brazilman said:
but I'm thinking of skipping the mimosa capsules to gain a little more familiarity with the rue. I had gotten used to basically no effect from the extract and wasn't expecting the tea to hit me so hard.
Yeah that's a good idea, i do recommend getting familiar with Rue's effects first, for sure, and no doubt, it can hit pretty hard.
brazilman said:
Yea, lots of motion sickness. The vomiting started as a choice, to contain the experience as I began to freak out about the dizziness that was growing stronger. I don't know if I would have been able to avoid it or not. That is exactly what I experienced.
It's okay to throw up if you freak out, i do sometimes, though it's best to try to keep it down as long as possible, but nothing at all wrong with throwing up if you feel things getting too strong for you, but early purging can end up wasting a dose on occasion.
brazilman said:
How do you consume the LEO without food? My understanding is that taking it plain can irritate the throat and it doesn't really dissolve in liquids. Capsules maybe? Don't you need a little food to tell the stomach to not ignore the capsules and begin digestion?
I put the Lemon EO drop by drop (using one of those dropper things) into a capsule, and then consume it, works very well. Capsules dissolve fast, within maybe 3 to 5 minutes, i've never had issues with capsules not dissolving. The only thing i've noticed about Lemon EO is that in the beginning i had some heartburn, but about 75 to 150mgs of Zantac works for that, and any dose of Lemon EO above 7 drops, beginning with 8 drops, seemed to cause me some diarrhea as the Lemon EO got my digestion moving but i have a messed up gut anyways so the diarrhea could've just been my issue, other than that you can get the Lemon burps but that's never bothered me at all, much prefer the taste of Lemon to the taste of Rue lol.
brazilman said:
I started feeling the tea about 30 minutes after ingestion, and the feeling grew over the following 30 minutes (or something like that, I was no longer keeping track), stabilized for maybe an hour, and then I'm not sure as I sort of fell asleep, the dizziness went down to basically nothing a few hours later but there were still tracers. Any idea how closely the mental effects align with gut inhibition?
The gut's MAO-A inhibition, ime, usually lasts a max of 2 hours, but that's with capsules of Rue seed powder, and encapsulated Rue/Harmala extract, with tea the gut's MAO-A inhibition could be a bit shorter i'm thinking, but i'm not sure. MAO-A in the brain can still be inhibited for a few good hours, and i've noticed for about maybe 2 to 3 days or so after the Rue/Harmalas/Moclobemide that the rise in neurotransmitters can stick around, so idk if brain MAO-A stays inhibited for that long, or if it just takes a couple days or so for neurotransmitter levels to return to normal. And yeah ime i generally feel the Rue starting around 30 minutes, sometimes around 15 to 20 minutes for the first mild wave, then around 45 minutes is when i feel the first real wave of it starting up, it'll then slowly get a bit stronger over the next 45 minutes, and the last half of the second hour is when it really ramps up, then after 2 full hours things stabilize/calm down.
brazilman said:
They don't sell that here, at least not without a prescription.
I order my Moclobemide online without a prescription since it's not available in the US, although it is available for prescription in Canada and Australia, maybe some other places, which if it's available for prescription where you are i would suggest maybe giving it a try, i certainly wouldn't mind having a prescription for Moclobemide lol, heck i'd take it in my day to day life if i could, sure beats SSRIs imo lol.
brazilman said:
I wonder if the 10x extract that I took several times in the week prior to this, quietly built some sort of reverse tolerance without actually having noticeable effects. How low were you able to take your doses with this reverse tolerance? Is the reverse tolerance for the mental effects only or does it also impact gut maoi?
Possibly, although ime i've found lower dosages of Rue/Harmalas to build up the reverse tolerance a lot more slowly and not as strongly, whereas moderate to high to heavy dosages build it up faster and more strongly, and too low of a dosage doesn't seem to build up the reverse tolerance at all, that i've noticed so far, but i mainly stick to moderate to high dosages, only really enter heavy Harmala territory by letting the reverse tolerance build up so i don't have to take as much Rue. Plus i like the reverse tolerance because it does away with the nausea/vomiting, cleans up the bodyload, and reduces the dizziness/motion sickness and motor function impairment. The reverse tolerance mainly impacts the effects of the Rue/Harmalas, doesn't really seem to do anything different with the gut's MAO-A inhibition except for making it stronger as the dosage increases.