Why does vaping herb make me feel cold?

[Lily]

Not that I mind. I am normally a lot warmer than most people around me, so it's nice to feel cold once in a while. Most of the time the air conditioner being on 72 feels warm to me, but when I vape, I get so cold I start shivering and wishing for a blanket.

I am just wondering - what is going on in my body with the herb that makes me feel cold?

 

[stoney]

If 72 feels warm to you, maybe your body temperature just naturally runs cooler? 72 feels pretty cool to me.

 

[Nycdeisel]

She says only after vaping.

I get that way too, cannabis can cause you to feel overly hot or cold, its pretty normal in my eyes.

being high and very cold is the worst!

 

[stoney]

^^She says that 72 feels warm to her most of the time. I don't think room temperature feels warm to most people.

Vaping get's me pretty warm. But sometimes my hands can get pretty cold when high.

 

[djonkoman]

I have it sometimes, especially when it's actually on the cold side but because I'm already wearing a t-shirt the whole day and it cools down slowly towards the evening I've gotten used to it, sometimes weed then gives me a comfortable cosy feeling and along with it I notice that I'm actually a little cold
but it depends, if I'm a little cold I become more active, but if I'm warm I become less active, slower and easier sleepy, also the other way around of I'm getting sleepy I want to be warmer
so especially after a night out on my way home rather stoned and a bit sleepy I like to put on a jacket, but the consequence is that I drive much slower and it takes longer to get home(usually I find it worth it since I have no hurry)

in wnter the heating here in the house is also colder as in most houses, between 17,5 and 18,5 usually(celsius), I've heard 20 is common(but woth anything over 20 in winter I usually start getting hot, especially my ears become glowing hot when I have it warm(now less then as a kid tough), as a kid I used to put my ears against every cold surface I could find if I had it warm, I especially liked metals since those always cooled well
warm feet is also something that bothers me quickly, I have no problem at all with having cold feet, as long as it's not freezing, I just don't notice cold feet, but warm feet is something I hate
wich is why I have a very intensive hate against floorheating, I think it's one of man's most horrible gruesome and cruel inventions
soft, thick and warm carpetting combined with a warm temperature is also no fun btw

 

[SD_haze]

cannabis can increase or decrease blood pressure which can make areas feel colder

 

[luchiano]

This happens because herb lowers blood sugar. Think of all the things associated with low blood sugar and notice how it sounds like good or very potent herb. Things such as munchies, sugar cravings, passing out, feeling cold, anxiety, paranoia, see the connection?.

Just eat a nice sized meal with a good amount of carbs in it but make sure you have some type of soluble fiber in it to slow absorption like whole fruit or eat something fatty like a lot of nuts/seeds or avocado or a banana or two is a good slowly released starch but eat some protein with it or your high will feel lethargic or dreamy without the high protein, you will just want to chill. If you don't eat food that is slowly digested you will still get sugar crash because the carbs were absorbed so fast that your body is out of sugar and you are back where you started and then you wil eat more and continue the cycle. This is how a lot of people gain weight in fat, not muscle, because being that the carbs are absorbed so fast the body sends a lot of it to fat cells because muscles can only process so much at one time. This fast drop comes from eating processed foods because whole natural foods have fiber or a lot of fat along with fiber which prevents low sugar crashes.

If you're in a rush, 15-30 minutes before you vape you can drink some orange juice with pulp and take around 250mg-500mg of vitamin C and this will help with anxiety/paranoia and coldness but you will still need some food eventually to deal with body temperature.

 

[max]

Vaping or smoking generally lowers your metabolism, just like caffeine raises it. I've never liked getting high and going out into cold weather because it's harder for me keep warm.

 

[tdavie]

72F feels warm to me, uncomfortably so. I've worked in a 'biological' lab since my student days and have always worked in air conditioned settings summer or winter (although to be fair, in winter it's usually only air circulation/filtration unless I am involved, in which case the AC *might* go on. We need good filtration/air movement, and in the summer the temperature is rather critical if we are working with samples that can degrade quickly.

So over the last 30 years I've adjusted to lower temperatures. Last week I had the AC set to about 62F and yeah, most people in my lab were pissed off at me (but they can put extra clothes on when it's too cold; if I take clothes off when it's too hot I assume I would get arrested ).

I've got my home set to a sweltering 68F.

Just. don't. like. warm. temperatures.

As far as getting the chills when vaping, it's happened; usually if I've gone a day without eating and the temperature is 'lowish' (60F?) I can get teeth rattling chills.

Tom

 

[lwien]

Yeah, this happens sometimes to me too. I hate that. It doesn't happen often but when it does, "being chilled to the bone" takes on a VERY realistic meaning. It's not a surface cold but a very deep cold like you would get with a high fever. Fuck, I'm getting cold just thinking about it.

