this thread is a messy clusterfuck alphabet soup that is hard to follow. too many people mentioning their trips on other chemicals with similar abbreviated, hyphenated scientific names i can't really get a good idea of what this chem is supposed to do, or feel like.
morninggloryseed says that this stuff is less sedating than K when it comes to hole dosages, yet a lot of people say that they like this much more than all other dissos out there, including ket. i personally find S-ketamine to be my favorite disassociative, so i would like to hear more from people who have holed on this stuff and how and why they find it better than K. this thread is 30+ pages of posts talking about how different this is from 3-meo-PCE/P/M/O-WHATEVER maybe has been great chit-chat for all of you, but it doesn't seem to be explaining that much to those of us who have not tried this chem out.
it's intense, potent, not very sedating, I get it. but you can hole. and it's possibly more fun than ketamine. please go on. i'm listening. thank you.
So, I've been a ketamine user since 2004. I started IM'ing it in 2006 and have gone over to IV'ing it in 2014. I have used countless dissociatives excessively, a lot of PCP, some MXE, some DXM and a lot of analogues. usually IV'ed and almost exclusively at breakthrough-doses from day 1. For reasons that elude me I never developed a significant dose-dependent tolerance or an inability to experience nearly full sensory shut-down. In fact my experiences have become even more profound and spiritually stimulating.
I've used around 3g 2-Oxo-PCE so far spread out between the time of it's release onto the scene and today. When I first injected 2-Oxo-PCE and experienced a full dose I knew that I would lose interest in ketamine. I had said I would have found my favourite dissociative more than once in reference to other substances, but most of the time the euphoria quickly faded and I came back to ketamine.
I've received free s-ketamine both in (seemingly uncut) crystalline form as well as in pharmaceutical aqeous preparations made for injection purposes since my first 2-Oxo-PCE dose. Every time I took it I found it completely lackluster. A fucking joke actually. Not worth my time. I'm not shitting you!
As for the pros and cons of 2-Oxo-PCE:
Pros:
It's extremely psychedelic and what I call spiritually stimulating - my religious beliefs have been developing at a higher pace.
It's extremely euphoric especially at low doses, one of the most euphoric substances I have used (and I don't exaggerate when I say I've mainlined a very large number of them).
It seems to be quite empathogenic and I have gotten extremely colorful OEVs from it a few times (which no other dissociative ever caused).
It's not significantly less sedating than ketamine, albeit very slightly so.
It lasts much longer than ketamine, abolishing the need for repeated injections.
It's active at a much lower dose than ketamine, possibly less toxic reducing the strain on the tissue I experience. Ketamine acts as a local vasoconstrictor and will often cause some ischemic necrosis for that reason. 2-Oxo-PCE injection sites do not even hurt .
Cons:
It's after effects can last more than a day. You really need time for this one, not any less than say for a DOC experience.
It causes heavy motor skill impairment, much worse than ketamine in my experience.
It can cause psychotic symptoms at higher doses more easily than ketamine.
It's still slightly less sedating making it riskier.
It has a lower 'recreational index'. The ratio between a dose which will cause full amnesia and a dose that induces a breakthrough-experience is very low, slightly less than 0.8 for me. Compulsive redosers beware!
If you ask me a direct comparison to ketamine makes a lot of sense with this one, since they feel very similar. This one is so much superior to ketamine though when it comes to the desirably effect, at least it is in my opinion, but it requires much greater care and a lot of time to use it recreationally. I could get home after dropping my child off in school, inject a dose of ketamine and would experience no more effects by the time I headed off to pick her up. The endeavour of taking this one on the other hand needs a considerable amount of time dedicated to it.
Now why in god's name do you prefer s-ketamine over the racemic drug?
EDIT: I made a slightly angrier but very similar post to yours in the ETH-LAD thread to good effect.
EDIT2:
It is everything I had ever hoped to find in a dissociative. While the thought of it being outlawed in my country is very saddening and almost overshadows the joy of having found such a wonderful chemical, it also made me realize that we will keep seeing novel recreational drugs surface that are far 'superior' to those we know. At the moment the only use I have for ketamine is combining it with short-acting serotonergic drugs like MDMA or 2C-E. That being said, 2C-E combines extremely well with 2-Oxo-PCE as well.