Can anyone help. I just recently did an extraction with MHRB. I used lye to break it down 50g. Lye to 50g root bark with 750ml bottled water. I did 200g in total. I used naptha to pull it and did a freeze precip 5 different occasions over a period of a week on my base. I ended up with about 3.5g. impure spice. I did a re-x and was left with 1.5g slightly yellow, fluffy crystals that look very welcoming. And about 2 grams of yellow sludge. (Is there sludge still good to use?)

Now that my re-x was done I gave it a try. The first thing is a intolerable pain in my head but everything else was exactly what it should have been. It was only 25mg so sub breakthrough. But still fractal and geometric patterns. It was beautiful. But this pain was overwhelming. I noticed it started in my forehead and crept it's way too the back of my head where my skull connects to my neck. I though I was having an anurism. It went away about a day and a half later. After it subsided I wanted to give it another go so I put in about the same dose and wallah, that crippling head ache was back. This time it lasted about two days of throbbing intense pain.

I do drink kratom on the regular. And probably not enough water. Other than that I have no idea why it does this to me. I'm the only one that has tried the spice I have. So I don't have any basis to go off of it's me or something I did wrong in extraction. But I did every thing to the Tek and was very careful to not get any plant matter or base into the naptha. Also I would decant my naptha just to be safe.

Please if you've had this or know if there is anything I can do to have this experience without these crippling headaches. Please help.. also I know I'm healthy. I've had regular check ups, blood pressure has always been fantastic. No allergies. Everything I've read that could be there cause doesn't seem likely. As amazing as the experience is, this pain is so great, it's not worth doing. Which is hard for me to come to terms with because I've been waiting years for this time to come and I feel like the molecule itself is telling me "no, your not meant for this."

Any ideas? Advice? Feedback? I would really appreciate it.

Unfortunatly, this is quite common: https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=55741

I get these horrible migraines myself. The only thing that helps a bit is taking 5-htp (refer to the thread).

I know that pressure is normal and it can be quite intense. But this doesn't seem like a normal occurrence. The very second I start to feel the effects, very sharp pain happens in the back of my skull. Very localized at first and throbbing and unbearable. It completely overtakes the whole experience. And continues to be fairly unbearable for hours, even days after use. It doesn't happen every time either. But after the effects of the dmt diminish the pain moves more into my neck almost. Where my vertbre connect to my skull. (Sorry if my anatomy or spelling is wrong)

This has been my first dmt experience so I'm not sure if it's the dmt itself or if it's just how I react to it. Because I've had successful trips that were very comfortable and then experiences where the pain in my skull is so intense during and long after, it makes me not want to do it.

Could drinking kratom, or dehydration cause effects like this? Create some chemical imbalances that cause this discomfort?