Ahh, dramas. My thinking on wheel filters is similiar to my feelings about safe sex- in most circumstances you should be using condoms. Does this mean that if you don't you'll immediately be covered in herpes sore and whacked with a dozen paternity claims? Not necessarily, but you are opening yourself up to all of these risks. Plenty of people I know have been shooting homebake heroin with unsterile cotton filters for decades and they aren't
that worse for wear (other than having wrecked veins). But at the same time I've seen some pretty filthy bruises/abscesses/infections that have resulted from IV/IM use.
But regardless, people are going to do what they're going to do.
As for IM being harder than IV- it is, most people don't realise how bad they are at IM. When done properly (as I mentioned, I knew a fafa who did IM injections weekly, more than most doctors/nurses would do) there is virtually no immediate pain and there is certainly no afterpain/bruising/hematomas, although repeatedly IM'ing the same area(s) can lead to your body developing a localised reaction to IM shots where you begin to develop large hematomas as your body, essentially, starts to try to fight the IM injections. Plus you can see your veins, and knowing where your arteries are is simple. You can't see your nerves and I have no fucking idea where they are, I just know how to avoid my sciatic nerve. But yes, it is all subjective.
Also, what is a typical duration of primary and residual effects with a single dose? Is the half life really almost twice as long as K? (Erowid suggests so, and all the reports I can find are 20mg.. and then 10mg... and then anotther 20... etc)
Plugging 50-100mg of methoxetamine seems to have roughly this chronology-
+15 mins- Effects begin, the initial comeup is quite euphoric and reminds me a great deal of nitrous oxide. While I can still talk, walk around, put on music/dvds etc I'm already fairly dissociated and won't make a lot of sense if you talk to me.
+30-90 mins- Sound becomes increasingly distorted, it sounds like I'm on a giant empty soundstage, everything has a slight tinny echo. I start to lose stereoscopic vision, things may appear to be large/small, and may stretch or be compressed into 2D (much like ketamine IME). Thought processes become increasingly generalised/abstract, subjectively manic/ego-centric in nature. Occasionally I will get stuck in loops, though I often will be able to recognise the dejavu, if I fall into the 'repeated redose trap' it's generally during this phase.
+120-300 mins- This is the proper peak or 'm-hole', there is a great deal of amnesia and a complete inability to integrate experiences into a coherant timeline. Out of body experiences, near death experiences, sensing/communicating with god/entities, revelations/delusions/psychotic thinking have all been experienced within this period. It is interesting to note that although I am largely unaware of my actions and experience difficulty walking (definate k-hunch, space boots effects) I never the less have no problem going to the toilet, having a shower, even going to a 24 hour service station to get some cigarettes (which was probably not the smartest thing I've ever done)- this is obviously in sharp contrast to ketamine.
+360-420 mins- This is the come down. The comedown can subjectively last upto a day, depending on how experienced you are with dissociatives (and it doesn't seem to be a tolerance issue either, it's just some people will want to stay in bed until they're 100% sober while others can ignore the slight dissociation and sea-legs). The mood of the comedown is quite dependent on what was experienced during the hole, it can be an emotionally fragile time where you'll cry as you experience your thoughts about whatever or it can be an extremely manic, euphoric time. Generally I'm quiite exhausted by this time, so I experience the comedown as a sort of dissociative trance, one step down from a hole but still considerably more dissociated than even a very high nasal dose will provide.