Ok here goes guys, I'm moebro's friend, and let me try to explain to you in a few paragraphs the bloody hell that was my first experience with DXM
BACKGROUND: Me and moebro each took 100mls each of xtra strong robitussin DX, 300mg of active ingredient. I am about 70kg, 180cm, medium build, and had had almost nothing to eat before the time of consuming (3pm)
I normally have quite strong reactions from pills, my first experience i thought i was swimming on a footstool and was more fucked up than my other friends who were also trying it for the first time. But not THAT fucked up.
Setting was shit, I did it at home, and parents came home, so i was obviously very stresed about hiding it from my parents, and this was made worse later.
I take no other medication, and had no other drug such as alcohol with the DXM.
Ok here goes:
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Taken at 3pm:
Firstly I had all the "normal" effects of DXM. I felt extremely tripped out, lied down on my bed and had massive close eye visuals, faces, panoramas, whole shows of different things occuring but all with a darkish tinge, not that colorful. I went into a sort of tunnel, and gravity was turning around in my head like i was spinning thousands of time per second, i was in a jet plane soaring up and down, etc. etc. It was v. crazy, and I enjoyed it a fair bit.
8pm: The effects have generally worn off, just a body buzz and the like. One time I went into the toilet because I felt this wave of toxicity and heat go through my body and I thought I was overdosing. This scared me shitless.
10pm: I'm trying to get to sleep. Strangely, feel very hyped and strung out. Can't sleep for the life of me. This goes on and on but I start to feel worse, more jittery and hyped out, like on speed or something, heart starting to race and my head burning. Fingers are getting tightened up. I call poisons information syndrome, lady tells me I need to call an ambulance, says I might have a seizure or Serotonin Syndrome.
10:30: Ambulance arrives, parents streseed out, I think I am going to die, fingers tight and rigid, heart racing at about 150+ BPM, get taken to hospital, put on a drip, attended to, can't open my eyes because there is too much stimulation, the light is too intense.
11 - 3: Hospital is like hell, I am anxious about my mental state, I think I am going to go insane, I am in a state of intense paranoia, keep asking nurses if i'll live, or if there will be permanent damage (that became a recurring fear)
stayed in hospital till about 10am , went home, still felt buzzy and tingled up, as well as paranoid and anxious, depressed. Tried to sleep but couldn't at all, kept getting panic attacks and all sorts of things, amongst the other symptoms.
Next day, symptoms were actually worse, I naturally got stressed again, had a full on anxiety attack which I thought meant I was losing my mind, or going to have permanent damage, went back to the hospital, doctor calmed me down, felt better.
That night couldn't sleep again, only maybe 2 hours. Still stimulated with wide dilated pupils and buzzing hands. Woke up and had an extremely fast heartbeat and had to control it.
Next day was better, but then it got worse and I panicked again, went to the hospital for the 3rd time, this time a better doctor explained that the drug was STILL in my system, and would take another 5-10 days to come out, but I was also having anxiety symptoms related to that, and that I needed to relax etc. etc.
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Its now been about 6 days since I took the drug, and only today have my pupils become smaller and the symptoms largely disappeared. It was an awful experience, and hopefully people can learn from this and research substances (and dosages!!) carefully before they engage in them. I am curious if any BL'ers have thoughts on what this actually was (deficient enyzyme? Slow metaboliser?) because it sure as hell stayed in my system for a lot longer than 8 or so hours.
Cheers all, and take care of yourselves. Don't have an experience like mine.
