Ex-heavy ecstasy user still having problems. Help?!
Question: Ex-heavy ecstasy user still having problems!. Help!?
About three years ago I found myself sucked into the raving scene and i started to do a lot of ecstasy!. I was popping anywhere between 4 and 10 pills a night 1-2 nights a week!. This continued for 9 months!.
Eventually, i found myself confronted with a decision: Continue taking ecstasy, and start losing a lot of the things i found most important, or quit using and get on with my life!. I chose to quit!.
The first few months after i quit i had terrible anxiety, paranoia, i couldn't sleep, and i felt ill constantly!. I had a lot of difficulty getting through classes and finish work, and my sex drive was almost non-existent!.
But after several months of regular visits to a psychiatrist, my anxiety began to abate, and i began to feel normal again!.
It's been two years since I've taken a hit, but i still get terrible anxiety when i think abut raving or listen to techno music!. I become physically ill and and suffered panic attacks!. My sex drive has never been the same, either!. Sex drive is what!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Eventually, i found myself confronted with a decision: Continue taking ecstasy, and start losing a lot of the things i found most important, or quit using and get on with my life!. I chose to quit!.
The first few months after i quit i had terrible anxiety, paranoia, i couldn't sleep, and i felt ill constantly!. I had a lot of difficulty getting through classes and finish work, and my sex drive was almost non-existent!.
But after several months of regular visits to a psychiatrist, my anxiety began to abate, and i began to feel normal again!.
It's been two years since I've taken a hit, but i still get terrible anxiety when i think abut raving or listen to techno music!. I become physically ill and and suffered panic attacks!. My sex drive has never been the same, either!. Sex drive is what!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
estasy spills serrotonin into the synapse!. serrotinin is responsible for controlling mood, thoughts, sex drive, pain, hunger, sleep!. after ecstasy releases all the serrotonin into the synapse after a couple hours you start to come down, making the serrotonin leave the synapse and be destroyed by monamine oxidase, about 70% of serrotonin is destroyed!. without serrotonin there is nothing to control/ produce: sex drive, pain, mood, thoughts, sleep, hunger!. but serrotonin regenerates completely in no more then 3 weeks!. when serrotonin is in the synapse it links to serrotonin receptors(what reads serrotonin) over and over and over again overstimulating the receptors!. after ex leaves the synapse the receptors are like "wtf just happend" so some shut themselves down!. some start up again in a week, some a month, some a year and some may never come back!. without receptors to read serrotonin what can!? nothing, so serrotonin just sits around doing nothing!. serrotonin ---> receptors ---> electrical spark throughout the brain!. without serrotonin linking to receptors = no electrical spark = loss of mood(happy, sad, mad, anxious), thoughts( which is why after ex you had weird thoughts wen u were trying to sleep), sleep, hunger, sex drive!. there is nothing you can do to bring back your receptors, though all ur serrotonin is fully back!. you can look into nervous system vitamins, eat right, and exercise!. "after several months i began to feel normal again" is because some of your receptors restarted again = serrotonin to link to = feeling normal!. like i said earlier, its undetermined and no one knows how long receptors will take to come back, every brain is different!. you lost allot of receptors during those 9 months especially taking it up to 2 times a week!. just wait, look into vitamins, and keep with ur psychiatrist!. if your anxiety is really bad you should maybe look into an anti anxiety pill or anti depressant!. medical marijuana is allot better then those and if your over 18 then you can get it!. if you love in california or another state that allows medical marijuana you should look into it on the internet!. you dont need to have aids or cancer to get it either medical marijuana can be perscribed for :anxiety, depression, sleep problems, hunger problems (not eating allot), cancer, aids, glaucoma, artheritis, migranes/ headahces, back ackes, menstral cramps, pretty much aything!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Ecstasy can affect the brains neurotransmitters!. Serotonin is released when using ecstasy which increases your sensitivity and pleasures!. Depression can follow after use!. The problem is that if you have used it many times like you said degeneration of serotonin and dopamine can occur long term!. Which can have something to do with your sex drive since serotonin and dopamine are related to mood and pleasure!. They also affect sleep as well!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It takes about 10-20 ecstasy pills in order to cause permanent damage!. There is a chance that the anxiety and paranoia will continue to be a chronic problem!. See a doctor, but to my knowledge there isn't much that can be done!. Good times!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Oh boy, I am sorry you are going through this!. I used to use x too!. Drugs are insidious, huh!? I hate to say this, but there is nothing in life that will ever make you feel as good as what x does!. Having said that, you have to understand that x is unnatural!. Sometimes I think that current laws are so bound by religion that what is only human is squashed by WASP tradition!.
Religious groups have used drugs for centuries!. Now we are ostracized if we look to substances!. But, physicians pass out anti-depressants like candy!.
I digress!. Here is the thing!. You are normal!. You used x and it felt good!. Now you want to still but laws and health prohibit that!. It may be necessary for you to use xanax for a while in social situations until you get your bearings!. I would be cautious telling MD's that you were addicted!. They may be reluctant to prescribe help for you!.
I am sorry for your troubles!. And I am sorry that x is censured!. It is not that bad!. It's the WASPs!.
Take care!.
Oh - and sex drive, you probably need the right person to get that back in shape!. You're fine!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Religious groups have used drugs for centuries!. Now we are ostracized if we look to substances!. But, physicians pass out anti-depressants like candy!.
I digress!. Here is the thing!. You are normal!. You used x and it felt good!. Now you want to still but laws and health prohibit that!. It may be necessary for you to use xanax for a while in social situations until you get your bearings!. I would be cautious telling MD's that you were addicted!. They may be reluctant to prescribe help for you!.
I am sorry for your troubles!. And I am sorry that x is censured!. It is not that bad!. It's the WASPs!.
Take care!.
Oh - and sex drive, you probably need the right person to get that back in shape!. You're fine!.Www@Answer-Health@Com