[kms389]

My Story:

Back in february I went out with a few friends to celebrate the end of the work week. We drank, we smoked and we ate some pot baked goods, nothing too crazy. An hour or so into the night I froze. Mid sentence, I just dropped to my knees. Tunnel vision. Room spinning. Felt like I was falling backwards and had to keep tapping table tops to feel real. Sound going in and out. Sick to my stomach. Had to go to the emergency room and I don't remember much.

I was fine a few days later and up until April had no issues. But then one night at work the floor bottomed out again. My stomach sank. From there on out for the rest of the summer I dealt with these attacks of pure fear. Icy feeling running down my spine and veins, light headed, derealization, headaches, crying, terror, feeling as though I could fade out any second. I went on medications like Celexa, Ativan, Sumitriptan, Zoloft, and sleeping pills. I've been off everything for about a month now after an allergic reaction and overall feeling fed up with the Ativan fog, but I can't seem to shake the intense fear in my gut and derealization symptoms. People say panic attacks feel like heart attacks, but mine don't. Is it something else?

[Altered Moment]

Welcome to PC. As far as the first incident.....Have you used pot before that? The first few times can have some very bizarre and hallucinogenic effects. I remember vomiting quite a bit my first few times. The THC content is very high these days. Do you know the source of the pot and it was not some synthetic stuff? Synthetic can be very dangerous.

If it was just regular pot I don't see that having any long term effects as you describe in your second paragraph. Anxiety and panic attacks can have different symptoms for different people. I have gotten a lot of pretty bad anxiety but I never think I am having a heart attack like my buddy does.

If you were on meds was it from a psychiatrist? What did they think? Have you ever had any symptoms before this?

My symptoms tend to be very irrational fear, paranoia, digestive issues, some times a very weird excess energy up and down my spine, agitation. A sense of impending doom. Mine has been very well controlled with Klonopin but I don't get sedated or foggy from it.

Did the ativan take away the symptoms?

[kms389]

It's just weird because the people we got it from swore there was nothing in it and everyone else was fine. Ativan made me feel drunk after a while and I didn't want to be on it anymore. I'm not sure if my symptoms now are withdrawal or anxiety, for even if there were traces of PC it'd be out of my system by now right? I'm not a regular smoker, only once in a great while, even less with edibles. But I feel traumatized by that night