THC plus Celexa

[Peteyweteytweetie]

From time to time, I enjoy smoking some pot.  I've been on 20mg of Celexa for the past week, and recently switched from Paxil, due to sexual dysfunction (which has been continuing, but to a lesser degree, so I'll deal with that for now).  Could the marijuana be causing the sexual dysfuction?  Could it be the combination?
  The other day I smoked pot and had a very strange reaction.  My entire body felt like pins and needles, my heart was speeding, and I felt as though I was put into slow motion while the rest of the world was at a regular pace.  I have not spoken to a psychiatrist yet, but I spoke to a physician and a psychologist.  The physician suggested that the marijuana might have been laced.  The psychologist told me that I experienced the "textbook definition" of a panic attack.  He said that combining THC with the Celexa will cause extreme anxiety and progressively worse panic attacks in the future.
  Since I seem to always get multiple different answers from MY doctors on these matters, I decided it was time to ask an outside objective professional for the general lowdown.
   Thank you!
                          ---Peter---

[Nebula]

Do you live somewhere like Hawaii?  Marajuana or pot (schwagg) is laced everywhere in the Midwest, where I live.
I've only ran across good, un-laced nugs when I had a hippy connection with Kind Buds (Blueberry Nugs).
  Mostly all the circulating pot is LACED and will screw you up if you smoke it. Unless you are growing it yourself so you know its not laced? If you think otherwise, why don't you have it analyzed in a lab.
  I smoked schwagg when I started on a SSRI, Paxil (in the same catagory as Celexa) and it made me freak out with paranoia and anxiety.  Not the effect marajuana should have.
  I've come to the conclusion from experience that if you mix "street drugs" with prescriptions like anti-depressants, you'll probably be nuts eventually.  Maybe not permanently Nuts, but Nuts for a good while. Plus, you'll end up sleeping way too much, be unproductive and a LOW LIFE person.  This comes from years of experience with drugs and meds - so listen up!!!
  I don't think marajuana causes sexual dysfunction, since I smoked tons when I was on Wellbutrin and did great. But I've heard Wellbutrin can act as an aphrodisiac.
   Finally, marajuana is sooo unhealthy for a person to smoke.  It ruins lung tissue and causes cancer.  Hippies are correct when they eat it instead - not that I'm a total advocate of it, but come on - its better than alcohol and the plant could save our environment.  Ramble on Rose.

[manwithjunk]

I have smoked pot for about 15 years....I can still barely beleive the effect(good) it has on me..........I have never been diagnosed with anything but I am ver anxious,loud, and naturaully hyper person....there is nothing EVER I have compared to smoking and I am so much calmer................I often think INSTEAD of these drugs taken by the MG with side effects like sexual disorder(which no one wants) people would enjoy a waterpipe or joint......................speaking of which.....

Manwithjunk

[beanagator]

I find if I am having a **** time in my life or feeling really stressed out, smoking up sometimes makes me anxious, and even brings on panic attacks.  I know that I just have to smoke when I am feeling good, and not overdo it.  I have had the sexual dysfunction bit with Paxil, just not wanting to do it and not really caring about it.  I have found that smoking pot when I am just starting back on my meds, or decreasing them aslso brings on weird feelings, so i just look at the whole combination, and make my decision from there. (usually I will still have a smoke!)  It's good to talk to people about the "taboo" subject or extracurricular drugs and find out other people's experiences and thoughts.

[Smoker]

As to the anxiety bit (sorry i forgot to post on the first) :D.  Pot does cause the heart rate to increase a bit, so maybe you might have had a bad reaction by smoking right after you took your medication.  Also there are factors.  Had you not smoked in a few days?  Had you JUST started taking the meds?  Where were you when this happened?  Evaluate your situation and you will probably come up with an answer.  I highly doubt that a mixture of pot and celexa would cause such a disturbance (although watch out for the sexual dissfunction bit still   little advice)

[Smoker]

As to your qusestion.  My doc also had me on 20 milligrams of celexa and I also smoke pot.  i have been smoking pot for quite some time now and have only been taking celexa for a short while.  I stoped taking celexa actually because of sexual dissfunction.  I can tell you that your pot was not laced.  That is **** your doctors will tell you to get you to not smoke or  because they are ignorant in those matters (yes YOU ARE).  Cocaine might get laced.  Pot dosent get laced unless you live in a f**ked up place.  I have been to rehab (not for pot mind you) and paxil as well as others have cause sexual problems in people i know.  Hope that helps you a bit.

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

The one thing you can count on is both drugs significantly effect your brain chemistry, and both effect some to the same systems. It is inadvisable to take both for just the reason you have already experienced. You should choose one or the other..it is dangerous to experiment...in this case you already have had a good warning.