... can't find any information on this online and feel awkward asking my cardiologist
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome - would it be okay to smoke marijuana if you have POTS? i?
Question posted by lorsmores on 18 Oct 2011
Last updated on 29 April 2022 by brittng06
5 Answers
brittng06
28 April 2022
POTS is often triggered by a viral infection like covid, I would guess thats what happened to you. Mine was triggered by mono. So I wouldn’t assume it was the vax, the vax most likely would’ve helped prevent you from getting POTS had it been available before you got sick!
GotPOTSafterVax
27 Dec 2021
I smoke nightly to sleep because for some reason since I had covid and got 1st Vax my body doesn't seem to want to rest.
After I got only one dose of Vax I started what I call passing out/falling asleep while sitting. My BP sky rockets while it feels like the blood flow throughout my body slows down. I've seen just about every doctor even a brain scan. Nobody knows what it could be. It started 5 days after being vaxxed and it's very discouraging and worrisome. What if I get an episode while driving. Very scary
Inactive
25 Nov 2021
Happened on this old thread while researching for an article. This advice is false. Fear mongering is not helpful. I am under the care of a cardiologist and pain specialist and a medical cannabis user. My prescription specifically treats many of my dysautonomia symptoms. It's even listed in the "Cannabis Pharmacy" as some strains have proven helpful in studies. I wouldn't advise illicit use as the wrong strain can aggravate symptoms, specifically excessively high THC and low CBD (CBD is legal in most places and is helpful too so if it's legal where you are then it may help with pain, anxiety and sleep with little chance of ill effects).
Hope this is helpful.
Mimberkly
13 Dec 2018
I do it all the time and I have pots. No heart attack no black out. You just get high as expected.
trenuew
12 Jan 2012
No. That is an absolutely TERRIBLE idea.
Since Marijuana is illegal in the first place, there is not a lot of proven information on how it effects people with certain syndromes, but there is lots of information on how marijuana effects the average person, and two that should pop out to someone with P.O.T.S. is that marijuana rapidly increases your heart rate and rapidly decreases your blood pressure. If you have P.O.T.S., you already have a dangerously high heart rate and a dangerously low blood pressure. Many patients with P.O.T.S. experience black outs on a regular basis because of their low blood pressure. If you were to take marijuana in any form, you will most definitely black out from extremely low blood pressure. The second problem is that P.O.T.S. patients are always closely watched because of how their fast hear rates increase. The average person has an average heart rate of 70 beats per minute while exercising. P.O.T.S.
patients have an average heart rate of 120 beats per minute while lying down. Marijuana causes a very high increase in heart rate. If you were to smoke marijuana, you can be almost positive that you will have a heart attack.
Even patients that have been back on their feet for over a year and no longer experience symptoms of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome will have terrible consequences if they were to smoke marijuana. It's a safe bet that if you were to smoke at any time during your recovery period after P.O.T.S. you would bounce back to your previous state.
If you value your life, do not smoke marijuana, especially if you have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.
wlfklejrfklej
12 Jan 2012
Asked my doctor a while back, he said the same thing. Don't risk it.
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