horrible taste, numb lips, burning throat

[downbeat8]

HI - I'm a bit of a newbie to Vape pens. I've been following this TEK to the T.

and getting ok results. The problem is the vape hits taste awful, my lips go numb and my throat burns. pretty sure it's the NAPTHA residue. how do I avoid this? thank you

 

[The Sofa Traveler]

HI - I'm a bit of a newbie to Vape pens. I've been following this TEK to the T. and getting ok results. The problem is the vape hits taste awful, my lips go numb and my throat burns. pretty sure it's the NAPTHA residue. how do I avoid this? thank you

If the naphta you used successfully passed the evaporation test and if you took time to evaporate it properly, harshness could as well be related to inappropriate voltage settings from your vape pen or d-juice ratios rather than naphta residue. Numb lips are not uncommon and might be related to alkalinity of the vapor/aerosol.

 

[TransistorBass]

Obviously follow @The Sofa Traveler 's advice above, also get into the habit of Putting the vape tip properly into your mouth 'past the lips' rather than 'on the lips', the amount of times i melted my lips when i first started was silly! Doh!

You can also experiment with the speed of inhale, if the wattage is high breath faster, if the wattage is low breath slower, if you have no control over wattage on your vape experiment with different speed breaths. If you have a vape with Air-flow control experiment with different settings, there is usually an air intake that can be set.

 

[Transform]

I've been following this TEK to the T.

For those of us who don't wish to log into youtube (age restriction…), what is the name of the tek? If you can describe in your own words what you did, what you used, and how it looked, even better.

Welcome to the Nexus!

 

[downbeat8]

HI - I'm a bit of a newbie to Vape pens. I've been following this TEK to the T.

and getting ok results. The problem is the vape hits taste awful, my lips go numb and my throat burns. pretty sure it's the NAPTHA residue. how do I avoid this? thank you

For those of us who don't wish to log into youtube (age restriction…), what is the name of the tek? If you can describe in your own words what you did, what you used, and how it looked, even better.

Welcome to the Nexus!

Not sure the name. it's 100 gram sodium hydroxide to 750ml of distilled water for 100g of MHRB, then 150ml of VM and p naphtha, freeze participate, dry. then melt, mix with Propylene Glycol ( ratio of 3:1 DMT to PG). I'm not sure if the horrible metallic taste is the vape pen or the naptha. I'm guessing it's the Naptha. it's god-awful taste. something is off. I doubt it's the vape pen but I'll do a test with just PG and see if it tastes as horrible. Thank you for responding.

 

[downbeat8]

Obviously follow @The Sofa Traveler 's advice above, also get into the habit of Putting the vape tip properly into your mouth 'past the lips' rather than 'on the lips', the amount of times i melted my lips when i first started was silly! Doh!

You can also experiment with the speed of inhale, if the wattage is high breath faster, if the wattage is low breath slower, if you have no control over wattage on your vape experiment with different speed breaths. If you have a vape with Air-flow control experiment with different settings, there is usually an air intake that can be set.

thank you for taking the time to respond. The metallic taste is so horrible I know something is way off. I thought maybe it was the vape cartridge. I'm new to extracting and new to the vape pen world. I think I'm operating the vape pen correctly, it's just the horrible chemical taste. I tried smoking just the powder too and I could taste the naptha but didn't taste the crazy strong metal taste. I wasted a bunch attempting to smoke just the crystals. I defiantly got out there with just one hit of the vape but the chemical taste was so bad I might not ever do it again. thanks again.

 

[downbeat8]

If the naphta you used successfully passed the evaporation test and if you took time to evaporate it properly, harshness could as well be related to inappropriate voltage settings from your vape pen or d-juice ratios rather than naphta residue. Numb lips are not uncommon and might be related to alkalinity of the vapor/aerosol.

it's .333 parts Vape Juice to 1g DMT and I only had .5g DMT so i put very little vape juice in there. could smoking vape pen with very little juice in it create that horrible metallic taste? thanks for responding.

 

[TransistorBass]

One piece of good advice I was given when I started with Vaping was to try Vaping just the Juice with no DMT in it so you get the hang of the device before wasting DMT, I learned not to burn the coils, played with the airflow settings and wattage, it took some practice for me to keep the vapour in my lungs at first too. You don't want to immediately cough out the good stuff.

 

[Transform]

horrible metallic taste

That doesn't really sound like naphtha, but did you do a test to ensure that your solvent evaporates cleanly?

I tried smoking just the powder too and I could taste the naptha

OK, that does sounds like you need to troubleshoot part of your preparation process. Can you give some more specific details about the naphtha? Then we'll know whether you simply need to let the crystals dry for longer, or whether you need to find a better solvent as well as cleaning up the crystals.

DMT can have quite a penetrating taste, btw - especially if it's being overheated.

 

[bezevo]

sounds like it's burnt rather than vaped , just a guess