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Me the drug guinea pig for 10 years, had MRI lately NO brain damage at all! Read on..

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cyclonis

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Ok I have been doing drugs for 10 years, I am 24 yers of age. I will try to be as accurate as I can. Firstly I did Marijuana for 10 years EVERYDAY since i was late 13, smoked approx 1 gram to 2 grams a day, most I ever stopped was a few times in 10 years for 3 day periods (only did that 3 times or so, am a weed fiend :)) Ok since 15 drank alcohol once or twice a week, pretty heavily (sometimes half a bottle of spirits to 3/4 a botte am only 5'5 55 kg weight. When I hit 22 started drinking maybe 2-3 times a week but not as heavy (2-6 drinks). Did ice when i was 19 about 10 times. I have been doing MDMA on and off for 6 years, one of those years i was doing it two times a week some weeks and on average twice a month. I had a dextromethorphan phase, where I did it every week, sometimes 2-3 days in a row.(not ridiculous dose low 3rd platau but it builds up after a few days) on average i did it once a month for a bout 2 years not counting the binges. I've only tried cocaine once, I've done morphine (from poppy seed extract) about 40 times, but well seperated apart maybe once every 3 months since i was 19. I have also done a few courses of valium and temazapam, and had a 8 month course of lexapro anti-depressant. After all this drug use I did crack eventually lol but thats because I had a bad family life, but as a result of my anxiety I thought I had brain problems beause I was having so many symptoms, so I went to get an Mri of my cervical spine and my brain, and they both came back negative brain damage! my brain was perfectly developed despite smoking weed since late 13 eveyday! so this will be a big relief i hope to a lot of people that have abused the same drugs i have, but didnt go totally overboard. If you balance it out well and dont overdo drugs obsessivley, u can walk away free from brain/heart damage if u keep fit and healthy as a precaution. I must say though I didn't walk away totally free as I once mixed mdma with a maio (st johns wort which is a weak maio) by accident and suffered some eye damage :(, though that is not the result of either of the drugs if used on their own. Never take st johns wort within a 48 hr peroid of mdma. Ah well one of my 9 lives gone lol. I honestly think because I only did coke once and never did heroin I avoided the two deadly ones that could be why i have no dead brain matter, but I got to quit cigarettes so I dont stroke out, they are nasty.
Cya and have a good time ppl.
 
Congrats. So what? :\

You say that you "did crack" but later add to have taken "coke once". Are you aware that coke and crack is practically the same.

This is no ADD material but something for the social club IMHO.

- Murphy
 
Im happy to year that you have no apparent brain damage.

However, I would not have expected any sort of brain damage visible in an MRI from this kind of drug use.
Also, not to shit on your parade, but its quite possible that you have suffered brain damage, but it is not showing up on your MRI.
Remember that brain damage is a relative term. We all suffer some amount of brain damage, but it is good that you apparently have not sustained the type or degree of brain damage that would show up on an MRI.

And yes, crack is, for all intents and purposes, cocaine in its freebase form.
 
yeah cocaine hcl starts out as base when it is coca paste, then it is changed into a salt, which is cocaine hcl, when making crack you are reverting it back to the base form it began as
 
I've tried almost 100 different pharmacologically acting compounds and my MRI came out clear. This, of course, doesn't mean I've encountered any brain damage, just that it's not visible on an MRI.
 
Just reading your posts, I believe you definately have some brain damage...

Everyone is different...I've eaten thousands of e pills in my life and I'm more than healthy and excel in my uni classes...Some people eat E one time and turn into paranoid skitzos...
 
Not much in the way of drug induced brain damage will be visible on MRI. fMRI is a different story, though.
 
Not much in the way of drug induced brain damage will be visible on MRI.
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I think there is no reliable method to make brain damage visible if it's not severe.
Because drugs can induce a permanent change in neurotransmitter levels, which wouldn't be visible at all (if it's not too extreme). These changes can exhibit similar effects. So you might not have actual 'organic' brain damage, but the symptoms might be the same, while nothing is visible at all.

Alcohol at a young age is really bad for your brain development. I come from a country where beer is almost essential to culture and social activity, so this should mean something :)...
Cannabinoids are bad in a young age also (brain development) and cause some persistent non-organic 'brain damage' too.

Well i think your (the ones of people with a similar past) cognitive abilities are below average (i don't mean to offend you personally) and this might not be the only consequence. Of course this doesn't mean, you are 'stupid' but merely that you were not be able to develope the potential you have had.
You might despite your past be very smart - but you reduced the chance to be smart.
 
a "normal" mri means that the structures scanned are normal within specific parameters. an mri does not assess cognitive changes and cognitive testing is a major part of an assessment of "brain damage." if you are concerned that you have caused brain damage from "every day" use of substances then get a complete cognitive and psychological exam. no single scan by itself can definitively prove or disprove brain damage.
 
