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On march 27th, i was drinking beer with my cousin and i had a substantial amount for me, (40oz of budlight and about 10oz of malt liquor). The we began to smoke some marijuana resin. I took probably two hits or so. Since then i havent felt myself. I kinda feel like that high hasnt gone away and the clear feeling that i usually have after smoking weed never came back. Im scared that this will be permanent. Usually after i smoke marijuana a couple hours later the effect will wear off and i will have a clear feeling overwelm me and i will be back to my original state of mind. that never happened to me and i have gotten weird symptoms from this since then. My dr did bloodwork on me and everything seemed normal. He even did an mri of my brain and nothing was wrong. Any knowledge of this would be helpful. My dr prescribed lexapro and i just started taking it on thursday but it doesnt seem to be working.
Well, yes and no.
I mean it took a long time for me to see what was going on. I had to do A LOT of research myself. Doctors don't always have the answers. Especially if you are not up front about all your sym. and how you feel. I tend to minimize things, " oh it's fine, tomorrow I'll be better" i can't count how many "tomorrows" I went thru, LOL....
it wasn't until it led to a horrible panic attack, and then taking meds on schedule as prescribed and all the most horrible sym. went away, that i realized it was all my mind playing horrible tricks w/ me. I wasn't going to die from some horrible undiagnosed thing ( both my parents did, so that was a BIG factor for me being in denial about my GAD)
I am A LOT better now. I have just started to accept that I have GAD, I may always now, or maybe not. it was figuring out what CAUSED it that helped the most for me. Life got a little too crazy, too many lemons, actually the whole damn lemon grove sprouted in my yard over the past few years, lol.
But knowing why and what I have to do to change what I can, learning to deal w/ what I can't, was the best medicine of all.
I no longer freak out over small things to where it just builds and builds to the point where meds are the only source of relief.
I do still use them, some days more than others, but I know once I can get my house back to a home, my life back to some order, I'll feel even better.
And that asking for some help is OK....I don't have to do it all myself.
Everyones reasons are different, figuring out yours is the hardest part.
Looking back my anxiety was there, I just didn't know the how bad it could get, and then it crosses that invisible line, which is different for everyone, where your body turns on you and makes it worse.
learning so many go thru this, and researching was the best therapy for me.
I mean it took a long time for me to see what was going on. I had to do A LOT of research myself. Doctors don't always have the answers. Especially if you are not up front about all your sym. and how you feel. I tend to minimize things, " oh it's fine, tomorrow I'll be better" i can't count how many "tomorrows" I went thru, LOL....
it wasn't until it led to a horrible panic attack, and then taking meds on schedule as prescribed and all the most horrible sym. went away, that i realized it was all my mind playing horrible tricks w/ me. I wasn't going to die from some horrible undiagnosed thing ( both my parents did, so that was a BIG factor for me being in denial about my GAD)
I am A LOT better now. I have just started to accept that I have GAD, I may always now, or maybe not. it was figuring out what CAUSED it that helped the most for me. Life got a little too crazy, too many lemons, actually the whole damn lemon grove sprouted in my yard over the past few years, lol.
But knowing why and what I have to do to change what I can, learning to deal w/ what I can't, was the best medicine of all.
I no longer freak out over small things to where it just builds and builds to the point where meds are the only source of relief.
I do still use them, some days more than others, but I know once I can get my house back to a home, my life back to some order, I'll feel even better.
And that asking for some help is OK....I don't have to do it all myself.
Everyones reasons are different, figuring out yours is the hardest part.
Looking back my anxiety was there, I just didn't know the how bad it could get, and then it crosses that invisible line, which is different for everyone, where your body turns on you and makes it worse.
learning so many go thru this, and researching was the best therapy for me.
Hey there...
I know it prolly seems like light years away till your appt...but it will get here before you know it. That's the best thing you could do...and once you have that appt...you can start on a treatment plan that will get you back to "you". Just remember it may take some time.
