Lots of people who can relate, unfortunately... what was your usage like prior to this starting? what have you tried in the years to address it? any other symptoms beyond anhedonia / depression?
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Lots of people who can relate, unfortunately... what was your usage like prior to this starting? what have you tried in the years to address it? any other symptoms beyond anhedonia / depression?
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Hi so I took molly 2 nights in a row this last Friday and Saturday I took about .3 the first night and split .5 with 3 people the next day and rolled pretty decent both nights but I woke up Sunday with severe trembling and I was so nauseous I couldn't even stand. I ended up sleeping for a while that night and the next day I was still nauseous but doing a little better. Well since then I now constantly feel hyperfocused like I'm always in fight or flight mode and super anxious and incredibly emotional to the point were I just cry about anything and have had trouble sleeping to the point I've been taking meds and still wake up multiple times a night. It's been 5 days and I still feel this way and tbh I am scared I will never go back to normal like I damaged my brain. I have tried Googling this and all its done is freak me out more. Has anyone else gone through this and does it ever get better?
Lots of people have experienced this. The overwhelming majority get better pretty quickly. 5 days is nothing - your brain went through a lot. The best you can do is relax, eat well, get some exercise, try to get some sleep, and try not to worry about it. Millions of people have taken molly with no permanent issues in larger doses than you did.
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i wasn't using much at all. prior to dosing on the 1st of april 2016, i had maybe a small amount on 1st of jan 2016, and maybe some in september 2015. even on 1st of april it was like 'just' two lines of mixed md and coke.
i did use an immune supressant (for crohn's disease, an auto immune disease) on april 1st as well - though i'd be 'on' the same drug while doing molly before, on april i had been dosed the same day.
since then i've tried like
idk
20 differnet supplements; lithium, preganolone, selank/semax, nsi 189, uridine, piracetam, loads of shit.
nsi 189 (with zero tolerance) brought back emotions somewhat - but it soon lost that effect (it lasted maybe for 1 day of dosing and then the next day the effect
was nearly all gone. and then i'll have to wait a year etc, to dose again, or else i'll do nothing.)
prozac also, on the first day of dosing with zero tolerance, seems to bring the emos back somewhat. but then the second day, third etc, does nothing noticable (and i'm p sure
this isn't just me adjusting to the new higher level of emos.'
aside from that nothing has helped. it's hell and i wouldn't wish this on anyone.
other symptoms:
tinnitus sometimes -
awful sleep, esp for the first few years after. like wake up 12 times a night. no dreams or very low emo but intense dreams. i had extreme anger and agitation, felt like my mind was racing and couldn't
rest at all. prozac helps with this. didn't get any of the stranger symptoms like HPPD or w/e.
what have you tried/where are the others who haven't recovered? afaik on this forum everyone said that everyone got better within 24 months or so?
i did use an immune supressant (for crohn's disease, an auto immune disease) on april 1st as well - though i'd be 'on' the same drug while doing molly before, on april i had been dosed the same day.
since then i've tried like
idk
20 differnet supplements; lithium, preganolone, selank/semax, nsi 189, uridine, piracetam, loads of shit.
nsi 189 (with zero tolerance) brought back emotions somewhat - but it soon lost that effect (it lasted maybe for 1 day of dosing and then the next day the effect
was nearly all gone. and then i'll have to wait a year etc, to dose again, or else i'll do nothing.)
prozac also, on the first day of dosing with zero tolerance, seems to bring the emos back somewhat. but then the second day, third etc, does nothing noticable (and i'm p sure
this isn't just me adjusting to the new higher level of emos.'
aside from that nothing has helped. it's hell and i wouldn't wish this on anyone.
other symptoms:
tinnitus sometimes -
awful sleep, esp for the first few years after. like wake up 12 times a night. no dreams or very low emo but intense dreams. i had extreme anger and agitation, felt like my mind was racing and couldn't
rest at all. prozac helps with this. didn't get any of the stranger symptoms like HPPD or w/e.
what have you tried/where are the others who haven't recovered? afaik on this forum everyone said that everyone got better within 24 months or so?
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oh should also add - i hadn't really felt much change to 2019 june, so after that i just sort of started dosing mdma again. probably done it like 9 times since. idk if this has made things worse or not. i feel incredibly dense about it now. i just felt so miserable and alienated on nights out, and wanted desperately to believe what all the drs etc told me - that it was psychosomatic and so on.
