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HEADS UP: Talk/Mention of marijuana (edibles)!
Hello everyone ^^ I wanted to introduce myself and ask for yalls input on my situation. I'm a 28 year old female living in Georgia with my husband and our two dogs. Regarding my mental health, I've been diagnosed with bipolar 2, generalized anxiety disorder, C-PTSD, and insomnia/hypersomnia. I'm seeing mental health on a regular basis and on medication for my health conditions, as well as getting help for some physical health problems I have going on.
Back in March of this year, I realized I was out of my normal sleep medication (unisom) and decided to take some of the gummy edibles I had since they normally made me sleepy. I did skip my psych meds that night to avoid interactions with mixing them (I know this was a huge mistake, my doctors have already lectured me on this). I had eaten 4 gummies (normal amount for me) around 5pm and took another 4 at 11pm just before bed, thinking that the ones from 5pm were wearing off and out of my system. I had about enough time to lay down in bed before my entire body went numb. I remember being extremely scared because I couldn't feel myself breathing. I didn't know if I was breathing or suffocating, so I started trying to take deep breaths, but since I couldn't feel anything, I didn't know if it was working. Cue panic as I start thinking this was a crap way to go and what would happen to my husband and dogs.
My husband said I was thrashing around as if in a bad dream, telling him I couldn't breath and that I was scared. I'd curl into the fetal position for a second or two, then arch my back like I was trying to bend backwards, just... repeating this behavior until the ambulance arrived. This is where things got really weird? Not that what had just happened wasn't weird enough, but I was blacked out during all of that.
I remember feeling like I was in a black... void? There was something like a movie screen on and it was like I was viewing things in first person, but couldn't do anything other than watch and listen. I was asking a nurse what the date and time was, but she wasn't responding. At one point she asked me if I was ok and I responded, "Oh, she's fine. She can see and hear, just can't talk." then the movie screen turned off.
It came back on when I was in the emergency room bed with my husband sitting next to me. For a little bit, it was like the movie was muted. I could see but couldn't hear anything. My husband said he asked if I was alright but that I'd turned away from him to have an argument with myself, going back and forth out loud. At one point, I turned to him and said, "Damn, she's gotten fat since last time." My husband asked what I meant but said I turned away from him to resume the argument. A few minutes later I looked back at him and said, "Jeez, and she's bad with money too." He asked what I meant, but said I didn't respond. For all of this I could see, but couldn't hear a thing. Everything was still in first person though.
About that time the doctor came in with discharge paperwork and said they were diagnosing me with "altered mental state" since the tests they'd ran all came back normal except for the edibles in my system. I remember the movie screen turning off and watching someone walking away from me, unable to make out any features except short hair, before they left through an open door. After that, I was back in control and didn't feel like I was just watching a movie. I felt extremely tired and sluggish, words were hard to form. My husband gathered up the discharge papers and helped me out to our truck to head home. I remember the sun was already up and the time was nearly 8am.
I talked to my regular medical team about this and they said that it seemed like a very bad delirium or depersonalization episode, but they couldn't say for sure.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I know everyone is different and experiences things in their own way, but I was hoping maybe someone had some advice or information to offer about this whole thing. March was the last time I had edibles, alcohol and weed now on my "never again" list. I haven't had anything like this happen since, but family members & friends said it might have been a "green out", while others say that it was pure coincidence for this to have happened the same night I had some edibles.
Thank you in advance for reading this and any comments you can offer.
Hello everyone ^^ I wanted to introduce myself and ask for yalls input on my situation. I'm a 28 year old female living in Georgia with my husband and our two dogs. Regarding my mental health, I've been diagnosed with bipolar 2, generalized anxiety disorder, C-PTSD, and insomnia/hypersomnia. I'm seeing mental health on a regular basis and on medication for my health conditions, as well as getting help for some physical health problems I have going on.
Back in March of this year, I realized I was out of my normal sleep medication (unisom) and decided to take some of the gummy edibles I had since they normally made me sleepy. I did skip my psych meds that night to avoid interactions with mixing them (I know this was a huge mistake, my doctors have already lectured me on this). I had eaten 4 gummies (normal amount for me) around 5pm and took another 4 at 11pm just before bed, thinking that the ones from 5pm were wearing off and out of my system. I had about enough time to lay down in bed before my entire body went numb. I remember being extremely scared because I couldn't feel myself breathing. I didn't know if I was breathing or suffocating, so I started trying to take deep breaths, but since I couldn't feel anything, I didn't know if it was working. Cue panic as I start thinking this was a crap way to go and what would happen to my husband and dogs.
My husband said I was thrashing around as if in a bad dream, telling him I couldn't breath and that I was scared. I'd curl into the fetal position for a second or two, then arch my back like I was trying to bend backwards, just... repeating this behavior until the ambulance arrived. This is where things got really weird? Not that what had just happened wasn't weird enough, but I was blacked out during all of that.
I remember feeling like I was in a black... void? There was something like a movie screen on and it was like I was viewing things in first person, but couldn't do anything other than watch and listen. I was asking a nurse what the date and time was, but she wasn't responding. At one point she asked me if I was ok and I responded, "Oh, she's fine. She can see and hear, just can't talk." then the movie screen turned off.
It came back on when I was in the emergency room bed with my husband sitting next to me. For a little bit, it was like the movie was muted. I could see but couldn't hear anything. My husband said he asked if I was alright but that I'd turned away from him to have an argument with myself, going back and forth out loud. At one point, I turned to him and said, "Damn, she's gotten fat since last time." My husband asked what I meant but said I turned away from him to resume the argument. A few minutes later I looked back at him and said, "Jeez, and she's bad with money too." He asked what I meant, but said I didn't respond. For all of this I could see, but couldn't hear a thing. Everything was still in first person though.
About that time the doctor came in with discharge paperwork and said they were diagnosing me with "altered mental state" since the tests they'd ran all came back normal except for the edibles in my system. I remember the movie screen turning off and watching someone walking away from me, unable to make out any features except short hair, before they left through an open door. After that, I was back in control and didn't feel like I was just watching a movie. I felt extremely tired and sluggish, words were hard to form. My husband gathered up the discharge papers and helped me out to our truck to head home. I remember the sun was already up and the time was nearly 8am.
I talked to my regular medical team about this and they said that it seemed like a very bad delirium or depersonalization episode, but they couldn't say for sure.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I know everyone is different and experiences things in their own way, but I was hoping maybe someone had some advice or information to offer about this whole thing. March was the last time I had edibles, alcohol and weed now on my "never again" list. I haven't had anything like this happen since, but family members & friends said it might have been a "green out", while others say that it was pure coincidence for this to have happened the same night I had some edibles.
Thank you in advance for reading this and any comments you can offer.
