Please please help me (Ecstasy, spaced out)

[rmoney]

Hi guys.
On thursday november 4th i did ecstasy for the first time. I am not going to lie i rolled all night and it was a wonderful experience, had a great time at the local club. The pill i took was purple, round, and had what looked like a puppy on it. This was my first time taking e, and i only took one pill. I am 19 year old college student and i have 4.0. I have done lsd, i smoke pot on a regular basis, and i just wanted to try out ecstasy with a few friends.

Towards the end of my roll, i started to have a horrible comedown, i was not scared because i have heard that ecstasy has a bad comedown to it. I started to feel a tingly sensation a little above and to the left of my left eye. This freaked me out more than anything has ever freaked me out. I thought my brain was going numb and i was going to die. My girlfriend calmed me down and put me to sleep. In the morning i woke up perfect. I did not feel depressed, anxious, or anything abnormal. I still have no idea what that tingly numb sensation was but i got over it. This is not my problem but if anyone knows what that is id like to know more about it.

The really scary stuff started to happen a day later. On the second day, Saturday, after my roll, i started to feel a weird. I have this spaced out feeling which has not gotten any better. I smoked pot with my friends, like normal, and for some reason i got a horrible horrible feeling. For some reason i got even more spaced out and felt my heart going crazy. The crazy heart made my mind start going crazy, and i started panicking, my friends calmed me down made me some soup and i felt better when i was sober, still the same spaced out feeling i had before the pot.

Might i add i am a very heavy pot smoker and this has NEVER happened to me before. This spaced out feeling has not gone away and it has been a week now. Every time i smoke weed now i get the exact same thing, anxiety, panic, a racing heart. The feeling is horrible. I just hope this ex did not mess my brain up for life. If i could do anything in the world to take back that night and not take the e pill i would. I wish my body would just go back to normal. This spaced out feeling makes me feel like i am high all the time, and when i get stoned i get extremely fucked up.

Please tell me this is common and it will go away. I dont want to be permanently high anymore. I want to feel sober again. If there is anything i can do to make myself feel normal again please tell me, and if there is anyone out there who has experienced this that would really be amazing to know too. My friends all feel fine after the e, and they keep telling me its all in my head. But i know for a fact that this feeling i am having is not what normal sobriety is, i literally open my eyes and i am spaced out, i wake up spaced out, i hate this.

Please help me

Thank you for anybody who took the time to read all this shit, i appreciate your help and your time.

 

[Darksidesam]

Testing kits are essential if you wish to use and not abuse drugs like ecstasy (MDMA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA

Obviously when you take an ecstasy pill, The substance you are after soley is MDMA,
But depending on your location, the majority of pills in your area:
- May contain Unwanted adulterants
- May be Piperazine rather than MDMA (A chemical you dont want)
- May contain nasty chemicals perhaps Meth or PMA

Best thing to do really is get test kits, this will help you to know what is in them,
Also paired with looking on pillreports, that is upping your chances for looking for something decent.


I read a report a while ago, that Cannabis (not too much!) raises serotonin levels in the brain,
Here is how MDMA works on our brains - http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_03/i_03_m/i_03_m_par/i_03_m_par_ecstasy.html

So perhaps you got anxiety from an unwanted adulterant in it,
And smoking cannabis is aggravating your problems further,

I hope this helps.


As a side note, when i ingest clean mdma, I dont get a comedown like you mention, hours after the experience,
if anything ill feel it a few days afterwards, but i can feel sluggish next day, probably because ive been raving hard the night before

 

[rmoney]

Thanks. I read the stuff in the link you put on your reply. It helped me understand what the ex did. I honestly never want to take the drug again. I just want this spaced out feeling to go away. Do you know of anything i can do to get rid of it?

 

[Andronicus]

Stop smoking any more weed for starters. You're never going to know what is normal if you keep getting high and if you really are experiencing some brain or mind effects then adding pot into the mix is not going to help at all.

Yes it's not entirely uncommon for some people to get a spaced out feeling for a while after a very heavy session, especially if you mix other drugs into it. Obviously nobody can know what was in your pill so it's possible other substances were involved. It probably doesn't matter now. The vast majority of drugs have effects with a finite length and so whatever you took, the chances are very high indeed that you'll start feeling better pretty soon.

However if you keep getting very anxious about it, you'll struggle to know what is purely your mind's creation and what is drug-related. So you need to try to chill out about it. All the usual advice will help - stop with all other drugs immediately, get good sleep, eat well, do exercise, do happy things with nice people, focus externally not internally, realise you'll be fine.

It might even just be that you had a panic attack due to amphetamine over-stimulation (I've had them - they're truly horrid). I've found that once you've had such an attack, they come a lot easier the next time, especially shortly afterwards, partly because you know they are possible and how they feel. They can make you feel tingling, spaced out, panicky, heart racing etc etc. Then you decided to smoke weed. Armed with your new powers of panic-attack you had another one triggered by the pot (whether you've had them before on pot makes no difference). Now you're really worried about permanent problems you're probably anxious all the time so don't know which way is up.

The good news is that if you stop with the weed and follow the advice above, you'll almost certainly start feeling better and better until the feelings go away.

I've had this sort of shit after a long weekend in Ibiza and I thought I'd never feel norma again. All the stuff you describe but with powerful brain zap every few minutes just to add to the discomfort. I looked stuff up on forums and convinced myself I was having a psychotic break and it was permanent. Needless to say I wasn't and it isn't.

Drugs are illegal for a reason - they can f**k you up. Take it as a warning. They ain't M&M's to be necked at will. They are powerful agents and need to be treated with respect - all of them: from weed through booze to acid. Luckily the body and brain are amazingly resilient so you get away with a lot but there are limits.

 

[rmoney]

Thanks alot for the advice. You dont know how much i appreciate it. I just need to chill out and let this pass.

 

[Andronicus]

Come back and let us know how you're feeling in a week. And I don't wanna hear you've been at the weed in that time young man OK!?

 

[somedud]

Sounds like a mild episode of depersonalization set on by smoking weedwith altered serotonin levels, exercise, eat right, slep right and youll br back to normal in no time.

 

[neMMMM]

Please scrolls through the first two pages and there's many threads like this.

Take care of your body and you will heal. Don't worry.

 

[Darksidesam]

^
Thats a bit mean Tbh,
Some people dont understand drugs very well and they can get peer pressured into trying them,
the mind is also a powerful thing which can portray or greatly increase placebo or nocebo effects after using a substance,

The weed is probably aggravating the situation,
So OP, lay off it for a bit, and as has been said exercise, eat well and just keep busy dont keep thinking about it,
The mind does heal trust me , after 1 800mg dxm dose i thought id ruined my brain forever but after 6 days, i was no longer cross eyed. Lol. ^__^

 

[twitchy_15]

this sorta thing has happened to me to . not the spaced out all the time feeling but.

i never smoked alot of pot maybe every weekend for abit nothing crazy.. but yeah use to be a great time baked with friends... i dont remember if it was after doing m or what but i cant smoke weed anymore it stresses me out and i have like anxiety attacks, its like the weed is so much stronger now my heart races ive greened out a few times and i feel traped like i cant talk and i just think and trip out... i no longer smoke weeed which isn't a big deal to me... but just strange