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Just reading your posts, I believe you definately have some brain damage...
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What makes you say that ?

just seems like a guy who got high alot to me

To the original poster :

Don't fear being brain damaged , I have consumed a very large amount of drugs in my time here on this planet and whatever brain damage they've done is barely noticeable. You just have to learn to deal with your current situation , it's normal for someone your age to suffer some anxiety IMO.

I honestly don't know anyone that doesn't , just try to treat it naturally

Try some breathing exercises or meditation :)
 
i would like to rebut a few statements from people here. The MRI is the most advanced scanning technology in medicine, it can check your every blood vessel to the greatest detail. I definitely do not have organic brain damage, but as someone said my brain chemistry may be altered from drug use, either temporarily or permanently, who knows. I went through a bad stage in my life and suffered anxiety, but I have cleared it up almost totally by basically not living like a mad man (living excessively) and not overthinking, improved my diet and started to exercise etc. And murphycox while coke and crack may be the same thing, i did not snort the ice i smoked it, most people snort cocaine which causes bleeding and brain damage. and to snowy after 10 years of drugs i got an iq test lately and its 125 i am pretty capable in the thinking/cognitive process, my short term memory and reactions are of course slower from smoking weed everyday, and naturally your cognitive abilities are lowered temporarily if u toke that much.
 
I'd be terrified to get an MRI of the old jelly mould. Too many GBL, benzo and alcohol detoxes.... not to mention probable hypoxia from downer-caused central sleep apnoea.... makes me sick to think of what I've done to myself.
 
It would very difficult to physically see minor brain "damage" on an MRI.

What makes you think your topic is advanced?

Your drug use was minimal, you shouldn't be expecting brain damage. This thread has brain damage...
 
From what I can see, you weren't doing very heavily brain damaging drugs. No/minimal RCs, just a little dissociative use, not a heavy drinker, doesn't seem you've ever been dependent on GABAnergics so never suffered those withdrawals. You're probably fine, just a bit slower because of all the weed.
 
i would think a PET scan would show minor abnormalities and would be best for detecting drug damage. Search for drug pet scans on google and you can see a normal brain compared to a coke user/heroin/meth or watever.
 
I think one could warrantably argue that if one's brain doesn't reach the height of its potential due to the inheritance of the wrong allele(s), poor nutrition, or disuse, that one has a sort of brain damage.... in a way... Damage of course means the act of diminishing or the occurrence of the diminution of the functionality, utility, or of (semi-)permanent disturbance to the morphology of something; but what should one call it when a person's brain isn't quite what it would have been if he had taken proper care of it?

Imagine if you lost many large battles to an enemy and then, when you had finally won a small one, celebrated your victory as if you had won the war. I'm not even convinced in the least that you did, in fact, win your small victory, cyclonis. (My lack of credulity somehow persists despite your well-informed, cogent, and fact-based arguments to the contrary.)

I haven't won any, but I don't make any claims of having done so.
 
i would think a PET scan would show minor abnormalities and would be best for detecting drug damage. Search for drug pet scans on google and you can see a normal brain compared to a coke user/heroin/meth or watever.
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You could easily see direct influence of the drugs (the subject is 'high'). Abnormalities due to heavy drug abuse are also easy to indentify, but when it comes to minor abnormalities and multiple different drugs, you cannot see what is 'damaged'.

but what should one call it when a person's brain isn't quite what it would have been if he had taken proper care of it?
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Good point. A person watching TV all the time is likely to have some kind of 'brain damage' too. Especially if the shows being watched are of limited value.

From what I can see, you weren't doing very heavily brain damaging drugs. No/minimal RCs, just a little dissociative use, not a heavy drinker, doesn't seem you've ever been dependent on GABAnergics so never suffered those withdrawals. You're probably fine, just a bit slower because of all the weed.
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You don't need to be a heavy drinker to see significant abnormalities. There are some new studies which suggest a much more significant impact of alcohol consumption in a young age on the brain development, than previously thought of. Interestingly it seems to have not a big importance for the number of neurons, but for the development of brain structures. These abnormalities caused some differences in decision patterns, which showed to more be irrational.
 
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Interesting. You have just described half of Australia's population with your usage.
Maybe not so much with the daily weed intake but all else considered they don't scream out to be anything in excess leaning towards misuse or abuse. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Regarding the MRI, it will not show brain damage for what you are looking for.
 
Well, at least I know tat if I used 25% of the drugs I used growing up I'd have no bran damage.

Wtfs the point of a disckszing thread if your not going to blow use out of the water wth your use of exotic chems? Not to say you should, but your drug use s fairly average. Needs more butane and petrolleum. ;) :D
 
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