I had a similar reaction to PG. Got panic, cut nicotine, panic continued, went to 0mg nicotine, panic continued, quit
vaping for 3 years.
Started back up with 0mg PG, instant panic. Went to PG free, no panic.
I think it was that the PG dries me out too much and that is what causes the panic. I'm prone to panic as it is. Any off feeling can start panic building up and painful lungs is an off feeling.
As far as when does it stop, shortly after you stop
vaping it.
Have you been paying attention to a lot of reports about health concerns with ecigs? My guess is that you are prone to panic and you're panicking over the BS fears put out about ecigs by the ANTZ driven media. You have an off feeling, the panic builds.
Forget about it. You didn't do any real damage to worry about.
If you want to try PG free I would give it a while to get the
vaping panic out of your head.
BTW, coming back to vaping I've found out I have Ulcerative Colitis which I've figured out has been a driving force behind most of my panic my whole life and smoking helps it. I found this out when I came back to vaping and stuck with it and the lack of smoking and quitting nicotine caused it to get pretty bad. As someone else mentioned with thyroidism, there are quite a few physical problems that cause panic.
Now I'm doing DIY and PG up to 10% without a problem.
Although it is in part the PG drying me out making me able to feel my lungs in a bad way I think it was also the Colitis acting up from a lack of smoking.
And yes PG has been reported to cause anxiety, I've been reporting it since I figured out I panicked with standard PG mixes but not PG free.
Xanax is highly addictive. And has pretty bad withdrawal symptoms. Some people need to go to Rehab to get off Xanax. Look it up. If you are chewing on them to make them work faster, that sounds like a problem with Xanax use. Stop using ecigarettes. And if your s/o is having the same problem, he should stop too.
Please save the addiction speeches for recreational drug abusers not people who have an actual need for Xanax. Xanax literally saved my life and I've lost count of the times antis have tried to play on my anxiety to get me to not take it. It's the same thing the ANTZ fear marketing is doing with ecigs.
She says she'd keep it near and she takes half a pill. That is extremely typical of a panic person. Just having it near helps and taking small doses.
Half a pill is probably not enough to get addicted to unless she means she's taking half of a full bar (actually like 3-4 pills) multiple times a day for many days in a row.
I've been taking Xanax for 8 years and have talked to my new doctor about addiction and he said there's no possible way at the dose I take and the amounts I'm taking, and it's been recommended that I take it more often and stop breaking pills in half. I'll probably be on it for the rest of my life because it also helps the IBD pains that are caused by spams and doesn't complicate it like opiates do. And if I go on steroids I'll probably be taking addiction sized doses.
This isn't the first time I've heard of a panic person chewing on a Xanax to make it work faster. It was recommended to me by a couple local panic people when I was first being treated for panic and before it was known I have IBD. Waiting 20-60 minutes in a panic state is not fun.
I really don't see anything to warrant a warning here.
