MY YEAR OF DAILY 5-APB/MAPB
Me: male, age 54, weight 170 lbs. - 77 KG
Drug history: numerous trips, mostly during 1980s on typical doses of LSD, Mushrooms, peyote, mescaline, and MDA; later experience includes several rolls on MDMA, plus extensive experimentation with RCs; hate all cathinones because they feel like they're trying to kill me; since 1980s have been a lightweight and never took typical doses of anything, always dosing way below the common Bluelighter. Y'all be cray.
About a year ago I procured 5 grams of 5-APB and took small doses (20-30 mg) almost daily, never exceeding a total of 60 mg/day. After the first month or two, I began combining it with 4-FA, at similar doses.
In May I left my home in Austin, TX, to spend the summer working on organic farms in the US Northwest in exchange for room and board. I was running out of 5-APB and decided to switch to 5-MAPB for the next 5 gram batch, still combining with 4-FA.
During my 4 months traveling and living in the NW, I took my combo daily, and continued to keep doses of each substance below 60 mg/day. I took a total of about 4 days off, non-consecutively. The effect I experienced with both 5-APB and 5-MAPB was a sense of everything being OK exactly as it is. It was easy for me to enjoy being with a wide variety of people, and to accept every situation I was in.
I was able to work very diligently on the farms, and the farm owners loved hanging out with me and the quality of the work I did. I visited many friends and a few family members as well. In all this time, nobody EVER suspected that I was on anything, because there were no outward signs. I think it's because I never took more than 30 mg of each chemical in a 4 hour period. If I was on a farm, I would dose before breakfast and that would give me steady, mellow energy for the 4 to 7 hours of work required. I usually didn't redose when at farms, except if I was sharing it with other travelers/workers. When I was on the road and had a long distance to cover, I'd dose before breakfast and then once again in the early afternoon. It never affected my driving except to make me a bit more alert and attentive. It made the beauty of the world seem much more apparent and brilliant, which was the real payoff.
After summer I went back to 5-APB after my the 5-MAPB was all gone. I did combine them a few times but there was nothing notable about it because my doses were so low, and because of combining with 4-FA. But I did notice a subtle difference between 5- and 5-M. The 5-M, for me, was softer and slightly more euphoric. It may have been a bit less trippy, but not by much. Neither is truly psychedelic, but there's a trippiness to it, which especially alters and enhances perception of sound and color. It also changes the way I think about things and respond to people and situations.
At these low doses, there was an enhancement of sexual pleasure combined with some interference with the male mechanics and achieving orgasm.
The major drawbacks to "my year of living dangerously stupid" were manifest on both physical and mental levels. I could feel it affecting my heart, and now I have more difficulty maintaining exercise because my pulse goes up sharply and I get short of breath, but I'm able to sustain moderate exercise all day such as working on a farm or hiking. Mentally, there was increasing confusion during the second half of the year, and it was especially bad on mornings when I didn't take 5- or 5-M. I had become dependent on it, though I would not say it was addiction because I finally ran out of it a couple weeks ago and never experienced any withdrawal.
After it ran out, I was confused occasionally in the morning for a few days, but other than that there was absolutely nothing like a withdrawal symptom. However, I do feel that my motivation and executive function are suppressed. I kind of don't care, because the head space of everything being OK has stayed with me.