Side effects - How Many Have you Eaten?

[msmogadon]

SWIM was a total pill head when she was younger. Party was always at hers after the club as long as the other people brought some substances.
SWIM has not taken ecstasy in about 5 years now (man feel old). SWIM misses her pills. Even to have a couple as a once off would be nice. SWIM wants to try IVing heroin while on a roll. nice
Sorry back to the question SWIM was daydreaming....... Anyway SWIM used to take 10 spaced out over Friday night Saturday morning and just chill at someone's house on a Sunday. Double dunting was best. SWIM FEELS THERE WAS NO NEED TO TAKE 3,4+ at once. To try and count the amount of pills taken.
From 1999 - 2003 prob about a thousand but that's just a guess from SWIM and she's not that bright when it comes to maths

[Methadrone]

Swim doesn't take MDMA (pills or powder[never has - yet! unfortunately]) anymore as pills are shite and powder hard to come by. When swim was at the hieght of their useage swim would regulary take 5-6 pills per night. One night swim took 15! this wasn't great as after about the 10th the effect was one of feeling quite ill, it was a game of who could take the most! one of swims swimmers took 20, and didn't look very well at all.

Swim stopped taking pills in the late 90's around '98, swim had started in 1990 on half a tab and gradually built up from there. aprart from two years away from the scene due to being caught with some swim was a regular user and would guesstimate that swim must have taken somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 doses in swims lifetime (if not more) and swim has a regular office job and feels that swim is as sain as the next person.

Swim thinks MDMA is something that you sort of grow out of as after a while of using it the effects get less and less and the more swimmers have to take, and the comedown becomes too hard to handle so it comes to a natural end. That said though swim would love to get swims hands on some of this MDMA powder and see if after 10/11 years of not using ecstasy (MDMA) could swim get 'that' feeling back again. Swim thinks probably not but, could get quite close. Swim is actively trying to locate some MDMA powder atm but, it's hard to know where to look when you're and old git and all the kids are doing it.

Oh the pills (proper MDMA) when swim first started in 1990 were the bollocks, tkae one at 10pm and still be off yer tits at 8am the next day

[Zilker_Park]

Originally Posted by Methadrone

Swim doesn't take MDMA (pills or powder[never has - yet! unfortunately]) anymore as pills are shite and powder hard to come by. When swim was at the hieght of their useage swim would regulary take 5-6 pills per night. One night swim took 15! this wasn't great as after about the 10th the effect was one of feeling quite ill, it was a game of who could take the most! one of swims swimmers took 20, and didn't look very well at all.

Swim stopped taking pills in the late 90's around '98, swim had started in 1990 on half a tab and gradually built up from there. aprart from two years away from the scene due to being caught with some swim was a regular user and would guesstimate that swim must have taken somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 doses in swims lifetime (if not more) and swim has a regular office job and feels that swim is as sain as the next person.

Swim thinks MDMA is something that you sort of grow out of as after a while of using it the effects get less and less and the more swimmers have to take, and the comedown becomes too hard to handle so it comes to a natural end. That said though swim would love to get swims hands on some of this MDMA powder and see if after 10/11 years of not using ecstasy (MDMA) could swim get 'that' feeling back again. Swim thinks probably not but, could get quite close. Swim is actively trying to locate some MDMA powder atm but, it's hard to know where to look when you're and old git and all the kids are doing it.

