Can ecstasy damage your heart? What else can it damage? Brain?

carver · Newbie Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

I was born with some heart problems. Now, I have 22 years, and I am healthy or I feel like that. Recently I have heard that ecstasy can damage your heart. I am a user of ecstasy for 5 years. Is this true; can ecstasy damage your heart? What else can it damage? Brain?

merissa · Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

Some research was done about ecstasy and dangerous thing were found. Yes ecstasy, with long term use can damage your heart. Brain can be damaged after very first use of ecstasy. That is why your first trip is repeated. Ecstasy can also damage your liver, nerves and what is most important your life. But it is your life and your decision.

karl2407 · Newbie Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 1 Location: qld

i have been taking ecstacy for roughly 6 yrs over the yrs i would honestly estimate to have taken around 3000 to 3500 pills thats probably being generous, iv nearly died twice where my heart has just been overloaded, and for 3 days in hospital was taking medication to keep my heart beat down coz at 1 stage it was beating at 189 bts pm and this went on for a long time, iv suffered from depression, where nothing would make me happy, and if i did see something happy like a happy add or a couple of birds playing id cry, i have a permanent heart murmour which inever had, and my speech and time of thought has deinitly change to the point im talking and have to slow down and think properly coz wat i think and say come out different. im not sure if ecstacy is addictive, but if im asked to go out ill decline as i cant have a good time without the drug, socially on the drug im the most confident, caring, or care free, loving person about, without it i suck lol, so this is more a quote then a question, im a smart man im 25 i earn great money i give my son the world, my wife everything, but cant let go of this little pill which i know is probably slowly killing me, wat do i do?

rave_mama · Newbie Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

When you mentioned that you've nearly died twice from your heart being "over loaded" what exactly do you mean by that statment other than "3 days in hospital was taking medication to keep my heart beat down coz at 1 stage it was beating at 189 bts pm and this went on for a long time" what was the entire experience like? :Name: irrelevant -Age: 22 (21 @ the time of 1st 2 incidents & 22 for the other 2 incidents, weight 110- 115 lbs. I am asking you because I am going through a very difficult & confusing time myself in regards to a few possible UNTREATED over doses (3 between the months of April/May of 2008 to October 5, 2008. 3 of the incidents occured after taking ecstasy pills & the most recent incident occured a day ago after ingesting 20 mg oxycontin. The 1st incident was the worst in which I snorted about 9-14 little bumps of cocaine and then went to a desert rave for the weekend with a bunch of so called "friends". The 1st night we arrived I took roughly 8 pills of "x" didn't sleep until the next afternoon but only for about 25 minutes, didn't eat anything until the 2nd night in which i ingested another 8-12 pills of "x" after eating a bit of food. The pills were without a doubt, cut with meth. As I was getting ready to settle down for the remainder of the evening... I began to feel this zap in my chest... kinda like a tickle zap tho... then it intensified and finally, it got so bad that it started to burn and my heart was beating so fast and so hard.... it hurt a lot. The majority of my "friends" payed no attention to my pain so after laying in our camper/RV for hours, I noticed that the sun was up and I decided to go outside... big mistake. I sat in a chair in front of our fire, not too close tho I was hot enough but I tried to calm myself down.... and I began to black out... I am a stubborn person & refused to die so I began to focus on my breathing... I didn't want to die so I layed down on a huge luvsack bean bag type of thing and the friend who gave me the pills earlier that evening and the evening before layed behind me and helped me focus on my breathing. After roughly 8 hours of feeling as if I was going to die or that my heart was going to explode... this girl from our camp fed me some benedryl... oblong pink pills & to my surprise... I fell asleep & woke up alive. The pain in my chest had subsided The RV was sitting 5 feet away from where I layed on the luvsack/bean bag & I finally managed to crawl back into one of the beds where I spent the remainder of the day laying around & gripping my chest with my hand. If I got up, the pain would start again... I would have to focus on my breathing patterns and I felt like I was going to die all over again & for 2 days it continued to hurt. The 2nd time it happened was a month or 2 later after taking only 1 pill, the 3rd time it happened I had taken 4 pills & the most recent incident was a day ago after I snorted 20 mg of oxycontin. OK, I have learned my lesson... don't do drugs!!! I get it... now plz someone tell me wtf is going on with my heart!!! I have seen 2 doctors (2 seperate trips to the ER nearly 3-4 months after the 1st initial incident & they both ran EKGs and did Xrays & the 1st EKG said something about a damaged valve & a damaged chamber & a block somewhere.... the 2nd doctor (a month after I saw the 1st doctor) said that my EKG was normal but that I had Pluracy... which I treated exactly how he instructed me to do so and still... I get sharp pains in my chest. So who do I believe and WTF is going on my with my heart...???? Can ANYBODY help me? Embarassed

M1sh1o · Posted: 11/17/08 - 08:44 Post subject:

iv bin takin ecstasy since i was 12 i'm now 22 its a long time i know but it took a hold of me i know people say u cant get addicted to it but u can !

It wasnt just pills it was M.D.M.A to .

I have had some stuff happen to my heart it really scared me !!! i thought i was gunna die it was that intense. i had double dropped 1 night and i was just comin up that weird feelin u get just before it kicks in then all of a sudden its was like my heart stopped or it was beatin so fast that it felt like it had !!!
It was like i could feel the blood drainin out my hole heart and my body tensed up i couldnt move it hurt so much.it felt like i was bein sucked in i know that sounds weird but thats wat it felt like .
This went on for a few minutes then all of a sudden it was like the biggest rush i have ever had and i was fine ever since then it has happened a few times but never as long and so powerfull like it was.
my friends told me it was nothin to worry about . but they dont understand how much it hurt .

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