Lightheaded??

[Garnoch]

My first week went fine but on the 8th and now 9th day, I'm getting a slight lingering taste on my tongue and my head feels like I've been on Nyquil all day. Any ideas as to why? Thanks.

 

[TimBurns]

I got this when i first started vaping as well. Is it possible you are using too high of a nicotine or are vaping more than you use to smoke? When I got mine it was hard not to be constantly puffing away, so its easy to make yourself feel sick from too much.

 

[Garnoch]

Thanks. Good to know. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm not doing it too much and I actually chose a lower nic dosage because of being a light cig smoker. Yesterday was the first day. Today was the second. I woke up totally fine and within 10 minutes of my first drag, I had that feeling again. It lasts all day. Thank you for the reply.

 

[Garnoch]

okay, I changed atomizers and now am not getting the weird taste at least. I'll give it a little time before making a judgement on the weird feeling though. I've only bee at this a week and was so happy after the atty was broken in after a couple days. Why is it all weird now that its 8 days old?

 

[kaeo773]

check to make sure you don't have any of the wicking fibers stuck in your atty, if you do take it out.

 

[Garnoch]

I wish I knew what that was haha. I'll look around. I think that was it though. The first atty I replaced it with, I couldn't get ANY vapor, nothing, but the second, was perfect. No bad taste AND I don't feel all lightheaded and weird.
The atty in question though, I tried to burn off. Smelled really bad (like what I was tasting), but I may have burnt it out. It heats up nice, but I can't get any vapor now. I'll stick with this new good one and just order another as a back up. Sure didn't last as long as I thought though. I've been following everything I've read and being I'm a technical person, thought I was was doing it all right. Still think I am, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. I may start draining every night though.

 

[Garnoch]

Okay, in case anyone looks for this info, here's the end of the story. After changing out attys, I stopped having that terrible feeling. I figured it couldn't be specifically the atty though, but that it must have been gummed up so to speak and I was just vaping some nasty stuff - what exactly I don't know. So instead of throwing out the atty, I cleaned it, even though it had only been used for 8 days. After reading a lot, I wasn't sure I trusted anything other than burning it off. So I connected it to a manual battery with no cart and would hold the button until the safety kicked on. I did this about 8 times. It smoked a lot and smelled terrible. After that I thought I ruined it, but at that point I didn't care anyway (I was using this atty as a test, prepared to throw it away). Anyway, I thought I ruined it because I couldn't get it to vape after even though it would obviously light up when the button was pushed. Then it hit me that it wasn't primed, or dry so to speak. So I dropped 3 or 4 drops of juice on it and what do you know, I have a good atty again that doesn't taste like crap or make me feel weird.
By the way, I had written Tony about a bad atty my wife had that wouldn't vape any more. Well this test gave me the idea to burn it off, only twice, and drop juice in to prime it, and now its as good as new. I've only been doing this for 13 days so I'm still learning and have a lot more to learn but all in all, we love it. After 21 years my wife and I have been free of smoking since the day our Sidesho kits arrived in the mail.

 

[Chefdeuce]

That is great to hear. I'm glad that everything worked out for you! I was a little scared when you said lightheadness, but seem to be in the clear! Ha-Za

 

[Garnoch]

Thanks, ha I was nervous too.

 

[rpgman]

glad to hear everything is fine.

can't wait to get my hands on the sidesho from modernvapor.
Tony is awesome.

 

[NatureBoy]

Okay, in case anyone looks for this info, here's the end of the story. After changing out attys, I stopped having that terrible feeling. I figured it couldn't be specifically the atty though, but that it must have been gummed up so to speak and I was just vaping some nasty stuff - what exactly I don't know. So instead of throwing out the atty, I cleaned it, even though it had only been used for 8 days. After reading a lot, I wasn't sure I trusted anything other than burning it off. So I connected it to a manual battery with no cart and would hold the button until the safety kicked on. I did this about 8 times. It smoked a lot and smelled terrible. After that I thought I ruined it, but at that point I didn't care anyway (I was using this atty as a test, prepared to throw it away). Anyway, I thought I ruined it because I couldn't get it to vape after even though it would obviously light up when the button was pushed. Then it hit me that it wasn't primed, or dry so to speak. So I dropped 3 or 4 drops of juice on it and what do you know, I have a good atty again that doesn't taste like crap or make me feel weird.
By the way, I had written Tony about a bad atty my wife had that wouldn't vape any more. Well this test gave me the idea to burn it off, only twice, and drop juice in to prime it, and now its as good as new. I've only been doing this for 13 days so I'm still learning and have a lot more to learn but all in all, we love it. After 21 years my wife and I have been free of smoking since the day our Sidesho kits arrived in the mail.

This is exactly what has been happening with one of my attys. I tried the burning off thing with the manual battery and re-priming, but it didn't work.

As suggested by Tony, I'll soak it in a solution and rinse it off well and try again.

 

[Garnoch]

Things are still good and I haven't had a reoccurrence.