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I'm new to microdosing but it seems the two worst things for LSD are light exposure and chlorine. You definitely want to use amber bottles as they will prevent breakdown from light exposure. You definitely will want to use distilled water. It's like .88 at wally world for a gallon. I would go for a one tab per bottle method. One 100mcg tab is about a months worth for microdosing. Definitely use glass, plastic absorbs and is permeable. I've never seen anything on this but it makes sense. I used these bottles...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010JH19EY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Put in 10ml of distilled water and I bought these syringes,

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G76Z5CJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They are 1ml syringes, so 1 ml is 10mcg dose if you use 100mcg tabs. It's easy to adjust with those syringes, .5ml is 5mcg and so on.

As for your remaining tabs, wrapping them in tin foil to prevent light exposure and stick the tinfoil inside a book, the book pages will prevent moisture damage.

I wouldn't make everything up at once. One it's easier to hide a flat sheet of tabs inside books. It's harder to hide or store ready made bottles. There is more of a chance of someone finding the bottles if that is an issue. Also it's nice to keep the paper tabs in case you ever want to take a full dose. It's easier to take the tab. Keep the made bottle in a cool dark spot. The fridge doesn't seem to be necessary. Also It adds daily light exposure. LSD doesn't seem to like highly varying changes in temperature either. From what I've read in an amber bottle it is safe, but better be safe than sorry. Alcohol seems to be used to prevent mold contamination but if you keep your dosage in 10ml bottles than alcohol doesn't seem to be an issue. I use the 100 pack of syringes and just use an new syringe each time. I also am not planning on reusing the bottles. They are cheap enough. I'm sure you could rinse them out with distilled water but I haven't seen much on this in my research. Again I am new to this and I may be completely wrong, these are just what I have found in my research. Pretty much minimize light exposure, definitely don't let it come in contact with sink water, has chlorine and other solids in it, and prevent temperature changes and you should be fine. I've read stories people had lsd in distilled water that was months old and stored in an amber bottle and it was fine.

Unable? Not so my friend! You just need to keep it sorta roomtemp as I understand. I personally keep mine in a fridge, but that's unnecessary I think. I use a small dark glass bottle, that holds 30ml - which I drop a tab into, and then use a blunted syringe to extract 1.5ml–3ml per dose (depending how much I want that day).

Volumetric is a WAY WAY better way of doing it than cutting up tabs. I'm sure if your bedroom is even a remotely normal room temp your little bottle will be just fine in a drawer or something.

The dark glass bottle, and the syringes (science/non medical type) are available on amazon for not too much money.

— Here is the type of bottle I have (these are very very nice, you could probably get away with a cheaper one, but hey, it's nice to have nice things :)

https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Jars-Travel-Ultraviolet-Screwtop/dp/B00N5FLUYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502672177&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=infinity+jar&psc=1

Measurement:
https://www.amazon.com/Duda-Energy-Syringepk010-Industrial-Syringes/dp/B00DXPRTHG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502672271&sr=8-1&keywords=Duda+Energy+Syringepk010+Industrial+Syringes+with+15G+x+1-1%2F2%22+Blunt+Tip+Fill


Math is easy. If you put a tab say a 100ug tab into 30ml of water, then if you take 3ml of that water, you would be getting 10% of that tab. 5—15% is usually a good amount, and you might find that less works better for you.

The ALD52 I have is 125ug per tab. So 125ug in 30ml of distilled water means that 3ml of solution equals 12.5ug of a dose - and often, I take half of that, so only 1.5ml of soultion.

Seconding the suggestion for 4-aco-dmt.

I've microdosed 4-aco-dmt for one year (off and on) and it works GREAT. Dosage is 100% controllable and consistent, physically feels clean, without side-effects. Being able to dose very accurately is an important part of microdosing -- adjusting up or down makes it easier to find the "sweet spot".

