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

I agree with everyone else. I turned 18 this saturday and rolled for my first time at a house party, when 3 came around I hadn't had enough so we went to the club and i took another tab and partyed from 4-8 there. And i hate to admit it but I think the drug has won me over. I don't think i'll ever be as happy as I was taht night and its so hard to not do it again. It was my first time and I hate to admit it but it probally wont be my last. I wish I would've never done it and I don't regret it, but its like knowing you have 30 mins to live and you can't do nothing about it. I know im gonna keep doing it and thats why I wish I never would've.

You're dumb. You have too look your stuff up on pillreports. Green Mercedes isn't MDMA. It's tainted and it shows it there as being tainted. If you're smart you won't get messed up in it like these people. Look ma, no ellipses (ellipses are ...).

you should start taking 5-htp! found at high health or walgreens

Well i have taken recently about 4 days ago a E Pill
and i've done it three days in a row, i did half on wensday,one full on thursday and another full one on friday.
well now i feel horrible. i dont know if its the effect of the pill but i've been very sleepy my head has been hurting really bad.
My heart has been beating fast since i took it on wensday what should i do?

ok here it goes. I've done ecstacy probably about a 100 times now. I was taking about 8 pills a few times a week at the height of what you would call my addiction. I stopped because I realized I was getting quite anxious and paranoid and a few times when i did alot I felt lke i was having a heart attack. palpatations, heart pain etc.. went to the hospital, but the ekg came back normal. I was also quite worried about all the talk of brain damage. convinced i had brain damage and a screwed up heart I stopped completey for about two years. Now two years later I feel fine. I am completely back to normal, my heart feels great and mentally I feel great. I've reasearched mdma relentlessly and at first I came up with all this information about permanent brain damage, but in actuality as you research further especially the more recent experiments and up to date literature you realize that the brain damage from ecstacy is not permanent. Yes in large doses it may damage the axons (tips) of your brain cells, but these regenerate and also the brain scans of ecstacy users show the same density of brain cells as that of non users. Now mdma also effects your heart, but not nearly as much as cocaine. there are nearly zero reported heart attack deaths from mdma use. that's not to say that it cant happen, but it would certainly take alot and other factors would have to come into play. Now I am not trying to condone mdma use, but i am just saying that its not as bad as people make it out to be. If you read the posts on this page you realize that most of the people posting are or were having some sort of a panic attack, because of the symptoms (palpitations, chest pain) that the ecstacy gave them, as the low serotonin from crashing would make them succeptible to this. Note that very few people feel like this when they are first starting to roll cus they are feeling good... I'm not saying you can't do damage in extremly high doses, but because of the governments scare tactics people feel like they are screwed for life from ecstacy... permanently brain damaged etc. I felt depressed for about a year, but other factors were at play as well. i would feel like crying when i saw something sad on tv, and even worse when something was supposed to excite me, it made me feel like crying... weird.....but I started to realize that my depression was not permanent. My brain may have been affected by mdma, but my feelings of being sad, because i thought i was screwed forever were f*****g me up way more than I could have done with drugs alone. You must think positive... I know it sounds gay, but really. your brain will heal itself.. so will your heart.. just believe.. good book to read is called... the brain that changes itself..or science and theakashic field. just tried ecstacy after like two years and man did i get high.... thought i would never feel like that again, because people like i did lose the magic when u do it to much.... but with time you can recover.. have hope people.. theres more to life than what you see..

RE: Rave_mama

the same thing happened to me just the other day, which is why i found this forum. the funny thing is i don't do drugs. i took only half a bar of xanax and drank like three keystones so i guess when someone offered the x it seemed like an ok idea. i took one green star shaped extacy tablet, and then split another between three people and we snorted it. i snorted the least amout of all. n likeothing was happening at all, which obviously pissed me off, so i smoked some weed and that's when it happened. my heart began beating so fast and i began overheating. i didn't roll at all. i eventuallly had to go to sleep. it's now been 7 days later and the pains in my chest are much more subdued and less frequent. my heart stopped pounding like it was before unless i smoke weed. infact, two days after the event i got super stoned off my friend's miracle bong. when we went to the car i began blacking out and fainted twice, the second time i was unconcious for 5 to 10 seconds. i smoked again the next day and was completely fine, but then the next day i smoked and my heart began pounding and i began shaking and my jaw grew tight-- the same symptoms i felt before blacking out the other day. i had heart murmurs as a child but i don't really think any of this should be happening. a friend of mine advises that i may have damaged some heart tissue. what do i do?

Hi people... I'm 21 yrs old and ive been doing E since i was 18... but I'm not such a big time user, i just do it occasionally when there's a big rave party coming up, maybe once every 2 months or so, and i just pop 1 pill (maybe 2 if the first one is weak). Ive never had any health problems whatsoever, the only thing I've noticed is that your short term memory gets really weak, to the point that you may have said something and 2 minutes later you wont remember what you said. I work as a waiter and this happens to me a lot, i tend to forget things... But other than that, I've been OK. I took a blue star once, worst feeling ever... I think it was cut with something. An hour later after taking it i was coming up, everything seemed great. I was at a party and left, got on my car and 10 minutes later while driving i started to sweat a lot and my vision was really blurry, then i felt this rush in my stomach and puked all the water i drank. I was all jittery and scared for my life... I stopped at a friend's house and crashed there for the rest of the night. I can honestly say that I don't crave E that much... although I love it, the feeling and all, I wont let this drug manipulate me or create an addiction. Anything in excess is damaging.

