What are the best ways to mitigate that "drained" feeling you get after MDMA? I'm sure there's a neuroscientific explanation involving serotonin receptors or summat, but I've tried tryptophan supplements in the past and it didn't feel like they did anything.
A bacon sandwich, lots of water, and a bracing walk. Also the acceptance that you're on a comedown and there's not much but rest and time that can solve it.
5-HTP is mentioned a lot too, but in much the same way as regular tryptophan, I can't imagine it actually doing anything until your seratonin has sorted itself out anyway.
>>8488 A solid multi-vitamin also helps. You're a biochemical engine, give it all it needs in all the places you can so it can fix the bits you destabilised.
As >>8488 says, you've just got to give your brain time to recover. MDMA floods your brain with serotonin (which is the entire point), but your brain sees that as a potentially life-threatening crisis. It can't clear the serotonin out because the MDMA is both inhibiting re-uptake of serotonin and pretending to be serotonin; once your liver starts clearing the MDMA out of your system, your brain's normal mechanisms for regulating serotonin goes into overdrive. It'll eventually return to a normal equilibrium, but there's not really anything you can do to speed up that process.
You can whack a couple of valium up your arse and sleep it off, but that can be a bit of a slippery slope.
Why's no-one suggested weed yet, am I imagining its effectiveness? Any night I'm planning on MD, I'll have my house clean and comfort food ready for the next day and get the bacon sandwich + water, but skip the walk for chainsmoking joints. It usually works quite nicely.
As mentioned above, it gets easier once you just accept you're going to feel shit and that you're essentially just going to be surviving rather than living for the next day or two.
On the comedown of MD when I'm feeling drained, low and paranoid, the last thing I want is something that clouds my mind while making me even more paranoid.
Weed makes me worry the world is ending and I'm at the centre of a giant conspiracy as it is, so not great for treating comedowns from other substances honestly.
