LSD induced panic attacks

[Matildarose]

I took LSD quite a few times and I was absolutely fine, then one night I drop 2 trips and it turned really bad, I was shivering and cold while inside a warm house, I thought everyone was talking about me and I even imagined my own friends were plotting to kill and bury me, I was freaking out and just kept asking everyone to take me home and apparently I kept asking every couple of minutes. My friend told me to smoke heaps of bongs so I would fall asleep and I smoked a whole bowl of weed completely to myself and it just made me worse, they took me home eventually and just left me there alone, from that night onwards I suffered revisiting that 'bad trip' for a few weeks, and I was a heavy pot smoker before the bad trip, but now every time I smoke weed I freak out, my heart starts beating so fat and irregularly and I honestly think I'm going to die. I quit smoking weed now, but even still, sometimes in certain situations around new people or big crowds I flip out and have to be alone just like I did on the night of the bad trip.. What is this? I'm too scared to goto the doctors, I refuse to take any medication. Has this happened to anybody else?

[Milan011]

It will be alright, trust me, i had a bad trip that lasted 14 hours. It took  months while i was ok again. You got to understand that is all just a temporary thing.
It will be fine. Panic atacks afterwards can make you feel like you are going to loos it or like you are going to die. But hey, that will go away after some time also. It will be all ok.

[Svving]

this happened to me one year ago.
here is my story...
i was feeling down after a rough day at work dealing with stupid customers and i was feeling a need for escape.
Usually i would just chill in my room and smoke a bowl or my bong, but this night i was offered acid and a place to sleepover.  At the time i though it was a great idea and it was awesome at first!  i got in my PJs and i brought my gamecube to play smash bros and itd be a chill night with a guy i had recently befriended.  We both took a tab and a half and smoked 2 blunts and some cigs in his basement before the effects fully kicked in.
i started getting the feeling of melting and really relaxed and euphoric.  smiling and giggling for no real reason. we had mood music and watched trippy videos. for the first 2 hours or so it was nice and cool.  we even went for a walk and squirted citric acid into the air and saw mad crazy colors and patterns.
when we got back his parents came home and asked us to help bring in groceries. I tried my best to help out but i started to feel like i was in hell, forced to carry bags back and forth for eternity and i guess i tweaked myself out. then of course right in front of his parents... i PUKE right on his front lawn...
he brought me back downstairs and gave me a glass of water to drink... a good idea since i didnt drink any liquid for hours. it hit me so ******* hard and i mustve peaked. God knows how long it was cuz i was halucenating so hard i lost all concept of time and space.  my friend became a deity, and taught me a life lesson. to take things slow and sip your water. sip your water meaning slow down and showed me what my life would be like if i continued to be the way i was. ignorant and confused...
he told me not to worry because after tonight everything would go back to normal and i would be fine.
then he told me "they call it acid for a reason"
thats when things got worse
i started to freak out
i saw my friend as death coming to claim my mortal soul.
i saw him as God teaching me a lesson.
i saw him as the devil, tempting me to do evil.
and i felt a sharp pain in my back like he was using dark magic to suck the very life from me.
i begged and barganed for my life
i promised i would stop being this way and be a better person
but the bad feelings and the paranoia and panicing did not stop
i kept trying to drink my water even though the glass was empty
i kept moving my gamecube and taking my shoes off and putting them back on... i was freaking out and didnt know what i was doing... i thought i was dying and he was killing me... i imagined the worst possible situation... dying and meeting the devil in hell... and i was dreaming while awake and lost my grip on reality.
eventuallly i started to come down but i was still in a panic and he and his other friend was smoking a bong and they said something and i said i need to smoke the bong!  hoping itd make me feel better but it didnt
i came down from a teir 4 trip and finaly reclaimed a sense of reality.  but i was still having a panic attack and my heart was racing and i was having really paranoid thoughts like i was gonna wake up in the hospital or worse....
eventually his mom came down to try and calm me down but i was still tripping, just not as hard. she was noticably older, in her 50s and i saw death within her too.
i guess i finally realized that youth and life does not last forever and eventually we all fall victim to death himself.
she told me that once its over its over.... and i know she actually said that and i didnt just imagine it. my heart and chest was hurting cuz i did not treat my body well that day with all the smoking and eating ****** greasy food prior to the trip(which i heard causes bad trips after this happened)
after he talking to me for awhile i slowly became better... but very slightly and i was still too freaked out to handle myself
they asked if they should call my mom to pick me up and i said yes, while still frieghtened.
they called her and asked her to pick me up.  
note: its 3-4 am and im 30 min from my house...
so for those 30 mins the gave me a blanket and put me in front of a tv and i watched cartoons and i finally felt safe.
my anxiety and panic were reduced significantly.
when my mom got me, i felt sad and like a dissappointment to my mother. my eyes were crazy lucid still and i wasnt having strong dark halucinations but i saw crazy patterns for a few hours before and after and probably during the peak of the trip.
eventually i got home and thought about life for a bit before going to sleep.
this happened about a year ago and i was 19 at the time.
i tried to forget about what happened but i often had flashbacks and i would have anxiety and panic attacks and rapid heart beat when smoking weed
it was soo bad i wanted to go to the hospital and i couldnt sleep and i was up all night and i needed my mom for comfort... nothing helped
i couldnt enjoy smoking weed, and it was rough trying to quit...
i even tried xannax with weed to reduce anxiety and panics but it somtimed helped or it made it even worse...
eventually i gave up because i couldnt handle the panic attacks when smoking.  
i threw out my weed and xannax because the panics were so bad
i gave away my bowls and lighters and peices and im still trying to sell my bong.  
i started doing alot of research and i started to understand that mixing all of those bad things together plus the negative thoughts in the back of my mind, triggered a side of me i never knew
at times i wish i could forget
at times im thankful because im somewhat a better person now
plus i felt like a dissappointment when i tripped because i promised my gf i wouldnt do any hard drugs but i did anyway without telling her
i told her the day after cuz we had to drive to get my car because i couldnt drive from his house.
anyway i learned alot since then and i havent smoked weed in almost a whole year
and im not sure if i ever will
but i guess i was too dependent on it after a hard day at work
i wont do LSD ever again or any acid
i may try smoking weed after a few years but not untill i get a better controll of myself and my thoughts
im getting better everyday
and im going to get better and im going to be okay
i made a stupid mistake
but ill survive and i will stay positive and learn how to relax and controll my emotions  
just stay positive
things will be okay
and the anxiety will leasen as time goes on
i even experienced a little anxiety typing my story
but not nearly as much as i had this time one year ago
im getting better all the time and if something like this happens to you just remember you will get better too
reading stories like this and the reasons behind them is what helped me
and if any of you managed to read all of this i hope it helps you
thank you for your time!

