Correlation does not equal causation.

[krazyglue]

(I hope)


I got a new juice order yesterday. Today I feel like crap. My lungs hurt and I'm coughing. It doesn't mean it's related but what if it is?

I have been vaping rip tide from pinkspot for about 6 months exclusively, this is my first all day vape that isn't ps. It's roughly the same ratio I usually get, same nic level. The only difference is that it has more menthol than I usually vape. It's a well known vendor and high quality juice so I know it's not that.

I spent quite a lot on the juice and I really love it but of course now I'm afraid that the juice is making my lungs hurt. I am coughing up mucus and I have a stuffy nose, so of course it could just be a cold (I hope). It's just the fact that it happened the day after I got the juice that makes me wonder.

Anyone ever have this sort of reaction to juice? Or am i just paranoid?

 

[mostlyclassics]

I made a particularly strongly flavored batch of my menthol DIY and got much the same reaction. I dialed back the menthol with the next DIY batch.

It's helpful to have a bottle of unflavored e-liquid with the same nicotine concentration as your flavored e-liquids. Then you can reduce the flavor without affecting the concentration.

 

[krazyglue]

Darn. I guess I'll dilute it with some vg or pg and see if that works. I'm going to order a bottle of unflavored this week. I guess I'll just see how this "cold" goes. Hopefully it's not a reaction to the juice. I bought quite a lot of it and would hate to have to call it a loss.

 

[Boiler]

Might also try not to inhale it. Just hold the vapor in your mouth, and let it out your nose for flavor - you still get most of the nic.

 

[bigbells]

I had the same correlation occur a few days ago with a French Vanilla juice. However, it now seems to have been mere coincidence. I've been vaping it since then with no recurrence.

 

[Ken_A]

ou can try vaping some of your normal and see if that makes you feel better. That is always a good test.

 

[krazyglue]

Ok, so I vaped a bit of my old juice and I feel pretty much the same: crappy. I feel slightly less crappy though, so i guess i'll keep vaping the old stuff today and see what the morning brings. Just sucks if I can't take the menthol. At least I'm verified, I can sell it if need be.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

Had the same issue.. Got a new juice, got sick, looked at my new juice bottle. I would say it was just coincidence, just caught the worst cold I've had in ages (after over 2 years of being away from the kids...) ..

Of course, now my wife has it.. :/

 

[steved5600]

One last note it could be to high a Nic level or you may have a mild allergy to PG. Try VG only or low PG Juice.

 

[darkhood]

Not related, a coincidence fer sure. I used to feel like crap in the mornings when I'd wake up and smoke even an ultra light cig...my lungs are complete garbage...now I can wake up n chainvape bacon-flavored waffle batter juice all morning n' feel totally fine...vaping is MUCH better for ya...it's a coincidence I assure you

 

[Butters78]

I read the thread title real fast and I thought it was about caucasians lol.

 

[Faylool]

It kinda doesn't make sense if you have been vaping the same juice for 6 months

 

[TKirk2]

Yeah non white people can have correlation as well....

 

[patkin]

For me it turned out to be a cold... really odd one and first I've had in 15 years. Its odd because over two weeks it came and went by the hour and then by the day. I would think I was over it for a few hours and bang back again. Then thought I was over it for a day and back with a vengance. After two weeks, vaping the same juice, its now gone for good. I think as vapers we worry about everything being cause by vaping. I hadn't had a cold in so long I think I forgot how they act. The worst part of this one was the thickness of the clear/white mucus... just impossible to bring up. Then I thought... wow... when I was smoking it would have been yellow.

 

[Kopfstimmen]

Proof that vaping can be dangerous:
One of my rats escaped two days ago, and I caught him. He bit the crap out of my fnger. I now have a gigantic splint on it, got a tetanus shot, and am on antibiotics. Pretty sure that was caused by vaping. I would have been more careful, but wanted to hurry up and get to my Provari.

 

[D4rk50ul]

It can absolutely be related, I got a certain flavor from one of my favorite vendors that I had not tried before and literally got nauseous after 5 hits. I was sure I was gonna be hunched over the porcelain throne but I was able to maintain. It was 100% the flavor itself as I usually don't go for those types of flavors and stick to a relatively small group of ADV's.

If they juice made you feel sick, switch back to your regular one and ditch the new stuff. Now that being said I don't think its dangerous I just feel like I would if I ate something very strange to me after being on a steady diet of the same core foods for a very long time.

Hope you are feeling better