200-300 mg of ephedrine. Consequences?

[Fistful of Dub]

Though I'm usually really responsible when it comes to doing drugs, a couple of weeks ago I did something really stupid. I didn't even do it on purpose. I took 2 little bottles of nasal drops with ephedrine and drank the content with 2 cups of green tea. All the time I thought I took 20 mg, but it turned out that I was stupid enough to miscalculate the percentage of ephedrine and I actually took 200 mg. Some 2-3 hours later, I decided that I like that and I took another bottle, with another cup of green tea, thus making it 300 mg of ephedrine in something like 4 hours. While the drug was working, I felt fine, I could function very well and I felt really good, my heart was "loud" but it didn't bother me since I expected such an effect.
I realized about my miscalculation a week after that happenned, when I talked to my friend about that. I also realized that after that experience, I started feeling pain that starts on the left back side of my neck, and then seems to follow a line that ends at the left back side of my head, and when it gets to the head, it tends to be a sort of throbbing pain. the neck pain can be alleviated a bit by turning my head into a different position, but head pain cannot be alleviated. It's not some excrutiating pain, but it's disturbing.

What do you think? Is it possible that this is due to some nerve/muscle/blood vessel damage that occured because of the ephedrine misuse? It seems that it aggravates when I'm sitting, or smoking (but I generally get headaches when smoking too much). I don't feel it all day, more like a few times during the day, and it lasts for a while. It's not a dull, constant pain, more like just pain passing from the neck to the head :D. Sometimes I feel it more when I swallow sth.
Do you think that such damage could be reversible?

I'm a physically active person (a girl, btw). Usually I eat healthy food but during those days a consumed more alcohol and smoked a lot (I smoked while on ephedrine but didn't drink). I was also on some antibiotics and antimicotics but those that don't seem to interact with such drugs (metronidazole, miconazole). I was also on birth-control pills, which are not the best thing if you're a smoker or suffer from hypertension.

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

That's a lot of ephedrine. For somebody without a tolerance or even with a halfway decent tolerance, 300mg ephedrine is an overdose. How long have you been using ephedrine and or other stimulants?

 

[Fistful of Dub]

That's a lot of ephedrine. For somebody without a tolerance or even with a halfway decent tolerance, 300mg ephedrine is an overdose. How long have you been using ephedrine and or other stimulants?

I was never a great fan of stimulants, and I used ephedrine only once before, 2-3 years ago. I used some MDMA in the previous months, but in limited quantities, I don't think I was affected much by that. I didn't use any stimulants for at least a month before this pointless event.

 

[shreddedlettuce]

What were you doing for those 4 hours?
You could have strained your neck.

 

[Renz Envy]

My first assumption is that this was caused from anxiety. Our bodies have a tendency to become very tense and rigid during an anxiety attack, our upper backs (especially trapezoids) can cramp and even become inflamed. It could be a case of tendinitis.

However, I would go get checked out from a doctor. You mentioned that you are a smoker and you use stimulants. Pain in the back and a noticeable heart beat is typically benign for many people, but you could be at risk of a major circulatory/heart issue which could become worse as you continue to age, smoke and use stimulants.

 

[Fistful of Dub]

What were you doing for those 4 hours?
You could have strained your neck.

Well, I was sitting in front of my computer doing some work, and lying in bed a bit. I walked to a place for 15 min and came back. Really nothing special.

My first assumption is that this was caused from anxiety. Our bodies have a tendency to become very tense and rigid during an anxiety attack, our upper backs (especially trapezoids) can cramp and even become inflamed. It could be a case of tendinitis.




However, I would go get checked out from a doctor. You mentioned that you are a smoker and you use stimulants. Pain in the back and a noticeable heart beat is typically benign for many people, but you could be at risk of a major circulatory/heart issue which could become worse as you continue to age, smoke and use stimulants.

Actually the last 2 months were very stressful and depressing for me, and I could imagine that this has something to do with the pain. I feel much better for a week now or so, but I suppose that this doesn't go away so easily. Though I hope it will. I have quit smoking (for the milionth time) a few days ago, I got really scared by this condition, and some other health problems I used those antibiotics for, wish me luck to stay determined as I am right now.

 

[Fistful of Dub]

What were you doing for those 4 hours?
You could have strained your neck.

Well, I was sitting in front of my computer, doing some work, and lying in bed a bit. I walked to a place for 15 in and came back. Really nothing special.

My first assumption is that this was caused from anxiety. Our bodies have a tendency to become very tense and rigid during an anxiety attack, our upper backs (especially trapezoids) can cramp and even become inflamed. It could be a case of tendinitis.




However, I would go get checked out from a doctor. You mentioned that you are a smoker and you use stimulants. Pain in the back and a noticeable heart beat is typically benign for many people, but you could be at risk of a major circulatory/heart issue which could become worse as you continue to age, smoke and use stimulants.

Actually the last 2 months were very stressful and depressing for me, and I could imagine that this has something to do with the pain. I feel much better for a week now or so, but I suppose that this doesn't go away so easily. Though I hope it will. I have quit smoking (for the milionth time) a few days ago, I got really scared by this condition, and some other health problems I used those antibiotics for, wish me luck to stay determined as I am right now.