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Coricidin's Long-Term Negative Effects

^^ Nope, I've never taken any SSRIs or other prescribed medication in my life, other than antibiotics when I had bacterial sicknesses. It was because Coricidin is really bad for you. DXM itself isn't so bad (although I still don't like it)... but Coricidin has a lot more than DXM in it.
 
I had a few friends who went on triple c binges, basically. They would do at least 1 box(16), but usually an entire bottle of MucinexDM 60mgs(28 CCCs), which equals out to ~900mg, and these were the lowest doses; they often went as far as 2 boxes of triples cs or 20 60mg Mucinexes. It went on for a solid 4 months, using 5+ times a week, they lost a tremedous amount of weight, still have memory problems sometimes, and one of my friends is still addicted to them...
they are horrible things to get addicted to. they literally looked dead everyday, all day

One of my friend's brothers overdosed on the coricidin once, he only took 16. He was pronounced dead to the way to the hosp, but he was resucitated before we got the the hosp. The doctor said it was hyperserotonemia, which I do believe is serotonin syndrome.
 
Huh... well, I could believe it causes serotonin syndrome, although I can't think why it would.

Horrible, horrible stuff. This girl that everyone looked up to at the place I worked at the time told everyone how great they were... she knew nothing about them and neither did we. I didn't even know what DXM was... I just knew them as Coricidin. This girl told evberyone that mushrooms were an evil and horrible drug because she took them wanting to party and had a difficult experience, but yet she proclaimed the awesomeness of Coricidin to all who would hear. And my brain paid for it.

Silly, silly girl... I'm just glad I only ever took 12 at max, and 6-8 every other time. I knew a really fucked up guy (loads of drug problems, most notably crack) who took 32 one time when he was fiending after smoking a shitload of crack. That was a terrible thing to see.
 
The first time I took Coricidin I was a freshman in high school.
I remember it being halloween, and I had no clue what it was, other than the person telling me that it'd make me trip.
It was the first drug I'd ever done, and I was curious and obviously dumb.
I did them off and on from the time I was 15 until I was 18.
There was a few pretty long binges in the middle of that all.

I think the main reason I kept doing them was just the general feeling you got.
I know its not that great now.
But then, it was pretty cool to do.
There was a point where I did them everyday for almost a whole summer.
Almost everyday or at least 1-3 times a week in school my freshman year.

Now, I do feel like my brain is fried.
My depression and anxiety seems like it became worse.
I also stumble through conversations sometimes.

I would never reccommend anyone ever doing them.
But when I first did them, I didn't have any of this,
"Oh, well, Triple C's aren't good for you, you could die, and etc"
It scares me how, in reality, I really could've died from them.
I went so far as to do 32 in a night.

I kinda took them, and fell asleep, and woke up out of it.
I ended up on the floor counting carpet fibers.
yeah...

Also, (not that I'm blaming the drug) but, at one point while on them, I tried to commit suicide.
It made it so I couldn't feel what I was doing, so, I'm basically lucky to even be alive.
 
they are suck but yeah faststep years ago i knew a few people who would eat boxes of the triple c's, one of em ended up in the hospital. they are very dangerous
 
I don't recommend coricidin for anyone. Here is my story.

I am 19 and I started doing CCC when I was 13. My sister and I did it almost every night and would walk for hours. I never ate on it, my pupils were constantly dilated, even when I wasn't on it, and I was extremely skinny from it.

I absolutely loved coridicidin, I quit doing it when I was 14 and then did it a couple of times when I was 15 and It was still that amazing feeling that I always got. I would think about crazy shit on it and would say some crazy shit. My vision was never bad or anything like that, I never felt like it was bad to take. I guess that was just because I never did take too many, the most I took at a time then was 32, and usually I would just take 16. I did try taking 8 after I had been doing them for a while and it did nothing since I guess I grew a tolerance for them.

