a mistake with edibles--then more lyme symptoms??

I think it was a reaction to the Pot, honestly. Gosh, are you ok now?? so sorry!! I think we are all unfortunately far more sensitive than the avg. person. This is a reason why I am so afraid to try it. I am not interested anyway, but the hubby has bugged me several times. Just not my thing. I don't want to take the chance of having a reaction like this. This is just my opinion though, wondering what others think?

I would feel that way after eating half of a brownie of any kind, just from the sugar and caffeine! No joke. You say you are 98% recovered from Lyme, so you probably are much less sensitive than I am, but that's the first place my mind went. Man, I miss brownies.

Do you know your friend's source for the cannabis? I've always worried about weed containing fillers or being laced with other drugs. If it's a reliable source, though, then I guess my next question is do you normally react this way to weed, assuming you've had it before? People are more likely to react that way to a stimulating sativa strain than a sedating indica strain, so in the future maybe opt for the indica strains if you want to try it again.

Your experience does sound frightening. I definitely understand feeling scared and disoriented by your body feeling unusual. How long have you been feeling better? Has your system been taxed recently, like by stress or a virus, in a way that might be opening the door to a relapse? Have your symptoms improved since the ER visit?

I'm a proponent of cannabis as medicine, but of course I agree with previous posters about everyone's body working differently. I live somewhere with numerous legal cannabis shops with every imaginable strain and form, and I've read a ton about the endocannabinoid system and medicinal use of cannabis, but I still have not used anything other than CBD because I worry that any twinge of strangeness will send me into a panic and I'll end up in the ER, too. I spend every day trying so hard to be present in my body and to feel like it's is predictable and comfortable, and I know that feeling unusual sensations - even sensations that others experience as pleasant - might freak me out.

I think there's a good chance that you experienced panic, based on the symptoms you describe, and not a relapse.

I hope that these effects dissipate quickly for you and that you are back to a good baseline ASAP!

It was CBD oil w/THC that activated my Bart symptoms last April and threw me into a full on flare. FYI stay away from cannabis/marijuana.

Post Edited (ElizKA26) : 12/12/2019 9:21:28 AM (GMT-7)

CalmLittleBuddha said...
That is really scary, I'm glad you are ok now though. Like chapelle said we just have to accept that our bodies are very different and way more sensative than heathy people's are. I have heard horror stories of people getting long term depersonalization from smoking weed one time which scares me like crazy because I already struggle with chonic depersonalization so I will personally never try it.

I agree this sounds like the pot, it would hit me hard like that, too. No doubt.

Calmlittlebuddah, you said you have chronic DP. Did that start with the lyme? And is the lyme keeping it there?

Same thing happened to me a few years back, lol. I was hung over for almost a week afterwards... I ate half an pot cookie and vaped a ton afterwards. The delay sucks, lol, it hits you 2 hours afterwards and it's like wham!!!! Not good!

Could be both, I think there was definitely some herxing in there, but mostly the potency of the THC that gets you so high. Edibles for whatever reason are just so much more potent and I've heard that certain parts of a cookie or brownie can have more THC in it the other parts, it's just so inconsistent.

If you're treating chronic lyme with cannabis, I think the rick simpson/RSO route is better.

Anyways, if you haven't heard Bill Burr's pot brownie story, be sure to watch the clip, pretty darn funny
https://youtu.be/se0teuaszrg

Post Edited (Charlie55) : 12/13/2019 12:45:36 AM (GMT-7)

For me, it was not lyme, but a skin rash from chilblains: if I take just a bit of cream in coffee, I flare.
I decided to put soy milk instead, I flared too....
So I decided to take nothing in coffee: no problem, then!

When I'm bad with anything that may flare, it's somehow easy to find out which foods make the disease worse: for me gluten was on top, then lately, I discovered that all milk products increased inflammation (most of the times slowly but surely, but other times sometimes fast and surely!!) and definitively, I have no more food allergies if I drop eggs and gluten altogether.

I think dr Rau is somehow right in saying that more than 80% of people will react badly to these high inflammatory foods such as eggs, dairy, gluten, nuts...

I'm more than 10 years free of gluten, and more than a year now, free of eggs and all dairies.
I also cut soy products.

Brownies have gluten, eggs and dairy, probably, so for me, it's absolutely 'No, thanks.'

I used to smoke cannabis daily in my youth. Never had any type of "reaction" and was obviously fully aware of how it made me feel. I stopped in my 20s. Now if I try and use it for pain relief within a hour all my symptoms usually amp up for about a hour or two.

Herx or relapse, I can't tell, but even more than a week later, and I've had a lot of symptoms return. Not good!