It's easy to forget, especially when you have no one mediating your actions but you. There aren't going to be parents there when someone offers you something at a party, and god wouldn't it be so great to just get fucked up and forget and have a great time -
And you won't.
Because you're so much fucking stronger than that.
Hang in there, Dec, and know that I'm pulling for you.
You took MDMA (ecstasy). Not a big deal. Then you danced and danced and danced and sweat and danced and sweat and sweat, all while your body's regulatory systems were on the fritz because of the MDMA. Basically, you lost a ridiculous amount of water in a ridiculously short amount of time.
Then, you drank Red Bull and took a ridiculous number (four) of caffeine pills. Still no big deal. Admittedly, it's probably not great for your body to have that much caffeine in it, but it's nowhere near a lethal dosage, and the last time anyone cared about caffeine pills was in that one episode of Saved by the Bell ("I'm so excited! I'm so excit-").
Except, you have fuck for water in your body right now, and you've just taken- that's right!- a big load of diuretics. Diuretics take the water that you do have in your body and turn it into useless pee. So basically, while you were feeling nauseated, shaky, headachey, and depressed, your poor body was probably trying desperately to turn your
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...and lost probably ten bottles worth in the process. Frankly, I'm not sure you would be physically capable of drinking enough water to compensate for the water loss caused by two hits of E, a Red Bull, and four caffeine pills; that is a lot of water leaving your system in a very short amount of time.
Not that it matters for my reasoning, really, because even without knowing about the E and the caffeine pills, your symptoms were obviously symptoms of dehydration. That or blood loss, but I kind of doubt it. If you start pooping black, go to the hospital please.
I'm going to do a little calculation here: you said you rode back as the sun rose. At this time of year at this latitude, that puts you at the Jack In The Box around 5:30am. You were unable to get to sleep at 11:30am. You had four caffeine pills (200mg each, I'm guessing) and one Red Bull (approximately 90mg).
A while back, Jim stayed up for 62 hours straight. I calculated for him how much caffeine it took to simulate sleep. Using the "over-waking hours" model from that calculation, you'd have to stay awake for more than four days to use up all that caffeine. Now, obviously the body has better ways to deal with it, and you're bigger than Jim, but the point still stands: that is such a ridiculous amount of caffeine that you'd be feeling like shit right now even without taking any E. With that much fucking caffeine in your system, you're lucky this didn't happen: Back then, Jim took a total of 360mg of caffeine to stay up 62 continuous hours. And as far as sleep deprivation goes, Jim's a Kenyan Lance Armstrong. You're a guy who jogs
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It's easy to forget, especially when you have no one mediating your actions but you. There aren't going to be parents there when someone offers you something at a party, and god wouldn't it be so great to just get fucked up and forget and have a great time -
And you won't.
Because you're so much fucking stronger than that.
Hang in there, Dec, and know that I'm pulling for you.
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OK, here's what happened:
You took MDMA (ecstasy). Not a big deal. Then you danced and danced and danced and sweat and danced and sweat and sweat, all while your body's regulatory systems were on the fritz because of the MDMA. Basically, you lost a ridiculous amount of water in a ridiculously short amount of time.
Then, you drank Red Bull and took a ridiculous number (four) of caffeine pills. Still no big deal. Admittedly, it's probably not great for your body to have that much caffeine in it, but it's nowhere near a lethal dosage, and the last time anyone cared about caffeine pills was in that one episode of Saved by the Bell ("I'm so excited! I'm so excit-").
Except, you have fuck for water in your body right now, and you've just taken- that's right!- a big load of diuretics. Diuretics take the water that you do have in your body and turn it into useless pee. So basically, while you were feeling nauseated, shaky, headachey, and depressed, your poor body was probably trying desperately to turn your ( ... )
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Not that it matters for my reasoning, really, because even without knowing about the E and the caffeine pills, your symptoms were obviously symptoms of dehydration. That or blood loss, but I kind of doubt it. If you start pooping black, go to the hospital please.
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A while back, Jim stayed up for 62 hours straight. I calculated for him how much caffeine it took to simulate sleep. Using the "over-waking hours" model from that calculation, you'd have to stay awake for more than four days to use up all that caffeine. Now, obviously the body has better ways to deal with it, and you're bigger than Jim, but the point still stands: that is such a ridiculous amount of caffeine that you'd be feeling like shit right now even without taking any E. With that much fucking caffeine in your system, you're lucky this didn't happen:
Back then, Jim took a total of 360mg of caffeine to stay up 62 continuous hours. And as far as sleep deprivation goes, Jim's a Kenyan Lance Armstrong. You're a guy who jogs ( ... )
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Also, don't share needles.
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