What side effects, if at all, have you experience from vaping?

[james28]

I am currently week 5 of just vaping, week 3 with the subox mini and week 2 of .5 ohm with 70/30 vg/pg 6 mg juice. Horrifically dry throat and nose although that is a new thing, about3 days I am undecided if it's the cold I am pretty sure I have or vaping that's causing it. I am praying it's not the vaping. I am not going back to the smokes and won't be quitting vaping. The body will have to adjust instead.

 

[TamiVapes]

I am currently week 5 of just vaping, week 3 with the subox mini and week 2 of .5 ohm with 70/30 vg/pg 6 mg juice. Horrifically dry throat and nose although that is a new thing, about3 days I am undecided if it's the cold I am pretty sure I have or vaping that's causing it. I am praying it's not the vaping. I am not going back to the smokes and won't be quitting vaping. The body will have to adjust instead.

Vaping wouldn't help a cold. The PG is drying. In my experience the 70/30 blend clears my mucus out more, perhaps due to the fact that PG is in asthma inhalers and nasal antihistamine sprays.

 

[Electrodave]

I get the runny nose, too. Also, occasionally, a coating on the roof of my mouth.
Then today, for some reason, my vape started tasting like coconut.

A lot of people who are using vaping as a smoking cessation tool will be coughing up lots of junk for a few weeks afterwards, as your lungs start to be able to clean themselves out again. I had quit (patch) 4 1/2 years before I started vaping, so I went through that years ago. But after I switched to max VG, I seemed to go through something very similar. I think that maybe VG helps loosen the phlegm or something.

I also try to keep my vapor cool, and I don't get dried out much from vaping.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

VG makes my lungs feel like I just quit smoking coughing up crap all the time. I think that it's not loosening phlegm but creating it, I've seen it called swamp lung/chest.

 

[Electrodave]

VG makes my lungs feel like I just quit smoking coughing up crap all the time. I think that it's not loosening phlegm but creating it, I've seen it called swamp lung/chest.

It only lasted about a week. It's been a couple of months now, and my lungs feel clearer than I can ever remember. Nice feeling when you live at 5000'.

It seems like people have many different experiences with this.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

It only lasted about a week. It's been a couple of months now, and my lungs feel clearer than I can ever remember. Nice feeling when you live at 5000'.

It seems like people have many different experiences with this.

Very true, high VG for me is worse than smoking I would have to strap an inhaler to my face to keep vaping. Other people cringe when they find out I only subohm high PG.

 

[LitoBandito]

I second a lot of the previous posts: my gums are more sensitive, have started bleeding, and hurt more after I brush and floss. But I will not go back. It beats all of the downsides of smoking. I am not sure I have saved any money yet as I have not yet figured out how to get my rba to work reliably so I am still using the vertical OCC coils (disposables). Replacing those every few days (depending on what juice I am using) has cost me a bit. I haven't succumbed to shinyitis yet but I do find myself looking daily for new gear. Overall I am very glad my wife and I made the switch.

 

[Moonlitwish]

First came the flavor addiction. I had to have them all! Then came the dry mouth compounded by meds that give dry mouth (it's just a sensation, cuz my mouth is actually drooly) so my life is water-vape-vape-water-water-vape. Now I get runny nose when I chain vape but only sometimes so I'm thinking it might be a particular liquid that's doing it. Everything else has been golden.

 

[Electrodave]

Very true, high VG for me is worse than smoking I would have to strap an inhaler to my face to keep vaping. Other people cringe when they find out I only subohm high PG.

Subohming high PG would make me cough until my face dropped off. That could even be a reason why we react differently. You're using high power producing a warm/hot vapor, while I vape at low power, producing a cool vapor.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Subohming high PG would make me cough until my face dropped off. That could even be a reason why we react differently. You're using high power producing a warm/hot vapor, while I vape at low power, producing a cool vapor.

As long as we're vaping.

I think a lot has to do with my asthma as well, but I agree it might not be so bad in my Nautilus setup. I am just hopelessly stuck on Reo's at the moment.

 

[crxess]

Well, there is this funky hairy growth on my...............................err......Never mind, that was there long before I started Vaping.
(j/k) all

Only side effect I have noticed is improved health.

 

[Vaslovik]

Side effects, let me see...

Greatly improved lung function, better health over all, the symptoms of peripheral arterial disease went away, my senses of taste and smell came back, and food tastes a lot better so I've gained weight.

 

[TamiVapes]

I have a dry cough now and post nasal drip. Just took a decongestant along with my regular antihistamine and nasal spray. Nasty cough. Still vaping. I have a problem...

 

[sanguinesolitude]

I just developed a serious case of burned lip syndrome. apparently if you aren't paying attention and pull the top off a dripper, and then forget to put it back on before firing and touching your lip to a coil, you hear a loud sizzle and a slight smell of vaporized skin. side effects include having to lie to your girlfriend, itchy lip, people questioning whether you have herpes, battered dignity.

 

[Electrodave]

Hi Tami--it sounds to me like you may have a problem not related to vaping. It sounds a lot like you are developing some sort of upper respiratory infection. You should see a doctor to be sure, I think.

 

[TamiVapes]

Hi Tami--it sounds to me like you may have a problem not related to vaping. It sounds a lot like you are developing some sort of upper respiratory infection. You should see a doctor to be sure, I think.

Meh. I go to the doctor for serious problems. I'll wait and see.

 

[Electrodave]

I just developed a serious case of burned lip syndrome. apparently if you aren't paying attention and pull the top off a dripper, and then forget to put it back on before firing and touching your lip to a coil, you hear a loud sizzle and a slight smell of vaporized skin. side effects include having to lie to your girlfriend, itchy lip, people questioning whether you have herpes, battered dignity.View attachment 481964

I love the smell of vaporized skin in the morning. As long as it isn't mine.
Hope it heals quickly.

 

[Electrodave]

Meh. I go to the doctor for serious problems. I'll wait and see.

Take care of yourself, and don't ignore it if it keeps getting worse. We all want you to be well.

 

[TamiVapes]

Take care of yourself, and don't ignore it if it keeps getting worse. We all want you to be well.

I appreciate the concern. This is, however, the very least of my health problems.

 

[CountryGirl_Jess]

Crazy my gums were hurting a while back and I thought it might be from my liquids. I was afraid I wouldnt be able to vape anymore but I guess I just needed to drink more water lol guess I did because they have not bothered me in a while. I normally drink a ton but some days I just forget to.