My personal favourite brand is codalgin just because they work out to be about 1c per mg when you buy a 100 pack. They dissolve and filter pretty readily and they are the brand I use most often. I used to use panafen plus alot and there is nothing wrong with them but they do seem to take longer to go through coffee filters than most codeine/paracetamol preparations I have tried.
Caplets of certain brands can be a bit more of a prick to dissolve than tablets, I find the trick is to use warm water and stir it vigorously. Shouldn't take any pills more than a few minutes to dissolve. Throw her in the fridge for 15, do a shirt squeeze then run it through a coffee filter or two.
I have to concur with TripppAR that 600mg feels stronger than 400mg. I will never dose less than 600mg these days. I tried 800mg a while ago, I couldn't reall guage the strength accurately as I took a bit of xanax and it was my 3rd extraction that week. I can only usually do 2 or 3 a fortnight without tolerance becoming a big issue and stopping me getting a good buzz.
I had a pretty weird codeine high yesterday. I didn't eat all day so I was expecting it to hit me hard but I ended up tripping out. All up I had 30mg of valium yesterday morning. Then a few hours before the codeine I started drinking and probably had 4 or 5 standard drinks of whisky. I dosed 60mg of DXM and 2 'travalcam' (I believe these contain 50mg dimenhydrinate, .2mg hyoscine and 20mg caffeine) around and hour before 600mg of codeine and then another 30mg of DXM and another shot or two of whisky 15 minutes after the codeine.
I was seeing weird shit like I thought a pile of clothes on the couch was my dog and I thought a portion of my wall looked like a tree trunk, there was other shit but thats just what I remember. I was also babbling shit at one point, telling my friend I had over about herself as though she was somebody else and talking about my one eyed cat (I don't have a one eyed cat).
The thing is, apart from taking a bit more valium than usual and not eating all day this is pretty typical dosing for me and I have never had this happen before.
The only difference is I usually use restavit not travalcam but the friend who I use codeine with fairly swears by 'travalcam', when I do it with her we usually have one restavit and one travalcam each so last night was the first time I took 2 travalcams. I just find it really strange, I have never had effects like that before from codeine and there was nothing drastically different from usual.
Anybody ever have a similar experience to this or have any idea why it would of happened? Overall it was good and I actually hit a really strong opiate high aswell, itching like mad (I usually don't get too itchy anymore but maybe doxy is just a more effective antihistamine than dimenhydrinate? who knows) and feeling really strong opiate warmth and euphoria. It was a good experience but I am quite baffled as to how it would of effected me so differently than usual.