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LSD and back pains?

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everytime i drop acid, i have a great time. i dont do it very often, but everytime i have ive noticed i get back pains the day after and it hurts! and last typically two days or so...does anybody have a clue as to why? do you get these similar reactions?
 
Do you always drop the same tabs? Otherwise I'd put it down to either random unusual effect, or you just get into a bad posture while you're tripping hard.
 
Isn't it a common side effect of most(all?) psychedelics?

I noticed that all psychedelics I tried induce muscle cramps to lesser or greater extent. So my back usually hurts for a day or two after tripping.
 
I also get back pain or leg pain the next day after dosing, but I haven't really noticed it with any other psychs I've taken. I usually like to take a couple soma (carisoprodol) the next day and relax, they definitely help with the pain.
 
best thing for back pain is to stretch as much as you can and get a long-lasting ice pack, and just ice the shit for an hour. numb the hell out of it......
 
Dude i used to get the same shit from acid, i figured it was from walking around forever tripping mixed with the general tension/anxiety that comes with an intense trip
 
I've been lucky enough not to experience this, sure does sound like a common side effect tho. Maybe find some cute hippie dude to rub your back and perform cunningulus to distract you from yo pains??
 
my first time was a gentle expirence, hanging out with my boy and his friends it was relaxing and my second time i went to a party and mild back pains...i went to a concert and took a tab, no back pain then. and this last time..from sat morning to monday night so painful!
^i may have to do that
 
Did you move around at all last night? If I lie down and trip on anything it's a better trip, but I come to stiff and sore. Which is why you might have been fine after the concert, and less so having a lazy evening with the boy.
 
Folley said:
MDMA does the same thing, anyone think it could possibly have something to do with serotonin?
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Yes it most definitely does. Both serotonin releasers like MDMA and agonists like LSD can bring on back pain. I get back pain from anything serotonergic.
 
I have noticed it as well, my bet would be it's got something to do with the combination of vasoconstriction and anxiety. Especially if the dose is quite high, towards the end it feels like I pulled the majority of the tendons in my body. It feels like become hard as steel wire, totally tensed up, while residual acid stimulation can resemble electricity running through you. A really shitty combination if you are exhausted from the trip itself. I was happy to discover relieving compounds at some point like benzo's or maybe GHB, etc.

It would seem strange to me if the variance this happens with were a random placebo or setting thing. Personally I can buy into the possibility of iso-LSD or lumi-LSD as degradation products vastly increasing the chance of these symptoms. I've heard a lot of protest against anything other than acid and the power on the mind it has being involved. I guess the mind in turn can have great power over the body but these would be awfully specific complaints. And moreover, what data is available on a lot of other ergotamine derivates and 'champagne LSD', the brown product everyone says to avoid... what do you guys think exactly it is you are risking with such champagne acid? I think it's a fitting theory that impure product can cause this very particular wired and painful feeling.
 
It would make sense that if acid caused back pain, that acid derivatives with a similar receptor activity profile would too.

But I wouldn't go blaming back pain on acid being "impure."

I don't think anxiety or even state of mind has much of a role. Vasoconstriction now there would be something to think about blaming. Whatever it is, it is definitely a product of agonizing serotonin receptors.

There could be an unknown role for serotonin receptors in peripheral pain sensation that triggers it. Or maybe it is known, just no one interested in psychedelics has ever looked up the scientific publications describing it and made the connections...
 
so, i used somany time acid, the previous 1 year about 10 time. i hade hard and not to hard trips. but 1 week ago a buy a small sheet acid, the guy said is not to pure. I ate one small slice, this sheet without perforation. so approximatly 75ug, 1 slice. but the come up is was so strange. the trip was great (i felt) but my back is fucking paind. everybody have idea.

thx
 
Yeah I get that sometimes after acid, or esp shrooms, but it's normally in my legs and neck. Icyhot/tiger balm and a massage + stretching should get you back to normal in a day or two.
 
Tensing your muscles, sitting up, tripping all night definitely plays a role in the aching muscles. As well as LSD being a serotonin agonist.
 
It is probably from you being tense for 12 hours the day before. I suggest you doing some yoga before/during and while coming down. You don't need to do it for a long time but stretch your body out. Besides it feeling orgasmic during your trip, you will feel GREAT after. I'm a Pain patient and I love the way my back and neck feel during and the days after a trip. I rarely take my pain meds for days after a nice trip.
 
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