 

[djonkoman]

72F feels warm to me, uncomfortably so. I've worked in a 'biological' lab since my student days and have always worked in air conditioned settings summer or winter (although to be fair, in winter it's usually only air circulation/filtration unless I am involved, in which case the AC *might* go on. We need good filtration/air movement, and in the summer the temperature is rather critical if we are working with samples that can degrade quickly.

So over the last 30 years I've adjusted to lower temperatures. Last week I had the AC set to about 62F and yeah, most people in my lab were pissed off at me (but they can put extra clothes on when it's too cold; if I take clothes off when it's too hot I assume I would get arrested ).

I've got my home set to a sweltering 68F.

Just. don't. like. warm. temperatures.

As far as getting the chills when vaping, it's happened; usually if I've gone a day without eating and the temperature is 'lowish' (60F?) I can get teeth rattling chills.

Tom

curious to what those temps were and googled the conversion for fahrenheit to celsius, 68 at home is pretty high... that's 20 degrees celsius, a comon temp in homes around here but I find it much to warm especially in winter
62 is 16.666 etc celsius, so that's closer to my indoortemp
my indoor temp is 63,5 to 65,3 fahrenheit
I would love to have such an indoortemp in summer too, but I have no AC(AC is very uncommon here, probably because we have a seaclimate, mild winters and mild summers, but still during a heatwave it can be uncomfortably hot inside)

 

[aesthyrian]

I feel like the odd man out, after a good hit I can get extremely hot to the point of sweating. This could be from coughing though But I sweat easily and deal with cold well too.

 

[lwien]

cannabis can increase or decrease blood pressure which can make areas feel colder

Cannabis can increase heart rate and lower blood pressure. Never heard of it raising it though. I've experienced low blood pressure and typically what happens is that when I get up from a sitting position, I can get a bit dizzy and light headed. Never knew that low or high blood pressure could cause one to get cold.

Also, when you said that "areas" feel colder, my experience was my whole body, to the very core, felt cold. It wasn't just a particular area. It was like my body couldn't retain heat and the ONLY time that I have ever experienced this is when high on weed. Doesn't happen often though. About once every 6 months or so.

 

[SD_haze]

cannabis can increase or decrease blood pressure which can make areas feel colder

Cannabis can increase heart rate and lower blood pressure. Never heard of it raising it though. I've experienced low blood pressure and typically what happens is that when I get up from a sitting position, I can get a bit dizzy and light headed. Never knew that low or high blood pressure could cause one to get cold.
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Thats what I thought too until I read about a study that found it lowered blood pressure for chronic users but raised blood pressure for people who didnt regularly use it and also when you very first consume it as a chronic user (goes up then down).

Maybe that in combination with the blood sugar thing that was mentioned contributes to the overall feeling.

 

[KushLover]

This happens to me all the time. Usually, I'm the guy sweating like a pig in the office when temp gets above 75F, while many colleagues are freezing their asses in parkas. After hitting a few bowls I get serious chills. I love it! I live in a kiln called California and ganja induced chills has got to be the cheapest, greenest (environmentally speaking), greenest (botanically speaking), fastest and most enjoyable way for me to cool off.

I see those super ice cold beer and breath mint commercials where somebody opens the package and an ice age sets in instantly. None of those products crank of up the cryogenic freeze factor like some good herb.

 

[SD_haze]

I live in a kiln called California and ganja induced chills has got to be the cheapest, greenest (environmentally speaking), greenest (botanically speaking), fastest and most enjoyable way for me to cool off.

rofl i want whatever you vaporized to come up with this one!


(like many californians i too dont have AC hehe)

 

[djonkoman]

I have noticed something the last few days..
sometimes I do get cold when I just have a buzz/light high(only if I'm actually a bit cold but didn't realise it), but I noticed that when
I'm really high I can sit here in my t-shirt with the window wide open at night, and I'm thinking 'I should open the window, it's hot in here' but then I look to the window and it's already open
especially my feet get hot, I wish I had a stone or otherwise cold floor in my room...
and in these cases my pd also feels more lukewarm then warm

 

[bruno13]

That sometimes happens to me also. So cold..... My doctor told me cannabis can lower blood pressure.

 

[Bipola]

This happened to me a couple of times since I recently started vaping, was much more severe the first time though, like uncontrollably shivering/trembling unless I was in the one room that had a heater on which seemed to stop it completely.

It wasn't too bad the second time since I knew why it was happening and that it wasn't anything to worry about. It's happened to me after smoking in the past too but only rarely.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

If you get cold.. while vaping.. i can suggest.. a warming wave that can be achieve by vaporizing damiana .. This herb has a nice weed like buzz and a very warm wave..