Psilocybin Mushroom Dosing: Micro or Macro?

 

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What is Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms? 

Micro = very small

In really simple and general terms, microdosing is taking a super small amount (like 1/30th of a typical dose) of mushrooms every other day. Some people will do every day, and some people will do once every 3 days. It's a little different for everyone. 

The usual dosage for microdosing is anywhere from 0.05 - 0.5 grams

The goal of microdosing is to not get any of the psychedelic effects of a normal macrodose. So it's going to take a little time for you to find the dose that works for you.  

What is the #1 rule of dosing.....

Start Low and Slow!!

A good place to start is 0.1 grams, every other day. If you are super sensitive to medications, you might want to even start lower at 0.05 grams every other day.

Get a journal, and start writing down how much you are taking and on what day. Track your moods, and any other changes in your life. It will help you to see the bigger picture and what is working for you and what isn't.

**** SUPER IMPORTANT**** 

The day you try a new and higher dose, you need to make sure for about 4 hours, you don't have to work any machinery, drive, tend children, make important decisions, or go to work. 

The dose might be too much for you, and it might make you "high" for 3-4 hours. You CANNOT drive in that condition. 

Please be responsible and safe.

If the super low dose does not do much for you, you can move up the dose. You can go by 0.1 grams or by 0.05 grams, whatever you feel comfortable with.

If you take a dose, and you feel weird (heavy limbs, colors or patterns doing strange things) it means you have taken too high of a dose, and you need to bring it down to the last dose you had that was therapeutic, but not making you feel high.

For instance, when I tried 0.1 grams I didn't feel anything. I took that for three doses and then tried 0.2 grams. 

0.2 grams was too much for me! I didn't have increased energy when I took it. Instead I had heavier limbs, and just felt high. It lasted for about 4 hours. 

So I know my dose is 0.1 grams for microdosing. 

Unfortunately, after about a week of microdosing for me, I could not sleep until 4am one evening. This is a classic symptom of hypomania. That's no good. 

So I can't microdose personally. It kicks me into hypomania with my type II bipolar.

However, although it doesn't work for me, I know scores of people that it does work for. 

I know people that microdose and it's saved their lives, as macrodosing has saved mine.

What is Macrodosing Psilocybin Mushrooms? 

Macro = large or large scale

Macrodosing is when you take a larger, or normal therapeutic dose, when compared to a microdose.

The usual macrodose is anywhere from 1.0-5.0 grams. 

Same #1 rule... Start Low and Slow!!

This article is a great place to understand what the different dosages do to your mind and your body. It will help you be able to set goals for yourself, and find out why you are taking what dosage. 

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 As for how often to macrodose? That is completely a personal thing. Some studies show that some people are one and done. Meaning they have one dose of psilocybin, and their depression has gone away. 

I truly believe these are the people that have situational depression. Not like those of use that langish is a depressive puddle of tears and shame. 

Those of us that have a default mode network in our brain that is over-active and needs to calm down... well we need more doses than just one. 

For me, I have bipolar type II. That means 99.9% of the time I live with a suicidal depression. Literally for the last 11 years I've had typically 4-7 suicidal thoughts a day. 

Since I've been macrodosing, the suicidal thoughts are GONE!! I'm totally serious. 

I have more energy. The depression is 75-95% gone. I'm FUNCTIONING AGAIN!!!! For the last 11 years in particular, I have truly been disabled, not able to function as a wife and mother. 

So I have a macrodose of psilocybin anywhere from every 12 days to once per month. I try to go as long as possible without. 

Having a psilocybin journey that often can be really difficult to do. It's like super therapy, and it takes a lot of energy and work to process what you went through, and what you have learned. 

So typically I take a macrodose every 3-4 weeks. 

I immediately have the depression lifted. It's like a light has been turned on inside my head. I can see clearly. I love myself and my family again. 

Then slowly, especially starting around day 12 for me, it wears off and the light goes out. The darkness comes back. 

It hasn't come back fully yet - with suicidal thoughts and all. But the depression comes back enough that I start isolating, and I have to spend significant time away from the kids. That's how I know it's getting bad enough, that I need another dose of medicine to take the darkness away.