MDMA Safety (know your facts)

Since lots of people have been posting threads or asking questions about the safety of MDMA or ecstasy I've decided to make a thread that will hopefully be stickied with true cited facts about the potential dangers of E.
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(Brief intro.)
MDMA is found in pill form, it's a drug that induces euphoria and will generally make you feel great while your still under the influence of it (rolling).
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The dangers of taking ecstasy.
(I will first advise you visit erowid.org for more info)
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It is extremely rare to die from just taking an E pill (but not impossible), the two things that effect this are the purity of the pill and your own body chemistry.

As for body chemistry, we are all different and around (roughly) 1 in 500,000 people will actually die from taking MDMA, just because they were made differently than you or me.

There's really no way to avoid impurity in ecstasy, but the best way to make sure you don't get some pills that have been cut (had other shit put in them besides MDMA to add volume), is to have a good source who you trust (street E is dangerous). As long as you're not just buying pills from random people you should be ok, hopefully.

And obviously don't OD, know your dosage.
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*I want to start this section by saying most or all of these side effects are easily avoidable and shouldn't stop you from taking E.*

There are a number of side effects of taking E especially with heavy or prolonged use. These side effects can include:

Depression and nuerotoxicity (heavy/ prolonged users):
Ecstasy uses up the hormone that your brain produces called seritonin, with heavy use of E that supply of seritonin will be depleted over a short period of time and your brain will be out for a while which causes depression.

Dehydration/ Hyponatremia (can occur with one roll):
You must drink water or juice (liquids) while you're on E, you can get dehydrated and if it's bad enough you can be hospitalized or die; this is easily adverted by drinking some of glasses of water or juice while you're rolling. Be careful to not confuse "some" with "gallons". Specifically when you're in a hot place or when you're raving (dancing) you can get really thirsty, some people just start chugging water and don't stop till it's too late. This condition is called hyonatermia, or water intoxication and it can be life threatening if you don't notice. In summary, drink water but never more than a gallon.

MAOI users (most prescription antidepressants have these in them.):
If you take an antidepressant check with your doctor to see if it has any MAOIs in it, if he says yes DO NOT TAKE E, this can and will kill you.

Quote from erowid.org:
Avoid taking MDMA if you are currently using the protease inhibitor Ritonavir. This may be a life-threatening combination. Simple enough?
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:cheers2:, I hope you enjoy your rollings!
Any questions, just ask.
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Sources cited

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_health.shtml
http://thedea.org/morgue.html

 

I think you should add that they should have some sort of fruit juice available for them to drink too, instead of just strictly water.

 

dont see why not

 

"After a long period (1+ years roughly) of heavy E use your brain will get used to being low on seritonin and start producing more than it naturally would at that point you will be suffering from pretty severe depression and stopping E usage at this point will most likely end in death because your brain will be producing so much seritonin that it will poison your brain and kill you."

Um what? Is this serious and proven?

I doubt that, seems like a scare tactic to me.

 

I agree, that doesn't sound correct at all... Obviously heavy prolonged use is bad, but that sounds like a load of crap.

Also, its MAOI not MOAI.

 

yea you guys are mostly right, that's only partially true (i looked into it further) i will change it. (know your facts, what a hypocrit )

thanks pedal, typo.

 

yea lol no way is that true because i have hit that point where i was doing 10 hits a week for 8 months and i did get that severe depression side effect. Thats when i stopped because it was just awful. Havent done a hit since and im doing fine, like nothing ever happened>

 

it is obviously false because taking the ecstacy is what releases the serotonin from its safe place to its action-place. if you buil up too much serotonin without releasing, the only way thats gonna be dangerous is if you then take the E and release the extra serotonin into the synapse

 

you guys are right i fixed that.

 

so... I want to do it for a concert in Aug... if I am drinking beer will this be enough liquid?

 

lol.

well first of all, if you are rolling you will have no need for alcohol at all.

but I really wouldn't drink alcohol with it. Just get some water, and apple juice or something like that.

 

Drinking beer actually removes fluid from your body. For every 3-4 beers you'll need to drink 1 water. Don't drink more than 1/2 gallon water. Don't drink enough alcohol to puke.

 

woah. that's gonna be weird no beer. how about pot?
(sorry Im making this all about me)

 

have some pot for the come down! when your peaking the last thing you will be thinking about is smoking pot lol

 

:drool:

 

nah drink up!


water too tho...and have a joint to kick in ur buzz an hour after you take it or less if you feel so compelled...then more beer for the next day sketch!

 

arty:

 

I still pull bong hits during my roll. Force of habit.

 

no matter what im on unless its lysergic im always happy to smoke some weed . so yea, warm have a joint or two rolled for when you're ready

 

Have a couple of drinks to start you off on a good step, and get your stomach ready to recieve the MDMA. This is sort of a guideline directed at those who like to drink, but for those who dont, having one drink or so can really help let the MDMA experience penetrate you.

Then take the ecstacy, and perhaps have a final drink if you desire.

then when the peak comes and eventually starts to go, then you should start smokin weed constantly till you sleep that night, the next day, or the next night or whatever.