Belviq 30 mg - all the bad of MDMA but none of the good.
I took 3 pills around 6 pm. I had not had dinner yet. I bit them to break through the enteric coating but I don't know if this made much difference.
I would say within 15 minutes I was feeling something, and for nearly 2 hours I was uncomfortable, agitated, and grinding my teeth. It felt very much like coming up on ecstasy so I knew how to ride it out and eagerly waited for the good feelings which I assumed would also be like ecstasy. But that never happened.
At the 2 hour mark the feelings changed very suddenly, even abruptly, to a smooth feeling, a lot like benzos. I felt relaxed, fatigued, and calm. I felt much better but I would not class it as euphoric. I could not concentrate very well. Doing anything on the computer was very challenging. I preferred to close my eyes and chill. Luckily I did not have the dry eyes or dry mouth I had the first time.
There was no tactile enhancement; if anything there was a slight anesthetic effect. I tried to masturbate but could not finish, which is very rare for me. No empathetic or social feelings. I put on some music and I did enjoy it, but it was not transcendant. So let's say slight enhancement if any. I had no desire to eat, and as an experiment I tried a bite of chocolate [my favorite], and it didn't taste good.
The sensations seemed to change in occasional waves - I'd feel depressed for just a few seconds, then back to peaceful again. I also had some temperature dysregulation throughout, with waves of feeling too hot or too cold even though the temperature in the room didn't change much.
At the 4 hour mark I started to feel sober again. Hunger and focus both started to return. I was completely back to normal after 5 hours total.
I found this in the prescribing literature:
In a human abuse potential study in recreational drug abusers,
How do I get in on one of those??? LOL. I wonder if they recruited on BL.
supratherapeutic oral doses of lorcaserin (40 and 60 mg) produced up
to two- to six-fold increases on measures of “High”, “Good Drug Effects”,
“Hallucinations” and “Sedation” compared to placebo. These responses
were similar to those produced by oral administration of the positive
control drugs, zolpidem (15 and 30 mg) and ketamine (100 mg).
This tells me that even 30 mg might be too small a dose. I am unsure if I want to go any higher, because the initial effects were unpleasant. I might try a larger dose on a full stomach, without breaking the coating, and see if it's any better.
It's also interesting that they chose zolpidem and ketamine as their controls. I've never tried zolpidem, but I don't think this was anything like ketamine. I felt high and sedated. "Good drug effects" is debatable, and there were no hallucinations.