I took it once - only once. I was in my mid-20s and it was at a friends' house with a few people there, not a party exactly. I had one line. If I tell you what it was like it may help you!
First off, I snorted it as instructed and it went up my nose and a lot went down my throat which I didn't expect. It made me cough and then panic as my throat was numb and I couldn't feel my tongue, and this meant I couldn't swallow. I was told this was all normal.
Then the effects kicked in and I can best describe it as that tingly spine feeling you sometimes get (well I do) when reading a really good short story, or when you desperately fancy someone and they come close to you – like a rush of tingliness – but all over and going on for half an hour. That was v pleasurable but nothing I hadn't experienced before IYSWIM, it just went on longer.
I didn't talk loads though some other people did. I just felt quite excited and happy though with a slight edge of hysteria, like I might be about to cry. After half an hour it wore off - it this point other people had more lines, but I was OK with just trying it.
I also hadn't bargained for the after-effects. I was drinking too though not excessively. I had the WORST hangover-like experience of my life, it lasted three days and I felt absolutely terrible throughout. It was just before Christmas and I had to work because I had a massive deadline, otherwise I would have gone off sick. Dragging myself into work those 3 days was hell. It was 20 years ago now and I still clearly remember sitting at my desk ploughing through my work and thinking "please please let this end, this has got to end soon".
That put me off for life I can tell you!
Though I was never a druggy type, I experimented with a few things in my youth – generally when a friend offered me something – but I don't think I would now. I didn't have DC then and it was on my own head. Trying a drug you've never had before does carry a risk.