Oh the pills (proper MDMA) when swim first started in 1990 were the bollocks, tkae one at 10pm and still be off yer tits at 8am the next day

Wow this is very similar to Swim except swim was in an earlier period when X went huge in '85. Swim thinks that after repeated heavy use of MDMA it takes a lot more to get anyway near the same effect. SwiY took the same amounts as swim. Now swim would like to use MDMA (REAL pure *actual* MDMA) to use for therapy and get past personal issues related to having Multiple Sclerosis and ADD. Like SwiY Swim cannot find MDMA. Even if Swim found street MDMA swim would not trust it to be real and pure and would get it tested. Swim had to have downed 2000+ tabs (tab=100mg) in an 18 month period with no known problems that exist now ...the same would apply to any friends or acquantances. Swim knew from that brief period of Swim's life. Fortunetly Swim paid a low price since Swim was a (well known) distributor. That MDMA use cost Swim 15k+(US). Street price would be 3x that. What a f'kn waste! Swim never bothered with calculating this 'till now. Geezuz. Would X have the same effect now? Swim is also one of those that would like to find out

[aBakes]

SWIM just started with ecstasy a couple months ago. he has probably taken 10 ish pills.

[s3nate]

The panda at the zoo said to me he has done about 40-50 pills in his lifetime (starting two years ago in September).

[bxtc]

swim started in november last year and has averaged about 1 a month ever since.
she is thoroughly enjoying her life choice

[1dodgymofo]

gotta be in the 1000+ but Swim has been doin them for erm first one was 13 years ago! White Dove with blue speckles... What a buzz

[kakakaka]

Swim has no idea how many he has taken, close to the 100's. Swim was taking about 5 most weekends for the majority of 2 years. Been off them appart from the odd time for almost a year, there are too many non-mdma pills nowadays.

[raverbaby1988]

SWIM took 5 in onw night the first time SWIM did drugs and had a wiked time but is paying the price now for drug use with paranoia, anxiety &depression. Hey affects people differently some people seem to 'get away with it'

[acid101]

My Monkey has estimated consumption at possible 1250-1500 over a 24 - 36 month period. Average 2 - 3 times a week. Some nights/mornings doing 12-15 each time. 25 at most.

BTW - not trying to big note my good mate monkey, though just giving an idea on the possible consumption rates.

He too reports no 'serious' side-effects that may or may not have been caused by E.

[RaverHippie]

The monkey isn't very observant then..

[entheogensmurf]

Originally Posted by Anotherone25

Swim wants to know how many of the skittles have you think youve taken over the rainbow and how long ago you started? I kno mines up over a hundred and its been a year... But also swim wants to know if you think your MDMA use has changed you and your brain over time? And if you could you would never take that pill!

5 skittle experiences total.
4 years worth of skittle experience ending many moons ago.
SWIM doesn't know about MDMA but taking skittles has not changed SWIM, other than being more open for a lack of a better word at the moment.
Any deficits to note (noticeable)? Nope.

[yaba]

Really not sure... But it must be in the thousands.. Swim could get them in any quantity, color, shape and size when he was in Amsterdam (10 years ago) Now he couldn't !

At that time 10-20 a night would be normal.

[52SDL]

My sparrow started in June, and has rolled about 6 times since then. About once per month. However, he is going to start spacing it out even more to once every three months. He feels that it makes the rolls even better/even more special.

[TMM]

SWIM has only ever had 3 or 4 pills, but several grams of MDMA.

[Psychonaut08]

Over the summer this year alone, swim has taken at least over 100, and that's just pills not including MD, of which I'm guessing swim has taken about 5 grams since about May this year.
Gotta love ecstasy.

[The Cheshire Ket]

SWIM has probably taken somewhere in the range of 30-35 pills since 2005, most of those in 05/06.

[Zilker_Park]

