Heart rate and shrooms?

[ElPolloDiablo]

Long story short, I have an interesting heart condition that I came down with a number of years ago - it effectively ended my love affair with psychoactives. This was a tough blow for me, as I loved them dearly (pot, LSD, etc).

Well, I need to get back into it. I'm trying to keep this short, so I'll add a few points then ask my general question. Before I came down with my problem, I'd done shrooms a few times (and loved them), but moved on to LSD because I had the mother of all hook ups. I've dropped acid easily hundreds of times and never had a "bad trip" (started to a couple times, but was able to talk myself down and turn those into beautiful learning experiences). So I know what I'm getting into, as far as experience goes.

My main question is what kind of real world effects have you all seen with psilocybin use? My experience with shrooms was easily ten years ago, long before I was even mildly concerned with such things.

The best information I've been able to come up with was from a study on psilocybin and an ADD drug that measured an average 10bpm (beat per minute) increase over the whole of the study group.

I understand this is a long shot, as far as questions go. Probably the only people that'll be able to really understand what I'm getting at are people in the medical field who actively use shrooms, but I figure it's worth asking.

As always, any and all advice/responses are appreciated ahead of time.

 

[user_1919]

I've noticed absoutly nothing different from me physically since I have used Psilocybin Mushrooms. I have forsure changed mentally. My whole view on reality and 'God' has changed a lot. But the way I see it, if you used the 'drug' once a month, or once every two months, it would not be harmful in anyway. But saying that you have had hundreds of LSD trips, makes me think that you have used it quite a bit, and that is when it can become a problem. Anything used or abused will eventually turn on you. In moderation, I don't think there are any physical effects from them, in the long-term.

PEACE & LOVE

 

[Goran.Hrsak]

Is there anything else or just Alica? And can you say what happened to you but how this emerges out, what happened before you find that out, how did you find it out? I am little confused whit your story. Bunch of words but so little says. :wink:

 

[ElPolloDiablo]

Is there anything else or just Alica? And can you say what happened to you but how this emerges out, what happened before you find that out, how did you find it out? I am little confused whit your story. Bunch of words but so little says. :wink:

Didn't want to get too technical, but I have a general arrythmia (sinus tachycardia). It's a hereditary problem that develops in the males of my family in the late teens, early twenties (when it developed in me). The LSD was not the cause - the only thing that LSD did to me long term was expand my mind and make me very, very interested in psychosocial interactions, space and time, and religion.

I actually smoked some pot over the weekend just to see what would happen, and for the first time in a long time it didn't bother me as much as it used to. Much to my surprise. Also of surprise was the fact that I took one hit and was stoned - tolerance is a fickle thing, lol.

Anyways, my main question is what is the short term heart rate increase most people notice. For example, when tripping on LSD, there is a profound increase in heart rate (typically, not always and not with everyone, but with most people).

On the bright side, am going to get back in to see some specialists about this problem of mine. According to what I've heard, my problem is fully curable with current technology, it's just time consuming (lots and lots of testing) and requires a moderately dangerous operation. But, hell, even more then being able to get back into psychedelic exploration, it'd be nice to be able to really start working out like I used to.