mephedrone experience
Hi guys,
Have been reading Bl for a while and am quite alarmed by how many people are getting into mephedrone and consider it to be a new wonder drug, so I wanted to share my most recent experience with the research chemical. It isn't a detailed trip report I'm afraid, as my memory of the event is extremely poor (this is one of the side effects I experience). I'm not sure which forum it would be best suited to.
I've taken mephedrone a few times before, when going out to clubs or raves, and have always enjoyed it. It has a nice, euphoric high, makes me extremely sociable and chatty and full of energy - very handy for the recent MDMA drought. It has a short duration (I usually take 250mg in gel caps and I find the euphoria lasts between 1 and 3 hours - when I snort it the peak wears off within 30 mins). The down sides were needing to take more in a night to keep me buzzing for long enough (started with one 250mg dose, most recently took 3 spaced out over the night), poor memory of the night, difficulty getting to sleep, bruxism, frequent urination and increased heart rate. I have not experienced palpitations. To me these did not seem to be too bad when compared to other stimulant drugs.
However, this is where things started to go a bit wrong. Last Wednesday I was in my room by myself in the afternoon, and was bored, so I decided to have a cheeky little line of mephedrone from one of my gel caps (approximately 50mg). The high hit almost immediately, and I spent a very happy 30 mins chatting to friends on the internet. After the peak started to wear off I thought I might as well have another one, as I had nothing to do for the rest of the day. This is when things took a turn for the worse. I could not stop redosing. I cracked open 3 gelcaps (750mg in total) and did not stop until about 8am the following morning, when my nose was too blocked to insufflate any more. I was desperate for another dose - I went to the shop and bought some nasal decongestant, tried snorting multiple thin lines instead of one fat one (by this time the lines had got pretty fat) but I had to admit defeat. When I came to my senses I was horrified - I had not planned to do this at all as I had things I needed to do on Thursday. I couldn't understand how it had happened, and my memory was so hazy to the point of honestly not knowing how I filled those hours (other than snorting meph, of course).
It alarmed me how compulsive the mephedrone has been, and I was very upset with myself for being so weak. I was also feeling pretty under the weather by this point. However - and this is the really scary part - I still went online and ordered myself another 5g. I resoned that I had to replace the gelcaps so I could take them on a night out, and 5g was more economical than a smaller amount. I then went to sleep and awaited the arrival of my package, missing out on a social evening I had been really looking forward to.
When the bag arrived on Friday lunchtime (I had to think very hard about which day is which, my memory is atrocious for the whole period of time) I convinced myself I had better have just one small line to check out the new batch - and didn't stop until Saturday. I slept most of Sat, then again began taking it on Sunday afternoon. Luckily I managed to stop myself at about 10pm as I had a very important meeting on Monday, but this took phenomenal willpower, and obviously I had already taken too much and would not be in a good state of mind for the meeting. I got through about 4g over the weekend, plus 750mg from my gel caps. My instinct is that this mephedrone I ordered on Thursday wasn't very pure - it was a lot cheaper than the stuff I bought previously, and it didn't have as strong an effect, but it may well be that my tolerance was pretty high after doing it the day before. I am aware that I have taken an extremely large and potentially very dangerous amount, and am appalled at my stupidity.
I have not admitted this to anyone. I had a lot of things planned for the days I lost, so I told all my friends I had a nasty cold. My nose was bleeding, my heart was racing, I no longer got a euphoric high, just a mild lift, but I still found it almost impossible to stop redosing. I am a reasonably sensible girl who did a lot of reading about this drug, and understood that it was a research chemical, and had previousaly decided to take it no more often than once a month and no more than 3 gel caps in one night. I have never had anything like this happen to me before. I do not blame the drug as such - it may be that I have a fiendish nature which I have not uncovered before - but as other people also find this drug extremely moreish, I wanted to let people know what happened to me. I thought I could handle it - had taken it several times before and not had a huge urge to redose - but there you go.
In my opinion, whatever your feelings are regarding addiction, mephedrone has the potential to become a very regular feature in a user's life. In my opinion this is due to the cheapness and ease of availabiliy, enjoyable nature of the high, short duration and urge to redose. People can get hold of vast quantities for not very much money by next day delivery, legally, and may be unaware of the potential dangers of this drug. I would suggest that if you do wish to take it, you do not snort it, you only buy small quantities and make sure you do not have any hanging around at home, you leave fairly long periods between taking it, and you read up on the potential dangers on this forum!
Just be careful, guys, stay safe and be aware that it is more than possible to go overboard with this drug. I won't be touching it again.
Sorry for such a long post, I wanted to explain exactly how it happened to me so other people might recognise the same thing happening to them.