Here's what you need:

-- 60mg 4-aco-dmt or more

-- a scale accurate to 0.001g (should be $30 on Amazon)

-- a bottle of Propylene Glycol (an edible non-toxic liquid used in cough syrups and candies, less than $10 on Amazon)

-- a small (30ml) amber glass bottle with dropper (I reused a store-bought herbal tincture bottle from Herb Pharm -- looks totally innocuous when traveling -- something like this:https://www.amazon.com/Herb-Pharm-Certified-Organic-Echinacea-x/dp/B00028NR2I)

-- optional, but highly recommended: Amazon sells droppers that have milliliter markings on them. This way you can set dosages very accurately (www.amazon.com/Measured-Marked-Dropper-Boston-Bottles/dp/B01604GLRU/ref=sr_1_11)

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Here's how to do it:

-- make sure your bottle is empty, clean and dry. Fill your bottle with propylene glycol -- not all the way to the very top, leave the neck empty -- this should be very close to 30ml.

-- CAREFULLY weigh out 60 milligrams of 4-aco-dmt: place cigarette paper or some similar smooth untextured piece of paper. "Tare" the scale (put the paper on scale before turning it on, so that it reads zero when fully on). Use a toothpick or the tip of a knife to scoop exactly 60 milligrams onto paper. Be careful, precision matters.

-- CAREFULLY put 4-aco-dmt into bottle. Add marked dropper, close, and shake repeatedly. The 4-aco-dmt doesn't dissolve right away, it may take two days or so to dissolve fully. Leave it out and shake it a few times a day, until you don't see any solids in the liquid. (The liquid is active right away, but for consistency's sake, best to wait until fully dissolved.)

-- Store bottle in fridge, if possible. Shake before use! Best is to open bottle, drain stopper into bottle, re-close, then shake, then measure dosage.

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Now you have a bottle of tincture with 2 milligrams of 4-aco-dmt in every milliliter. In the fridge, it should stay potent for 6 months or more.

You should start your mom on 0.5ml (half-dropper) every 4th day (that's 1mg 4-aco-dmt / dose). Adjust her dose up or down as needed. I microdose in the range 0.5mg (one-quarter dropper) up to 2mg (one full dropper), but usually 1mg (half-dropper) -- that's just what works for me.

Cool 😎 If you stay mindful and microdose then hopefully you can push through any difficulties and calm yourself. Keep your mind still and stay present. Definitely stay away from the caffeine and cannabis. Try weaning off of them. My anxiety was usually due to my mind being too much in the future and past and not in the now. If you still have anxiety after a couple of weeks then I would try magnesium supplements, but you have to start slowly with little amounts and then go up because it can cause some gastrointestinal discomfort. 💩 I use this stuff,- Magnesium Threonate (Magtein) + Taurate & Glycinate For Improved Memory, Brain Function, Sleep, and Heart Health - 90 Vegetarian Capsules | Best L Threonate Supplement by True Recovery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0115QPARA/

Best of luck and keep us updated on how your doing. Try keeping a journal or notes.

You should feel subtle effects like improved mood, less anxious, more energy, might have slight enhanced interest in colors, music sounds better. If you see any traces, distortion or waviness in your vision you're taking too much for a microdose.

Me personally, I can feel .05g, I prefer .1 or .2g, if I take .3g I can see tracers of my finger tips as I move them across a dark background in a dim room. But that effect only lasts for less than 30 minutes, that's my upper limit for a microdose.

I got one of these to use when filling my capsules, works great!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WX4URE/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You must be reading my mind. After the first couple of experiences and some great insight I decided to run full time experiment with it. I even wrote a book about it - Small Magic ;)

I've been microdosing weed for over a year now. I'm not kidding, but it's the best tool in my writing toolkit. I also tried microdosing LSD for one month, just to have a comparison, and I have to say that I didn't offer anything beyond what cannabis could.


Here's the link if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Magic-Microdosing-Cannabis-Creativity/dp/1729040993/

I'm promoting it now so it's only $0.99 :D

This is the scale I use.

