well if you look up side effects on marijuana will give you high anxiety, probably enough anxiety to be prescribed medical cannabis, to help you with this newly acquired anxiety, and back pain.. yes back pain, because you read so much of the side effects. (seriously at the dr's office, the side effects list was on 1 and a half pages long. and scary type of shit) but really only things you mostly don't feel or care for when on it. same with opiates, benzo's and other 'good' drugs. Just see how it works for you, unless there is beyond a reasonable doubt they'll definitly harm you immediately, but remember ALL pills and medications have side effects, and do damage, Even marijuana, can stop production and shrink certain brain receptors(doesn't mean kill them, but like laying the factory off, and takes longer to get back to normal, so doesn't do 'damage' but when long enough seems like actual damage, just look at any 'true' stoners face as you as him what does weed feel like, and he/she answers "... whuuuuuuat?" ), so when you get off it, it can greatly increase irratiability, start anxiety and mild depression(also pain from depression) after immediately stopping, though may take a while, some people smoke everyday and more than a gram a day, to get there, I use to smoke 1/4-1/2 zone a day, just blowing smoke to the wind like a fucking chimney, but had to get a real job, and they said they'd give me 8 months of on the job, then get my drug test, so had a couple months to still use my cannabis medication, luckily, but can be annoying and I've seen this in even light recreational users. Though most people won't experience this, they'd probably just work through it, and think that's how life always was so stressful, but really it is added anxiety ontop of the normal amount. I'd probbaly script someone paxil, before benzo's but if i saw neccessary for a benzo then sure, but not the 4 times a day I was on haha, luckily I'm not a doctor but also if a doctor doesn't believe my high anxiety, then I roll up my sleeves and show the cuts, around 500 on the left (countable, some can't say if a full cut or half or like those string maze things can't tell if it's 2 or 3) and around 30 visible on my right arm. But haven't had any need to show a doctor it. so good for me haha. Anyways this isn't a recommendation or any form of medical indication for anything, read my sig disclaimer ;]
I know all drugs have side effects/risks...that is why I usually read up on any drug I plan on trying so I can learn what the effects and dangers are. Also my anxiety started long before the cannabis use, the cannabis is what I use to keep it under control. Same with the back pain really, that is caused by my spine being rather fucked up probably since I was born. But I know it is possible for marijuana to make some people more anxious......and I get more anxious without it but that's because I already had anxiety issues so without weed I don't have anything to treat the anxiety with.
I took an SSRI for depression, but I also have generalized anxiety.....anyways it made me more anxious, just about made me psychotic and felt like a chemical lobotomy. So I'm not trusting SSRIs they might work for some people but I have read some disturbing things about them so I think they should be used as more of a last resort.
Just hearing the word Paxil makes me cringe! That shit made me feel emotionless and robotic. Anytime my old lady would even touch me I would freak out because it just felt strange to even be touched in any way. Xanax is the only thing that works for me, I don't see why doctors are soo fucking quick to give out anti-depressants, they make people worse and they even make some people suicidal just like Cymbalta did for me. FUCK ANTI-DEPRESSANTS!!
cymbalta made me feel shitty, and had some bad sexual side effects. my sex drive was way lower, and i couldn't orgasm 80% of the time, which is kind of weird for a dude.
"I have anxiety fairly rarely (once or twice a month) and it gets really bad but I don't want to be on a pill that I take every day. I am wondering if there is anything I could take only when it happens'' Don't go in there talking about benzos like you know something. Act dumb. And be careful with benzos too. they can be dangerous.