So I just saw your post and thought I'd drop back in to share some thoughts I have regarding LTC which will hopefully help.
I've had LTC since around Sep 2017, and for the first two years I saw no improvement at all. I only started improving slowly over 2 years in and now I feel like I'm getting close to complete recovery, although I feel like I still might take a few more months to get fully better. I've had all symptoms you've listed above including the inability to feel emotions, DP/DR, headaches, tinnitus, sleep disturbances, cognitive issues, sexual dysfunction etc so rest assured that your symptoms are normal. At my worst I thought I was permanently brain damaged and almost committed suicide. I've also been down the road of trying different supplements and drugs believing that LTC was a neurotransmitter related issue so I can completely relate to your situation.
I honestly believe there is a lot of misinformation on this forum around the nature of LTC which hindered my recovery, first and foremost being that LTC is caused by MDMA damaging serotonin receptors and axons in the brain or MDMA throwing off the production/balance of serotonin and that the damage is permanent. 3-4 years ago when I obsessively trawled this forum looking for a cure there was a
photo which I think a lot of people in this forum have seen being passed around which showed that MDMA causes permanent serotonin axon damage in rats. However if you look at the original study the MDMA doses given to these rats were incredibly high and concentrated at 5mg/kg twice daily for 7 days straight. That's equivalent to 350mg for a 70kg person twice a day for 7 days and not reflective at all of how most people on the forum have used MDMA and gotten LTC. If you were to drink alcohol 20-30 standard drinks twice a day for 7 days straight I'm pretty sure you'd get brain damaged too. Also if you google there are also a lot of studies showing that it is inconclusive whether MDMA damages serotonin axons at normal recreational doses. So I highly doubt MDMA causes serotonin axon damage at the doses which most people on this forum have used MDMA. In any case the brain is neuroplastic and people have recovered from far worse such as concussions, brain surgeries, CTEs to live fulfilling lives and there are a lot of activities that people do which 'damage' the brain such as drinking, smoking weed, stress from work/life and they still seem to be ok. So MDMA does not damage your brain and therefore LTC is not a neurotransmitter/or neurotransmitter axon related issue.
In my opinion LTC is mental illness/mental health related. So you might say in response to that - I don't or didn't have a mental health issue. And I would say in response I completely understand where you're coming from because once upon a time I felt the same way too. Years ago I always had a certain impression of depression/anxiety and never believed it would be something I would personally experience. When I had LTC I was also diagnosed with depression by my GP and I never expected depression would feel like that. Also your LTC symptoms only started after doing MDMA right? But be honest with yourself - in the years and months prior to your LTC were you really satisfied with life? Or did your energy levels decline slowly for years prior? Did you slowly feel more disconnected from your friends, your emotions and lose interest in activities and social life? Did you ever feel something was off in your life but could never pinpoint what it was? Or did you ever feel stressed out from work/study or feel like your life was headed in the wrong direction? If so, which I think 99% of people on this forum would have experienced, your LTC is actually mental health related.
So with mental health and specifically LTC there are a couple of relevant concepts which helped me and might help you.
Thinking/Feeling/Acting
First and foremost how you think affects how you feel and act, and how you feel affects how you think and act. Similar to riding a bike, conscious thought patterns we develop, especially when we're younger slowly become unconscious over time. When they become unconscious that basically affects how we feel. This process doesn't happen overnight - it happens over years and decades. This is why you could take a room full of 5 year olds and they act similarly, then decades later they become completely different people who can't relate with one another. The different thinking patterns and values they adopt from their parents and society eventually change the trajectory of their life, and given years and decades become very difficult to change. Some thought patterns are helpful, and some thought patterns are harmful. With mental health issues people develop harmful values and thinking patterns which affect their self-image, ability to connect with others and cause unnecessary stress/anxiety in life. These thoughts become more and more difficult but not impossible to address the older we become. If you've ever felt a sense that you're stuck acting a certain way or stuck feeling a certain way this is why. A lot of symptoms of LTC overlap with those of depression, and although LTC and depression may not be exactly the same I feel that they are very much related. With depression in my personal opinion I believe that it's not really a neurotransmitter imbalance related illness, I think it's a social/relationship/behavioural/emotional illness caused by dysfunctional thinking patterns which have become so ingrained over time that they've become subconscious affecting the way we feel and interact with others. The depressive symptoms are our body's and mind's way of telling us we need to change and are an evolutionary mechanism similar to pain telling us something's wrong. For example rumination is a classic symptom of depression. Have you ever thought that rumination might be helpful to unpack why we think the way we think and our subconscious behaviour? A well documented effect of depression is depressive realism - apparently people with depression tend to see issues less subjectively and more objectively. That allows us to see our own issues more objectively and identify which areas in our lives need improvement. With DP/DR we are less present in the current moment and it feels almost like we're an objective bystander to our own life. This forces us to take a pause from life and view our own behaviour and thinking patterns more objectively. I think depression is an important evolutionary mechanism to make us reassess our lives when things go wrong.
