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Question about diphenhydramine

a3m

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A few months ago in the summer, I heard that DPH had a really interesting "trip"... for those unfamiliar, Benadryl is a hallucinogenic drug which induces a state of delirium. Hallucinations can't be differentiated from reality on it, and trips are often pretty freaky, to say the least. A bit of info on myself: older male, 115 pounds.

I tried a low dose to see if I was allergic (50mg) and just felt tired and spacey, a week or two later trying 200mg to see how I'd take that. My breathing was kind of funny and found difficulty speaking on the drug -- very weak or breathy while on it, in lack of better terms. My dry, cracked mouth would open and I'd just lightly exhale instead of pushing out words. On it, I'd have slight hallucinations; aside from imagining that my heart was stopping or that I had ran out of air, I'd walk around and see common objects kind of warped. The "trip" kind of felt like I'd been up for 3 or 4 days and was very tired. Most of my breathing on the trip was manual, and I'd pound my chest now and then because I somehow was deluded into thinking my heart was stopped.

A few days after that experiment, I realized that I wanted to do more. Even though Benadryl made my cardiovascular system kind of fucked up, it still felt nice and I wanted to experience true delirium. Pull out my box of allergy pills, pop the pink pills out of the foil, toss 'em down my mouth... 5, 10, 20, who knows how many pills I was swallowing at a time? I did take a note that I'd swallowed 800mg. Needless to say, I had crazy wild times on the drug for a few hours. But like before, I really really worried about my heart/breathing. A friend of mine wants to try DPH with me in a few weeks, and I've been considering it. Again, it's been several months since I had my real trip on Bennies, and I haven't thought about touching the drug since my friend and I were talking about what kinds of experiences we could find ourselves in.

Would it be dangerous to do DPH again, and has anyone here ever had serious problems due to the way it affects breathing or heart rates? I'm still in the dark about whether I was hallucinating the disruptions my body had or not. Sorry for such a long post, hopefully it's clear enough!
 
I have been stuck with a feeling like I had 20 pills stuck in my throat for a couple days. I tried to puke numerous time but only resulted in puking up stomach bile and fucking up my throat even more. One of the worst hangovers I've ever had was from taking diphenhydramine..the whole next day I felt like the inside of my skin had been ripped out and replaced with battery acid.
 
I don't see why anyone would consider being delirious and having the shit scared out of you a good time. Not being able to tell yourself that what your seeing is actually not real, you could end up doing some pretty stupid things.

Save DPH for what its meant for, inducing drowsiness (at low doses 25-100mg) or for when you have allergies. I've only done it once just to try it out (I think I took about 200mg+) the feeling I got from my chest didn't feel healthy. I also got horrible cramps in my legs, couldn't stop moving them.
 
dph is actually great for what it's meant for. nothing i've read about taking excessive amounts makes me want to try it
 
it's not that bad IMO. i've taken well over 1g at times. It's kind of a dreamy high, not necessarily a scare the shit out of you kind of high. It's definitely strange. As you go through it you can't really tell what's real or not so you are not really shocked at things. I know people have had terrible trips from it but i've never scared the shit out of myself with it. You do end up doing and saying some rather strange things while on it though. Example my gf thinking she coined the term 'spatula' while on it and found it so profound. lol

800mg is a bit too much, but 200-400mg isn't bad with cannabis, boring on its own. It can cause anxiety though, which is probably why you were worrying about your heart and such. It also makes me restless. It completely fucks your memory. Personally i like about 100-150mg along with a high 2nd plateau DXM dose, really nice high IMO.
 
When I was much yournger I drank a lot of benadryl and robo. I can't really feel good about advising a "safe" amount. I had some crazy fun times tripping in the desert on it, but can't really advise it. I drank the family sized bottles and just went where it took me. I never had any health issues with it, but a bad trip seems to go really bad for most people once it begins. Now more than twenty years later I'm in no rush to do it again though personally I liked it...especially since I have had some heart problems in recent years.
 
800mg is a bit too much, but 200-400mg isn't bad with cannabis, boring on its own. It can cause anxiety though, which is probably why you were worrying about your heart and such. It also makes me restless. It completely fucks your memory. Personally i like about 100-150mg along with a high 2nd plateau DXM dose, really nice high IMO.

That story about the spatula is hilarious! I'll have to keep it around 300 or 400mg if my friend and I are doing it again. The reason why I did it so high is because another forum I've gone to (420chan) said that 700mg was the appropriate amount for a trip on Benadryl. Mixing in smaller amounts with DXM sounds like a terrific idea.

When I was much yournger I drank a lot of benadryl and robo. I can't really feel good about advising a "safe" amount. I had some crazy fun times tripping in the desert on it, but can't really advise it. I drank the family sized bottles and just went where it took me. I never had any health issues with it, but a bad trip seems to go really bad for most people once it begins. Now more than twenty years later I'm in no rush to do it again though personally I liked it...especially since I have had some heart problems in recent years.

I'm pretty familiar with robo. Said friend and I are only interested in DPH because it's a safer deliriant than Jimson weed -- if you know of a better alternative, we're all ears :)
 
it's not that bad IMO. i've taken well over 1g at times. It's kind of a dreamy high, not necessarily a scare the shit out of you kind of high. It's definitely strange. As you go through it you can't really tell what's real or not so you are not really shocked at things. I know people have had terrible trips from it but i've never scared the shit out of myself with it. You do end up doing and saying some rather strange things while on it though. Example my gf thinking she coined the term 'spatula' while on it and found it so profound. lol

800mg is a bit too much, but 200-400mg isn't bad with cannabis, boring on its own. It can cause anxiety though, which is probably why you were worrying about your heart and such. It also makes me restless. It completely fucks your memory. Personally i like about 100-150mg along with a high 2nd plateau DXM dose, really nice high IMO.

this sounds interesting iv got a masochistic "think iv spelt that right" streak in me when it come to the chemicals i take at times nothing like scaring the crap out of your self i do it with noids all the time go fighting hypnotists and evil shadow people or just simple bathle myself so baddly its just imposible to tell who what or where i am sounds daft yes but it can do wonders for your mind when you come out of it
 
Don't forget to visit our central thread on DPH: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=160404

You can find links like this by checking out the Psychedelic Index, and reading our FAQ also couldn't hurt. ;)

This thread may be merged into the Big & Dandy thread at some point.

Sorry I personally know nothing of the safety of recreational DPH use except that 800 mg comes close to 1000 mg which I think is the kind of dose that has sent people to the ICU, if I remember my reading sites like Erowid (reports) correctly... check that out, just avoid any dose that makes you breathing or heartrate weird which are bad signs whatever anyone says. Maybe you were not in any real danger yet, but you are apparently coming closer. Do you even want to go higher with those side-effects? :)

Also consider going on the look out for other things that might suit your interests better?
 
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