Chest pain and sickness from vaping?

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thetrucker

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Yes I am retired and vape steady 14 hours a day and am loving it---------but I am not breathing as well as I should be---I am vaping 2 much

must cut back-------too much vaping making me short of breath------you can also get a lot of heartburn and indigestion from constantly

breathing in this stuff.............it's my own fault really....................
 

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I've been vaping two years, started october of 2013. I've since upgraded into box mods and vape 6mg usually True North flavors. I have a consistent chest pain on my right side and feel fatigued and "drained" a lot of the time, concerned it could be the vaping...

Has anyone had similar experiences?

Have you only just started subohming? Or more than a few weeks? I went from 1.8 ohm coils on an ego straight to 0.5ohm unregulated and also had some pain on one side for a while. Gone now though. I guessed for me it was a period of adaptation in combination with damage from 30 years of tobacco.
 

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On my 3rd week of vaping, felt fine initially till I changed my ejuice few days ago and got a massive high. Kinda felt like I was drunk and thereafter having a headache similar to that of a hangover. I get this feeling every few puffs ever since.

I'm a light smoker and nicotine level for all my juices are 6mg. In fact, even smoking gives me the same high now. My body is probably fcuked.
 

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Yeah the heartburn thing !.

Comes from vaping at too high a wattage. Just turn the power down, then crank it back up one watt at time to find the highest setting you can use without it causing any discomfort.

It won't prevent gas or wind or whatever but you will notice the heartburn will just disappear.

I used to vape at 45 watts on two 24g 6 wrap coils ohm'ing in at 0.25. The vape was warm not hot but still caused the acid reflux to be painful. So i turned the power down to 35 watts, then eventually settled on 37. No heartburn at all now but still get acid reflux. The acid reflux is caused by something else entirely.
 
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Interesting on the heart burn! I've never had it until just recently. Wonder if its from running my Snow Wolf/Uwell Crown at 80-90 watts. This is the first I've heard of the heart burn from vaping. What's the theory on that?

I just read about this in the health part of the forum, but can't find it again (was a really long post). So I'll paraphrase from memory:

Nicotine relaxes the muscle between your stomach and asophagus (spelling?! i mean food tube!)
So stomach acid goes into your throat effectively.
When you smoke cigarettes it's usually 1 per hour, so the muscle has a chance to recover. But when vaping, especially subohming, you tend to do it for longer periods. Even if you're on 6mg, it can mean overall more nicotine than when smoking.
 
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I just read about this in the health part of the forum, but can't find it again (was a really long post). So I'll paraphrase from memory:

Nicotine relaxes the muscle between your stomach and asophagus (spelling?! i mean food tube!)
So stomach acid goes into your throat effectively.
When you smoke cigarettes it's usually 1 per hour, so the muscle has a chance to recover. But when vaping, especially subohming, you tend to do it for longer periods. Even if you're on 6mg, it can mean overall more nicotine than when smoking.

Interesting, and thanks! Makes sense to me!
 

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Reducing my Nic to 9 mg from 12 fixed stomach acid problems and a slight inflammation for me (though I also took some acid reducing meds for a short time), so thinning your liquid with some 0 nic liquid might suffice. Nicotine itself is [strike]acidic[/strike] (nope, sorry, it's a weak base) btw and it is acting on the nervous system of your stomach. Reducing takes its time, though, you might probably compensate by more vaping, until you've adusted to a lower dosage.
 
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Reducing my Nic to 9 mg from 12 fixed stomach acid problems and a slight inflammation for me (though I also took some acid reducing meds for a short time), so thinning your liquid with some 0 nic liquid might suffice. Nicotine itself is acidic btw and it is acting on the nervous system of your stomach.

Cigarette smoke may be acidic, but nicotine itself is an alkaloid. The distilled nicotine we use in e-liquid is around pH 8.

Read here A list of symptoms when quitting tobacco and changing to an ecigarette | E-Cigarette Forum
section 6. Heartburn, acid reflux
 

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