Some advice needed please!

[mbillings1]

Hello, Michael here, I started vaping around a month ago with a 901, Initially with just replacing cartridges but more recently I've been dripping into them with a 'mule' tobacco juice that I really enjoy.
The good news is they have kept me completely away from analogs for 3 weeks, fantastic!
The bad news though is that I seem to be getting some side effects, spots on my face, stomach cramps and feeling very lethargic and sleepy.
I've read on the boards that maybe I'm allergic to PG and should try VG which i'm now looking into but I would really appreciate any feedback from members who may have had similar experiences, I'm hoping it's just my body adjusting and that it'll soon pass but fearful that I may be allergic and have to go back to analogs, any info would be truly appreciated!

 

[Mikerrrs]

Hummmm well usually it takes about a week or two for your body to adjust to the pg. but usually that just consists of the runs and maybe some stomach cramps. I had that for about a couple weeks but now im totally fine. I would think though since your getting spots on your face that you may be allergic to pg. I would say go and invest in a bottle of vg and try that for a while and see if things get better. most of the time switching to VG solves a lot of problems.

 

[RjG]

A lot of symptoms are the result of not having / getting rid of the toxic tobacco components in your system. Sleepy / lethargic for sure. That takes a while.
The nicotine in your 901 isn't the same as a cig either, the general consensus is that it's a lot less than smoking, so that will take a little while to adjust to too.

Spots and cramps are possibly PG, although VG affects a lot of people too. VG hits my stomach, where PG doesn't. I also had some spots / zits for a while. They went away. It was longer than a couple weeks though, more like a couple months

What most people have reported (and was my experience too) is that your body just gets used to the new situation after a while and adjusts.

 

[ladyraj]

Hello, Michael here, I started vaping around a month ago with a 901, Initially with just replacing cartridges but more recently I've been dripping into them with a 'mule' tobacco juice that I really enjoy.
The good news is they have kept me completely away from analogs for 3 weeks, fantastic!
The bad news though is that I seem to be getting some side effects, spots on my face, stomach cramps and feeling very lethargic and sleepy.
I've read on the boards that maybe I'm allergic to PG and should try VG which i'm now looking into but I would really appreciate any feedback from members who may have had similar experiences, I'm hoping it's just my body adjusting and that it'll soon pass but fearful that I may be allergic and have to go back to analogs, any info would be truly appreciated!

Michael, true allergies should always be assessed by a physician. There are placebo patches that could ascertain the truth of your situation. Shared discomfort with people in similar circumstances is comforting but not a replacement for an objective analysis of your situation.

I found this link that may aid you in getting the answers you seek and can take the information to your physician:

Propylene Glycol : All about propylene glycol

Excerpt:
Safety and reliability for health and therapy
The most direct way of applying a substance to the human body is injection into the blood or the tissue, closely followed by ingestion or inhalation. Making the curing agent reliably available to the organism is key to the efficiency of any pharmaceutical application. Propylene glycol USP/EP (pharmaceutical grade) is qualified and approved for this use as laid down in the respective Pharmacopoeia (USA, EU, Japan etc.). The main function of propylene glycol USP/EP (pharmaceutical grade) in pharmaceuticals is to solubilise and provide equal distribution of the active ingredient in the formulation, so that each pill, liquid dose or cream-based application always contains the exactly prescribed amount of curing agent.

 

[paladinx]

I hear the world allergic thrown around on this forum way too much. Every time someone has some kind of symptom or reaction it seems to be dismissed as either 1 of 2 things. Either it is withdrawals from smoking, or it is an allergy. And maybe that is the truth. The withdrawals makes sense, but the allergy reason I think gets old when you hear it so much. I mean why or how are so many people here allergic to PG? Is there anyone here allergic to their facial creams or whatever else PG is used in?