Chronic Stress/Anxiety or Trauma
I would say basically everybody on this forum has experienced DP/DR. DP/DR is a condition not necessarily limited to LTC. There are a lot of instances where people get DP/DR after smoking weed, or a traumatic incident or after chronic stress. DP/DR occurs when the stress or anxiety you experience exceeds your brain's capacity to endure it and therefore your brain changes mode and instead you become numb and disconnected from your surroundings and emotions. Stress and anxiety are partially related to the events in our lives but also to the way our minds assign meaning to the events which happen to us. For example two people might do the same job and one person feels extremely stressed out whereas the other really enjoys their job. This is related to how these two people view their jobs - one might view their job as a learning experience and opportunity to try new things, whereas the other might view their job as a role in which they need to perform or they'll get fired and they'll be unable to feed their family. With social anxiety for example people might be socially anxious because they are afraid of people judging them by what they say or do. Therefore they are afraid to be themselves and worry about what others think of them. This fear of judgement might be because sometime in the past they acted a certain way and people responded a certain way rejecting them, therefore they became conditioned to not act that way or care more about what others thought of them. Of course for some people there is probably also a genetic predisposition to anxiety although I think the genetic predisposition might be overstated and can be overcome by changing the way you think. For example, some people are more socially anxious than others because they are more sensitive to what people think of them than others (the genetic connection). However, once they understand that in society there is a wide spectrum of people, everybody has 'haters' but also people who would accept them for being themselves and oftentimes whether they are accepted or not is not a reflection of on their own actions/behaviour but rather the values and beliefs of the other person or in other words 'haters gonna hate' and 'who gives a fuck what other think' their social anxiety can be alleviated. This is just one example of how thinking patterns can address whether or not and how we experience anxiety. So in summary chronic stress/anxiety is a major contributing factor to DP/DR which is partially influenced by genetics, our external environment, our experiences and also the values, beliefs and thinking patterns we have which affect the meaning we assign to external events. In order to recover we need to either change our external environment to reduce stressors, or change the thinking patterns we use to interpret our external environment.
Emotions
So almost everybody on this forum has probably experienced emotional numbness. I can't speak for anybody else here but with my personal experience I've realised that a lot of my emotional numbness was caused by denying and repressing my emotions, over a period of close to 8 years. When I started recovering I started realising how important and necessary emotions are to mental wellbeing and also the concept of emotional maturity. So I'm a 26 y.o. male, and when I was younger ~16 years old I started picking up toxic masculinity traits such as emotions are 'gay' and 'real men' don't show emotion and I started to consciously repress the way I felt. I thought 'real men' acted like James Bond or Jordan Belfort in the 'Wolf of Wall Street'. I'm not sure about the ladies on this forum but I think this might actually be a very common thinking pattern shared by men. Over time repressing my emotions became so ingrained in my psyche I became emotionally numb and unable to feel as it had become an unconscious habit. However what I didn't realise at the time was that emotions are crucial for cognition, feeling connected with others and just feeling alive. Why is that? Emotions are actually an internal evolutionary feedback mechanism which guide us towards doing things which help us survive and feel good. Feeling happy after playing basketball or meeting up with friends? Makes you want to do more right? Feeling sad after a friend heads overseas for work? Makes you want to spend more time with that friend and appreciate the other friends you have around you and value the fact that your time with them is limited and precious. Feeling angry after losing a basketball game? Makes you want to practise harder and more motivated to find ways to win future games. Feeling hurt after saying something and feeling that a friend's judging your character? Makes you think about whether what you said was socially acceptable or not or makes you reconsider your friendship. Emotions are a vital feedback mechanism which helps us determine what activities we should do, who we should associate with and helps us make sure we act in socially acceptable ways. In addition, being able to express emotion appropriately is completely necessary for mental wellbeing. Humans are conditioned to be social - since the dawn of humanity humans lived in tribes and societies because living together meant a greater chance of survival. Being able to express emotions signals to our friends that we enjoy their company, or that we find what they say