blacked out?

[MMJcali]

So I've been smoking since I was 16; smoked heavily in college for two years, took a year break, moved to california @23 and am now a weekend/whenever I need to chill out toker.

Last night I was at a friends house, and he suggested we rip. I had drunk 3 beers and smoked some cigs, nothing out of the ordinary. He showed me a fluffy bud that had no visible crystals on it; not what I'm used to growing, so I assumed it was a sativa. I figured, how bad can it be?

so I took a big rip.

Five minutes later, I was sitting on a chair playing some cards. The room started spinning, and I became very introverted. (this all happened within a 60 second span). Next thing I know, I woke up on the floor, very movie-esque, with my friends standing over me freaking out. Apparently I blacked out, fell off the chair onto the floor without knowing it and smashed my head on the tile. my heads fine btw.

I couldnt move anything so they dragged me to the couch. 10 minutes later I was feeling fine again so I got up and got back on the card table.

all I'm wondering is...whatthefuck?????? I'm not a newbie, I'm not taking steroids, I dont do hard drugs (anymore)....

kinda embarrassing too, as a grower/fanatic, to feel like you may not be able to handle weed...

 

[Truthman]

I'm assuming you didn't eat a nice sized meal high in carbs because this sounds like the usual low blood sugar from cannabis. Being that you drank 3 beers, which also lower blood sugar, this is what I think happened.

Next time eat a nice sized meal with a good amount of carbohydrates around 1hr-1.5 hours before smoking and drinking to prevent this. If you don't have the time or whatever reason a quick trick is to take 250mg-500mg of vitamin C 15-30 min. before puffing along with some orange juice but your blood sugar will still eventually drop if you don't eat something and cause the high to drop or just not last long.

 

[Bionic]

Have your blood-pressure checked.

 

[MMJcali]

yea that could be it...I've been on a high protein/low carb diet for the past few weeks and am eating a healthy (but not robust) amount of calories a day

but this never happened to me when I smoked my weed...I literally lit up a bowl of PCK that morning before heading over

 

[walt cunningham]

that could happen to me if i take a break for a while, drink a few beers and take big rip of really good shit. that used to happen to me 15 years ago as well. it always involved drinking and then smoking. i just took a recent break for about a month and started back up. a few days into smoking(i was smoking 3-4 times a day) i had 2 beers. i drink quite a bit so that is nothing to me, and they were just stella's, so nothing crazy. I took an oil hit and man, it slammed me and made those 2 beers feel like 8.

 

[dankitydank]

Had this happen to me a few months ago, sent me to the neurologist all this shit.....told me I smoke too much weed, and dont eat well enough or exercise, my blood sugar and blood pressure are way too low...

 

[Truthman]

Yeah, sugar and fat is our bodies source of energy and to get nerves communicating properly and when you are low in these nutrients plus take things that use them up such as puffing herbs(the more potent the stronger the effect) and drinking alcohol your blood sugar will drop big time and cause problems.

 

[FRIENDinDEED]

that shit happened to me a long time ago, i think it was the combo of beer and weed and how fast i was putting it/them away OR it was the fact that the weed teh chick had was laced with something.

a freind of my (wife at the time) ex-wife and i were on the porch of the duplex we were renting, late at night, and i started opening up about all the shit i was going through, aftea couple of minutes of me talking/drinking/puffing she looks at me and goes " hey man, you'd better slow down" so im thinking what ever, this is something i do on occasion. one beer and one blunt? puh-lease, this is light weight shit.

next thing i know, i feel like im having a heart attack or some shit, cant move , had to slump down to the floor from the coach (lol, i remember that cause everyone saw my ass crack) went into my kids bed (ex-wife and i were on the "outs") and i remember feeling like some had literally nailed me to the bed at various points all over my body.

i ask my kids all the time if they remember that night and they say no, they were too young at the time anyway, but i remember they were scared, and i looked at them and said, "daddys ok, im just really tired is all", i told them to come and give me a hug, they did and that was it.

t'was truly a crazy night

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I call that a better than your average head rush. Black out is when you wake up the next day and don't remember any of the crazy shit you did the night before.

