Yes. Thanks for the thread all the above, especially your efforts JohnBoy. Eddie thanks for that article also. Untill recently i have not been interested or aware of PMA.
i would like to let you know that i have had one really bad experience while down in melbourne, with what i now assume to be PMA.
Quite simply, the world shook around me. I had taken 1 speed bomb approx 4pm, then 1 mdma based pill around 10pm. at 1am I took a differnt pill (now with what i assume to be PMA). in between there were probably about 4/5 lines of speed consumed.
Shortly after the PMA pill the lights went all funny. Imagine someone shaking your head a million miles and hour, and you arent able to stop it. Light rays just fly in each direction. You cant focus at all. At first its a nice feeling, a bit trippy, but its like an exponetial scale and sky rockets to the point that you are nauseus.
I could feel my face was practically numb. My skin on my arms was almost ice cold, and i was breaking out in sweats all over. I knew people were looking at me and all i wanted to do was get up and get out. But i couldnt move. The concept of time, and the time that it took a brain signal (to move my legs) to go from my head to my brain n felt like hours. Its like been stoned, but a million times worse. Its like smokeing pot after drinking 20 beers.
I distinctly remember a guy asking me for the time, me turning my head left and saying, "i would love to tell you but im fucked." he proceeded to lift my left arm ,and look at my watch and put it back down. I watched this all as if i was watching from a third person. My arm was moving but i couldnt feel it at all. I looked at my watch and it was 2pm. when i looked at it again, i felt like 5 minutes had passed, but it was 2.45pm. the ironic thing is that i felt like i had been holding back a vomit for about 2 hours.
It took me 45 minutes to stagger, and i mean stagger about 20metres to the tolietly where i proceeded to vomit, dry retch for about an hour. It was 5 am before i managed to physcally get myself out of the club. I was so disoriatned. i still remember the looks of shock and disgust from everyone.
The reason that i know the times, is that i was absolutely concious that i was in a bad state and desperatly trying to rationlise my condition with time/effects. I just could not wait for it to end.
I managed to get myself to hospital. When i was checked in, my heart rate was 190 beats per minute. Now thats when i wasnt doing anything. a slight walk to the hospital that was it. My oxygen level in my blood was 60% or something, i believe it was meant to be about 85% or along those lines. They put 3 litres of saline through me and gave me anti vomiting tablets. It took me about 1 week to recover.
Trust me. I paid 35 bucks for that pill. I would pay $500 dollars to never feel like that again. I knew that i was very very close to death.
Sorry for the long post. I hope this makes someone think twice about a pill if its possibley PMA.
