Needed some gear last minute for a festival this weekend, so I ordered from three vendors on Agora to make sure I got one of them on time. It tested purple to black in about 20 seconds with marquis, and this was probably my 10th mdma purchase on the darknet so I figured all was good.
My friend and I dropped 200mg saturday night, and the effects were mixed from good, to terrible. The first hour and a half wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad either. To summarize what we felt:
there was definitely a high, albeit felt a little "off". I wasn't grinning like an idiot like when I usually roll, I just felt high.
we were pretty uncoordinated. walking up and down hills was difficult. Honestly felt like I was on ket or MXE at times, but I find those drugs fun, this aspect wasn't fun at all
we both felt "slow" in that it was sometimes difficult to talk. Very very unusual for me on mdma as usually I talk a million miles a minute.
and the worst effect we had - we were very, very tweaky. About an hour and a half in the energy from the roll started to diminish, my hands became very shaky and my friend's legs started trembling. I've never seen him get shaky from any drugs, not stims not too much caffeine or anything. We immediately went and bought a large beer because we couldn't think of anything else to help calm us down.
These effects were pretty scary, we didn't panic too much as we're usually pretty chill on drugs but the thing was the festival I was at was 108 degrees on saturday and we personally witnessed multiple people fainting and seizing on the ground due to drugs/heat exhaustion, so to think I took something bad has made me weary of wanting to do MDMA again.
At this point before pointing fingers at vendors I really just want to figure out what this could have been if not MDMA. I've never had these sort of issues with any drugs before. It should be noted that the night before we didn't sleep (we did end up taking about an hour nap at the festival in the grass before dropping) but we were well hydrated and had been eating well. I've rolled plenty of times on low sleep with no issues.
Thoughts?
edit: test kit is a little over a year old, not sure if them going bad/expiring is BS or not
edit 2: again the sleep deprivation is of course something to note, but honestly we were feeling great when we were completely sober right before we rolled as we had just napped. also my standard doses have always been between 150-200mg, it's nothing new for me dosage wise. i don't think it was the strength.
Then it was MDMA, or at least had a lot of MDMA in it. not every roll is going to be the exact same. Also, normally when marquis starts to go bad (IE expire) you'll notice a red tinge on the fringe of the test.