I am 31 Yrs old and i have done more than dabble with my drugs. X for me was something that for at least 2 yrs i did not ever do a wknd out without. I look back now with all my maturity and wisdom and can't believe i inflicted so much damage to my mind and body.. I took so frequently that i would buy in bulk and secretly take on weedays behind my parters back, now my partner suffered from anxiety, quite severe i might add and her condition was triggered by her being a hard pot smoker and this in turn sent her into a state of confusion, pschycosis by the age of 19 so she was living proof of the damage drugs can have. Having my girl telling me that she was afraid for my health and that mentally i could not escape unscathed, she was correct, did i listen ?? NO !! The turning point was not her telling me what she already knew it was my friend loosing her job and license after a night out with me. My BEST friend was nowere near the drug pig i was and to keep up with me she decided to drop another two nearing the end of our already great night.. Mistake and selfish as i was my fine high self but my best friend was so out of it she barely knew her name and i let her drive home from my house like this !!!! she was pulled over and her career went out the window as she was a youth worker.. I pretty much went cold turkey after this however i did it all alone as at the same time my G/F had enough and left me. I had really NO ONE as your so called friends are all just users in it for the fun not the realities so luckily my brother came to my live in the same city as a pschycic told him his sister was in a very bad place and had no support. He was my saviour.... Well for the time being that is, there is more......... After all those years i had a party with some new friends and got coke and X, we all got high that night but me being high and thoughtless i didn't stop to think this could jeopordise my carreer at the time as i was with a few fellow team members. Long short, it did :-( I was sacked on association and my career was lost and i was jobless for 6 months :-( I now work a mindless job and am studying this yr and my parents have been good support because they know i am a good person i just made a silly choice / choices. I was diagnosed with Anxiety after the first time i gave up and this sometimes gets so bad i find it hard to leave the house (BUT I FIGHT IT!!) i always had OCD but now it is the worst i have ever had it and i fight this every day of my life, my memory is poor and i had to re teach myself how to count money and add in my head ?? i have a shutter feeling in the side of my head.. It is all not worth it !! My life is so much better without drugs.... I have seen what drugs has done to others around me also and it is rather un attractive to watch someone on drugs and sad to see the after effects so sad.. I look back and at all my intimate relationships and with clarity realise why none ever worked out, well would anyone half decent date someone who uses alot of drugs ?? No....

Protect yourself and use your head while you still can and dont do it........

hope evryone that reads these realises that its not the right thing to do man. ive done it twice and like someone said its the feeling that its so amazing that every other night u go out or even during the week you feel like you cant have fun without it. Usually i would say you have to try everything, do weed thats fine its not the same but for this its best just not to touch it even once.

heres an idea maybe dont take 6-12 pills a day.... ive been takin it since i was 15 now 21. one at a time. never had a problem, never known ayone or done it with ayone who had a problem. also had an mri awhile back guess what? no holes in my brain! myth. get a testin kit and youll know what your taking

I went on a X binge for 3 months taking a pill a day. X is a drug that should be taken once a every few months at most, abusing it just means you'll never get that same feeling back as the first time you did it. It leaves you feeling stupid, steals memories, and don't listen to anybody trying to tell you it' not addictive. It laid me on my ass for 3 weeks when I tried to quit.

Any heavy user of any drug is going to have health problems, alcohol or otherwise. I and many of my friends have been casual users for years now (one maybe two pills a night once every three to six months) and we have had no problems with our health. In moderation is the key to any stimulant or narcotic including alcohol. How many of you with health problems were also drinking alcohol? Something I never did when taking ecstasy.

When i was 15 i took a extz pill and i regret i have only "popped" 3or 4 time and that time i had taken a "quad" man i regret ever taking that pill at first iwas "rolling' GOOD but after like 20 to 30 mins i was starting to fall asleep i just thought that it was the effects of the pill and i dindt think much of it so 10 min later i trew up and i started to get nervous then all of a sudden my heart just goes up and i freaked out so i just wanted to go home but then i relaxed for a bit so i stayed so i told my"friend" to check my heart rate he said that it was going really fast i whent to get some water and it keep going up and down so i called the parademics when i got to the ER my heart was at 130 almost to 145 they said that i was having anxiety or something so they gave me a pill to relax i got realed the same day i wasnt so serious but 3 days i ghot again for the same reason although i was dehydrate too i stayed another day after iwas fine but i would get scared and get paranoia i couldnt be left home cuase i wouldd starto freak out it been 6 to 8 months since it happen and ive been felling better although once in a while i get this feliing that heart get stiff or it burns and breathing i have to focus some time on it ecstacy really screws people up i wasnt RAVER OR POP HEAD i was just a typicall stoner and all of a sudden this happens i wish i havent of taking that pill but someime i think about and i tall if it wasnt for i propbably woulnd of been still in the streets risking my life for a high now i ive been clean since then but i stay athome doing nothin just coase im afraid my heart would go up again exctasy isnt GOO ITS BADFOR ANYBODY PEAPLE WHO DO IT ALOT MY HAVE EXPIRAINCED OVERDOSES BUT DONT KNOW ABOUT CUASE THEIR TO BUSY ENJOYING IT JUST BE CAREFULL NOT DIE OF THIE sh*t

This is where moderation comes in. Take everything over periods of time and you will pan out. I personally prefer molly, a more pure mdma then x pills. A guarunteed roll with out all the other harmful drugs thrown in. Most of the time when you get a bad E pill or something else in it makes your body tick into a overdose.

To be honest this is really biased information. All of these users that have claimed bad experiences were doing EXTREMELY high doses of E, not to mention none of them really sounded like they knew who they were buying from and were getting pills cut with all sorts of bad drugs like Meth and Coke. Also E is a drug that should never be mixed with any other drug. Its also only physiologically addicting. If you're smart about it and space out each time you take it, KNOW WHO YOU'RE BUYING/GETTING IT FROM, and don't take too much (not really more than 2-4 in a night) then you'll be fine.