offensive, or that we need their help during a time of sadness and allows others to either recalibrate their behaviour so they know how to act in a more socially acceptable manner or comfort us to meet our emotional needs or to hang around us more often. So there is also nothing wrong in being able to express emotion in fact it is important and necessary to be able to express how you feel. Earlier I touched upon the concept of emotional maturity. From what I understand, emotional maturity is realising the importance of emotions, being able to identify what we feel, why we feel that way and also being able to express that in an age appropriate manner. Basically all kids are taught subjects such as math, science and language growing up but not all kids are taught 'emotional maturity' which is just as important. Whether or not kids are taught emotional maturity depends on whether their family understands this concept which is influenced by the values and beliefs of the parent and also cultural attitudes. In my opinion being able to 'feel' is almost like a skill which needs to be learnt just like math or writing and can be lost if we don't practice it over time through social conditioning. For example, let's delve into childhood developmental psychology. If a child has emotionally responsive parents they would feel comfortable expressing their emotions e.g. wanting a new toy knowing that their parents would meet their needs. On the other hand if a child grew up with abusive parents they would not feel comfortable expressing their emotions as they have been socially conditioned to believe that if they expressed their emotions they would either not be met or that they would be scorned by their parents. This is an extreme example but oftentimes emotional repression can have its roots in childhood, traumatic events, social exclusion or thinking patterns developed over time becoming subconscious habits. During my LTC I had headaches, eye clenching, chest tightness and muscles pains which I now realise were psychosomatic symptoms of repressed emotions and have greatly improved after relearning 'how to feel'.
Recovery Process
So in order to recover what you need to do is:
1. Accept that LTC is mental health related, that you're not brain damaged in any way and that LTC and DP/DR is a natural response by your mind to overwhelming stress or thinking patterns which have led to a breakdown in your relationships/work/self image. The symptoms that you're experiencing is your mind telling you you need to take a break and rethink how you're thinking and acting in a way which allows you to better connect with others, prioritise activities and work which makes you happy and reduce stress in your life.
2. Reduce external stressors, change your environment or understand and reframe the root thinking patterns which are contributing to you feeling stress and anxiety.
3. Reexamine your values and beliefs and thinking patterns so that you can express your true self and do prioritise activities and work congruent to your personality and what's really important to you.
4. Relearn to feel emotions, identify emotions, express emotions so you can better connect with others.
Once you address these issues you will start to recover and your physical symptoms will start to subside as well! There is no quick fix and this process has taken years for me. This process also might sound easy but is actually incredibly hard, but once you start to recover you'll slowly start to realise again how incredible life can be and come out the other side a much better person.
A lot of my thoughts have been developed through my experience of getting better, extensive reading and also SpiderBro who added me awhile back to a LTC reddit support group. After speaking to a lot of the other people in the group it confirmed my belief that LTC is mental illness related, not neurotransmitter related, at least over the long term.
Hope this was useful.
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thank you for the post dude.
not sure i agree - but i do appreciate it and the effort.
not sure i agree - but i do appreciate it and the effort.
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> However if you look at the original study the MDMA doses given to these rats were incredibly high and concentrated at 5mg/kg twice daily for 7 days straight. That's equivalent to 350mg for a 70kg person twice a day for 7 days and not reflective at all of how most people on the forum have used MDMA and gotten LTC. If you were to drink alcohol 20-30 standard drinks twice a day for 7 days straight I'm pretty sure you'd get brain damaged too. Also if you google there are also a lot of studies showing that it is inconclusive whether MDMA damages serotonin axons at normal recreational doses. So I highly doubt MDMA causes serotonin axon damage at the doses which most people on this forum have used MDMA.
so i disagree here. at least in the UK, it's p normal to do a gram a night or so. I don't know about the purity but if you combine that with + factors or a particular susceptibility to injury i think you can start to approach 'crazy' doses used in the study. i alwasy get freaked out when people say that 150mg is like a high dose, bc here in london everyone buys a gram and sort of shares it round and everyone adds in a lot of shit and overall i wouldn't be suprised if you managed 500mg+ per session.
