Quote from: stoney1980 on April 02, 2013, 07:22 pmQuote from: fartsinthewind on April 01, 2013, 10:59 pmQuote from: Shamiroqai on April 01, 2013, 10:21 pmQuote from: SelfSovereignty on April 01, 2013, 05:34 pmRegarding acne, I find part of my problem is that I fidget on amphetamines. I mean I have these weird habits that I get into when I focus intently on something -- I'll rub my neck or face or play with my stubble or something. In fact for like 4 months when this all started I couldn't figure out why I kept getting rashes on the back of my hand whenever I was on a run. I thought it was some weird toxic reaction to high levels of amphetamine or something.Turns out it's because I was rubbing my stubble with the back of my hand for 2 days straight. ::)Hehe, exactly! I often have a rash on the back of my hand when speeding and focusing. More precisely on my backhand, the area of skin between my thumb and index finger from rubbing the stubble on my chin. Putting lotion on afterwards makes it burn more intense. EDIT: Weird science: While on amp I can still get the flu and hurt my back and suffer the symptoms from both but after re-dosing 12hrs later I feel as healthy as a fish in fresh water again. Not gonna lift heavy stuff or snort a line flu-bacteria though.Crazy you say that about the flu! I have had that happen twice this year...I felt the flu coming on, felt super sluggish with a sore throat before going to bed, woke up feeling shitty, dialed up about 150 mg amp and by lunchtime i was feeling fine! strangeI read about some theories a while back, whom where stating that the way we see various diseases are very wrong. According to these theories an abdominal influenza for example is pretty much a self cleaning function of the body. Puking -> cleaning the stomach, followed by fever, which helps secreting poisons and then diarrhea. I followed the suggested instructions provided in those theories the last time I had abdominal influenza and drank like 3 liters of water while sitting on the toilet, until clear water was leaving my ass ;).I was healed right away and actually felt great (my brain probably provided some dopamine/serotonin ::)) , the whole thing didn't last more than 12 hours.So my theory would be: Since you took amph your body switched into run/fight mode, which means no time for regeneration mode. Flu is suspended until autumn^^.On the aspartame thing, I try to live a healthy life, apart from the drugs ofc, and therefore try to avoid any aspartame products in general.I'm no doctor, but honestly, I seriously doubt that's why it helped. But you're basically right about the purpose of expelling things from your body. And FYI, aspartame is possibly the safest food additive in the modern world. Seriously, read about it in Wikipedia: apparently all the suspicion of it being harmful was propaganda. It's probably safer than refined sugar, anyway.