My Panic Attack Solution

I am 16 and overweight to say the least. This Friday I plan on smoking a little bit of weed with a good friend of mine. It’s been a while since I’ve smoked because the last time through me into a sever panic attack. I had smoked a whole bunch of potent weed, and then it all kicked in at once and scared the living shit out of me. For a moment, I thought it was laced with speed or something, and I ran to my mom to call an ambulance. The thing that really scared me was my heart rate. It was so very, very fast… When the paramedics got there, they hooked me up to an EKG immediately, because I told them my heart was beating too fast. They didn’t seem worried at all, in fact, when I asked them for a beta-blocker they told me that I could slow it down by just calming down a bit, which I did. My BPM got up to around 200BPM for a bit, and I felt a fluttery feeling in my left chest area. I’ve had panic attacks before, but never to that extent. I know that marijuana hasn’t ever killed anyone, but DAMMIT I was so afraid. My main question is, can a heart rate around 200BPM kill you, even if it’s just like that for a short time? And how long would it take to actually hurt you? I have no heart defects, and I can drink caffeine, exercise, and do anything that anyone else can with no problems. If this happens to me again, could it really kill me?
Come’on guys, I just want to know if a heart rate of 200BPM during panic is acutely fatal?

To be honest my friend had a similar problem. He freaked out one time when we were all stoned and he thought he was gunna die. It’s happened to me. It can be 2 things. 1, your just not used to smoking pot yet. some people dont adjust to it right away, or maybe you just smoked too much for yourself. 2, maybe weed isnt your drug. It’s true we all have a drug of choice, or no drugs at all. If you dont feel comfortable trying weed a second time then dont. If your friend is forcing you to do something you dont want to then he isnt your friend.

My opinion:
I would say go smoke with your friend, being i love pot =]. But when you smoke try not smoking too much. If you want to stop just say the word. Theres times i smoke with my buddys and ill have a massive coughing attack and need to skip a few hit’s. You wont die from fast heart beating, although it might feel like that.

If you start to freak out heres what you should do:
1.) Sit down. Standing up will make you more nervous.
2.) Take a deep breath. Tell your friends calmly that you dont feel good. Say your tripping or something though so they know you wont throw up or anything.
3.) Take a drink of water. Nothing sweet, just water.
4.) Tell yourself that it’s just weed and that no one has ever died from it. Just let yourself know your tripping out.
5.) If after 5-10 minutes your still scared your gunna die or something, call your mom or dad. Tell them you were with someone else though if your good friends with that kid. Last thing you want is your parents hating your friend.

Good luck! I’m sure things will turn out okay for ya mate.