addiction to ephedrine/eca

[~HOUNDOG~]

Hey everyone,
How do you know when your addicted?
I take 100mg in the morning,100mg in the afternoon and 25 at 3:00.
If I don't take ephedrine I get all tired and have headaches and don't want to do anything nor talk to anyone.
Is this a sign of addiction,by the way,I take synthetic ephedrine HCL at 10 tabs a day. Thanks everyone.

 

[supersizeme]

Yeah you sound like it may be time to ween yourself off that bizness. Try reducing your doses by half each week until you're down to a small enough dose that you can quit.

 

[MuSuLPhReAk]

I think you're more addicted to the caffeine. One coffee is about 80 mg of caffeine...how many mg's are u taking in all?

 

[toga22]

Hey I hear you--

I take a lot of ephedrine HCL also. I work crazy hours 80-90 a week, and my jobs requires me to be upbeat and alert. So, epherdrine (I usually call them "happy pills") are my lifeline. I bet I take close to the same amount as you anywhere between 6-8 25 mg tablets a day.

I really don't experience any negative side effects, like you are saying....I guess that is why I have taken them for so long.

Maybe you should consider cycling them in an out of your system. That might make a difference and your body won't go into shock from the lack of happy pills.

Good Luck to you!!

 

[Raghead Remover]

You are experiencing withdraw symptons much the way a coffee addict will react when they cut back.

If you are not experiencing any sleeplessness (is that a word?) or anxiety I would not be too concerned.

Within 2 days after complete clearing of your system you will notice the symptons subside substantially.

Are you using this for recreational purposes or cutting?

 

[MuSuLPhReAk]

Re: Re: addiction to ephedrine/eca

When you say 100mg, do you mean straight ephedrine or ephdra extract? For instance, I had been taking 2 Dymetadrine Extreme in the morning before my workout. According to the bottle, that's 600mg of Ephedra extract standardized for 40mg of ephedrine. Plus 200mg of caffeine.

I take Dymetrine Extreme too DOT. Awesome stuff. I take two 20 minutes before I train and sometimes I'll have 1 when I wake up. AST's E/C stack is one of the best I've used.

 

[~HOUNDOG~]

I mean pure ephedrine HCL not ephedra extract.
Also,I notice when I take alot in the morning,by afternoon,even if I still take them I get VERY irritable and kind of lazy.

 

[Stryc-9]

Yeah that sounds like a boatload of ephedrine....

I was taking three tabs (20mg) per day and I thought THAT was too much...

You sure as hell feel like crap when you ween yourself off - but I really have to say - once you make it through the headaches (and your workouts will be hell for awhile too) and all that horrible business, you'll feel better!! Oh how cheesy - but it's true....

I was to the point where I'd wire myself up and then I had to pop sleeping pills just to get some shut-eye....

I too noticed a general feeling of laziness in the afternoon (this was after about five months of using)....so I basically forced myself off - cold turkey - I was not a nice person for about two weeks!! ah well....

 

[Taps]

I posted a thread on the Anabolic board titled "How much ephederine have you taken at once?" and the responses I got were just insane. Some of those guys were using like 300mg at once, and a few others were taking half a bottle a day or more (somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-2g/day).

I took 100mg the other morning by mistake and it fucked me right up. I couldn't even type for a few hours 'cause my hands were shaking so badly. However, I can see how it could be habbit forming. I was awake for about 20 hours, didn't feel tired at all, got more done that day than I ususally get done in a week, added 15 lbs to my bench, and after an hour or two I actually started enjoying the buzz.

Being that jacked up can't be healthy. It just can't. If you're taking more than 100mg spread out over the day, you're taking too much. 25mg 3xday is whats recomended for an ECA stack, anything more than that....you're just using it as a crutch.

Seriously, start weaning yourself off the stuff. Having a resting hart rate in the triple didgits isn't much fun.

 

[Puc]

going over 150mg a day is asking for a stroke.

A friend of mine did.

Now he has a speech impediment.