  Sometimes, what I have seen in my life, is when one negative person starts then others tend to follow.  Everyone needs tothink about what Wiz just said, and realize that this forum is to help you, us, not to criticize or judge.  Just like we have problems, maybe Dr. Steve, and others have them too!  No one can be good all the time.  I want this site to continue, it is saving my life, my soul, my heart!  Please, all of you negative people, look at what you are doing, look at why you are doing it!  I think you are hurting bad, that is why!  Wiz, I still need you.  You just don't know how much you have helped me. Stay with me!
Love Butterbean

[J.B. to Brian and Vicky]

Wiz, this is probably forum burnout time. It's time to lurk awhile and just see what happens next. Sometimes the best posting is done by not posting, if you know what I mean? The true ones will come back one by one and there will be plenty of love to pass on again. We seem to be in a spiteful mood these days and the love and caring for our fellow addicts have gone by the wayside. Meanwhile countless of us suffer from neglect. The antithesis of love is not hatred, but neglect and indifference that stems from being preoccupied with petty, personal grudges that serve no therapeutic purpose.  Bite your lip and hang on for us! J.B.

Butterbean, I care about you!

[butterbean]

Thank you J.B. for your words of wisdom and kindness.  I am putting my Christmas tree together this morning and thinking of all of you kind folks.  You have saved my soul.
Love Butterbean

[Wizard]

My friends, I threw my "Hissy Fit" and now I feel humbled by the wisdom that has come forth from the very ones that I was trying to support. J.B., your words ring the Truth of a very wise man. It struck me as profound when I looked at what you said about sometimes the best post is to not post at all. Truth I should have followed. Butterbean, you in early stages of detox, whom I said I would stay by to help when you needed a shoulder to lean on, you came back for me when I fell and show me a Truth of getting sucked into the negativity of others problems. Telby, You showed me a Truth of will against the "Dragon" which can take so many forms and hides in so many places and yet you stand in its path to face it head on. Ginger, you showed me the Truth of the special people who are out there still watching and following the battle of those of us who are posting while you fight your battle in the backround. You are the ones that we sometimes forget are out there depending on examples set here. All of you named and un-named have shown me a Truth as I sat back here over the last day and a half. The Truth is I am like you. I need you to remind me of who I was, who I am and who I want to be. My journey on the path to Freedom and Knowledge can't be finished by just turning off the keyboard and screen. I found that the TRUTH was ALL of you were still on my mind and in my heart. That Truth I can not deny or walk away from. Nor will it be silenced with a "Wizard" "Hissy Fit". So my friends, I will depend on your support in my times of trouble also and I'll try to take the wisdom of J.B. and bite my lip when my heart tells me to.
With that said, I want to wish each and everyone of you, New na Old, Here or over there, a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING. For I know I have a lot to be Thankful for.

Power & Magick 2 U ALL,
Peace & Light on Us All,
With much Love,
Wiz

[Witchywoman]

Wiz my friend,
Your so called 'Hissy Fit' was just you expressing your truth in the moment. You have a right to get mad sometimes too!

Your constant pursuit of authenticity and truth has helped me in more ways than I can express in words.  I think that in recovery, Truth is our anchor when the ocean of life gets rocky. Authenticity is what our addiction robs us of, and Truth is the way back to it.

Thank you. You are a true Hero, in my humble opinion.

Love,
WW

[cindi]

my email to you     my cheese wiz   need I say more   love you

[CCB]

Ive not heard of this type of sensory dysfunction before it is not even mentioned as a side effect the drug Marinol (dronabinol) which is synthetic delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).  What this means is that in thousands of patients (studies done only in AIDS and cancer patients) given the active ingredient in marijuana did not exhibit symptoms like yours.  Although the drug has analgesic properties, with respect to neuromuscular problems, only myalgia (pain and sensitivity in the muscles -the opposite of what you describe) was listed.  Because you mentioned itching and coldness and then numbness, your odd sensory experiences are probably not the result suggestion but to determine this for cetain: if the anesthesia (loss of sensation) runs lengthwise up the full length of your arm into your hand and does not affect only your hand (like a glove) or only your forearm it is likely that these symptoms have a nuerological basis.  I would suggest consulting a neurologist.

