Sudden back and neck pain after smoking cannabis!

[Blackthoven]

Hey guys! I know that most people here are probably not medical doctors, and I'm not looking to be diagnosed I was just curious as to whether anyone has experienced a similar situation or has any idea what happened.

So, yesterday I betrayed my vaporizer and smoked bong with a few friends. I occasionally get the jitters, or the shakes if you will, as a result of smoking weed. Yesterday, I took a bong hit larger than I was expecting, and after coughing for 5 minutes subsequently suffering from "the burps" which felt as though I had to burp but couldn't, I got a pretty intense case of the shakes and my whole body was going crazy while I was sitting down. I noticed I was experiencing some pain in my lower back and it got more intense as the shakes got more intense, at this point I was assuming there was some sort of relationship between the two, perhaps even a causal relationship! So I eventually stood up to stop the shakes and to ease the pain in my back. Then I noticed my neck was hurting as well, particularly when I would move it backwards and to the right.

This morning when I woke up my lower back and neck are still slightly sore, so I wasn't just imagining it, and my lower back is still kinda fragile and feels odd when I sit, so I did some yoga .

I did a quick Google search for related issues and only found individuals who already had some sort of back pain issues that seemed to intensify. But I have no debilitating back pain issues, yet, so it was a pretty spontaneous event! Furthermore, I've never heard of smoking marijuana causing spinal cord pain or neck pain, I find that very strange! Maybe it was the intense shakes that strained my back while I was in a sitting position, or perhaps some overactive motor neurons in the lower back that wore themselves out with all the jittering.

I have no idea.

Any insight?

 

[OhTheAgony]

Just some thoughts.

You could be sore because you made some weird sudden muscle movements when you got the shakes 'n stuff. The need-to-burp feeling may come from swallowing air when choking/coughing.

I don't think mj can make your muscles hurt, but it has happened to me that I didn't became aware of certain pains/aches until I finally took a moment to think/feel when the high hits me.

I don't get why you get the shakes though, this only happens when you smoke it, never when you vape? If so is it possible you unconsciously tense up to withstand the 'pain' the smoke causes to your lungs, which may trigger the involuntary shakes as soon as you try to loosen up again?

 

[Blackthoven]

I'm actually not sure if I've ever gotten the shakes from vaping. I would say I have, but it's usually when I smoke, and usually when I smoke a lot or get very high. Although, I've never had them quite as bad as experienced yesterday!

I'm thinking the same thing about the pain, which was probably caused by strange movements or something while I was sitting that probably strained my back. As for the shakes what typically causes them, anyway? Is it relatively common in herb users? I know a few of my own friends have told me they've had them before...

I'm not sure I tense up when I smoke, but it's definitely a possibility I suppose. Especially if it were to be occurring unconsciously! I'll try to stay relaxed from now on, see if that changes anything Once they start happening I can't stop them either, I just have to wait it out. Additionally, it's usually my whole body, particularly the chest area and legs.

Thanks for the input!

EDIT: Just thought I'd note that I just vaped and I'm getting a very mild case of the shakes, hardly anything at all. I'm assuming that is only a result of the shakes I had yesterday because I normally don't get the shakes from vaping, as I said, but also because I vaped a very small amount. So I must still have some weird physiological things happening in my body which I haven't fully recovered from =P

 

[Nycdeisel]

It sounds like you swallowed smoke. that was the only time i would get really bad shakes when i smoked, i also felt cold but wasnt shivering really jittery shaking like you said.

people seem to accidentally swallow smoke when taking really large hits(especially bong hits!)
did you feel like the hit you took strained your body? i felt a lot of pressure physically when i had this feeling.

I have had similar experiences and got really freaked out with the shaking and pains, only to realize later it only happened when taking really really big bong rips . so try to take it easy in the future and hopefully it doesnt happen again

 

[Nosferatu]

I agree with NYC, the symptoms of swallowing smoke.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

All is possible.. coughing sometimes is a heavy exersize.. A friend of mine got hernia during coughing .. from huge bong rip ..

