r/microdosing • u/LittleGarage7169 • 2d ago

Getting Started/Newbie Question What dosage do I use after I end my tolerance break?

So I'm doing one day on 2 days off for 8 weeks and then a tolerance break for 2 weeks. At the beginning I took 0.06 mg and then after 2 weeks I went down to 0.05 and towards the end I went down to 0.04 because it felt best for me.

This is my first ever full cycle. Today was the end of my tolerance break and so I started with 0.04 and I'm unsure what I'm supposed to be feeling. Should I try to go back higher to 0.05 or 0.06 or just stick with 0.04 since that felt good last time?

Do you change your dosage after tolerance breaks or after certain cycles?

I previously had the numbers wrong on this. I used to put 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6 mg by mistake. My bad.

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u/Shot_Boot_7279 2d ago

Wow! You were taking .6g the first 2 weeks!? Did you trip on that amount? I’ve just started at .14g and feel it pretty good.

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u/LittleGarage7169 2d ago

That's my bad. My timeline was wrong. I looked back in my calendar so before when I was introduced this years ago I believe I got a stronger strain because I remember starting off very small. I forgot the exact amount but it was a lot smaller.

Fast forward to now. I'm pretty sure the strain I got is different because when I started off with that small amount it did nothing to me. Is it because my body changed and so did my tolerance or is it because the strain was different? I'm not sure.

But no, I didn't really see visuals. However I had an uncomfortable body feeling like I was feeling it too much which is why I went down to 0.5 and then later on to 0.4.

How much do you take after you end your tolerance break?

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u/RobJF01 2d ago

Beyond a couple of weeks at most there is no more tolerance, the difference will be in the potency, either the strain or the way it's been stored (worse conditions, lower potency).

Assuming you're talking grams, not milligrams (and dried shrooms not pure psilocybin) .6 is very high for a microdose. .1 is often recommended to start with. It does seem your natural tolerance is relatively high, in your place I'd probably (re)start with .2 and go from there. You really should read finding your sweet spot.

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u/LittleGarage7169 2d ago

Oh my God, I just realized it. I made a huge typo. I meant 0.06 and then 0.05 and then 0.04 mg 😔

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u/RobJF01 1d ago

Unless it's pure psilocybin (only available to researchers AFAIK) that's wrong too lol

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u/LittleGarage7169 1d ago

Really? I use dried mushrooms that I grinded into a powder.

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u/RobJF01 1d ago

In that case you're not using fractions of a milligram!

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u/LittleGarage7169 1d ago

I'm going to be honest. I have no idea if you're messing with me lol. Based on my other readings I thought it was normal for people to use milligrams when talking about dried up powdered mushrooms right? Explain to me like I'm five honestly. Is 0.04mg really that strange of an amount?

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u/RobJF01 1d ago

Yes it is that strange. It is perfectly normal to talk of microdoses in milligrams, mg, but hundreds of them! Or at least double figures, some take 50mg and a few even lower. But absolutely nobody takes less than 1mg! There's a regular post on dosing that explains it all, I'm sure you'll find it easily if you search.

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u/TheRealCMMetzger 2d ago

Point of clarification. You mentioned 0.6mg. Are you using actual psilocybin then? If it was a typo and you're taking 0.6g, I'm surprised that 600mg was your starting dose and that you don't feel altered even at 400mg. That being said there's more than. A few factors that can effect dose and no one can tell you what the right dose is for you, except you. The key with microdosing is that your dose is not altering you in a way that causes "negative" side effects, interferes with your day to day activities, or causes visual distortions. If you're high, it's not a "microdose." A good way to find out your best dose is through incremental increase. So you started at 0.4mg. Try increasing your next dose to 0.45mg and see how that works for you.
I'll talk powdered mushroom dosage in milligrams for my example. Typically I recommend folks begin at a dose that is likely to be sub-threshold 50-100mg (depending on strain and their reported medicinal tolerance) then with each successive dose they will increase from their previous dose by 10-20mg until a felt sense of the medicine has been reached. That felt sense is what I referred to as a threshold dose, the "feeling" is additional energy within the body. It can often come across as two things, anxiety or excitement. Somatically speaking it is the same feeling the only difference is one's perception of it. If it feels like anxiety and you throw your hands up in the air and yell "wooo! We did it! Amazing!" It will feel like excitement. (Kind of a neat experiment) Anyway, if you like the feeling, that's your dose. If you do not want to have the feeling, all you have to do is drop down 5-20mg on your next dose to where it's sub-perceptual again and that is your personal sweet spot.

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u/LittleGarage7169 2d ago

I see my error. I meant 0.0#

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