[Hippiealways]

I started smoking pot when I was 20, some 20 years ago...I quit for two years to see if I was addicted and if I would be able to sleep without it....I could sleep fine and did fine otherwise too.  I have started smoking again and smoke it because I want to not because I have too.  I feel pot should be legal and alcohol and cigarettes should be illegal.  I find I am extremely creative when I am high.  I like to write poetry and short stories and I also find myself calm and happy.  I am in great physical shape and my doctor knows I smoke pot.  Never had a bad experience and never felt the desire to not smoke.  You never hear of anyone being killed by a pot smoker, but we here of many being killed by a drunk driver....Glad to be here any comments are fine with me...I am a functional pot smoker and to look at me you wouldn't even know I  smoke unless you passed me a joint.  Thanks

[drinkbeer]

i had been smoking cannabis for around 6 years. during this time i almost failed at college and was failing at uni. i have been clean for around a year and a half now and am doing well at uni. here r some statements and advise which may help you quit.  you may quit for a month and then feel like toking again - if you buy a skunk bag and smoke it all you will be back at stage 1- try smoking a few pulls with friends . it is easier to quit if you only smoke a few pulls as this is what you will be addicted to . the mental cravings are too strong to smoke a full spliff and then to come off it. carry on smoking a few pulls, max 5 pulls a week- for a month or two then go cold turkey, drink beers after your minimal drags and drink when you get bored. this will give you a buzz you have all become accustomed to! its then easy to quit this terrible habit. now all you have to do is quit drinking (much easier)
if you quit expect better memory, less munchies and success in jobs/ uni etc and not being zombie like!  love you, best of luck

[randomGuy123]

"drink beers after your minimal drags and drink when you get bored. this will give you a buzz you have all become accustomed to! its then easy to quit this terrible habit. now all you have to do is quit drinking (much easier)"

..worst advice I've ever read on the internet. I would much rather be mentally addicted to marijuana than physically addicted to alcohol.

[appletree]

i have been an irregular pot-smoker for about four years now. i have had generally good experiences while taking the drug. i'm not sure for how long now, and it doesn't happen everytime i smoke, but fairly consistantly, i develop a numbness in my mouth. I have thought that this might just be because of the smoke itself. recently this feeling of numbness has become more apparent in my hands as well. the last time i smoked pot, about four or five days ago now, i had numbness in my whole body and it has lasted till now, but i think it is improving day by day. this is the first time these feelings of numbness have lasted past the moment when i was high. it's very bizarre. the pot was from a friend so i know that it wasn't laced with anything and i also smoked it with a friend who had no similar effects with it. so why this now, all of a sudden when i have been smoking pot for a long time?? i've been trying to find information about similar cases but haven't had much luck. does anyone think that it's possible to think too much while high and thus damage nerve endings?!?! sounds crazy i know but it's the only reason i can think of.

[Savas]

Hehe... I always love it when old posts get picked up. Guys, this thread was from 2001. And by the way, I hope the guy is okay. It's likely that he was getting his weed dipped in formaldehyde, which is VERY dangerous, and was all the craze back then (like herpes, some things just keep popping up, like this old trick). That probably caused the strange reactions.

[JRG817]

Dude when i smoke really good weed my legs twitch like my thigh area and its like a rythm i think it started when i smoked acid i could like see these chains that were red and white and green block like outlines on my legs and that was the cause of the twitch i call them the chains all my friends get them its like their contagious or somthing and somtimes its really scarry because it feels like their pulling you underground the feeling you get when your sinking in a pool

[Greatgreebo]

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[brownfoo2008]

i feel the same way i feel itchy all over my body and its been 3 days sense ive smoked and my hands and arms feel like there numb everytime i tuch somthing but not all the way numb just as soon as i tuch somthing i feel a little numbness and i also can' sleep at night i find my self constintly scrathcing myself

[mcquilkinnd]

my reaction to pot was like acid i saw an arubix cube, thought i had multiple personalities and ran away from the party i was at to be with nature. I have generalized anxiety disorder and when i get high its my psyche protecting me, i start thinking oh know i feel happy, im socializing whats going on? start panicking and then flip. self-fulfilling prophecy. you just gotta learn to not be in control. the numbness happened to me, it came back, i think its anxiety/panic induced it eventually goes away once you learn to deal w/anxiety. ive had complete meltdowns but am now going w/the flow

[mcquilkinnd]

oh yeah sometimes i stay up for-ever have revelations, all you need to do is get a notebook and write its a way of controlling your environment.

[caligirl23]

hi I have smoked marijuana off and on for about 5 years of my life. All of the sudden i smoked and my mouth started to hurt badly!My teeth, jaw, roof of my mouth, neck and head were all in terrible pain.Also my limbs were tingly and numb. worst pain i have ever felt in my entire life and i have had 2 c sections! But whats the crazy part is ever since the last time i tried it(which was  a couple years ago) i till have really bad  mouth, jaw, head and neck pain. and also my left leg is heavy now. my husband is a weed smoker and he wont stop im paranoid all the time. i cant even smell it! he has to wash up as soon as he comes inside from smoking and our relationship is going down the drain! he doesnt realize how physically hurt i am by this ****! i've had test after tests and still have no clue whats wrong with me! Have n e good advice ????
my email is: ***@****   thanx i'll be waiting for your replies!