Seiena

Hi all, name's Seiena, been full on vaping for about 3 days maybe more now (I can barely tell what day it is anymore). I figured I'd give you a little bio on me so you know who I am and the kinda challenges facing me in this new endeavor. I love my mother but her experiences are a little different because she's 'normal' so I figured it was time to join a forum see if I find any other people will similar situations. Sooooo! Here we go! I'm 29 years old as of 6 days ago. I'm mentally disabled with grammar issues, so if you see those I just wanted to point out that it is something that practice makes perfect doesn't apply to, and I'm not uneducated, stupid, or any of those things. It's just a natural issue that I've accepted as never going away. I try to make my posts as clear as possible despite this trouble. I tend to find at least one person that has issue with my grammar and thinks it's just being lazy, not paying attention in school things like that so I thought I'd head them off at the pass. ^_- Anyways 29 years old, mentally disabled, still live with my folks on their dime because I haven't been able to find work despite looking for 10 years. I've been diagnosed with Dysthymia (can't treat it for lack of funds), I've got pretty bad anxiety issues, and I'm a paranoid neurotic who's stress level is generally on the edge of breaking, so I tend to be a little on the over-emotional side. My mother's been supporting my smoking habit all these years, and she's a smoker too. Interestingly enough my mother and I both started smoking at around the same age, 13 (Though mom didn't find out till I was 16, hooked, and she'd rather support my habit then my continue to find my own way into getting them and possibly get hurt...I was resourceful to say the least.) Granted I'm only 29 now, and my mother's in her 50's but still. So that handles Who I am, and the current situation. So with that, now all the rest of this will make sense to ya'll. XD A few years back I tried to make the switch to E-cigs, my mother wasn't really that keen on the idea, and a friend of my sister's pushed that we should try Smoke 51. I wasn't real good at information gathering at the time, so I went "Okay so this person knows what she's talking about! She's done the research this must be a good brand!" Well the smoke 51 only went up to 8 mg carts. Needless to say it went badly, and mom swore off E-cigs as an option. After that debacle I did more research over the years, nudged, suggested, and prodded, I bought from the local smoke shop, disposable e-cigs in a wide range of mg levels 18 being the max they came in. Found all of those as lacking as the 8 mg. Finally around last week, week before. My mother finally caved, she agreed to look into it and took my recommendation of a Vapor king. It was the least expensive, had the most vapor output, a good battery life (in my opinion) and didn't look as bulky. I was looking at a mega e-go tank thingy that another person had suggested for heavy smokers, but mom balked at the shape and size, but she didn't seem to fuss too much about the Vapor King, and we use manual batteries, because my tendency for long draws gave the smoke 51 a heart attack. We've been on straight vaping for at least a few days now. we switched from carts to Tanks which turned out to be a pretty good idea because with the Carts I was being a little too neurotic and twitchy because I couldn't see how much was left, the tank is clear though so it gives me some indicator on how much I've used, though I don't understand measurements at all. So far things have been alright, I do still twitch and want to go back to the cigs, but I think it has to do with a problem I'm having. We went 24 mg because 18 mg was too weak, and 24 mg seems to be about right, we got the tanks which the liquid is supposed to last all day, I'm going on like 2 or 3 days with the first fill of the tank. I have G.E.R.D so I know what indigestion is like and I'm medicated against it thanks to Prilosec, and with 18 mg being to weak for me, this is where the trouble is getting a little weird. The first few days I coughed -A LOT- and I'd get a tightness in my throat and chest which made me fight to breathe but it would last like a minute and pass with a dull ache in the chest that would fade a few minutes later. Well since then it's changed now there's a constant pressure in my chest that makes breathing uncomfortable, and I'm more then a little twitchy. I keep wanting to go have an analog, I used to have a specific spot I'd go to smoke. I've tried taking the e-cig into my spot, but that doesn't work. I've tried increasing the amount I intake, that just makes the fight to breathe increase even more. To top it off, my sleep schedule is completely mutilated. I sleep a lot more then I used to, and at odd hours, I can't just stay awake either because I pass out after a few minutes of fighting it, I always have. My appetite has become somewhat on the ravenous scale to lately, which is causing all sorts of havoc on my body since I typically eat very little (like a sandwhich or less a day) due to it upsetting my stomach to eat any more then that. Which means this new increase is just ripping me apart. So the question I have is, is this at least semi normal? Am I not getting enough Nicotine, am I getting too much and just don't know it? If I am where would I get middle ground between 18 mg and 24 mg or could it be an allergic reaction to the Value 4 Life vapors? If so, what other vendors are out there that are trustworthy to buy from? I also worry that this might have to do with a Fungus infection I had at the beginning of last year, it covered over 80% of my body before the ER finally got hold of me and properly diagnosed me. During that endeavor I had some serious heart problems that felt a lot like this actually but I'm not sure that it would have any correlation. Since I'm new to all this I figure I should see what the more experienced community thought. If I can resolve this without going to the hospital that'd be aces, because I have to go to the Low income clinic (no job ya know), and they usually send me to the ER to have testing done since they don't have the equipment, and depending on who's on staff, the ER will try and send me away without seeing me despite doctor's orders. So I'd rather eliminate any other possibilities before I have to deal with that. *looks up* Wow that's really tl;dr isn't it? Well! Cookies for all who sit any actually read this, and thank you for taking the time I look forward to spending more time here and stuff!