Anyone get a runny nose and allergy like symptoms when using a PAX 2 or similar device? 9 times out of 10 i get a runny nose thats borderline annoying at times, along w sneezing and watery eyes. May also cough 10x worse than with any other method of inhalation. As soon as I stop it goes away in 5-10 mins. I dont get it, its alot easier on my lungs longterm. But i still combust more cuz of this.
I've heard of someone having allergic reactions to certain vapes with the same symptoms you described. The person said they can only use a couple of particular vapes. I read this on fuckcombustion forums somewhere. You should check that site for info on the matter because you definitely aren't the only one this happens to. If you dig deeper in the FC site you will find more info on the subject. Here's this Sneezing when vaping? Ultimately the people who had the reactions moved to using a water pipe adapter and bong/bubbler and the symptoms ceased. I wouldn't give up on Vaping yet. Change vapes if necessary. Here is the wpa for your vape... PAX 3 Water Pipe Adapter (WPA)
Your nose gets runny from infections in the back of the throat started from dry hot air in this case. I recently experienced this as I'm new to dry herb vapes. Vaping through water helped lots.
Salutations PopeyeSpinach, M'yeah, i can say a few things about "allergy-like" discomfort associated to toking cannabis, even using a vaporizer - any vaporizer and not just specific portable ones actually. Who knows, soon you add rash skin, cemented eye corners in the morning, asthma... Believe me, there are places in socially "advanced" environments where medical assistance will be effectively denied by confusing asthma with mari-caca induced "anxiety", for example. Chances are YOU'RE ALONE. Should you suspect THC-specific allergy, cannabic "fumet" features (such as microscopic air-suspended particle size combined to the moisturization factor, etc.), or is it not simply a matter of DOSING the toke instead?? Bad move, last week i was lucky to get a nice VaporGenie Classic for 35 $ CAD (sold as demo), and it's been generating a lot of fun to share which i find to be worth every cent !! As a matter of fact, although i'm spending money it feels like an investment to help building solid foundations for what could be my next venture, now that nearly every piece appears to fall correctly into some vast/rich puzzle: Isn't it absolutely minion?... Now tell me, who can afford wasting good cash on the wrong solutions solving the wrong problems?! Like to bake it for 2 ~ 3 minutes in a black box costing 500+ $$$, only to focus on a noisy balloon requiring to be emptied after our Hot Dry Air Ovenizers with ZERO Inlet Water in their Release/Transport Agent also cheated as a result of fumet boosting from vegetal substrate extracts (e.g. from where systemic pesticides circulate freely), etc., etc... No wonder the cost of "healthy" vaporizers have never been so wrong: they're spending their customers dollars (or BitCoins, whatever...) only to compensate conceptual errors which a designer failed to correct while still working on his early blueprints! For example the need for inert high-temperature materials complicates the matter significantly and of course this reflects on the price of manufacturing, including manutention involving complex assembly, etc. So in the end honest people throw a ton of bucks at it while that's little more than a mirage. Here's the final target of Dry Herb vaporization the way i came to understand it, after successfully addressing "allergy" like ailments quite similar to yours, in the beginning... Lucky me i never lost contact with my primary target, despite all of the deceiving accumulated aggravations: Clear or dark those trichomes share key features which basically await intelligent planing before it can be made fully profitable. Lets begin with trich glands collecting noble cannabinoïds at the site of genesis on a molecular basis, encoded in genetics and hence effectively performing the most economical form of filtration imaginable at ZERO extra cost. Then as a bonus, lets consider Dame Nature offers such conveniently packaged workload in tiny microscopic amounts literally floating on top of tiny capillary poles, above (e.g. AWAY) less noble vegetal tissues carrying potential contaminants. Now think. Dry Flowers are essentially made of calixes which i'd describe using a pictural analogy: at such scale clear or amber trichome glands all evoke some immense fields covered with forests of microscopic popsicles that i got an urgent need to lick... So how shall i proceed if i'm not willing to bite dust too?? M'well, it turns out discrimination by targeting the contact-surface only makes a lot of sense here - which happens to be where the noble cannabic workload resides exactly. In other words slow/steady (thermostatic) ovenizing is just a waste of one great opportunity, while in "Pulse-Heating" mode we can exploit heat "leaching" which shall affect tiny less massives objects 1st, knowing a brief-yet-potent "Energy Bubble" shall get depleted before it can cause real damage. At least in principle, because there's also the specific heat capacity factor related to material nature to account for, etc. Nonetheless i say that's a serious option to try (not to mention flash-vaporization, or "Micro-bursting" as i tagged it, avoid potential secondary/tertiary compound reactions from baking). All of this in an era of cannabis industrialization where tumbling VILIFICATION is a major threat to such a gift of nature. Meanwhile the vaporist market has little else to offer than portable elitist Hot Dry Air Ovenizers. Go figure the error. What i'm saying is that most designs are totally incompatible with precision dosing and self-awareness to begin with, even promoting paraphernalia fascination + extreme abuse pushing our tolerance way up. Once transformed my CUSTOMIZED (DiY-transformed) VG pipe turns into a "1-Hitter" dividing the workload into tokes consuming ~20 mg each, even giving access to mithridatism, which in turn may help to address "allergy" like symptoms i believe. Etc., etc. Dan Steinberg invented his pipe (based on Space-Age SiC foam...) almost twenty years ago... ...and i'm convinced it's still NOT "inclusive" relatively to consumers experiencing "allergy" like symptoms as you mention. Actually it's even skill-challenging, to say the least, and yet today i can comment asking you if you can afford not to just get a VG pipe and drill right where illustrated below: This "PinHole" (à la Vapman) feature is most elementary and yet it finally allows me to operate VG pipes with a genuine core, which i always failed since 2012, until last week... Though it's never too late anyway. YMMV... Good day, have fun!!
... Too bad Egzoset still ain't actually a topic, even less one that's worth "love" points even after spending 2000+ dollars CAD over 8 years as a vaporist, or 6 for such specific purpose of VaporGenie transformations (...), gaving away as gift (e.g. for FREE) or simply DESTROYING one pipe after the next until a dozen iterations were done, so totally anonymous individuals could be spared similar aggravation eventually, just for the convenient hope of some intelligent dialogs which may never happen! Continuously inviting INDEPENDANT DUPLICATION & PEER REVIEW which installed trolls, gurus and friends prefered to silence on at least 3 different forum boards since January - like it's too much trouble to stick to announced topics and align a few meaningful words on every single valid point made and not only in this single post. Yet i'll make a confidence for your trouble: Egzoset seeks no friendship which would prove worthless and unreliable anyway...
Euh... M'well i remember trying to combine my Customized VG ideas with a cheap water toy and the level of abuse was such... http:// oi59.tinypic.com/m8phsj.jpg http:// oi68.tinypic.com/16m8vp.jpg ...this could have actually pleased most of those obcessed with superficial graphic cloud criterias, while there's a lot more left unsuspected. Please keep us posted in a decade or 2, after seeing the light if lucky! Good day, have fun!!
That's a lot of talk focussing on the messenger instead of the message, for obvious deviant motives...