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Any damage that can be done by not sleeping well after MDMA use?

BluLait

BluLait

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So I was just curious. Last time I used MDMA, I had a few redoses, not much more than 300mg total through the whole night though... And when I got to a friends home, I smoked some weed which hit me harder than any weed ever in my life. And tried to go to sleep. I couldn't really sleep much, because I was feeling not so great... It was a psychedelic weird thing, I thought I was having hallucinations but I wasn't... kinda.. stuff definitely looked different. It was probably the metabolized MDA. But I was a little panicked which prevented me from falling a sleep (I still have some stupid drug-related anxiety & panic after a few bad experiences with drugs where I thought I was surely dead, so everytime something seems wrong when I'm high, I freak out)

So anyway. I tried to sleep, couldn't really sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time, even though I was really tired. Then his roomate and his roomate's girlfriend woke up, and I couldn't sleep anymore. I went outside, smoked some more weed. Then went back inside, got around 1-2 hours of intrerrupted sleep after being woken up by his stupid girlfriend again. So I decided to go to my home, which was a 1:30 hour ride away. Got home. Went to sleep.

Point is, I came back from the rave and started coming down at around 8 AM. Was up til like 2-3 PM. Then managed to get a little bit of weird sleep til' 9:30 PM when I decided FUCK IT and got dressed and went home. Then got home at around 11:45 PM and went to sleep.

Could this lack of sleep cause any further damage? It's just a thing that popped up in my head. Probably not. Just wanted to make sure.
 
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Yeah, it definitely can.


One of the main damaging aspects of methamphetamine is that people don't get any sleep and don't eat any food for days on end. You're body NEEDS rest and nutrients to be able to function, at all, so obviously skipping those is not a good idea anytime for any reason.


This isn't as big of a problem with MDMA, but you will definitely need that rest after a roll to get your melatonin circulating and to start your recovery. It won't kill you to not sleep, but you're probably going to feel a LOT worse the next day.
 
I think you are asking about permanent damage? Not likely at all. You can expect your sleep to get fucked up when you dose drugs of any sort. Keep it up regularly though and it could be a different story.
 
Well. I felt like shit before getting home and having a good night's sleep.

But then when I did sleep, the next day I was feeling the afterglow and everything was nice :)

I didn't stay awake for more than 17 hours in total. From when I got up, got to the rave, took the ecstasy, got home, smoked the weed, slept 20 minutes, smoke more weed and went outside, then slept 1-2 hours, then got home after a 2 hours ride, then slept for 12 hours. Then woke up feeling awesome. I took like 200mg 5-htp after coming down from the MDMA.

So it went like this. Woke up 7PM, got to the rave at 12 AM, took the MDMA at 1:30 AM. It hit me at 2:20 PM (I sent a text message to a friend "Oh my fucking god this is so awesome"). Left the club at 7 AM. I was starting to softly come down by that time. Got home 8 AM. Smoked Weed. Very intrerrupted sleep between 9 AM and 12 PM (Was staring at the walls and everything was so fucking psychedelic). Went outside at 1 PM, stayed there until 3-4 PM. Got back to my friends house. Had 1-2 hours of sleep, or a bit more until 9 PM. Then I decided to go home. Got home at 12 AM. Slept til' next day at 1 PM (so 13 hours) after which I felt pretty good.

But before I got to sleep I was feeling a little bit depressed & shit. Depression which completely dissapeared after the 13 hour sleep.

How does that sound?

Wasn't my fault though, that guy's stupid girlfriend kept talking and shit. Fuck that bitch.
 
While permanent damage won't occur from one night without sleep, it will definitely add up over time.


If you don't sleep or eat every time you roll you can expect more damage and a longer recovery time than if you did



^ As long as you eventually end up getting the rest you need, it shouldn't be a problem
 
So I'm good?

I have only rolled once. And that was 4 months ago, almost.

I was just asking about any permanent damage after the particular incident I described above. Not anything else.
 
mmm... yeah well I was mostly talking about not sleeping right after using MDMA that one time, the stuff above.

I don't usually lose night's sleep. Almost never. I love my sleep. And when I lose some sleep, I sleep more in the weekend to make up for it.

It was just one of those things stuck in my mind that I wanted to get rid of. Thanks :)
 
I took MDMA and did not sleep last night either and I've been crying all day long. Although even if I slept I'd still be crying because apparently this is the dose the broke the camels back so to speak.

Lack of sleep will NOT cause further damage. OVER TIME however a lack of sleep can have various negative effects on your health. It will mess with your cortisol/adrenaline levels, can cause adrenal fatigue to come on, and effect your health. It can also make you feel more depressed if the MDMA made you depressed in the first place.

The weird thing is even though I didn't sleep last night, its 10pm right now (following night) and I still feel like I can't sleep. I'm tired as fuck, but I'm so depressed everytime I lay down I cry. Its the reason I'm on here right now because reading stories about other people seems to keep myself distracted. In another hour I'm going to take some trazadone and try to lay down, and I'm really hoping tommorow was nothing like today because it was hell.
 
I wouldn't say that staying up for awhile after rolling is going to do any type of significant damage to your brain. The MDMA already did whatever it will do. If you happen to feel anxious, sad, nervous or those kind of things, not sleeping will only make that worse. Not because of it doing brain damage.. just because you need to relax (obviously right). Also, even though not sleeping won't cause damage, it will halt recovering from whatever damage may have been done. When the body is sleeping the brain is hard at work. If the insomnia becomes a daily thing, as everyone else said, that can have much more of an effect.
 
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