I went from post nasal drip to very hairy symptoms within 8 hours. Started paxlovid and was back to postnasal drip overnight and better by afternoon.
Never have had that type of experience with any drug.
Never have had that type of experience with any drug.
Infuriating that, in the midst of the opioid crisis, the government wouldn't even consider permitting safe and effective treatment.
This paper [2] is a review of deaths associated with ibogaine known to the authors. They contacted different clinics around the world known to use ibogaine. They found 19 deaths over an 18 year period. 14 of these deaths had post-mortem data and 12 of the 14 had clear comorbidities that likely substantially contributed (e.g. also using heroin and meth, or having severe heart problems already).
You can find a number of papers[3], here is one for example, where no side effects are reported for ibogaine - "In two Phase 1 studies using very low doses, single 20 mg doses of ibogaine were well tolerated (N = 21), with no effect on vital signs and no adverse effects". And, here is the conclusion of that paper, just for fun - "A single ibogaine treatment reduced opioid withdrawal symptoms and achieved opioid cessation or sustained reduced use in dependent individuals as measured over 12 months".
Even if those were valid side effects, you'd still have to put them in context - being an opiod addict is likely much riskier than taking a one time dose of ibogaine in a clinical setting with a doctor's supervision. Net - ibogaine treatment is negative side effect.
1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837967/
2 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22268458/
3 - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00952990.2017.1...
If you’re a high risk patient like an addict, when you end up in the ER for whatever, they’re just going to cut off whatever medication you’re on, keep you from dying, and kick you out as soon as they aren’t liable.