I have a weird story and I want to know if anybody else has experienced something like this.
I've taken MDMA a few times, it's been awesome. At 2018 Burning Man, I took MDMA and it was awesome, but the comedown was a nightmare. As it wore off I became overwhelmed with intense-
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anxiety and crazy thoughts. I thought everyone hated me even though I knew that was silly. I laid the entire night without being able to sleep because the anxiety was too strong. It was absolutely horrible. Well into the next morning, still without having slept, I finally-
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drank some water (without knowing it I'd gotten *extremely* dehydrated), and then belched MASSIVE belches. Immediately after belching the anxiety vanished and I was totally fine. I slept and got back on with my festival. That was weird.
Ok but here's where it gets weirder
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Months later, on December 8th, I was drunk after a wedding and going to sleep. As I was going to sleep, I causally remembered that I was planning on doing MDMA the next day. With that thought came this massive wave of anxiety again, it took me hours to get to sleep. But this time
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it took a year before it fully went away. It was just this ever-present, acausal lump in my chest that was *always* there, couldn't be reasoned with, I had no idea what was going on. And it was always relieved whenever I belched. I started drinking fizzy water to help-
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induce belches and thus alleviate my anxiety.
Nowadays I'm almost entirely back to my old levels of chronic chillness; but still, whenever some acute thing sparks even a little anxiety in me, I start belching. I don't understand why this is. Does anyone else have this??
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The "belch+anxiety" thing only started after that original bad dehydrated comedown. I think maybe it threw off some... digestive balance that regulates stress? Or something? Do I have a bacterial overgrowth that threw my chill out of whack? Why the fuck does belching fix it all?
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Sounds like Pavlovian reprogramming due to a situation caused by dehydration
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Our GI tract is sensitive to change in stress/anxiety. Meaning the burping is because of the evoked anxiety that was triggered by your brain remembering that awful come down. Very common. When u get social anxiety. I relax my stomach and massage my belly. I try not to eat b4hand
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