Ecstasy long-term brain effects
Hi everyone, I have been reading this forum for the last few days and probably went thru 20 topics and 200 posts, pretty interesting and informational discussions.
Well, I had a few questions on ecstasy and the brain after, also would like to add my personal experiences with them.
My focus will be more on the long-term effects, because i never really had any short-term effects after a night of ecstasy, only maybe in the morning feel a little out of place but usually in the next 2 days im back to normal. By the way, after using ecstasy, for me best works weed in the morning as it relaxes me and most of the time I would find something intersting to spend time on, friends, games, movies .. etc .. but best is with a girl.
Story:
I was 18 years old when I first started taking ecstasy pills every 1-2-3 weeks and most would be 3-4 pills during the weekend. For the first year, I had taken around 40-50 pills with a few brakes in which most longest would be a month. The second year, was every 1-2 months, but I would take 4-5 pills a night and the third year every 2-3 months, 2-3 pills a night. The last year which is this one, I had a few brakes like 5 months, 3 months and altogether i did ecstasy 3-4 times in the begining, february-march and last month october 3-4 times also.
- When i was adding up my memories for the nights with ecstasy, i came up with a 120-150 pills thru the whole time. I dont know if the numbers above are going to add up to this, but I tried to space em out as precisly as possible as i read in some posts that the time in between ecstasy usage is important.
Effects:
The two biggest effects I notice in me are holding up conversations with people and my sence of humor is somewhat gone. 2-3 years ago, i could talk to people normally, never worried about what i said and now i would say 2-3-4 sentences and not know what to say after that. Sometimes i would feel akward for saying something that was out ot place, for example: saying good night to someone when its only 6pm .. Before when i was around a group of people, I could handle multiple conversations, make jokes, talk crazy and if I had to be straight up with someone I had no problem telling him what was on my mind. Now, always being carefull of what the other person will think, I dont have that sence of humor where I can talk freely.
Other side effects, would be memory loss, yea, but that is not a big problem for me as i tend to remember the important stuff. Keeping focused was another problem for me, but that seems to be coming back to me as I have a pretty steady job now, and I have some plans and ideas that am now following.
Recovery:
My recovery lasted me for a year n' some months now and finally starting to feel the old me again, but as i see it, its not over yet. (I want to add that I was also using other drugs as alcohol, weed and coke mostly and have tried most of the other drugs couple times each, including mushrooms, speed, heroin, acid (one time), etc .. From my opinion, trying out these drugs did not cause the problems with me, neither the alcohol did, maybe the weed and coke had a little reaction to it, but mostly was the ecstasy.)
Thru my recovery I spended most of my time home, attended college and rarely went out with friends. During that time i smoked a lot of weed, because it helped me relax, otherwise i could not sit all day in the house, gets boring.
I guess my age at 22 is a good reason of quiting the nightlife drugs and actually focusing on my future. The last 6 months I have been pretty clean from all drugs, except the october part.
I realized that recovery does take a lot of time, especially from ecstasy. Little by little I see myself coming out of a big hole i dig my self in. I could say that, because 6 months ago I could not make any plans for the future. It was like a big claud infront of me that did not allow me to look beyond it. Now that im actually getting my focus back in life, i have a reason to believe there is some kind of recovery. I still have the problem with communicating, but is definetly better then before. I hope it gets to where it was before all this, as normal, but only time will show. My advice for the people that want to try out the drugs would be " KNOW YOUR LIMITS. " I dont like telling people dont do drugs, because from my experince, they are not so-bad untill you overdue them. I personally did not abuse ecstasy to where it was out of control, but as all the drugs added up on me, they started showing their effects. Also, i would not recommend ecstasy for kids under 18 - even 19, because their brain is still forming and just acouple times of using can really cause very serious brain damage.
Information/Tests - Scientists:
I personally believe very little from what they write in all these drug (e)websites, especially the lab tests they run on animals. I think ecstasy, at least for now is a drug that only experienced users can tell the long-term effects as they can judge by their own personal feelings. I know that each person has different genetic cells and is effected in a different way, but I think they all point in one direction (negative).
Questions:
The ecstasy long-term side effects, will they ever go away ? Will the brain ever get back to normal ? (Im asking this question in a way of becoming the person i used to be.)
If the brain heals slowly, what kind of healing is accuring ? (For the last 2 years i see changes happening with me in very different ways, positive mostly, but still far from the other me.)
How long is the normal healing proccess of recovery in the brain ? (This one would be answered most accurate by the people who have experienced the recovery over time.)
Will taking drugs on special oceasions 5-6 times a year have effect on the recovery ? (I still have not limited myself to where I would not take anymore drugs as in my opinion their effects are not so-dangerous when used with limits.)
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I would write threads very rarely on the internet, but this one came out really long. I tried to make it interesting and at the same time give the information from my personal experiences. I really hope the new generation (kids) get the message about the facts of ecstasy and what is capable of before they have to learn from their own mistakes as I did and as many other people around the world. Brain damage from ecstasy is something no-one can reverse, no doctor, no technology, neither any of the brain-recovery-drugs they prescribe, its a long period of recovering time and hopefully we understand how it works from my questions.
