3-FEA REVIEW
Substance: 3-FEA (3-Fluoroethamphetamine) IUPAC: N-ethyl-1-(3-fluorophenyl)propan-2-amine More details here: National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database, CID=57458869 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/57458869
Author Info
Male, in his mid 40s, roughly 25 years of experience with the "classic" drugs and ~20 years in ethnobotanics.
Substance Review:
General:
3-FEA, supposedly from what I read somewhere, should be in between speed and mdma, similar to 4-FA. But this turned out to be a very bad description. Yes, it's obviously a weak NRI, DRA/DRI and a medium strong SRA/SRI. But it doesn't feel like 4-FA or MDMA at all. It feels warm, cozy and relaxing.
3-FEA is thus very special IMHO. It's the first sedating amphetamine that I've come across. Depending on dosage you may feel a little stimulation at the start, but from my experience with other drugs it feels like its main action is the SRI part. The stimulation lasts only very short. Please read the timeline below, the sedating effect is ridiculous (still feels nice, but I slept through 80% of the "trip"). For me, it even worked better than benzos for coming down after a three-day stim binge. Much stronger sedation than 2C-B-FLY or 2C-C.
Yeah, this one is really atypical. While it still has many characteristics of an amphetamine (kind of similar taste and also that typical bodyload that I lack the words to describe) but ... it's sedating...
It's a bit entactogenic but far weaker than Ethylone eg. and if I had not known it, I may not even have noticed it.
And it has light psychedelic effects too. This makes for a very dreamy state and I guess pushing it over the edge isn't much effort from there.
It was no problem dissolving 80mg in about 1ml water and this went so fast that I expect one can make much stronger solutions too. I prefer to take a bit more water though.
Psychedelic effects:
It does have light psychedelic effects similar to 6-APB or MDMA but much weaker and also they seem to become apparent only after some time. I can only speculate that maybe it has a long half-time and thus the serotonergic effect increases with redosing. Or could be it just takes long to metabolize to a serotonergically effective metabolite).
The effects were like, for example, I had a glass of orange juice standing in front of me. The top of the juice was looking furry like orange mould, structured similar to ingrain wall paper, and lit in a green spotlight. (I was laughing my ass off moving my head left-right-left-right because only one of my eyes had that greenish effect). I know a very similar effect from DXM but there it's more like flourescent neon-green and orange shadows while this looked like lit by green light). This didn't last long though.
Another cool effect started when I looked into a mortar made of some marble-like material. The scratches and markings in the bowl were moving like an ocean. No way this could be placebo. The psychedelic effects are slowly becoming more intensive.
NB: This was more than 1 week after the stim binge, so hallucinating from lack of sleep is unlikely, I think.
The experiment, Timeline:
Psychonautwiki lists the dosage a little above the other amphes. Other anecdotal reports mention 100mg+ for serotonergic action and up to 200mg in a single dose. I'll start low though.
(Unit is +days)
T+0 Test 1:
Dosage: 30mg for the first attempt. ROA: Up the bum! (my fave :P ) Side-effects: Slight headache after ~15min
So, on the tail end of a stim binge I decided I could "try that new stuff now" because if I didn't like it, I'd pop a C-Lam and be going to bed some time soon anyways. So I dosed 30mg and next thing I remember is I woke up on my couch the next day after some 14h of sleep.
T+1 Test 2:
Dosage: 90mg in two doses spaced 30min, ROA and side-effects the same. Then added +50mg 4-OH-MET (want to see if it's usable for candyflipping) Oh my, what a wonderful rush :D. But... the 4-OH-MET lasted only like 30min? Ok, definitively needs more research.
T+7 days Test 3:
Prepared 80mg 3-FEA for a single dose, boofed it, but this time it had a pretty strong stim effect. Shaking hands, sweating, RLS and I felt like I could just jump up and run a few times around the city. But the serotonergic part was missing completely. Probably due to tolerance as I've done a lot of 4-FA recently and only had a break of six days.
14:15 80mg 3-FEA consumed (rect)
14:25 both my legs are tingling. this is a new effect. feels wow, good amount of euphoria coming up.