I don't grind mine up, I just swallow it like a pill - that amount of mushrooms usually is just a cap and a stem, at most. I haven't experimented with grinding them up, I'd be curious to hear your experiences with it.

I find that sometimes on the days I microdose, it brings up a lot of strong emotions that I need to sit and process. Not sure if this will happen to you - everyone is different - but for your first try you might want to do it on a day you have fewer commitments than usual, at least for the first few hours after you dose.

Edit: I forgot to say, good luck! I've tapered off psych meds before and it's unpleasant in a very unique kind of way. I hope things get better for you soon.

Grab a coffee grinder and grind what you have into a powder for uniform potency. Then grab a milligram scale and some capsules off amazon. Then make your own capsules... Using a scale with that level of accuracy will allow you to make sure you know what dose you are getting and relelably repeat it time after time. I highly recommend this one. It's incredilby accurate for the $20 price. I use it almost every day for all sorts of small weight. I'd recommend starting with 0.1g (100mg) and going up from there if you feel the need. Happy dosing!!!

It will likely be either too potent or too weak, there's variance so it's best to grind them up into a uniform powder so the variance is equalized. Grab a cheap mortar and pestle off amazon I got mine for just 10 bucks, looking right now it's no longer available but skimming through something like this would work just fine https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M742974/ .

After grinding them up you can measure the powder if you want but if you don't want to buy a scale then using a 1/8th teaspoon measuring spoon is normally what I use which when full for me measures in around 0.2g.

I'd highly recommend buying a scale though, I use this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O37TDO/ which is only 8 bucks. The supplies to properly microdose are cheap if you try to find good deals. Do it right so you don't regret it!

This is the recommendation from The Third Wave, the microdose.me app. Dr. James Fadiman actually recommends taking a break after 10 cycles/weeks. EDIT: Infographic based on Fadiman's 10-week protocol: https://thethirdwave.co/app/uploads/2016/01/infographic-nov17.jpg

This is due to the lack of research about long-term usage - specifically on how it affects the serotonin receptors in your heart so better to err on the side of caution. Well all the details are in the link above: https://thethirdwave.co/microdosing-heart-risk/.

If only there was a large microdose study with lots of data and as Paul says so that 'clinicians can see the signal from the noise' and find trends in the data. Maybe there's an app for that. Oh hang on a minute.........😉

It was also briefly mentioned in this very long discussion from last year: Microdosing: The Benefits, Risks, & Unknowns w/ Jim Fadiman & Ayelet Waldman (I skipped the 'comedian' intro).

EDIT: The section when they start talking about the heart risk: https://youtu.be/4fjV82MojVk?t=1h4m47s (but they don't go into too much detail).

YouTube description of the last link: "Dr. James Fadiman is a psychologist who has been involved with psychedelic research since the 1960s. He is the author of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, which popularized the modern wave of microdosing.

Ayelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs."

I first came across the both of them in this April 2017 video (probably before volumetric microdosing was known): Microdosing: People who take LSD with breakfast - BBC News

Nice I have the same scale. I use this to fill 00 caps: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HJBFC6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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The smallest one has 00 caps fit perfectly around it on the outside of the funnel tip and holds itself there quite snugly so you can use both hands. Another option for those without 3D printers.

I have this one and it works great: AWS Scale

But there is another one on Amazon that looks just like it and about $10 cheaper.

I realize your broke but I'd just invest in a scale for the sake of safety and assurance on dosage. Besides this can last you for years. Here is an inexpensive one off of Amazon.

American Weigh Scale AWS-100 Digital Pocket Scale, 100g X 0.01g Resolution https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012LOQUQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9uiUDbRC9BH3E

Dried or fresh? Dried and ground with a cheap coffee grinder and then weighed was much more consistent for me. This scale works great:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012TDNAM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Once you've settled on a dosage size, load up a 0 or 00 gel capsule and note how 'full' it is...then fill future capsules to that position more or less.

I've used this one for years and really like it. I recommend you get the calibration weight with it.

