As Clubberdude knows well, I've been trying MPA out for a couple of months. My first post about it was a pretty 'meh' one - didn't seem to give me much in the way of anything at all. But I've persevered with it (LOL) and am coming to really quite like it.
A little bit of background... A couple of years ago, when decent MDMA was hard to find, I discovered methylone and developed a bit of a habit for it: I'd use it for clubbing, for perking me up at home (and in the early days it worked brilliantly as a 'get off my arse and get things done!' stim: tidying, cleaning, work, gardening, decorating... Anything that needed that kick to get me going and get me focussed, methylone did it for me.
Admittedly it had the annoying side-effects of keeping me up for hours, and most evenings on it ended with me wanking for stupid lengths of time only to achieve a rubbish and unsatisfying orgasm and leaving me feeling irritable and with a bit of self-loathing for the amount of time I'd wasted and for such a poor outcome. I finally dumped methylone at the beginning of this year after the irritation, the dry eyes, the edginess and the physical clumsiness it engendered in me became too high a price for the increasingly diminishing positives.
And then Clubberdude mentioned MPA to me (bless him!!).
My tolerance to stims seems to be pretty high - especially considering that the only chems I take/took are MDMA, cannabis, aMT (a little longer than MPA) - and my first experiences with MPA were disappointing. Nothing much of anything, really. But I stuck with it and suddenly saw what people were talking about. I'm a 48 yo male, about 68kg. I've tried camfetamine too, but got absolutely nothing from it.
The doses of MPA I take are probably pretty high by most people's standards: about 60mg in a dose, sometimes two doses in a day - four or five times a week - but the results (even if some of it is placebo), for me, are undeniable:
PLUS POINTS
really enables me to focus, to get down to work without my attention wandering all over the place (a mate told me, once, when I was still doing methylone) that he really thought I had some sort of ADD and that maybe Ritalin would be good - well, reading what others on this thread have said, MPA seems to be *exactly* that sort of thing!!)
doesn't give me any sort of rush or euphoria, hence there's less fiending and less desire to take it as a social or clubbing drug
the body-load seems remarkably low (I drink loads of fruit juice and smoothies, take multivitamins, Piracetam - when I remember - and magnesium supplements - which Clubberdude suggested might keep my tolerance to MPA lower than otherwise)
the cost isn't too bad at all
there's barely any taste to it so it's easy enough to take in some fruit juice
wanking and orgasms on it are waaaay easier and more satisfying than on methylone, but sometimes it can take a while to get there
MINUS POINTS
does tend to keep me awake - but I'm becoming fairly nocturnal, so that's not too much of a problem. Alcohol and spliffs help ease me into sleep
for some reason, it often gives me a dull ache in my lower belly and balls - LOL! Not really a pain, just a tenderness and sensitivity that mean wanking is sometimes just too much of a chore to bother with. Other people have mentioned discomfort when pissing. Wonder if it causes some problems with the urinary tract that might explain both phenomena...? This is about the only aspect of long-term MPA use that worries me slightly.
My 'general routine' is to take a first 60mg dose about 4 or 5pm, then *maybe* another an hour or two later, and then about 70mg of aMT a couple of hours later. The combination gives me a great evening of working, tidying, sorting stuff out (believe me, my house is a lot more organised nowadays) - and feeling warm and sociable. I'm rarely in bed before 5am, which is no problem for me.
As Clubberdude knows, I posted on Farcebook yesterday that the last four or five months for me have been some of the most contented, happy, productive ones I've had for a year or two, and - perhaps sadly, perhaps not - I'd credit MPA (for its clear-headed productiveness) and aMT (for its gentle, unpushy warmth and euphoria) for playing a big part in it all. I'd also like to thank methylone for NOT BEING THERE AT ALL!
Sorry - got a bit rambly there, didn't I? ;-)
Mxx