[Bacc12]

I had a really bad trip on acid before I felt like the devil and GOD we're talking to me trying to make a deal. Now I have weird voices in my heads telling me things and I feel like it's because of my religious ties. I've taken acid over 10 times but that last trip was just terrible. My heart started racing and I couldn't move only think about terrible things. I was scared for my life I ended up in the hospital. I'm a changed person now. I tried smoking weed a little bit later on but I just started tripping out I guess I had a flash back because it felt like I was on LSD again. Whenever I think of demons or the devil I feel really strange and my heart race starts picking up. Nobody seems to believe me. I know I'm not insane I still live a normal life. I just think too much about the bad days and bad things and have trouble sleeping at night. I'm going to the doctors soon to Get it checked out. Sometimes I get really hot flashes or cold and my body starts to hurt too. My anxiety has just been really bad it's only been 4 months since that happened I hope things just get better. I can't live with these terrible thoughts and thinking demons and the devil are after me. I turned to god also. It's nice hearing im not the only one. I don't do any sort of drugs anymore besides smoke cigarettes and drink a little I'm only 16 and that **** ruined my life so young.

[CFS56]

You probably are just having anxiety issues because of how bad your lsd experience was.  It will get better. And smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing somebody could have told you to do.  I stopped smoking pot because I got all paranoid, thought people were talking about me and my heart got all weird.  It wouldn't hurt to talk to somebody about this...it would probably be very helpful. And don't do anymore lsd.  You would freak yourself out.

[SeanQ]

Had this same thing happen on mushrooms 10 years ago. Pretty much as you described it. A hung bong rip is what triggered the bad trip. I thought I was dying, thought I knew too much about the universe and it was all too much for me and I wanted to not know those things anymore ... sounds crazy. My friend said I was speaking gibberish. I had pretty bad anxiety afterward, especially after smoking (even moreso when I smoked alone).

But eventually it just started to die down. Been a decade now and everything's fine. I didn't trip again for three years but I have several times since then and never had a bad trip since. And I'm back to being a huge pothead again lol.

You'll be fine, maybe in the meantime try some herbal anxiety remedies or something to ease the symptoms? I take Tranquilene everyday for anxiety because I was not doing well on meds, and it works better for me and doesn't make me feel like a different person. worth looking into anyway ... http://www.tranquilene.com

Good luck!

[Paxiled]

This has happened to many many people.  Obviously, whoever told you to add pot to the bad experience was an idiot -- pot just reinforces what we're feeling.  With most people this passes, kind of like a mini-PTSD experience.  The big problem with acid is that it's seldom just acid, and hasn't been for decades.  The second big problem is that it was intended to be only used in a caring, knowing, and warm environment, but broke out into a party drug where there isn't necessarily someone close to talk you down.  It's also almost always cut with speed, which makes it very hard to come down from.  I'd say, again, this will probably pass, but it wouldn't hurt to talk to someone who can teach you relaxation techniques such as breathing exercises and meditation and muscle relaxation to help you through.