4 years had gone by and I probably had done it maybe 4 or 5 times in those 4 years. I did it for the last time 2 months ago. I was with some friends and we were planning a trip to atlantic city for a night of partying, 3 hours before we left, I was with a friend that w3as going with us and I took 16 ccc because I really wanted to trip and I didnt have to work the next day so I knew i'd be fine and I wouldnt be drinking at the party anyway since I don't like alcohol much. So anyway, I had gone home to take a shower and get ready before we all left. I got out of the shower and had a nauseated feeling so I laid down on my bed for about 10 minutes, as soon as I sat up I was really fucked up! It hit me so fast. It was an okay feeling, not as good as it always was before but i was fine. My friend then picked me up and we were on our way to atlantic city. In the car ride there, it was the scariest feeling I have ever had in my life. I can't even describe it but I swear to God that I looked death in the face and I swore that I was dying. I told my friends that they needed to take me to the hospital and that I was dying, and they said no that I'm still here...Anyway, long story short, I did live obviously, and I did not go to the hospital, but the feeling was so scary and if I was not in a car I probably would have ended up hanging myself because the terror I had from that was so intense. I will never do CCC again because I was lucky to not have died that night and I am not going to take that chance with my life again, it is not worth it.



So kids if you want to get high to something that doesnt make you fail a drug screen and that is very intense, you can do dxm but not from cordicidin, and research it first! Find out how much of a dose would be good for your age and weight! It is different for everyone so just if your friend takes an assload doesn't mean that your body won't react differently.


Haley
 
Ok. Will put it this way. Coricidin is not good for anyone long term. I know someone that has passed away not too long ago due to a coricidin habbit. Also, it can make a false positive in a certain drug tests actually. Just do not do it too often. That is for sure.

Why not get a better form or an extract if you like it that much. Harm Reduction. Kids do die off of it every year, just to get high. Newbs will more than likely not do the research. IDK man, everyone IS different as you said.
 
The problems with Coricidin come from the cpm right? I occasionaly use dxm only Robitussin gel caps and I assume that those are considerably safer than CCC's.
 
Well all I know is I used to be on probation and I did coricidin constantly and never failed a drug test which I was given often, but I guess the drug tests they have now are different, it was years ago when I got them :/
 
I don't understand why people still take this shit, I mean people are stupid enough to just hear their friends talking about it and then not researching and do it. I honestly didn't know of DXM until I first started going to erowid looking up weed after I started smoking lol. Prior to that all I seen was that South Park episode.
 
i have overdosed on them twice 10k mgs of acetaminophen beating up y liver first time (2 boxes). warbly vision for days after doing ccc anytime. even in the after glow there is side affects from the other bad things. too much sugar, those things taste terrible. 1 pills is to many. i drink the sludge if i want to trip.
 
Ok, so i been reading alot about DXM for the past few weeks, and i have taken it 4 times, and tripped 3. It seems like the CCC is bad for the CPM, but at one point in time i had bad sinus issues, and i would take Equate Chlortabs, which has 4mg of CPM. It got to the point that i had to take 6 of these at a time to cure my sinus problems. But CPM alone isnt bad, and DXM alone is bad. But when both combined as in CCC's they can cause bad side-effects. Right? Im just trying to get this down so i dont die.
I should just stick with robo gels with only the DXM right?
 
I did triple C's for an entire year when I was at a military school, it was my pot subsitute for my daily high, I would do it several times a week. So, instead of smoking (which even cigs were banned at this school) I would constantly do CCC's or Dex, with no regards of my own health, then I would drink listerene in combination sometimes, or take loads of benadril. And yes, I share the same problem as OP with the blinding spots in the center of my vision, I'm also 100% sure that I have HPPD from it now too, although it has started to get better ever since I stopped dexing this summer. Overall, I'm prefectly healthy, I can actually play sports for my college and I got through bootcamp without dying.

But, I still crave dex like someone would with cigs... Does anyone else have such strong cravings for DXM or CCC's?
 
