Hello nexus, I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself and to tell you about what I experienced last night. I joined this site this last weekend and have been waiting to find the time to write this, but after my experience last night I need some feedback from all of you. While I may be a new member of this site, I have been lurking in the shadows for just over three years now. My first successful extraction was a slightly modified Noman's STB tek. I have found that with mimosa the acid cook hasn't been necessary due to the very low oil content in the bark. My crystals have always been white and beautiful after a single re-x, which since I would always do at least one re-x, and have always gotten very clean product, I have never seen a need to use an A/B method. I do plan on trying my first A/B tek in the coming weeks and will provide pictures when I'm done.
I have been changed forever by the spice. I mentioned somewhere that I never believed in any sort of higher power/afterlife/spirituality until the spice convinced me that there is something much greater than myself that is guiding me in life. I have a BS in Chemistry and spent two years working on my doctorate in organic chemistry but dropped out without earning a degree due to some personal issues that made grad school very difficult for me. I have been addicted to every substance from alcohol to xanax and continue to take methadone and klonipin. I plan on coming off of methadone in the coming months and hopefully my nerves will allow me to come off the benzo as well. I have found with all of my addiction struggles that psychedelics can provide a very good foundation on which to build a solid recovery, but cannot alone cure addiction. I definitely found spice to be very helpful in allowing me to subjectively view myself. I firmly believe that addiction treatment requires a good support system to help you stay that way though. I
I want to state clearly that I only give my chemistry credentials to allow others to know where I am at, not to brag or be condescending to anyone, and if I EVER come across in a negative way please let me know, as this is not EVER my intention. I know for a fact from listening to many of you over the last few years that there are many people on here with more education in chemistry than I have, I simply want people to feel comfortable in asking me for help with chemistry related issues. I feel like it is the responsibility of the people on this forum to develop a reliable tek for phalaris, because nobody else will do it, and we need to have that taken care of BEFORE our mimosa is taken from us. I know that with the amount of knowledge on this site we can pull it off together. I am making that my sole mission for the rest of the year(at least until the winter solstice). I would like to help expand the availability of the spice to anyone who might need it. I hope that there are more of us out there who will help me with this, as I feel it is the most important issue that all of us face. As more attention is drawn to the spice from irresponsible extractors and those looking to make money on the spice, we may face the very real possibility of losing access to mimosa. Joe Rogan has brought the spice to the attention of a lot of people, many of whom have zero appreciation for the power contained within it. I am afraid the day may be coming when a phalaris tek is my only option for obtaining spice.
Now I want to take a moment to tell you all what happened to me last night. I was sitting down watching television and eating dinner when I decided to get up to get a glass of water. This is when I started getting a tingling sensation in my legs and then lost feeling in them all together. I tried to pick them up only to see them start swaying back and forth with my foot still planted on the ground. I couldn't move. I immediately called over my roommate and told him to call 911. At this point I started to lose feeling in my hands and arms, then my face. After only a few moments I could not move a muscle in my body. When the EMT's showed up they got me to try and walk. This was the strangest thing I ever felt. I could move and do whatever they told me, but I couldn't feel it happen and it took much more effort than normal. Even now I am finding that it takes me much more energy to perform the same movements that I could do easily yesterday. Not only was moving difficult, but I couldn't feel my body move at all, or feel it at all for that matter. I also want to elaborate further by saying that there was a delay between when i was attempting to move and when I actually moved, and stopped moving. I have a movement disorder that causes me to twitch uncontrollably sometimes and am taking medication to help keep it under control. I did forget to take one of my meds that I take at bedtime the night before, but don't know for sure what was happening to me. The doctors and nurses were very rude to me and didn't tell me anything. I left AMA because of how horrible they were treating me once I got control of my body back. I wanted to know if anyone has ever experienced anything like this before? It was by far the scariest experience of my life. I want to know for sure what caused it, but I'm afraid unless it happens again I may never know. I hope it doesn't, but at least I would have a chance at figuring out what happened to me.
I am running out of time right now, but wanted to say thank you to all of you for the help you have given me over the years in helping me get my process down. I have so many things to discuss with so many of you. I look forward to learning more and helping those who need it. I also look forward to the many travels I have yet to experience, and hearing more about the travels of my fellow nexians. I'm glad I finally decided to join you here. Thanks to those of you who took a moment to read this, I have much more I want to say but do not wish to be greedy with your time and know there will be lots of opportunity to speak my mind in the days, months, and years to come.

