Too many to count.
The first extreme situation i encountered was when a friend dropped for the second time. Her first pill had been the mind blowingly wonderful, ego-dissolving, concious-expanding, wonderfully squishy empathy-enhancing experience first pills usually are. The second time she dropped however, she got over excitied, and somehow the scales tipped in the opposite direction, and she plunged into a 1/2 hour long bout of crying, nausea, and having difficulty breathing without focussing on it. Then she started to hyperventilate. Not pleasant.
Got her through it by just reminding her she had administered a psychoactive chemical, and that it would eventually wear off. Also, isolating her in a warm, comfortable place with lots of access to water and only me and another close friend keeping her company so she wouldn't get overwhelmed.
And of course, artificially restricting her breath intake (paper bags actually do work for this purpose) when she started to hyperventilate.
All this of course happened when i'd just taken 120mg of MDMA myself.
I was fairly close to seeking medical help a number of times during that incident.
Also, i managed to meet my current b/friend on NYE when he started to overheat after railing a pill. As the voice of most 'experience' at the party, I was put in charge of him. I shamelessly used my ill-gotten authority to get him to remove his shirt, to cool him down. He then became a little too distracted to freak out.
hey, i was helping

The first extreme situation i encountered was when a friend dropped for the second time. Her first pill had been the mind blowingly wonderful, ego-dissolving, concious-expanding, wonderfully squishy empathy-enhancing experience first pills usually are. The second time she dropped however, she got over excitied, and somehow the scales tipped in the opposite direction, and she plunged into a 1/2 hour long bout of crying, nausea, and having difficulty breathing without focussing on it. Then she started to hyperventilate. Not pleasant.
Got her through it by just reminding her she had administered a psychoactive chemical, and that it would eventually wear off. Also, isolating her in a warm, comfortable place with lots of access to water and only me and another close friend keeping her company so she wouldn't get overwhelmed.
And of course, artificially restricting her breath intake (paper bags actually do work for this purpose) when she started to hyperventilate.
All this of course happened when i'd just taken 120mg of MDMA myself.
I was fairly close to seeking medical help a number of times during that incident.
Also, i managed to meet my current b/friend on NYE when he started to overheat after railing a pill. As the voice of most 'experience' at the party, I was put in charge of him. I shamelessly used my ill-gotten authority to get him to remove his shirt, to cool him down. He then became a little too distracted to freak out.
hey, i was helping

) there has only been one other incident.