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Effects of E wearing off...
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After months of fairly regular pill-taking, the buzz is really starting to become shitty.
I've heard people mentioning a 6 month break will allow you to get back to the honeymoon period, or reasonably close at least...also heard others claiming the buzz wears off permanently...
So any experience in this regard?
I've heard people mentioning a 6 month break will allow you to get back to the honeymoon period, or reasonably close at least...also heard others claiming the buzz wears off permanently...
So any experience in this regard?
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The best road to recovery is to look after yourself in the periods in between taking the stuff. Eat well, exercise and neck a bottle of water or two a day. I know it sounds a bit 'old-hat', but it's true.
Finally, each person's different: 2 month's break might be sufficient for one person, while others may find that after a year of abstaining there's no real difference. Horses for courses.
You will not believe what 30mins swimming or running about 5 times a week will do for your general mood...
Nowadays I seem to have worn it out. I still absoultely love my pills but now
I can't seem to handle the comedown like I used to. I havn't done pills since NYE I think and that must be the longest break I've had since I was 14 - some 9 years ago.
I still believe MDMA to be the best drug in the world. I used it, I abused it and I fucking loved it.
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If you take a break for a few months most people find they get better returns. But as has been said some people dont.
MDMA isnt a simple drug and its tolerance seems to be long term, though the reasons for this are not totally understood.
Sorry, but...
If you had no serotonin in your brain, you'd be dead. Simple.
Short term (eg on the same night), the 'high' stops working because the serotonin reuptake transporters will have remove most of the serotonin from the synapse. Monoamine oxidase breaks down the serotonin before it can be released back into the system. This is why you can't take pills ALL night and carry on getting munted off them.
Long term - the tolerance thing - that's down to damage to the serotonin receptors.
Sorry to be pedantic, but misinformation is dangerous.
About the issue of serotonin depletion, there are no conclusive studies to say what the long term effects are yet. There has certainly been some research to suggest what JimB said, but it was either conducted on mice or monkeys, and isn't conclusive enough to say for sure. Erowid, again, have a really good run down on Ecstacy neurotoxicity in this article, from which I have pulled the following -