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[Cyberpixie]

Stumbled across this and it gives a ton of info on the symptoms people can experience when they give up smoking. Now far too often I've heard people say on forums oh I'm allergic to PG or VG because I'm itching all over or the PG is causing lactic acid build up and my muscles hurt.
True PG and VG allergies are very rare and I think too many people are jumping to the conclusion that they have an allergy when actually the itching and muscle pains can be a symptom of giving up smoking! They attribute it to vaping because it's new. A true allergy is likely to give you any or all of the following: vomiting, a rash, your throat closing up, swelling on your lips/eyes/tongue/throat and breathing difficulties. PG is shown to not cause sensitisation, in other words, if you're not already allergic to it (and you're likely to know before vaping as it's in tons of everyday things you use) you're very unlikely to ever become allergic to it.

Thought I'd pass this on, it's surprising and very helpful to see how many symptoms you can get when you give up smoking.



Symptoms

Edited by Cyberpixie, 13 August 2011 - 11:10 AM.

[HillBill]

Gosh thats a good read. I particularly liked the bit about not being able to get the Oreck vacuum cleaner down the lungs lol.

[Cyberpixie]

HillBill, on 13 August 2011 - 11:35 AM, said:

Gosh thats a good read. I particularly liked the bit about not being able to get the Oreck vacuum cleaner down the lungs lol.

I had a smile at that bit too!

[markyd43]

It is a good read though she seems to attribute all the bad things about smoking with nicotine itself and not the tar/carbon monoxide and all the other chemicals in tobacco smoke

I do like the product names though;Netibot, Beano lol

[RedKite]

Very interesting, especially in light of the supposed side-effects of vaping that people have expressed concern about on this forum.

[Onceupon]

It looks like one big advertisement to me.

[bundy]

Not sure about this because I definitely get the muscle/joint aches after vaping pg but not vg. I know this for definate because I alternate filling my arry tank between pure vg and 50/50 pg/vg. The reason I have to alternate is because after 2 days (the amount of time it takes me to vape a full tank) of vaping pg my muscles seriously ache but the 2 days of vaping vg doesn't give me any aches at all. I really prefer pg to vg which is why I don't vape vg exclusively. My brother has the exact same reaction as me.

[Cyberpixie]

bundy, on 13 August 2011 - 08:04 PM, said:

Not sure about this because I definitely get the muscle/joint aches after vaping pg but not vg. I know this for definate because I alternate filling my arry tank between pure vg and 50/50 pg/vg. The reason I have to alternate is because after 2 days (the amount of time it takes me to vape a full tank) of vaping pg my muscles seriously ache but the 2 days of vaping vg doesn't give me any aches at all. I really prefer pg to vg which is why I don't vape vg exclusively. My brother has the exact same reaction as me.

Not disputing that and the build up of lactic acid which can cause muscle pain. Just my general point is that a lot of people I've seen on various forums are too quick to convince themselves and others they have an allergy to pg (or VG) and tell them to switch to the other. Such as one I read earlier elsewhere, a new vaper listed the signs of nic OD and purposely said he had got quite a bit of juice on his hands and in his mouth while getting used to refilling carts but everyone piped up with ooh, you're probably allergic to pg, switch to vg and completely ignored the obvious cause of his symptoms. Even when people say they have have a dry, sore throat when they start and don't drink enough, I see everyone piping up with ooh, you might have a pg allergy.

Plus a lot of symptoms can be attributed to cutting right down analogs or stopping when they switch to e-cigs. Even I was surprised at the itching one and that's something I have experienced myself all last week, it's now gone and now I read that article realise it probably had something to do with cutting right down on analogs as soon as I switched to vaping (still need to get rid of the last couple!). Even my lungs have started clearing out with a cough today despite still on a couple of cigs, wasn't expecting that symptom til I had cut them completely lol

Sorry for the rant, it just gets my goat lol

Edited by Cyberpixie, 13 August 2011 - 08:33 PM.

[FlamingKaty]

Very interesting link Cyberpixie...Unfortunately I still seem to have quite a lot of these symptoms 18 months down the line . My doctor doesn't seem concerned but I am a bit cheesed off feeling like death warmed up . Not that I'm going to be going back to smoking anytime soon ....