 

[crawdad]

some of my response may be slightly OT to what the OP raised, but wanted to share my thoughts on the topic in general. although i vape exclusively on my own, when around certain friends i can do a large amount combusted since that is all there is. ive never had a jittery feeling from a single hit, and ive certainly "swallowed".

quite often during my night sessions i will pretty much be relaxed to the point that any position my body is in feels fine, no pain...even positions i normally cant do (certain sitting positions or laying) due to age, existing back/leg issues, etc. add in that sometimes i pass out and remain in whatever position i was in and what im left with the next day is some soreness, kind of like sleeping "on the wrong side of the bed" type deal.

there is one other situation that ive noticed, sometimes i can reach this odd level where i feel parts of my body i dont normally feel, such as the sensation of fluid rushing from one side of your head to the other, muscles moving in wave patterns or just that general "bugs under the skin", sometimes i think im just "out there" in my thoughts but at other times when its neck or back pain (pain i dont normally feel unless im vaped, to a certain level) i think im just more tuned into the various nerves, perhaps the herb hit those nerves for some reason more so than usual.

if an herb can perhaps shut off pain from one location of the body i think its quite possible in some cases (people, strains, hit method, etc) that it might increase the sensation instead of dilute it. just speculating, i have no research data in pdf format.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

Me and few other friends had notice the same thing long ago.. and have become boosting mind and senses to the max fans... If i sting my finger or burn my self while i am high... i might even cry LOL.. Once i vaped right before i went to the dentist in order he to slay one of my nerves.. with a spiral spear.. NEVER AGAIN..
Most horrible experience by dentist ever..
Once i boosted my senses to the max (it was on acid not pot though) it was wonderful and so powerful and contrasting .. etc.. but at the end of my trip (we were camping on the beach) i felt the unpleasant effects of boosted senses.. I suffered what i now call the "Princess and the Pea syndrom" . I could tell by name everyone of the billions of sand particles.. Everything was shaking cause of the see ebb and flow.. There were no sounds.. only noise.. diffused by the see and dividing it into numerous tones.. may equal to the sand dust bastards that were sticking me trough my sleeping bag.. with their jaded little spears ..
In conclusion if you take too much you will feel too much

 

[shamaniam]

I'm having a similar experience. When I pull a bong, sometimes within a couple of seconds, I will get stabbing nerve pain in my lower back. I have pondered this and have come to believe that the pain is the result of an energetic block at the level of my sacral and/or solar-plexus energy meridians. I have come to understand that my excessive sexual desires are keeping me rooted in the lower realms of sex and survival. My consciousness wants to ascend the kundalini, but my flesh is weak. This is my experience...

 

[Tranquility]

I'm having a similar experience. When I pull a bong, sometimes within a couple of seconds, I will get stabbing nerve pain in my lower back. I have pondered this and have come to believe that the pain is the result of an energetic block at the level of my sacral and/or solar-plexus energy meridians. I have come to understand that my excessive sexual desires are keeping me rooted in the lower realms of sex and survival. My consciousness wants to ascend the kundalini, but my flesh is weak. This is my experience...

Welcome to the Forum!

So, is the energetic block related to the pull, the heat of the vapor/smoke, or the content of the vapor/smoke?

 

[shamaniam]

Welcome to the Forum!

So, is the energetic block related to the pull, the heat of the vapor/smoke, or the content of the vapor/smoke?

I believe the blockage is of my making through spending excessive mental focus on sense gratification. The THC is the catalyst for my kundalini to start rising until it reaches a block which presents as a sharp stabbing pain in the region of my sacral chakra. I make this assumption because of the etheric nature of THC.

 

[Dabrigg]

Hey guys! I know that most people here are probably not medical doctors, and I'm not looking to be diagnosed I was just curious as to whether anyone has experienced a similar situation or has any idea what happened.

So, yesterday I betrayed my vaporizer and smoked bong with a few friends. I occasionally get the jitters, or the shakes if you will, as a result of smoking weed. Yesterday, I took a bong hit larger than I was expecting, and after coughing for 5 minutes subsequently suffering from "the burps" which felt as though I had to burp but couldn't, I got a pretty intense case of the shakes and my whole body was going crazy while I was sitting down. I noticed I was experiencing some pain in my lower back and it got more intense as the shakes got more intense, at this point I was assuming there was some sort of relationship between the two, perhaps even a causal relationship! So I eventually stood up to stop the shakes and to ease the pain in my back. Then I noticed my neck was hurting as well, particularly when I would move it backwards and to the right.

This morning when I woke up my lower back and neck are still slightly sore, so I wasn't just imagining it, and my lower back is still kinda fragile and feels odd when I sit, so I did some yoga .

I did a quick Google search for related issues and only found individuals who already had some sort of back pain issues that seemed to intensify. But I have no debilitating back pain issues, yet, so it was a pretty spontaneous event! Furthermore, I've never heard of smoking marijuana causing spinal cord pain or neck pain, I find that very strange! Maybe it was the intense shakes that strained my back while I was in a sitting position, or perhaps some overactive motor neurons in the lower back that wore themselves out with all the jittering.

I have no idea.

Any insight?

Yo idk exactly what it is but this now happens to me any time I smoke. Last night it was so intense I thought I was dying. My neck is really sore today.. I can't hardly explain the feeling but it was not fun .. so I think sadly that im done smoking