Thank you :D
Hi everyone, I have been reading this forum for the last few days and probably went thru 20 topics and 200 posts, pretty interesting and informational discussions.
Well, I had a few questions on ecstasy and the brain after, also would like to add my personal experiences with them.
My focus will be more on the long-term effects, because i never really had any short-term effects after a night of ecstasy, only maybe in the morning feel a little out of place but usually in the next 2 days im back to normal. By the way, after using ecstasy, for me best works weed in the morning as it relaxes me and most of the time I would find something intersting to spend time on, friends, games, movies .. etc .. but best is with a girl.
Story:
I was 18 years old when I first started taking ecstasy pills every 1-2-3 weeks and most would be 3-4 pills during the weekend. For the first year, I had taken around 40-50 pills with a few brakes in which most longest would be a month. The second year, was every 1-2 months, but I would take 4-5 pills a night and the third year every 2-3 months, 2-3 pills a night. The last year which is this one, I had a few brakes like 5 months, 3 months and altogether i did ecstasy 3-4 times in the begining, february-march and last month october 3-4 times also.
- When i was adding up my memories for the nights with ecstasy, i came up with a 120-150 pills thru the whole time. I dont know if the numbers above are going to add up to this, but I tried to space em out as precisly as possible as i read in some posts that the time in between ecstasy usage is important.
Effects:
The two biggest effects I notice in me are holding up conversations with people and my sence of humor is somewhat gone. 2-3 years ago, i could talk to people normally, never worried about what i said and now i would say 2-3-4 sentences and not know what to say after that. Sometimes i would feel akward for saying something that was out ot place, for example: saying good night to someone when its only 6pm .. Before when i was around a group of people, I could handle multiple conversations, make jokes, talk crazy and if I had to be straight up with someone I had no problem telling him what was on my mind. Now, always being carefull of what the other person will think, I dont have that sence of humor where I can talk freely.
Other side effects, would be memory loss, yea, but that is not a big problem for me as i tend to remember the important stuff. Keeping focused was another problem for me, but that seems to be coming back to me as I have a pretty steady job now, and I have some plans and ideas that am now following.
Recovery:
My recovery lasted me for a year n' some months now and finally starting to feel the old me again, but as i see it, its not over yet. (I want to add that I was also using other drugs as alcohol, weed and coke mostly and have tried most of the other drugs couple times each, including mushrooms, speed, heroin, acid (one time), etc .. From my opinion, trying out these drugs did not cause the problems with me, neither the alcohol did, maybe the weed and coke had a little reaction to it, but mostly was the ecstasy.)
Thru my recovery I spended most of my time home, attended college and rarely went out with friends. During that time i smoked a lot of weed, because it helped me relax, otherwise i could not sit all day in the house, gets boring.
I guess my age at 22 is a good reason of quiting the nightlife drugs and actually focusing on my future. The last 6 months I have been pretty clean from all drugs, except the october part.
I realized that recovery does take a lot of time, especially from ecstasy. Little by little I see myself coming out of a big hole i dig my self in. I could say that, because 6 months ago I could not make any plans for the future. It was like a big claud infront of me that did not allow me to look beyond it. Now that im actually getting my focus back in life, i have a reason to believe there is some kind of recovery. I still have the problem with communicating, but is definetly better then before. I hope it gets to where it was before all this, as normal, but only time will show. My advice for the people that want to try out the drugs would be " KNOW YOUR LIMITS. " I dont like telling people dont do drugs, because from my experince, they are not so-bad untill you overdue them. I personally did not abuse ecstasy to where it was out of control, but as all the drugs added up on me, they started showing their effects. Also, i would not recommend ecstasy for kids under 18 - even 19, because their brain is still forming and just acouple times of using can really cause very serious brain damage.
Information/Tests - Scientists:
I personally believe very little from what they write in all these drug (e)websites, especially the lab tests they run on animals. I think ecstasy, at least for now is a drug that only experienced users can tell the long-term effects as they can judge by their own personal feelings. I know that each person has different genetic cells and is effected in a different way, but I think they all point in one direction (negative).
Questions:
The ecstasy long-term side effects, will they ever go away ? Will the brain ever get back to normal ? (Im asking this question in a way of becoming the person i used to be.)
If the brain heals slowly, what kind of healing is accuring ? (For the last 2 years i see changes happening with me in very different ways, positive mostly, but still far from the other me.)
How long is the normal healing proccess of recovery in the brain ? (This one would be answered most accurate by the people who have experienced the recovery over time.)
Will taking drugs on special oceasions 5-6 times a year have effect on the recovery ? (I still have not limited myself to where I would not take anymore drugs as in my opinion their effects are not so-dangerous when used with limits.)
--
I would write threads very rarely on the internet, but this one came out really long. I tried to make it interesting and at the same time give the information from my personal experiences. I really hope the new generation (kids) get the message about the facts of ecstasy and what is capable of before they have to learn from their own mistakes as I did and as many other people around the world. Brain damage from ecstasy is something no-one can reverse, no doctor, no technology, neither any of the brain-recovery-drugs they prescribe, its a long period of recovering time and hopefully we understand how it works from my questions.
Thank you :D
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