I wish there was more I could say to make you feel better. Other than the fact that we're all in the same boat and are here for you...just hang in there till Wed....you're on the right track.
Take Care!
I know it prolly seems like light years away till your appt...but it will get here before you know it. That's the best thing you could do...and once you have that appt...you can start on a treatment plan that will get you back to "you". Just remember it may take some time.
I wish there was more I could say to make you feel better. Other than the fact that we're all in the same boat and are here for you...just hang in there till Wed....you're on the right track.
Take Care!
Sorry, I thought you were taking Celexa, not Lexapro. If you're not happy with how you're feeling on the Lexapro, definitely speak to your prescribing Dr. You may be right - I didn't feel "right" on many AD's (Lexapro included).
I hope you feel better soon...
I hope you feel better soon...
I am taking lexapro right now but i am wondering if lexapro is stopping me from coming back for some odd reason. My hands feel really weird and i am typing differently then i used to. I try to give myself headrushes by getting up fast but it doesnt work or do anything. I know once this feeling is gone then it will be gone for good but until then i dunno. I have looked up derealization and depersonalization and i dont think they describe my symptoms. I am regretting ever smoking weed or getting drunk.
I know that you are scared that this feeling is permanent, but don't worry...it won't be. You need something to break this anxiety cycle that you're stuck in. The pot definitely triggered something - and like Nurrseg. said, it could have been treated with something.
I suggest that you do everything that you can to relax yourself. You might want to ask your Dr. for something to help with the anxiety temporarily - until the Celexa kicks in. I'm not really sure that an antidepressant is warranted, as it seems like an anxiolytic agent is more appropriate.
Your situation is one of the major reasons that I am so against recreational drug usage. No one really knows what is in the drugs that you're recreating with - people treat pot, hash, coke, you name it - with all kinds of ****. It is truly a **** shoot...and when you end up feeling like you do know, it is NOT WORTH IT!! Your brain is far too precious as well as your peace of mind..
I think you're going to feel better once you get the anxiety cycle settled. You also might try some deep breathing relaxation techniques, and consider getting some valerian root tea to drink in the evenings to relax yourself. Also, one glass of wine might help, too...but just one glass.
This is just my li'l opinion, however...
I suggest that you do everything that you can to relax yourself. You might want to ask your Dr. for something to help with the anxiety temporarily - until the Celexa kicks in. I'm not really sure that an antidepressant is warranted, as it seems like an anxiolytic agent is more appropriate.
Your situation is one of the major reasons that I am so against recreational drug usage. No one really knows what is in the drugs that you're recreating with - people treat pot, hash, coke, you name it - with all kinds of ****. It is truly a **** shoot...and when you end up feeling like you do know, it is NOT WORTH IT!! Your brain is far too precious as well as your peace of mind..
I think you're going to feel better once you get the anxiety cycle settled. You also might try some deep breathing relaxation techniques, and consider getting some valerian root tea to drink in the evenings to relax yourself. Also, one glass of wine might help, too...but just one glass.
This is just my li'l opinion, however...
"also i have hard time paying attention for long and my right arm feels really weird. Also i have headpressure right now on the crown of my head"
These are all classic signs of an anxiety attack coming on, at least for me and many others I've read about. I'm guessing that since you never had anxiety before you wouldn't have anything to take for immediate relief of a severe anxiety attack?
ps....thank you for the compliment nursegirl ; )
These are all classic signs of an anxiety attack coming on, at least for me and many others I've read about. I'm guessing that since you never had anxiety before you wouldn't have anything to take for immediate relief of a severe anxiety attack?
ps....thank you for the compliment nursegirl ; )
To ME it sounds like you are suffering with a little bit of depersonalization and derealization. If you search this forum...you will find info on them. It is one of the more irritating effects of anxiety/depression.
Depersonalization is when you feel like you aren't yourself...you feel funny....or that those around you are just well...odd in a way you aren't used to. Derealization is when the whole world around you "looks" funny....as though you are disconnected from things...or seeing like you would when you watch a movie instead of thru your own eyes.