Swim was a power user of Ecstasy (MDMA) just when it went illegal in summer of '85. This was when there was nothing other than 100% pure MDMA. Swim had a constant non-stop supply so the sky was the limit. 300 mg was the normal starting dose (3 tabs) and every 1.5 hours another 1-2 tabs. Friday's and Saturday's usually ended at 4-6am after a late night after-hours dance marathon with swim's g.friend. It took about 3 months to be at a 300mg starting dose. Swim initially only needed 100mg to start. Swim would get up to 500mg starting dose but it didn't feel any different from starting with 300mg... not one bit. Swim had a lot of fun and everybody was "X'ing" from all walks of life (in Swim's town). Swim was the main supplier of x to a broad area in Swim's state (Swim is from a big state). Within a few months after being criminalized the availability went down and interest on such a wide spread grand scale was reduced by about 50% (swim's guess). Some months went by then Eve (MDEA) was available but it was NOT as good (as X) although it was not hard to unload by the street dealers. Swim thought Eve was a total rip off. Swim choose to never get involved with Eve.
.... Regarding the after affects of all that MDMA use by Swim. First and foremost Swim does not recommend it. Too much of anything kills the fun. There was a time when Swim went to Europe and went cold turkey on all the X'ing fun. Swim experienced horrific nightmares the first night away. HORRIFIC NIGHTMARES! Swim would go back to sleep after waking up terrified and not want to fall asleep again. ...after that first night no more problems. Swim's g.friend did not have this problem and the X use for her was about the same. Swim knows of no one else with the level of X use Swim went through ...and doubts very seriously there are that many anywhere since. For one thing it would be too expensive! Swim's experience and with hundreds of other swim came into contact with (X users) is that twice a month use would give a super great experience but after that the more use the less effect (less fun!). Swim thinks that for most the Ecstasy experience is just too much fun to resist just once or twice a month. To put a time stamp on Swim's period of use and experiences ... no such thing as a Rave yet and the first Rave would happen in the UK very soon. We were "X'ing" not "rolling". If you referred to something called "E" that meant MDEA or "Eve". Now Swim hears people call Ecstasy "E". Swim has never been to a Rave and feels like he missed out on something very special. By the time Rave happenings hit the shores of the US Swim's use (or abuse!) of MDMA would be a thing of the past. BTW Swim still has a large brown bottle that he used to get his shipments of 1,000 tabs in. After over 20 years it still has that nasty pungent wonderful odor of X wafers. If only it weren't empty.

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Excellent post - interesting historical perspective, grounded & good account of the "after-effects". Look ...

[scored]

Swim took a sabatical from his heroin addiction roundabout 1990 had a couple of years in the rave scene rolling out at least 4 nights a week,quite impossible to estimate quantities as was working in clubs, suffice to say too much, way too much. Towards the end going out became difficult and would stay in and increase the dose. Returned back to his first love of opiates.

After a considerable period of abstinence swim has over the past couple of years prolly done 20 or so pills but much prefers the mdma powder generally kept a lid on things but found during the festive period has gone a bit OTT. Now there is something on my years resolution list relating to mdma .....

[KomodoMK]

Originally Posted by Zilker_Park

We were "X'ing" not "rolling". If you referred to something called "E" that meant MDEA or "Eve". Now Swim hears people call Ecstasy "E". Swim has never been to a Rave and feels like he missed out on something very special.

Just thought I'd clear the naming statement up (below). And yes, raves are a very special and awesome experience!

Unsurprisingly, MDMA use soon spread beyond the couch and clinic to the wider world. MDMA's now universal brand-name, "Ecstasy", was coined in 1981 by a member of a Los Angeles distribution network. The unnamed distributor, quoted in Bruce Eisner's Ecstasy:The MDMA Story (1989), apparently chose the name "Ecstasy" because "it would sell better than calling it 'Empathy'. 'Empathy' would be more appropriate, but how many people know what it means?" Condemned by purists as a cynical marketing ploy, the brand-name "Ecstasy" isn't wholly misleading [ecstasy: "an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden intense feeling. Rapturous delight. The frenzy of poetic inspiration. Mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things"]. Many first-time MDMA users do indeed become ecstatic. Some people report feeling truly well for the first time in their lives.

[FooManChoo]

Swim did about 1500 in 4 years or so. Maybe even more.

[ticc]

swim has done 200ish? over two years, stopped and wont do it again!

[phatassone]

maybe as much as 500 over three years, swim was popping over ten pills a night two or three times a week for about 6 months
, now swim only does MDMA once a month max...