 

[Hammerhead]

very true this is common When I was younger everyone I know Head head rush out a time or 2. some real funny shit happens when you go down. One of my old buddies fell straight into one of those small plastic garbage cans and had it stuck to his face when we helped him up we where all LOFAO it was so funny.


You are basically losing O2 to the brain and out you go for a few 60-90 secs.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Probably momentary, low oxygen to the brain.

My old buddy was driving down the interstate in a rain storm. He hit a bong, had a massive head rush and veered across ~200 yards of grass median... into the oncoming lane. He came-to about 20 yards from the guard rail and asked where we were. I told him what happened and he veered back across the median and parked in the emergency lane. I couldn't believe his thoughts cleared that fast.

We were real lucky. The oncoming cars were never closer than a hundred yards or so.

 

[Truthman]

That may have been a headrush but in this instance and others the blackout or paranoia happens a few minutes after puffing so I doubt it's lack of oxygen in itself. Yes, you will lack oxygen but that's because things aren't flowing to the brain enough and the body has to be put to rest so most of the nutrients can go to the brain so it makes you "blackout".

 

[Yes4Prop215]

i had a friend in high school who would always black out and faint after smoking a blunt....

ive never blacked out or fainted from weed....but sometimes when i smoke way too much oil or hash i get a very unpleasant feeling in my chest and heart it feels like my blood pressure is rising or something...it lasts around 5-10 minutes then calms down usually...

 

[THCphd420]

I remember my first beer

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

i had a friend in high school who would always black out and faint after smoking a blunt....

I knew idiots in jr high who would squat and take 10 deep breaths, then stand and wobble. When that wasn't enough they'd do the same thing with a bong toke. Then another idiot would bear-squeeze em while they held their breath.

Some peeps are just idiots.

 

[MMJcali]

I remember my first beer

kinda off subject but ill roll with it; do u remember what it was? for me was my dads homebrew, 6years old...was some awesome bitter stuff, he'd grow his own hops in our backyard

I knew idiots in jr high who would squat and take 10 deep breaths, then stand and wobble. When that wasn't enough they'd do the same thing with a bong toke. Then another idiot would bear-squeeze em while they held their breath.

lmao what a way to get high. IMO head rush isn't that great; im a fan of relaxing and enjoying things. I get enough of a head rush from my work.

and holy shit man that must have freaked you out to be in the car while he was swerving! haha glad you came out alive

thx for all the responses. So I probably won't book that neurologist appointment tomorrow. Aside from the balanced diet, from now on I think I'll just keep a J of my own stuff with me just in case someone wants to smoke, that way im not taking a crap shoot with some super dank upper weed.

 

[redneck shogun]

Nice to know I am not the only one who faints from smoking after I have had a few drinks. As a rule I never mix the two now.

 

[h^2 O]

Yeah this shit happened to me in Amsterdam, I got up for the door and next thing I knew I was stretching and yawning like I had just woke up only to realize I had passed out for like 5 seconds. I took a few breaths and went for the door again...splat, out like a light again. Was because i was smoking so much and hadnt eaten in like 2 days.

 

[THCphd420]

kinda off subject but ill roll with it; do u remember what it was? for me was my dads homebrew, 6years old...was some awesome bitter stuff, he'd grow his own hops in our backyard

I meant it as a joke. when one of my buddys spills a beer or does something stupid while drinking we always say "i remember my first beer", or "your cut off" lol. My first beer was a coors light and i do in fact remember it... tasted like shit lol

 

[MMJcali]

I meant it as a joke. when one of my buddys spills a beer or does something stupid while drinking we always say "i remember my first beer", or "your cut off" lol. My first beer was a coors light and i do in fact remember it... tasted like shit lol

ah gotcha. hard to get that tone from the internets.

Yeah this shit happened to me in Amsterdam, I got up for the door and next thing I knew I was stretching and yawning like I had just woke up only to realize I had passed out for like 5 seconds. I took a few breaths and went for the door again...splat, out like a light again. Was because i was smoking so much and hadnt eaten in like 2 days.

sounds like it was a good time...or at least an awesome memory haha