Bad experiences with 7OH are rarely mysterious. They are almost always the result of one of a small number of straightforward mistakes.
1. Redosing before the first dose has landed
The most common mistake by a wide margin. Onset builds over time; people feel nothing yet, take a second dose, and then both arrive together. Take one dose. Wait. Accept the answer.
2. Treating a shot bottle as one serving
Our 60mg shot bottle contains eight servings. Treating it as a single dose is an eightfold error. Use the dosing cap, every time. See servings per bottle.
3. Eyeballing powder
Volume and weight are not the same. Powder settles, compacts and varies in density, and with an 89% extract a few milligrams of error is a meaningful dose change. Use a calibrated 0.001g scale. Every time. See safe measuring.
4. Not taring the scale
If you do not zero out the container, you are weighing the container plus the powder and calling it a dose. Simple, common, entirely avoidable.
5. Confusing MIT and 7OH milligrams
A 50mg mitragynine tablet and a 50mg 7OH tablet share a number and nothing else. They are different alkaloids at very different potency by weight. See the comparison.
6. Stacking formats, or alkaloids, on the same day
A tablet plus a shot. A 7OH product plus a MIT product. It is always a way of taking more than you think you are taking, and it makes your total intake impossible to track.
7. Drinking alcohol on the same day
Compounded CNS depression, with respiratory risk. There is no safe threshold established for this combination. If you are going to drink, do not use a 7OH product that day. See why.
8. Escalating to chase the first experience
The first experience is usually the strongest and it does not come back. Escalating raises your baseline while leaving the experience unchanged – and it is the pattern that ends in dependence. See why chasing fails.
Bonus: measuring mistakes that are not about the number
- Measuring in a draught – a fan or open window will move a milligram scale.
- Using kitchen scales – typically 1g resolution, which is 1000mg. Useless at this scale.
- Not noting the time of the dose – you will underestimate how recently you took it.
- Keeping the product on the kitchen counter – friction and access make redosing far more likely. Lock it away.
The rule that prevents all of them
That single sentence prevents stacking, redosing, format mixing and most escalation. It is the rule our labels state and the rule we would apply ourselves.
If something goes wrong
Stay calm, take nothing else, do not drive, and stay with someone if you feel unwell. Seek immediate medical attention for difficulty breathing, chest pain, extreme drowsiness, confusion or fainting – and bring the packaging. See the health disclaimer.
Related reading
Use it responsibly
Read the full dosage guide before your first order – it covers tolerance, dependence and interactions.
