some lessons are harsher than others...Welcome back! Glad you've recovered and learned your lesson!
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boys, i aint feeling good
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moose eater
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YOU'RE GROUNDED!!!!!folks, i'm sorry to have to confirm that i did indeed survive. as moose eater surmised correctly, i do indeed suffer from a congenital heart problem as well as high blood pressure. it is one which stopped my burgeoning love affair with Peruvian Marching Powder and biker-brewed "hog" meth years ago. the other night, i smoked what i thought was a bowl of weed with a "bit" of what is called "wax" here in it. tastes great, wonderful buzz. ...in small quantities. apparently, in large quantities, it sends my heart racing in several directions at once. my hands and arms tingled, then went numb soon after i typed out my original post on here. damn near blacked out trying to climb the steps to bathroom and medicine cabinet. i tripled up on my blood pressure medication and added three 300 mg aspirins. wife was already in bed, kids asleep, and i was too stubborn (stupid?) to call ambulance. i have ridden out a couple of bad blood pressure/heart rate incidents before, and thought i could pull through on my own again. which i did (although it was an hours long journey) through dumb luck and the grace of God. have not partaken since, and plan on not smoking any more concentrates from here on out. once bitten, twice shy... bless you folks, all of you!
can i go fishing in the morning?
moose eater
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Glad you're back.. Still grounded. No more wax for a week, and then only under parental supervision.some lessons are harsher than others...
moose eater
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Maybe, but only with friends we've met and approve of. And we'll need to speak with their parents first.
Well, Go easy man.physically, i am feeling better. mentally.....now i am somewhat ...let's go with "frightened", as it was not anything like what i have experienced whilst smoking cannabis before. it is probably much like what one would feel when a life-long friend, or your beloved dog, attacked you unexpectedly.WTF??? how do you trust again ?
Sounds like you got a pretty stern warning.
no more wax for me EVER! if/when i partake of the lovely weed again, it's gonna be plain ol' marijuana... a man's gotta know his limits, you know. still searching for 'shrooms. i'm afraid that i need a mental reboot and a deep discussion with my inner child about my mortality.
I'm going to sprout some spores just for the occasion!
Stand by... they're about two months out...
Stand by... they're about two months out...
most (still got two) of my friends are already dead, and all of their parents are. i hunt and fish alone with the memories of my big brother and the nearly 60 years we had together in the woods and on the river banks. my dad shows up time to time, mostly with simple words of wisdom like "i wouldn't do that if i was you..." i still take his advice. well, most of the time...
moose eater
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When I was making my own THC extract and CBD extract, there was something in the CBD, presumably in the 'clean and tested hemp' I was using for extraction (from an outlet I won't name, but from which I ended up trashing several lbs. of their CBD hemp product).
I was having hyperventilation, racing heart rate, and other symptoms, panic attacks, and more, from the commercially produced and purchased CBD, -not- from the THC extract made from my own self-grown product, or from the THC-A I also made from my own product later.
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I asked them on the phone if they were using any of a specific list of herbicides, insecticides, etc. etc., that I had researched, and all they'd say was that testing results were available online.
I haven't used any of their bullshit since. No more heart issues from my fairly potent strains of homegrown either.
But as I noted earlier, there is a small group of folks who can experience the racing heart/palpitations rom THC, sometimes even just slight amounts.
And metabolic resistances or capacities can change over time, sometimes fairly quickly.. Depends sometimes on what your body's dealing with at the moment.
Another contributing factor to the racing heart can be a lack of proper amounts of potassium in your diet/supplements. The body is supposedly needing between 3500 and 4500 mg of potassium per day.
When my heart rate was going off the rails a couple years ago, it was after a self-imposed starvation diet relative to the cancer diagnosis, and I'd crawled under the blankies, hiding from life for a couple months, and eating maybe 200 calories or so a day.
As we get older, there are things or circumstances that we once might've survived with no issues, but now can cause amazing results; good, bad, or ugly. (IOW, inject some potassium into that fucking bacon, unless you're not able to absorb or ingest potassium for other health reasons). Seriously, at your next appt. ask to have your potassium levels assessed. Blood draw stuff, and I don't think it's that expensive, compared to the first-born and gallon of blood they require for other services these days.
Glad you're OK.
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I am glad that you re-surfaced @armedoldhippy . You had me worried after that last post . . . 
moose eater
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I made arrangements with my older son, who's going into the bush with me in a couple days, telling him what will need to be done if I croak in the mountains away from the roads, or become non-ambulatory from one issue or another. He's to contact his mother and younger brother via my satellite phone (which I'll coach him again on the use of) and arrange for his younger brother to bring down another snowmachine and another trailer, to head out to the cabins.
Told him if that comes to pass, to strap my carcass to the top of the giant fish box atop the custom-built barge-style freight sled. Sorta' like carting home a trophy deer on the truck's fender down in your 'hood..
Making arrangements for things that might be closer at this point in life than at earlier times, though mortality can set in whenever. Odds are just greater now.
I remember when your brother passed, and I advised you to go to the places you'd hunted with him at that time. It's a good thing to do in the right time.
I gotta' get packing.
moose eater
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YOU worried? scared the hell out of me!
funny though. twice in my life i was convinced i was dying, and neither of those scared me. once turkey hunting, once deer hunting. both times i was convinced it was the end. both times i crawled down off of the mountain to a logging road where my body could be easily found, and just rolled over so i could see the sky, it was beautiful. this time i was at home. fucking scary as hell... 
go figure.
Glad to see you recovered. At our age, you have to take a test drive before you race. I always take a small toke and see what the effects are. Any weed that carries a paranoia high will be noticeable just not a full blown panic attack.
I don't use concentrates. There to harsh on my lungs.,
I don't use concentrates. There to harsh on my lungs.,
i thought it was weed with a pinch of wax. it was a lump of wax about the size of my thumbnail with "just enough" pot to get things started. take a hit and the shit would burst into an open flame...tasted great! but...
comfy markoth
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I did a dab this morning and I was hacking and wheezing for a solid five minutes. It took me a while to catch my breath.
Concentrates aren't my usual realm.
But still... I'm not going to get rid of my bubble bags yet.
Concentrates aren't my usual realm.
But still... I'm not going to get rid of my bubble bags yet.
Yeah. I know that I would eventually set shit on fire messing with a dab rig and a torch so I steer clear. I have a vape for concentrates but it always ends up a sticky mess and I am coughing like crazy. Joints make me cough as well but I circumvent that with one hitters.
Bubble hash is my poison overall.
