Bad experiences on Ephedrine?

[C@NDYMAN]

How often had you been using ephedrine?
about 2,5 years

In what form did you use it (what brand name, or pure?)
in cap form, named Supercaps... 50mg ephedrine alkaloids
Sometimes Yellow Jackets... synephrine, ephedra

Approximately how often did you take ephedrine?
1-2 times a week

Approximately what was the dosage?
100-150mg at a time, and at party's totally about 200-250mg

Did you take it with a meal usually?
no, about 2-4 hours after a meal

Were the circumstances (amount, type, how you took it) in which you took the drug when you had the bad experience different than usual?
Nope, ive only 1 time did get some trouble after ingesting 4 caps with a total of 304mg's ephedrine.... dizzyness, sweaty, fast hardbeat... but this is a rediculus amount! This was when i didn't know much about it.

How long were you awake when you had the bad experience?
I was a pretty long time up, coz i was in a club

Were you on a multivitamin?
Not that i can remember

Had you taken any other drugs the day of the bad experience?
No, just some weed

Were there any other factors that may have added to the bad experience? Stress, dehydration, shock, etc?
Just freaking out but I calmed myself so my heart wouldn't be working any harder than it needed to be

Lastly and most important, what was your experience? Please be as detailed as possible.
About 2 hours after takin that insane amount, it was like OD on amph. But when i did the usual amount, i noticed only positive things. The only side effect else was a faster hardbeat when i go sleeping after it wears off.

 

[Señora Frijol]

How often had you been using ephedrine?* i used it for about a year

In what form did you use it (what brand name, or pure?) - *Stackers 2, Stackers, Metabolife (and lite and lift and all the knock offs varities), Yellow Jackets, Xenodrine

Approximately how often did you take ephedrine? 5x a week

Approximately what was the dosage?* at first it was 12 mg then i went to 24 then to about 48 then back down to 24 after experiencing some negetive things.

Did you take it with a meal usually? *I would eat an apple or a graham cracker first because i took them in the morning and i didnt have an appetite

Were the circumstances (amount, type, how you took it) in which you took the drug when you had the bad experience different than usual? *no

How long were you awake when you had the bad experience? *8 hours

Were you on a multivitamin?* not a multi vitamin, but i take multipal vitamins

Had you taken any other drugs the day of the bad experience? *caffeine and pot

Were there any other factors that may have added to the bad experience? Stress, dehydration, shock, etc?* no

Lastly and most important, what was your experience? Please be as detailed as possible.
*I had used it to lose about 15 pounds that i had gained from stopping exercising. At the same time i started taking the pills i resumed exercising again. Usually this includes about an hour of rollerblading first thing in the morning.
At first i enjoyed the feeling i got and not knowing the risk associated with it i found myself taking over 40 milligrams a day. The package said not to consume more then 100 a day i think so i believed i was safe.
I remember last summer when i was taking them twice a day i would come home from skating and i would feel like i was zooming. Sometimes my heart felt like it was going to thump out of me. I thought this high i felt then was a good thing. I took the weight off in no time but decided i really liked the energy they gave me. I could tend to my kids all day, clean my house immaculatly, and make lavish time consuming dinners that i had no appetite for and still not be exhausted when i tucked the kids in that night. I would be up till two in the morning and still get up by eight the next day ready to go.

I started to hate that hazy feeling in my head. It wasnt really clarity like i felt when i have smoked meth on a few occasions long ago. On the days i didnt do it i was tired ,sometimes got a headache, and always required an afternoon nap.
I started to read about it as i'm sure you have so i'll spare you all the info but i really became concerned with my use so i cut back to only one Stacker 2 every other day. I was going to kind of wean myself off. Nobody knew i was even taking them and some of the stories i read were women just like me who had a storke or death from it. Many of the people were energetic and not overweight and active and considered themselves to be healthy too. I certainly didnt want to have a stroke in front of my husband or children and have them not even know what was going on.

The last time i took 48 milligrams no one was home and i thought it would keep me up late waiting for them to come back very late. I took one in the morn and one around 5. I got tingling in my left hand and some numbing and thought i was going to have a heart attack and spent the rest of the night rereading about ephedera and praying to God to give me another chance.