Yeah i get cravings when i think about previous trips. I was hooked after my first trip. which was CCCs, took one sheet, waited a while, dozed off, woke up feeling sober. I was like hmm i feel fine, and my friends, who robotrip often, say you can take the second sheet if you want. To which i say "I think i will". That was a good night, layed on the floor for idk how long listening to the MC Chris album MC Chris is Dead. At work my mind drifts and i land on my recent trip and it makes me want to do them again.
I try to do it at most once a week. But i would like to only do it once a month.

Im only doing robogels now. No CCCs or syrup.
 
Corro_Core said:
Ok, so i been reading alot about DXM for the past few weeks, and i have taken it 4 times, and tripped 3. It seems like the CCC is bad for the CPM, but at one point in time i had bad sinus issues, and i would take Equate Chlortabs, which has 4mg of CPM. It got to the point that i had to take 6 of these at a time to cure my sinus problems. But CPM alone isnt bad, and DXM alone is bad. But when both combined as in CCC's they can cause bad side-effects. Right? Im just trying to get this down so i dont die.
I should just stick with robo gels with only the DXM right?
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Actually, CPM is bad for you alone in high doses, too. The dose you were taking that you describe was actually probably pretty bad. But of course when mixed with DXM it will be much worse.
 
coriciden is satan in the hands of devil worshipers that praise him the tussin the tussin is where its at. fifth dimension
 
i got a really bad fever and headaches for 4 days after taking 14 trip c's it was very clear iv poisoned my body it was my 1st time tripping on dxm then after i did research about coricidin cough and cold (which is what i took) only to find out it has an antihistamine that is potentially fatal in recreational dxm dosages. DON'T DO CORICIDIN!!!
 
It's so stupid and reckless that among certain circles of ignorant children, Coricidin is known as the thing to use for DXM. In my case, I didn't even know what DXM was, only that something called Coricidin would make you trip. It;s stupid because it's TERRIBLE for you and has caused quite a number of deaths and most surely causes brain damage with recreational doses. It's EXTRA stupid because there are a million other products that contain just DXM and are MUCH safer. And they're even EASIER to get usually because Coricidin is known and watched in most placed.
 
This thread serves a good purpose, but I think people need to stop talking about DXM in general like a handful of trips melted their brain while they were tripping or caused serious HPPD. (EDIT: Since I don't do CCC's I don't know much about their recreational use, looks like the CPM combined can cause eye damage. I still don't think that doing DXM alone a couple times is going to often lead to HPPD, though)

I have never done CCC's, but I have done powder DXM and syrup containing DXM as the only active over 100 times and I really don't feel fried or off. I know am amount that big is stupid (I only do DXM sparingly now), but I really don't feel noticeably "off" or "damaged" by the drug.

Drugs affect different people different ways, but I do feel that a lot of the unusual negative effects attributed to past drug use are actually less existent than one wants to believe. (Pinpointing permanent changes in your body and mind from general drug use with nothing but guessing of the root isn't too accurate.)
 
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The point is that Coricidin is far from just DXM. No one's saying that DXM alone did any singificant damage. We're specifically saying that Coricidin did. Coricidin contains Chlorpheniramine maleate and when Coricidin is taken at recreational doses, a very dangerous dosage of CPM is taken, along with DXM, and this causes not only eye damage but brain damage. There is no question at all that Coricidin is damaging to the health with a single use at recreational dosages that anyone would have to take to even get an effect. It's simply stupid to take it to trip, bottom line. There are any number of DXM-only products that are also over-the-counter which are safe to take.

Again, no one here is saying that DXM has lasting negative effects. Coricidin, however, most surely does. To believe otherwise is to delude yourself in a dangerous manner.

Also, no one is talking about HPPD here. We're talking about damage to the language centers of the brain and the ability to think coherently and quickly. Coricidin has even caused a number of deaths and dosages that people report using for a regular dose, and a great many more hospitalizations.
 
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