Wifes bad reaction to first time edible, help/experiences/suggestions?

I have been smoking near 30 years and know what to expect generally speaking. Only tried edibles recently and it took 20MG to feel anything and decided it was a nice alternative.


My significant other decided she wanted to try edibles since she refuses to smoke anything so I gave her a "beginner dose" of 10mg in a carmel. This was Friday at 4:30, within an hour or so she said it had deff kicked in and initially she liked it but said it just made her feel drunk. Within another hour she was starting to have a bad reaction to it (mentally). I recognized it as heavy anxiety and paranoia and general disorientation. I assured her it would pass and tried to entertain and distract her, she started talking about how she didn't know who I was and didn't recognize our house and such. I let her lie down and she eventually dozed off. She woke up like 1 hour later and was still really out of it, talking about how she doesn't remember how to breath and other silly shit. I attempted to be rational and explain that she was in fact, breathing NOW, so she is fine. She finally went and got in bed and went to sleep for the night.
I hoped she would wake up the next AM and be better.


She woke up and initially said she felt better, but by noon she said she was still trippin and having issues with her brain being super confused and foggy. I took her outside to get fresh air and sun and she felt better for a while. She fell asleep for a couple hours and woke up dizzy and confused again. I was hoping this was just residual effects of the THC, I know she is super healthy and has never done ANY recreational drug besides booze, so I figure she must be like UBER sensitive to the THC and what to you or I is just the "Day after mental haze" was something major and disorienting to her.


Well, evening came on and it got WAY worse, like "bad acid trip" worse, I have never seen or heard of anyone having the kind of reaction she was having, esp over 24 HOURS LATER. She was sobbing and having spiraling thoughts about childhood trauma and how her life had sucked and other unproductive things. She was starting to hyperventilate and swinging from giggling about something on TV, to suggesting sex, to crying about how she was a bad mom. I was really beginning to get concerned that THC may have caused some kind of "Psychotic break" or something cuz this was so bizarre. I finally got her to take a xanex and half an Ambien and go to sleep.


She woke up Sunday and STILL felt out of it. Said she was still very confused and started asking if this was going to be how she felt the rest of her life, she said it felt like she had a "traumatic brain injury" or something because her brain just didn't work right and kept asking if "this is real?", saying that it felt like everything that happened since Friday night was some kind of dream.
As of Sunday night she was still pretty scattered and confused and I was just thankful that it was a more general confusion and not a bad negative thing.

Monday Am now, she called and says she is still very "foggy" and confused. She is asking me how long this is supposed to last and if we should go to the ER.


I am hoping that all this is the feeling most of us smokers would have the day after a heavy bong hit night, basically a mental hang over, but for someone that is way healthier than the average american, and has NEVER used THC, this is lasting or effecting her WAY more than most.


Anyone ever seen this or experienced anything like it? To me it reminds me of HS getting some little 15yr old girl stoned for the first time and getting annoyed when she couldn't handle it, but in this case, I can't just bail and go home when I get annoyed, and it has last a LONG time.


Is there anything I can suggest to her to more swiftly purge her system of the THC or get back to normal for her? For me, I just drink a strong espresso and go do my thing, but she is just plain floored by this.


Any constructive insight is greatly appreciated!

 

So now Monday night and she is still saying she is out of it. Now she is having anxiety and freaking out about the holiday coming up in a couple days.


Is there ANYthing I can do to speed the metabolism or dissipation of this from her system?

 

Ya she is feeling better, says she is still really forgetful and foggy. She had to go shopping for T-Giving yesterday and said she should NOT have done so cuz she got lost wandering around the store. I do feel like it was my fault but I did research this online and almost everything I found said the "starter" dose is 10MG and so I thought that would be ok. I was obviously wrong and feel like a big ole' asshole for doing this to her. I have had anxiety issues in the past where I just was not in the right "place" in my head when I was smoking and started stressing out, but nothing like what I watched her going through.


Frankly I was astounded that it last this long, I joked "There are tweakers out there that would KILL for a $5 dose that would last for DAYS like this!", I had never even heard of this type of thing happening and at times I did think that she was exaggerating what she was feeling just because it was so different from what she was used to, or having NEVER had any psychotropic drugs of any kind before. Or just feeling the "fog" we all get when we roast a lot of bowls one night and then feel a mental haze the next day and didn't understand that it was normal and it would fade.


It WAS very scary for both of us because I didn't know if I accidentally caused some kind of "psychotic break" or something and "broke" my wife.
We have both decided that THC is just not for her and we will never try THAT again. So I guess this thread can stand as a PSA for others that are considering doing the same thing or something.