for example here:
www.dailymail.co.uk
a woman DIES after taking 500mg. DIES. everyone else in her friendship group taking similar amounts seems fine. sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and die - so it seems reasonable to suppose sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and your (neurons) die a bit.
so i disagree here. at least in the UK, it's p normal to do a gram a night or so. I don't know about the purity but if you combine that with + factors or a particular susceptibility to injury i think you can start to approach 'crazy' doses used in the study. i alwasy get freaked out when people say that 150mg is like a high dose, bc here in london everyone buys a gram and sort of shares it round and everyone adds in a lot of shit and overall i wouldn't be suprised if you managed 500mg+ per session.
for example here:
Teen took fatal amount of MDMA in queue of O2 so dogs wouldn't find it
Emily Lyon, 17, collapsed after taking two lots of the party drug MDMA. The teen from Middlesex took half a gram before going into a Red Bull Culture Clash DJ competition at London's O2 academy.
a woman DIES after taking 500mg. DIES. everyone else in her friendship group taking similar amounts seems fine. sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and die - so it seems reasonable to suppose sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and your (neurons) die a bit.
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I am new to having these symptoms and although it has only been 6 days since I rolled I can say I don't break down crying for no reason anymore and sleep aids actually help me sleep, I slept 6 hours without waking up last night which the last 5 days It was only 3-4 hours. I still have head pressure and hyper alertness which is probably just the incredibly bad anxiety i have as well since it feels like flight or fight mode, I wonder do your neurons and receptors heal or regrow like I've read? I definitely see improvement in myself but not so much that I feel close to healed and it's only been 1 day. I also see probably 95% of the people who have ltc heal whether it takes them 2 months or 10 years(yes I've seen a post where it took someone a decade to start to heal). I'm trying to figure this all out and start finding a positive outlook were I don't get on here or the internet looking for answers that either stress me out or are positive and make me search for more answers. Alot of the scientific studies I found all conflict with each other and I also want to know if taking a ssri and benzos might help the healing process
> However if you look at the original study the MDMA doses given to these rats were incredibly high and concentrated at 5mg/kg twice daily for 7 days straight. That's equivalent to 350mg for a 70kg person twice a day for 7 days and not reflective at all of how most people on the forum have used MDMA and gotten LTC. If you were to drink alcohol 20-30 standard drinks twice a day for 7 days straight I'm pretty sure you'd get brain damaged too. Also if you google there are also a lot of studies showing that it is inconclusive whether MDMA damages serotonin axons at normal recreational doses. So I highly doubt MDMA causes serotonin axon damage at the doses which most people on this forum have used MDMA.
so i disagree here. at least in the UK, it's p normal to do a gram a night or so. I don't know about the purity but if you combine that with + factors or a particular susceptibility to injury i think you can start to approach 'crazy' doses used in the study. i alwasy get freaked out when people say that 150mg is like a high dose, bc here in london everyone buys a gram and sort of shares it round and everyone adds in a lot of shit and overall i wouldn't be suprised if you managed 500mg+ per session.
for example here:
Teen took fatal amount of MDMA in queue of O2 so dogs wouldn't find it
Emily Lyon, 17, collapsed after taking two lots of the party drug MDMA. The teen from Middlesex took half a gram before going into a Red Bull Culture Clash DJ competition at London's O2 academy.
a woman DIES after taking 500mg. DIES. everyone else in her friendship group taking similar amounts seems fine. sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and die - so it seems reasonable to suppose sometimes you can just have a bad reaction and your (neurons) die a bit.
The article says that her friends took 250mg, and she took 500mg. 250mg seems like a normalish dose, 500mg a heroic dose. Either way in the study I linked the rats were given the equivalent of 700mg a day for 7 straight days and I highly doubt the vast majority of people on this forum have taken that much for 2 days straight let alone 7 days.
I also doubt it's normal to do 1g a night even in London. It might be normal to take 1g into a club and share it with friends. But that would mean everybody takes a normal dose of MDMA. Or maybe it's normal because MDMA in London is cut with fillers. If you look at ravers the vast majority usually use MDMA within normal doses, and then there are a small minority who willingly choose to take a heroic dose knowing full well there could be consequences for their brain but they choose to do it anyway. But that would hardly make taking 1g 'normal'.