I also had told myself i couldnt buy them in a bottle only 4 packs at 7-11. So one day they were out at the store and i decided to quit. I went 4 or 5 days without and when i went into the store there they were taunting me. So i bought some and i took one. It was about 9 in the morning. I drank some tea, a caffeine chaser, i know very, very bad. My day was fine and i drank alot of water. Around three my husband came home and rolled a blunt. We smoked it and i sat at the computer for about a half hour after that. When i got up i felt kind of dizzy. As i walked to the kitchen i felt dizzier and dizzier. I grabbed the counter to steady myself and i made up my mind i had to lay down. I was going to tell my husband i had a sudden headache come on and i had to lie down a few minutes.But instead when i went back to the living room to tell him (feeling dizzier and dizzier) i actually passed out i think and feel on the floor! I was out for a second or so and when i opened my eyes i realized i was on the floor. My husband was saying "Your head hurts so bad you have to lay down right there baby?". I had just dropped right next to the couch. I was like "yeah, i had to lay down right away". Then i went into my room and slept for about two hours and felt better.

Granted i cant directly link that to the pills, but i have never had that happen in my life and i hadnt used any other drug other then pot in several months. As soon as i stopped taking them my head became more clear. It took me about two weeks to return to my normal self after stopping those pills all together. And i felt so clean afterwards.

 

[kiwikr720]

In response to your previous question regarding my post, Chrissie, yes'm I surely did eat. I had a bagel that morning as well as a Nutra-Grain bar thingie before I took the Yellow Jacket.

 

[DrEIMiller]

Strangely for me, moderate doses of ephedrine products tend to make me extremely tired and I doze off about 2 hours after taking them. Usually I'll fall asleep for about an hour. Before I fall asleep I tend to get that annoying jacked up feeling. After I wake up I don't really feel any of the effects of the ephedrine.

 

[Ryu]

How often had you been using ephedrine? 3 years

In what form did you use it (what brand name, or pure?) metabolife, stacker 2/3, yellow jackets, GNC pure ephedra pills

Approximately how often did you take ephedrine? sometimes once a week, other times daily

Approximately what was the dosage?
2-4 pills at a time, sometimes 8 within 12 hours

Did you take it with a meal usually? no

Were the circumstances (amount, type, how you took it) in which you took the drug when you had the bad experience different than usual? 4 pills at once, no food

How long were you awake when you had the bad experience?
4-6 hours after i woke up

Were you on a multivitamin?
nope, took a break on pills

Had you taken any other drugs the day of the bad experience?
no
Were there any other factors that may have added to the bad experience? Stress, dehydration, shock, etc?
just too many pills at once
Lastly and most important, what was your experience? Please be as detailed as possible.
after a 2 month break of not taking pills, i took 4 stackers to get a boost of energy for work. Couldn't focus my mind and couldnt stop moving. i managed to keep myself busy with work, constantly moving. they wore down fairly quick and i stopped shaking. Wasn't a really bad experience, but was hardly a good one. I can usually handle lardge amounts of this drug as long as i stay busy.

 

[Drunkard]

How often had you been using ephedrine?
I used to use it daily about 3 pills per day (12mg ephedrine & 45 mg caffeine per pill) for about 2 months.

In what form did you use it (what brand name, or pure?)
pill

Approximately how often did you take ephedrine?
Once when I woke up once around lunch and one about 30 min before working out

Approximately what was the dosage?
36mg daily

Did you take it with a meal usually?
only mid day one with lunch always before I ate

Were the circumstances (amount, type, how you took it) in which you took the drug when you had the bad experience different than usual? Just slowly developed then one day started having chest pains.

How long were you awake when you had the bad experience?
Maybe about 10-12 hours

Were you on a multivitamin?
Daily with a ginko

Had you taken any other drugs the day of the bad experience?
About three cups of coffee (a bit on the strong side)

Were there any other factors that may have added to the bad experience? Stress, dehydration, shock, etc?
When it happend I was in the middle of a run and it forced me to stop.

Lastly and most important, what was your experience? Please be as detailed as possible.
I started off the morning as normal took one pill plus vits. Then another at lunch and one right before I got off with a cup of coffee. I started off my run with LOTS of energy and then about 3 miles in my heart felt like it was about to jump out of my chest and it had a dull pain like someone had just punched you in the chest. I finished off my run but my heart continued to race and the dull pain remained for another three or four hours. Then it supsided. I took another the next morning I took one and by the time I got to work again my heart was racing with the dull pain and ever since then any time I take ephedrine the same thing happens. I miss the extra energy that it gave me.