Do some reading on it...it's just a shot in the dark....but to me...it sounds very similar. Especially if the eye doc gave you the a-ok. When I first had these...no kidding...I went to TONS of different eye docs...I was convinced there was something wrong with my eyes.
I know you may not have had a lot of history of anxiety...but sometimes these things creep up on you...I think the pot incident was the trigger.
Good luck....let us know what's going on. Look up those two terms, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
Depersonalization is when you feel like you aren't yourself...you feel funny....or that those around you are just well...odd in a way you aren't used to. Derealization is when the whole world around you "looks" funny....as though you are disconnected from things...or seeing like you would when you watch a movie instead of thru your own eyes.
Do some reading on it...it's just a shot in the dark....but to me...it sounds very similar. Especially if the eye doc gave you the a-ok. When I first had these...no kidding...I went to TONS of different eye docs...I was convinced there was something wrong with my eyes.
I know you may not have had a lot of history of anxiety...but sometimes these things creep up on you...I think the pot incident was the trigger.
Good luck....let us know what's going on. Look up those two terms, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
This is very much mental as well as my eye sight though. It seems like im stuck in the last stage of the marijuana high and just about to comeback over the edge but for some reason im stuck. When i talk i sound funny to myself, also i have hard time paying attention for long and my right arm feels really weird. Also i have headpressure right now on the crown of my head that seems to die off when i try not to think about it but the eye sight is still there. I also went to the eye doctor and had an eye exam and everything was fine all except he told me my focus from far to near or near to far takes me a sec to adjust. Im sure that is because of this though.
OH....well.....hmmmm.
Maybe you did have anxiety before and never realized it? I mean, it took me 3 years to realize after much research that I now have general anxiety, never had it before that either. Could take on the world no problem. But, mine was mainly caused by too much stress, caretaker to family members, deaths in the family and finally a really bad health scare... and letting it go too long which made it much worse. Even a very small event which you may not think was traumatic can bring on an episode of anxiety. Doesn't mean you'll ALWAYS then have it, just for a bit.
I had many, many physical symptoms that I would have NEVER in a million years linked to anxiety. I thought it was all physical things wrong w/ me, bad back, getting sick all the time (never did before),muscle aches & pains etc.. I just let it go thinking these things as just physical and I'm getting older, until I had an all out panic attack that brought me to the ER. After being put on medication, ALL those symptoms were gone....I was dumbfounded.
I had a very BAD reaction to a medication I was on a couple of years ago, ended up in the ER w/ my electrolytes in the tank. ER doc telling me he didn't know if I would be walking out of there it was so low. After that I was a complete mess for awhile, afraid of even an aspirin, lost all faith in doctors. I WAS already having some anxiety due to family situations and life in general, but that was normal stress stuff i thought, that incident sent it all skyrocketing. Before that happened i could handle anything. After, if I took or ate something and I felt a bit funny or whatever....forget it..I was dying. It may not have even been associated with the med I took, food i ate... just some silly thing.....a cramp here, tingling there. whatever.
So basically I'm just saying that MAYBE your reaction to what you were doing wasn't the normal reaction you were used to and now your mind is on high alert sort of creating more anxiety. We all have some anxiety and stress in our lives but 1 small little thing at just the wrong time can send it into an anxiety that can't be just shaken off and handled by our own body like it used to be.
Especially these days where on TV, in the papers & on the news people are dying left and right from overdoses, etc. not because they were abusing anything either, just mixing the wrong meds prescribed to them. You may see it & it doesn't really affect you, but it's there in the back of your mind. So then you get this reaction and well maybe it brought on some anxiety that you just couldn't shrug off. Thats all. It happens. I mean you were cleared medically right? So, it just sounds to me like you didn't have the normal reaction and now your mind is on high alert and constantly wondering WHY? and recreating these symptoms.