In any case the reason I responded was because in your original post you said that you weren't using much at all, and that your usage on Sep 2015, Jan 2016 and April 2016 precipitated your LTC. It seems to me that you spaced apart your sessions well and took MDMA responsibly. What doses did you take then? Also the fact that you've tried all those supplements and still seem to be fixated on your symptoms years later suggests to me you've developed some kind of anxiety around your LTC. I think it's highly possible that people get real LTC symptoms after rolling for days to months because the brain's serotonin is depleted and that serotonin needs to be replenished. But beyond that a lot of LTC becomes based around anxiety around your initial LTC symptoms. In other words your anxiety around your initial LTC symptoms is what's prolonging your LTC.
Many people on this forum have gone on to 100% recover months or years after their initial onset of LTC. You're not alone in the sense that we've all experienced the symptoms you're experiencing so we can all relate. But in order to recover you need to understand that fixating on your symptoms is not helpful for your recovery and could actually be whats prolonging your LTC.
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but it feels like while a lot of people hve recovered - a lot of them HAVEN'T - esp if with complications like diseases, doing mdma again, and +5 years of little progress. surely there are also people on here
who havent recovered?
who havent recovered?
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I can say its been a month since my ltc symptoms have manifested themselves and I wanted to said its gone from everyday being hell to now there's good and bad days and everything inbetween. I still have high anxiety and insomnia which medication takes care of both of those pretty well but the head pressure, intense mood swings and numbness has gone away. I will say I do feel depressed most days but I've noticed that some days I feel good and some I feel good in small doses but most are still bad but hey it's progress. I guess what my post is saying is there is hope, I already had mental health issues relating to low serotonin and rolling two days in a row brought my ltc but hey it's getting better very slowly but still better. I think most people will recover in time and those that feel like they won't and have gotten checked and cleared by medical professionals have probably developed an anxiety related condition due to trauma. Keep your heads up one day you will look back at this time and it will be a lesson well learned
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I actually have a question for anyone taking vitamin b6, on the days I take it, it makes my head feel a little weird almost like it's bringing the head pressure symptom back but not quite. The days I don't take it I don't have that weird feeling whatsoever. Any reason why that might be?
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I've been taking one a day on and off for like 3 weeks I doubt its caused any damage
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In my personal experience I found Bromantane to help greatly in recovering from my MDMA and various other serotoninergic stimulants.
I took it for a month straight at 100mg per day, and there were dramatic improvements that persisted after discontinuation.
Bromantane works works in multiple ways:
- it upregulates the enzyme that is the last step in Dopamine production, without causing release
- it may have minor Dopamine and Serotonin reuptake inhibition properties
- it boosts BDNF release, a peptide hormone that repairs neurons and promotes neurogenesis (formation of new neurons)
It feels like a very mild stimulant that is also anxiolytic but it is not sedating at all.
It did not impact my ability to eat and sleep and it had an antidepressant and cognitive enhancement effect.
It did not cause impulses to redose when taking it or cravings after discontinuation, it did not feel addictive at all.
I did not have any physical or mental side effects.
Bromantane is a prescription drug in Russia, but it is sold as a supplement in Europe and in North America.
Not sure if it is considered an illegal drug here in the UK given the blanket ban, but I have imported it twice a few years ago without trouble and I've seen a domestic online sports supplement shop that has it.
It is not an analog of any of the classic illegal drugs categories.
I have no idea if taking it could help you, given your situation it might be worth giving it a shot but ultimately it's up to you.
Feel free to ask any questions.
If any of you guys had brain fog and a lot of head pressure like I did, my guess on the reason of the cause is probably due to brain inflammation. Just think about it, brain inflammation leads to swelling, leads to head pressure. Eat and do activities that prevent inflammation, such as rest, drink tea, take advil (perhaps?), exercise.
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The brain has no feeling, so if you feel pressure in the head it could be but it could be other stuff too like high blood pressure or dehydration.
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So im a month and a half into my recovery and like 4 days of last week I had zero hyperfocus and was able to sleep all the way through the night with only taking my normal allergy meds and 3mg of melatonin. I drank all weekend and got horrible sleep all 3 days like continuously waking up at night multiple times and now today I have a little bit of hyperfocus again. Seems like alcohol set me back a little bit in my recovery. I don't feel anywhere as near as bad as I was so I'm not super worried about what effects the alcohol had but has anyone else noticed alcohol bringing some of the symptoms that were gone back and if so why would it?