Help!!! I have anxiety from drinking an energy drink and smoking weed.

[tennisguy123]

Please someone help!!!

Hi forum, can someone please give me some advice of what i should do.

On 9/7/14 at 9pm i drank an energy drink (mother sugar free can 250ml) than at 9.30pm i smoked a small joint. Ten minutes later i felt my heart rushing and beating really fast causing me to have a panic attack for 3 minutes. It was so scary. I didn't know what to do. I called my friend and he came over and calmed me down in the garage. But i felt it coming up again as soon as i thought about the panic attack i just had. 30 minutes passed and i started feeling a little better. I slept at around 5.30am, woke up at 9.30am feeling ok, than as soon as i woke up i thought about what happened in my bed and i started to worry and get scared. My anxiety comes and goes and its happening all day. What do i do? Does this go away? Also i feel like my senses are not all there to fight away the anxiety, my perception is some what weird because of the aftereffect weed is giving me now. How long does the weed feeling i have now go away. I just wanna be functioning again properly. Somebody please help! Also im 22 and a 100kilos which is 220 pounds. When i woke up today i weighed 96.5kg which is 212 pounds because i was sweating when the panic attack happened and sweating a little when i have the anxiety today. Also my height is 6.1  which is 185cm tall. Hopefully i have detailed things properly. Also the fear that the panic attack has triggered me to never take marijuana again. Also i have taken Spirulina,Chlorella and bentonite clay all in powder form and some vitamin c for a detox and heaps of water.

So what do i do for the anxiety and the feeling of the weed giving me the after effect, i feel slow with everything happening in my mind.

[Newbie93]

Stop smoking weed then!  It's a classic symptom. If you don't enjoy being high, and it makes you feel like that then why smoke it?
I smoked it for 3 years and loved it. Then met someone I wanted to spend my life with so cut it out. Now I'm starting a family and don't regret it at all. There will always be a small part of me that wants to smoke some but lets face it - some peoples bodies don't react well. It takes months for it to leave your system so be prepared to suffer with anxiety for a while.

[tennisguy123]

Thx for that. Yeh ive defenately stopped.

[JayG803]

Hey dude,

Yeah wouldn't recommend energy drinks if you suffer from anxiety! The rush of caffeine probably gave you the fast heart rate then the pot made the psychological aspects kick in. Its quite common for stoners to think there having a heart attack without energy drinks! You probably feel abit weird as anxiety knackers your body! All that adrenaline pumping through your body will make you feel abit strange. Stay away from the energy drinks and pot for a few days, get a good nights sleep, and remember, you're fine. Anxiety has plagued me for years and its only recently that I've figured out what it was.

[JayG803]

By the way I wasn't calling you a stoner! lol

[tennisguy123]

Thx dude. The thing is i feel a bit scared and worried. I woke up 10minutes ago from my sleep and feel worried. Do you know how long this last for?

[jbtwentytwo]

How long have you been smoking pot? e.g. x times per day for x months.

[tennisguy123]

Hey buds just to let you know, i dont suffer from anxiety. The weed and energy drink brought it on me.

[tennisguy123]

last week i smoked it 4 times on four different days. And the wednesday that passed i smoked and had a reaction to it. I haven't smoked for at least 3 months prior to theses two weeks. Also every time i did it i was fine untill i took an energy drink before it. so in the last two weeks ive smoked 4times.

[DarraghB245]

Your story is identical to mine. Same thing happened to me 2 years ago and i was getting depersonalisation and derealization all the time without even smoking. Thankfully, after reading some books and doing some research i found ways of dealing with it. For me, when i felt edgy, i would close my eyes and think of something good(a hot girl or something) or just listen to some music :) after some time of doing this (a few months maybe) and just accepting it i felt completely normal again and no longer got depersonalisation or panic episodes.. a year and a half later i still feel perfect. You'll be fine in time but dont smoke again or you'll restart the whole process

[Paxiled]

First, you're not suffering a weedover.  You don't need to detox the weed out of your system, it isn't doing anything to you anymore.  What you're suffering from is what the two drugs -- the energy drink is a drug, too -- conditioned you to feel, which is the anxiety.  Marijuana is well known to bring out what's inside of us, and if that happens to be anxiety, that's what will come out.  The energy drink intensified it and made it last longer.  When marijuana is good, it's fun, and when it goes bad, it's time to stop, but you've conditioned yourself to thinking in an anxious fashion.  I would get into therapy quickly, probably CBT, but definitely with someone who specializes in anxiety and can teach you relaxation techniques such as breathing exercises, meditation, and the like.  Think of it as sort of like PTSD -- you had a bad experience and your brain is holding on to it.  You need to see if you can learn to let go.  Good luck.

[IPreferToRemainAnonymous2017]

I recently experienced almost exactly the same thing, I smoke almost every night to help me sleep and help withhh my anxiety. It usually does the trick, I wasn't able to sleep the past couple nights and had to stay awake yesterday so I drank a red Bull and rockstar. When I got home I couldn't fall asleep yet again but was so tired but body was hurting. So I smoked weed to help. I immediately felt like what I imagined a heart attack would feel like. My chest my felt swollen and ached and I could feel my heart racing. It became difficult to breathe and I began shaking. I stood up to get some water but once I stood up I felt in full affect of my anxiety. I tried to distract myself by playing some cartoons, reminding myself I'm a 20 year old female. We don't have heart attacks that early. Then I thought about what would happen if something happened. How would anyone know since I live alone? And it freaked me out so much, I tried going outside to calm myself down but then I lost my shoes. Needless to say, it was a very uncomfortable night and I finally crashed once I sobered up from about 11pm to 300pm. Now I'm googling wtf happened.