Believe me, I too thought it was like a light switch, one day i was fine, the next a mess. But looking back over it, learning more about anxiety and all the symptoms, triggers, reasons.... it had been building for quite awhile and that 1 incident spun me 180 degrees from who I was. I had a couple of health scares in the past, but it was no big thing then. I got better, done. When this one happened it couldn't have been worse timing.
Well, enough of me babeling on and on. I hope you feel better soon. Maybe get another doc's opinion? That could help a lot too.
Take care ; )
Maybe you did have anxiety before and never realized it? I mean, it took me 3 years to realize after much research that I now have general anxiety, never had it before that either. Could take on the world no problem. But, mine was mainly caused by too much stress, caretaker to family members, deaths in the family and finally a really bad health scare... and letting it go too long which made it much worse. Even a very small event which you may not think was traumatic can bring on an episode of anxiety. Doesn't mean you'll ALWAYS then have it, just for a bit.
I had many, many physical symptoms that I would have NEVER in a million years linked to anxiety. I thought it was all physical things wrong w/ me, bad back, getting sick all the time (never did before),muscle aches & pains etc.. I just let it go thinking these things as just physical and I'm getting older, until I had an all out panic attack that brought me to the ER. After being put on medication, ALL those symptoms were gone....I was dumbfounded.
I had a very BAD reaction to a medication I was on a couple of years ago, ended up in the ER w/ my electrolytes in the tank. ER doc telling me he didn't know if I would be walking out of there it was so low. After that I was a complete mess for awhile, afraid of even an aspirin, lost all faith in doctors. I WAS already having some anxiety due to family situations and life in general, but that was normal stress stuff i thought, that incident sent it all skyrocketing. Before that happened i could handle anything. After, if I took or ate something and I felt a bit funny or whatever....forget it..I was dying. It may not have even been associated with the med I took, food i ate... just some silly thing.....a cramp here, tingling there. whatever.
So basically I'm just saying that MAYBE your reaction to what you were doing wasn't the normal reaction you were used to and now your mind is on high alert sort of creating more anxiety. We all have some anxiety and stress in our lives but 1 small little thing at just the wrong time can send it into an anxiety that can't be just shaken off and handled by our own body like it used to be.
Especially these days where on TV, in the papers & on the news people are dying left and right from overdoses, etc. not because they were abusing anything either, just mixing the wrong meds prescribed to them. You may see it & it doesn't really affect you, but it's there in the back of your mind. So then you get this reaction and well maybe it brought on some anxiety that you just couldn't shrug off. Thats all. It happens. I mean you were cleared medically right? So, it just sounds to me like you didn't have the normal reaction and now your mind is on high alert and constantly wondering WHY? and recreating these symptoms.
Believe me, I too thought it was like a light switch, one day i was fine, the next a mess. But looking back over it, learning more about anxiety and all the symptoms, triggers, reasons.... it had been building for quite awhile and that 1 incident spun me 180 degrees from who I was. I had a couple of health scares in the past, but it was no big thing then. I got better, done. When this one happened it couldn't have been worse timing.
Well, enough of me babeling on and on. I hope you feel better soon. Maybe get another doc's opinion? That could help a lot too.
Take care ; )
Babalu said it perfectly. I agree completely.
What most likely happened is for some reason...the weed/alcohol combo didnt sit well with you...and as a result...you started feeling "odd", and naturally...b/c you had just indulged...you attributed the sensations as being related to that...and you started the anxiety cycle in motion. Even if you've never had anxiety in the past...sometimes is creeps up on you...or you have a trigger, like you describe...and the anxiety starts appearing.
Your symptoms sound like classic anxiety, IMO. Just know that while what you did isn't the BEST thing in the world....that one time isn't going to cause you any physical or medical issues or harm. It's been out of your system for a LONG time. PLUS, you've gotten the thumbs up from your doc (which was a wise thing to do, IMO)...so you kow that physically you're okay.
