About a month ago I made some spice with naptha and found some reddish goo type stuff mixed in with the crystals after freeze precipitating. It looked like jungle spice, so I assumed that is what it was. I proceeded to smoke some of it out of a water bong but felt an extremely unpleasent and cold, almost paralyzing feeling in my throat. I immediately coughed it up. I have smoked pure dmt before and it did not feel like this. I am just wondering if any one has experienced this feeling before? A few days after, I noticed that my gag reflux was severely reduced. This caused me to panic and go to the ER, and as I was driving there I noticed a very foul soapy taste in my mouth. I was concerned that maybe I had smoked some lye. Well the doctor found nothing, and just gave me a prescription for antacids because he thought it was reflux. The medicine did not help so I stopped taking it. I am still experiencing some strange symptoms like leg weakness, my left wrist feels like it has carpel tunnel, excess mucus, sore throat, weight loss, and chest pain (though not nearly as bad as it was). My symptoms went away for a while, but then I ate about an eighth of mushrooms and my symptoms came back. Could this all be panic related and not related to the dmt or do you think that the spice I smoked caused this? Thanks for listening, I'm just trying to find some answers right now.

Freebase tannins? I really don't know though. If there's a competent neurologist in your town he may be able to find the root of your altered gag reflex. It'd be good to find out though; loss of the pharyngeal reflex is either a sign of cranial nerve damage (IX or X) or a sign that sword-swallowing may be a viable career path.

One of my batches awhile back turned out very poorly (we're talking reddish brown, hash texture goo crap) but I stupidly decided to smoke the product anyway, like you being optimistic and assuming it was some plant impurities or something. While I tripped super hard it was hard to ignore the extremely awful taste in my mouth. After the trip was over my face and throat were numb and I was having a bunch of weird neurological effects. Like I could vividly feel a nerve running from inside my brain to one of my toes spazzing out. Also breathing was very difficult. I'm pretty sure I/we freebased some solvent there. The nerve effects went away in a few hours for me. Lesson learned: don't smoke it if it looks bad and you aren't sure why!