So I am going through a lot right now. My anxiety has been out of control. I have been smoking pot for over 15 years and after a trip to the emergency room over 3 week ms ago,due to a severe panic attack, dehydration, I decided to quit because it was my only making my anxiety worse. I have been off of Paxil for over a year and in the past three weeks I have went to doctors, primary care physician,psychiatrist and they all said all my symptoms were anxiety related. Chest pressure,exhaustion, insomnia, social anxiety, but the newest one that has happend is burning and tingling sensation in my brain/head. Not like a fever but a weird burning feeing in my head/brain. Is this just severe anxiety or is something wrong with me? It really scares me and since I'm a bit of a hypochondriac my mind tends to go to the worse, Brain tumor,neurological something. I just need to know if anyone else has had this happen to them.
It's an anxiety thing. My brain has felt weird and I would get horrible headaches and pressure on one side. I was convinced it was a tumor. I got work done and it was clear. They diagnosed me with migraines, which anxiety can definitely cause. Could you be having withdrawals from the pot? I'm not sure since I don't smoke. But it's possible. I'm also a major hypochondriac, that's why I thought I had a brain tumor. It's so bad to the point where I had hiccups and I searched on Google for the reason and it said a brain tumor can cause them. I was so terrified.
My advice to you is to NOT Google symptoms. It will make your anxiety and symptoms worse
Thank you for your input. I got on this site for this exact reason knowing that I'm not alone makes me feel better. And yes there are defiantly withdrawals from pot. I have always had anxiety and I think the pot just covered a lot of it up, but I still always had it but just not this bad to where it's becoming a problem in my life. I own my own salon too so I have to hold it together for my job and I just want to few back to normal again. Whatever normal is, just not what I'm feeling right now.thank you very much. And I definalty need to stop thinking the worse case scenario bc when I get these weird symptoms I tend to think the worse and I hate it and hate feeling scared.
Hi Nat
u r definitley not on ur own. I suffer with this on a regular basis and a bad burning and tingling in my arms and legs. Dont worry about it. It may crop up from time to time but u w ill get used to it. I found i got worse before it got better. Now ive found when it happens i can just shake it off and it tends to only last a short while. Good luck with it. Things will get better
Si
Thank you! I think it just scares me because it's my head ya know. Makes me think it's something worse than what it is. And then once I start to feel that sensation in my head I start to scare mysef . It's a bad cycle when I scare myself I panic and then an attack happens. Ughhh so frustrating. I just started a low dose of lexapro 2 days ago so I know it will take time to get into my system. Hopefully it will hell bc right now I'm taking a small amount of Xanax everyday and I definalty don't want to become dependent on those. I'm trying to mediate, run, yoga, etc. healthy things but if I'm still feeling bad I'll take a Xanax. Just ready to feel better!
It's caused by adrenalin & other stress hormones, they affect every part of your body, don't worry your just feeding it
All the best
Thank you! Tryin to not let my anxiety control me! Just want to be clear headed. And feel better but I'm working on it!
Dude... For my story. I smoked pot for 5 years everyday and one day decided to do it at night with a few buddies. I smoked and went to bed and freaked out, worst panic attack ever (I actually at one point accepted death) I saw the bright light it was horrible. It made jumping off a skyscraper seem easy. After that I haven't touched pot again. I've never even had anxiety before then or after for that matter. But now, 1 year later I just got a job and am having trouble sleeping because of anxiety. It's brand new to me and it's sh*tty. Stay away from pot bro, trust me. A panic attack is thoughts racing a mile a minute and that's what pot naturally does to me
Exactly it used to be fun and never affect me like that but I stopped bc it made my anxiety worse. I Havnt smoked in a few weeks so just need to ride out the little withdrawals im having. After 15 years it definalty has messed with my anxiety so I'm off it. Thanks for your input!!
I'm 9 months late to this thread so I hope your anxiety issues have toned down a bit. I used to smoke pot in college and had this one experience like mitch34490 was talking about.
A friend pressed my neck above the thyroid glands claiming it would take THC less time to hit my brain. Man, what i felt then was a feeling of being an inch away from death and in that state I promised myself that I wasn't gonna touch it again. But then, you know the next time I forgot all about it. So for 6 years I smoked up continuosly for hours.
It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that my mental facilities are declining at a tremendous rate. So the symptoms that you mentioned here seem to fit my withdrawls symptoms too.
Although, apart from pot if you smoked too much cigarrettes, I've seen similar withdrawel symptoms in those friends who were chain smokers and tried to quit.
I hope that by now your anxiety is under control and you are living a healthy and happy life. I can tell you what I did for myself- I tried increasing my physical activity, especially I find swimming better than excercising and it really helps in curbing the anxiety. You can find your solace in any other sports that you enjoy.