The pot you smoked could have been laced with something (unbeknownst to you)...or a "bad batch".....and that caused you some unpleasant side effects that next day...which sent you off worrying.
Give the Lexapro a chance. Like kristine9190 said...those types of meds can take anywhere from 2-4 (even longer) weeks to really start making a difference. Some people feel slight improvements sooner, some take longer. Just be patient and give it a try. Also, TRY to break the anxiety cycle NOW before it starts increasing....tell yourself that it was a one-time, isolated incident, that it didn't harm you...and you will be just fine. It's basically your mind playing tricks on you (nice, huh?) LOL
You WILL be just fine, btw...it just may take some time, but as the anxiety starts to gradually diminish, so will these sensations.
Good luck!
What most likely happened is for some reason...the weed/alcohol combo didnt sit well with you...and as a result...you started feeling "odd", and naturally...b/c you had just indulged...you attributed the sensations as being related to that...and you started the anxiety cycle in motion. Even if you've never had anxiety in the past...sometimes is creeps up on you...or you have a trigger, like you describe...and the anxiety starts appearing.
Your symptoms sound like classic anxiety, IMO. Just know that while what you did isn't the BEST thing in the world....that one time isn't going to cause you any physical or medical issues or harm. It's been out of your system for a LONG time. PLUS, you've gotten the thumbs up from your doc (which was a wise thing to do, IMO)...so you kow that physically you're okay.
The pot you smoked could have been laced with something (unbeknownst to you)...or a "bad batch".....and that caused you some unpleasant side effects that next day...which sent you off worrying.
Give the Lexapro a chance. Like kristine9190 said...those types of meds can take anywhere from 2-4 (even longer) weeks to really start making a difference. Some people feel slight improvements sooner, some take longer. Just be patient and give it a try. Also, TRY to break the anxiety cycle NOW before it starts increasing....tell yourself that it was a one-time, isolated incident, that it didn't harm you...and you will be just fine. It's basically your mind playing tricks on you (nice, huh?) LOL
You WILL be just fine, btw...it just may take some time, but as the anxiety starts to gradually diminish, so will these sensations.
Good luck!
Weed can cause some serious paranoia, make your anxiety much worse. I don't indulge myself, but know some who do. You drank more than usual, smoked some resin which is much more potent than the regular stuff. So you felt it's effects much more....this sounds like it led you to some anxiety/paranoia about maybe overdoing it.."oh ****, I screwed up and I won't ever feel the same!!"....from there your anxiety justs feeds off itself and the paranoia, sending you thru the roof with racing thoughts about your state of health etc... And the symptoms you had, you keep thinking about which will lead your mind to creating them to where you are very much physically feeling them, usually much worse than they really were.
The mind is a very powerful thing, think of something long enough, keep telling yourself you have these symptoms over and over, and your body will be more than happy to oblige and you WILL have them.
That amount of alcohol and weed isn't very much in general ( unless your mixing meds/pills in there too) But for YOU it was and it sounds like it has gotten the better of you and has now put you on that wonderful rollercoaster of anxiety.
I hope you feel better soon....just take some deep breaths and try to realize whats happening is most probably all in your mind ; )
The mind is a very powerful thing, think of something long enough, keep telling yourself you have these symptoms over and over, and your body will be more than happy to oblige and you WILL have them.
That amount of alcohol and weed isn't very much in general ( unless your mixing meds/pills in there too) But for YOU it was and it sounds like it has gotten the better of you and has now put you on that wonderful rollercoaster of anxiety.
I hope you feel better soon....just take some deep breaths and try to realize whats happening is most probably all in your mind ; )
I am not sure about lasting effects from Marijuana, but I have been on Lexapro, it can take up to 4-6 weeks for the results, if you just started taking it Thursday, it won't help quite yet, hopefully you will start to feel relief within a couple of weeks, but the full effect usually takes longer.
Best of Luck to you!
Best of Luck to you!
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