If you haven't checked it out, there's a wealth of information in the subreddit FAQ/Wiki.

I ground them up with a coffee grinder, and use this digital scale that measures mg: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012TDNAM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not cheap but really solid and 15mL. I use a small measuring cup (not really a cup, but as for measuring liquor at a bar) to measure out the 10mL though.

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https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Jars-Travel-Ultraviolet-Screwtop/dp/B00N5FLUYC/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_79_tr_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F3YD59VSTVAEGDZH6R6B

https://www.amazon.com/Ezy-Dose-Calibrated-Medicine-Syringe/dp/B000VCF6FG?th=1

I have this one.

Have you tried this scale?

If you can't weigh it, then you don't have any options. Get this and call it a day. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012TDNAM

Microdosing is a game of fractions, and you can't get that without an accurate method of dosing.

Here what I use. It's very accurate and comes with 10g calibration weights. You can literally blow on the scale and it will register the shift in pressure.

American Weigh Scale Gemini Series Precision Digital Milligram Scale, Silver 20G X 0.001G (GEMINI-20) (Silver)

I'll just post here what I wrote to you privately, as it might help somebody else too here.

No worries, glad to help in this area, especially as it has helped me.

So, dosage: I bought myself a grinder (link below, but a coffee grinder works too), and with that I grinded my shrooms into very small pieces, but not into powder (only because I couldn't, the grinder was too coarse). Those I then measured with a precision scale to a dosage of 0.10-0.25g, and I took the dose every third day (the Fadiman method, so Monday dose, Tuesday and Wednesday no dose, Thursday dose, etc.). I found out that 0.10g was the sweet spot for not feeling anything and still getting the benefits, but then again I took 0.25g last Saturday, didn't feel a thing, but on Monday was having the time of my life.

Anxiety: So, before I started I had a severe fear of fucking up my heart with this, due to the exact same articles and links you posted in your Reddit-post. I was diagnosed with panic disorder on 2006, and one of the main reasons for this is the fact that I fear cardiac arrest like crazy. I'm in my early 30's and generally quite healthy, so I shouldn't have a reason for that, but I still do have the phobia, so that factored in big time when I started to think about doing this.

The first day I took the dose (0.21g), I mainly played some video games and didn't feel a thing, but I did feel a bit of anxiety due to the fact that I was expecting something happening in my body. The next day I felt awesome in many ways, but I still had the same anxious feelings and did get a very small panic attack when visiting my therapist. Luckily I have been able to talk openly about the microdosing, so when I got the panic attack I could explain very well what's going on in my head, after which the anxious feelings dropped significantly, so I'm quite certain they were in my head. I did get some more anxiety when doing a dose of 0.16-0.17g, but they most probably have also been in my head, as I didn't get any when doing 0.10g or when doing 0.25g.

When I got the anxious feelings the second time, I sent a mail to Dr. Fadiman, who replied that the elevated heart rate should not be due to the microdosing, as the dose is so low that there shouldn't be any physical effects. Then again, elevated heart rate is very much a symptom of anxiety, so it definitely might be that. The best advice I got for the anxiety is 1) to remember that there's nothing we can do about our irrational fears, other than face them, and 2) if you're feeling more anxious, skip one dose and see how you feel. In the material that Dr. Fadiman provides, he says that if you're feeling any ill effects, you should stop the microdosing, but don't let it scare you away from trying it in the first place.

My reasons for starting the microdosing were basically to try out something for the chronic depression I've had for the last 15 years. Anxiety, negative (EDIT: even suicidal) thoughts, inability to get stuff done or start doing things, issues with self image, bad self esteem, etc. have been there for ages, and only during this year I've been on 6 different medications for it, out of which venlafaxine helped with anxiety, but not with anything else. I've now taken 10 microdoses and I can definitely say that it did help me a lot! I hope that it will help you too.

Link to the grinder and the scale (or variation of those):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU3LL3U?psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Digital-Scale-sensitivity/dp/B0012LOQUQ/