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Posted by jamesn on November 18, 2003, at 10:12:36
hi everyone
I have been suffering with mdma caused brain damge for three years, after heavy use of mdma for the three previous years.I would like to contact people in the same situation.
This firstly started as mild social anxiety, and mild depression. I was prescribed prozac for six months and this helped me overcome my problems.
I was hooked on the mdma buzz so I returned to it not as heavily as before but mixed with more other drugs.
Then the suprise of my life happened, after one night of mdma taking I awoke the next morning to find that I felt different in myself.
I felt generally uneasy, I felt a sense of dread and forboding, this was amplified when I walked down the road I felt paranoid and suffered panic attacks in social situations.
This overnight change I believe was a symptom of the partial destruction of my serotonin carrying neural pathways in my brain.Over the next four months I went through a period of recovery when daily I felt strange sensations inside my head several times a day, at first I didn't know what these sensations were about, but as the days went one I intuitively felt that I was slowly recovering from the brain damge.
After about four months from that day I felt that my brain had recovered back to normal. This process was not easy and I could not face normal life such as working, and limited alcohol fueled social engagements.One thing that I noticed with this brain damage was that drugs that had previously been helpful, such as prozac now had the oposite effect, it made me manically depressed, I had never suffered from mania before. So I could not take prozac, I believe this is because it was a drug focused on the neurotransmitter serotonin which I believe was the damaged area.
I was still hooked on the mdma buzz, so unfortunately I took another two pills over a couple of months.
This was enough to repeat my problems only more severely, I'm now two years and one month on from my last ever pill and I still am not back to normal.I am however expecting to recover to normal within a few months, I have found a drug that I believe has helped my brain to recover.
You can email me if you want to discuss any drug related issue, I am particuarly interested in mdma related brain damage, and if anyone else out there has suffered from similar problems to what I have described
email me at survivinge@yahoo.co.uk
Posted by Bananafish on November 18, 2003, at 14:18:09
In reply to mdma brain damage are you suffering too?, posted by jamesn on November 18, 2003, at 10:12:36
You might want to post this question on the Psycho Babble Substance Abuse board. You might find more fellow sufferers there. Just a suggestion.
Posted by crazychickuk on November 18, 2003, at 14:40:40
In reply to mdma brain damage are you suffering too?, posted by jamesn on November 18, 2003, at 10:12:36
I have just emailed you... But to make sure you get it here is a copy of my email..
Hello, the phrase ''brain damaged'' is a little dramatic lol.. i just want to let you know that you are not alone, i to suffered unlimited anxiety since being on heavy drugs especially mdma i actually took 3 in one go from just half and thats when it all started a little anxiety started firstly but i was still able to do other drugs such as my normal heroin (non junkie i smoked it) pot and the odd bit of base (amphetamine) didnt touch pills again as my freind was unfortunate and died from taking 10 yes 10 he did it on purpose though as he also took 10 parecetomol same time and died right there infrount of me and a few freinds.. that wasnt a cause of my anxiety though i started to feel a little anxious before that but nothing bad just slight paranoia.. when i had my daughter within few mnths i was bk on track with my life just smoked pot on the odd occasion and drank.. i was suffering abit from depression and was given effexor which so much helped me except i took 5 times my normal dose to be high as all my freinds were pilling and i wanted that feeling so i took 5 times my dose of effexor and thats when i had my first panick attack mid december 2000 GUTTED.. i stopped effexor cold turkey i couldnt stand pot, i couldnt stand anything that made me feel weird including alcohol and i couldnt be around my freinds anymore, i actually had to move to be alone... every ssri and snri have sent me to MANIC trylics sends me into a panick, i am now on remeron (mirtazipine, zispin) 30 mg been doing fine on it for 5 mnths now, only med i can tolerate except the weight gain... :( but i am working on that as i feel i may beable to help myself if i loose some weight.. :) i am also female and i am 23 now... plse get bk to me.. maybe we can swap any info we may find..
Take care
Donna
Posted by Dr. Bob on November 18, 2003, at 23:58:02
In reply to Re: mdma brain damage are you suffering too?, posted by Bananafish on November 18, 2003, at 14:18:09
> You might want to post this question on the Psycho Babble Substance Abuse board.
Good idea, here's a link:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/subs/20031014/msgs/281098.html
Thanks,
Bob
Posted by mdb1224 on November 26, 2003, at 15:47:43
In reply to mdma brain damage are you suffering too?, posted by jamesn on November 18, 2003, at 10:12:36
Did you have your situation professionally checked out as to Brain damage, social anxiety and were you honest about the street drugs?
Posted by jamesn on November 27, 2003, at 7:58:34
In reply to Re: mdma brain damage are you suffering too?, posted by mdb1224 on November 26, 2003, at 15:47:43
> Did you have your situation professionally checked out as to Brain damage, social anxiety and were you honest about the street drugs?
At first I didn't tell the whole story. After a while I did, and every medical person, doctors cpns or consultants would not believe that what I was saying was true, they believed various things such as my symptoms were evidence of an underlying illness such as pscitsophrenia
james
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