CTM

ChemisTryptaMan

Hey when I read your topic title "please allow me to introduce my self" I thought you were going to say that you are also a "man of wealth and taste."

Only kidding, but seriously I do thank you for sharing your story of what happened to you and I must say that It's really a bummer to hear that such an upstanding person such as yourself had such a frightening and unfortunate event occur.

As far as to the cause of your condition, I can only speculate. Maybe it's my intense mistrust of doctors but I would first consider the cause may have to do with the medicine that you mentioned you were prescribed to keep your movement disorder under control. Pardon my bluntness but..Who knows what this stuff could be? Obviously it affects your nervous system in some way if it controls your movement disorder. Do you know if this stuff is proven safe and effective for sure??

I know that benzo withdrawal can cause seizures so I don't know if that could be a factor as well.. Or if it's not withdrawal maybe your getting some weird interaction between drugs.

Anyways those are just my ideas..I do wish for you the best...

My advise would be to get advise from that "Higher Power" we both know and love about this.

ChemisTryptaMan i hope you will be succsessful with the Phalaris Tek. As a Lab Technician myself i am very interested in this topic and hope i can contribute my chemical two cents.

Hey,

I don't know what happened to you last night, but you should maybe try Iboga with someone you trust in order to get rid of your addictions.
You have to free your mind, but first, free your body of all addictions. From there, I'm sure you'll be able to "see" clearly what happens in/out yourself.

Many people are addicted to all kind of things, this is IMO the main reason they are often stuck at some point before obtaining the ability to see.

Peace

Eliyahu: I had that same song in my head as I was typing, lol. I definitely believe it had something to do with the medication I am taking, but could not get the doctors to take me seriously enough to try and think about it. They thought I was drug-seeking the moment I mentioned that I was in a methadone program. I have been clean now for 8, going on 9 months, but still get treated like a junkie by medical professionals on a regular basis. It's a shame that the people we trust to keep us healthy are so ignorant about things like that. My methadone clinic staff always treats me like an addict too, which is really depressing because they should know better than anyone how hard getting off of heroin is. I have a serious distrust for all medication but cannot function without certain medications. I want to experience a guided aya session with a shaman to see if they can help me sort out my nervous system issues so I can be done with western medicine. If it wasn't for how uncomfortable others seem to get around me when I dont take my medication I dont think I would have ever taken it. Every muscle in my upper body has random spasms, including my breathing. This causes me to choke on food if it happens when I'm chewing, so I have to be very careful when I'm eating not to breathe through my mouth at all.

amazingino: I have been wanting to try iboga as well. I saw a documentary about a heroin addict who went to mexico for an iboga session and although it didn't work for him I still would like to experience it. I have been working very hard to keep my addictions under control and feel that I am doing a wonderful job at it. If someone would have told me that I would be off of dope this time last year I wouldn't have believed it. I felt so trapped that I didn't think I would ever escape. I don't do any other drugs than those that I am prescribed, except for MJ and my psychedelics. I don't drink alcohol, but I am a smoker. If I could find a way to make giving up tobacco bearable on myself I would do it in a heartbeat, but so far this is the drug I am having the hardest time quitting.

Herba: when I actually begin work on the tek I will let everyone know what my findings are. I really think with a few months of actually working on a tek we can get this done. It is way too important not to. I'm sure you know how smart a lot of people on this forum are, between us there has to be enough knowledge to make it work. I look forward to the months to come.

Thanks for your input, I'm gonna ask to be taken off of the one medication(its called remeron) that I think is causing a majority of the problems. I think the klonipin is what is actually helping me anyways. I can't be using medication that is affecting me in ways unknown to anyone, including the people who developed it. I always swore I would never take any medication that I didn't understand the mechanism behind its actions. Unfortunately when I started twitching uncontrollably I didn't have any other option.

please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste
i've been around for many a long year...

edit: just realized every other poster was thinking of the same song,