14:40 starting to become tired but at the same time I feel the adrenaline
Now comes another interesting part*
14:50 +50mg 3-FEA + a good hit from the Bong (AB-FUBINACA)
wow. the rush above was already wonderful, but now the euphoria is overwhelming Tinnitus coming up (oh nooooo...) Ants in the pants like high dose MDMA or Speed. This is very much recreational now but I'm still clear enough that I am able to do a bit of gaming.
16:00 The serotonine effect is strong now. Very strong. Nearly a bit too strong. Functional territory has been left far behind, I'm feeling like I could explode from joy. I can't concentrate on anything, I dropped the ashtray when I tried to empty it.
And another interesting feature I haven't read about yet And i'm feeling slightly dissociative effects now too. Like I'm covered under a Veil.
Erotic effects I'm alone. I don't want to be alone now. I don't think sex would work right now. Way too distracting. I probably would forget after a minute what I was doing or burst out laughing. Or... maybe fall asleep.
But I feel like I could cuddle for hours. If I take 3-FEA again, it will be definitively be in company with a nice "suitable" girl.
17:30 not sure if this is the comedown, but I can barely keep my eyes open and I'm yawning all the time. Either I need to redose now or it will be a very early night. -> +70mg 3-FEA
18:30 I feel I'll be falling asleep any minute. The last 70mg had no notable stimulating effect. Maybe it made me even more tired. In my head I have a feeling like being stressed. Feeling not so well anymore.
19:30 It's becoming trippy. If I had to go outside now, I'd get lost for sure. The psychedelic effects described below started here. I see an small-dose LSD like glow over everything and I feel very dreamy.
20:44 Psychedelic effects are still peaking, if the sleepyness wasn't there, I could fall in love with this substance
21:05 Psychedelic effects are reducing rapidly. The bodyload and field of vision is a bit like MDAI now (like MDMA but 100x weaker).
###T+10 days Test 4 11:45 60mg 3-FEA. Psychedelic, dreamy, blurred vision and feeling blurry too
12:15 nearly falling asleep
~13:00 +30mg 3-FEA. Fell asleep short time after.
20:50 ~60-100mg 3-FEA (the leftovers). 3-FEA kicks within a few minutes, and it's pretty good, but can't tell if and when I fell asleep anymore as I stopped taking notes here.
** End of 3-FEA experiment**
Other observations
- Two days after, I started experimenting with bk-ethyl-k (Ephylone) but I got barely any effect at all.
- But a week later I did 6-APB in a small dose of 120mg (new Batch, I usually do 160-180) and .... beam me up Scotty! Perfect roll.
Those two observations need some complex explanation I guess as all three increase serotonine levels in the synaptic cleft and from my limited understanding of the topic, I'd thought they should have equally strong cross-tolerance. 5 days to reduce serotonin tolerance doesn't sound enough to me. Maybe the Ephylone was a bad batch and really did not do much. In that case, tolerance drop should have started at T+10 which makes a two week pause. Hmmmm.
Conclusion and addendum
3-FEA is a sedating medium-strength psychedelic amphetamine with sometimes stimulating properties which I don't know yet how and when those appear
it dissolves easily 80mg in 1ml warm water, probably even much more and after boofing it hit within maybe 5 minutes
I don't think I ever experienced a full comedown because I fell asleep every single time. Even that day when it felt stimulating. +1 for 3-FEA
No hangover.+1 for 3-FEA
3-FEA seems to be suitable to mix with other drugs but for itself its effects don't match up. It lacks the stimulation required to make good use of the serotonine high. I would like to test it together with LSD and 2C-X for more flip-Experiences next as they would probably add the missing stimulation but I need to read up a lot about potential dangerous interactions first. Mixing different serotonergica like i did can lead to serotonine syndrome which can end fatal. I'd also like to try just adding a little bit 4-FA (or better Amphetamine because of the serotonine dangers)
I don't crave it at all and I'm unsure if I am going to order this again. It's not the right thing for me, for chilling on the couch I prefer a few joints or bongs. For going out partying, 4-FA is my definitive #1.
I'm unsure about the background of this study, but let me add a final note that may be of some use:
"If 4-FA should become unavailable, I have yet to find a replacement. But this won't be pure 3-FEA because alone it just doesn't kick it."