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2C-I - Experienced - Absolutely massive dose

sockwaveal

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I preface this by saying I am ashamed of what I did during this time. It has been a tumultuous period for me in multiple ways, and I felt at one point that my death was inevitable, that is why I experimented with the extreme dosage. I apologize to all users out there for the damage this may or may not cause the community.

Now, I am a very experienced tripper, I have done every psychadelic I have gotten my hands onto (and plan to continue to do so). LSD, DMT, mescaline, mushrooms, DXM, 2c-b, 2c-e, 5-meo-dmt, 4-aco-dmt, and others

The purpose of this report is to help bring information to the community about 2c-i and hopefully calm the people who feel they may have taken too much.

I am also a very, very internally stable person so anyone who is emotionally or psychologically unstable should read this with a big fat grain of salt.

On to the report, I will explain the aforementioned week as best I can, but I will attempt to keep my personal life apart from it as this is not a journal.

I received 2 grams of 2ci from a reputable source and it was as perfect quality as you can get in the United States. Previous to this I had taken 2ci multiple times in up to 50 mg doses and loved the psychadelic affect and high it gave me. Prior to this occasion, however, I had not taken 2ci for over 1 year. Also, I had not been taking any other substances whatsoever in the previous 3 weeks. Now, I began with my usual dose of ~20mg on the first night and after one hour felt the oncoming effects. Euphoria, the walls swirling and what not. I ended up playing a video game and declared it the best night of videogaming I had ever experienced, as you can imagine. The spaceships looked absolutely stunning twirling on my laptop, and it was a saturday night so the players had some drunken comments I found absolutely priceless. My joy and euphoria just swelled from me, it was utterly fantastic. I ended the night telling myself I will do the exact same thing tomorrow.

I did so the following night, larger dose ~30 mg with the same effects. I continued to up my dosage night after night, and as I continued to do so the effects became more emotional than visual. I won't go into the inbetween nights, just know that I had been building a tolerance before the massive dose. So, here goes. I took approximately 1 gram of 2ci after building this tolerance over the course of a week. I was alone in my home at the time, and felt the dosage kick in within 30 minutes. I knew it was going to come hard and fast, so I suppose mentally I was as prepared as one can be, but honestly at that dosage it doesn't matter what mental preparations you have in place. I felt the increased elation, my heart started to beat faster, and I started to feel wonderful euphoria. I looked at the walls and I started to see flowers and petals form out of nowhere. As the effects increased I could start to see every single color in its individual form. They were tiny dots of all colors, colors I can't even name but all there to be dissected individually. It was utterly breathtaking to see, but it wasn't just seeing them it was fully experiencing them. They say the old musicians could see sound, but for that time i could feel and experience color. At this point I stepped back mentally and visually to take in a larger scope and before where there were walls, I now saw cities. I saw people walking out of them, I saw the faces of demons and gods play across my eyes, I saw insects scuttling about, but never in a frightening manner. I was filled with euphoria, joy, and wonder during this time. That I could be there living and experiencing that was beyond my wildest dreams.

As the effects increased, however, the emotional side really came crashing into play. I began to think of my family and friends and cherished moments. Throughout this I should note I was listening to some trance music which heavily influenced the trip. As a certain part of the song would play I would think of my happiest moments with my friends, slapping our hands together in triumph and joy, and I was brought to tears from joy and sadness (note, at this time I felt my death was inevitable due to unrelated circumstances) I lay there sobbing at the images and experiences of these moments with my friends. it was emotionally totally overwhelming. I cried out my friends names in both joy and despair as I experienced the emotions of those cherished moments over and over. All this time the colors were all over the place, and the emotions kept welling up over and over. I went insane from the emotional upheaval, and for the rest of the night I just kept experiencing those moments over and over, and feeling the feelings for my friends, and I was just a crying wreck the entire time. That is all of the night that I honestly recall. It was... wild.

Physically, I felt pain in my legs during the trip. Sharp pains in the upper, inner thigh area. I also really felt like I had to pee the entire time. I actually got up and went to the toilet a lot during the trip. I wasn't physically incapacitated. at any point, although movement was difficult, I did stumble a lot. Also, my jaws were clenched for much of it, and my neck muscles got really tight.

As I came out of it, I felt a real emotional, mental, and physical relief and the images I previously mentioned came back, but I was too emotionally shattered to even comprehend what was happening. I was sweating and shaking.

As the day wore on I just felt really, really stiff and sore, emotionally i was totally unstable, and mentally just a wreck. Some of my memory is missing from this time. I was shivering in bed, taking all the vitamin supplements I could and drinking a lot of water. I also devoured the kiwis I had in the house, but couldn't bring myself to move any more than I absolutely had to.

This lasted throughout the day, but I slowly got stronger physically, mentally, and emotionally.

It has been over one month now since that time, and I have not noticed any side effects from my massive use. I regained my equilibrium within a week, and it has not affected my enjoyment of the few substances I have tried since then. I will try to keep you all informed as time goes by to let you know if any issues crop up. However, thus far I have not noted anything.

I am an idiot, I have no idea how it will effect me long term. Feel free to lay into me as much as you will.

However, it is my belief 2c-i is a very tolerant drug. If you take too much, calm down, and physically you should (hopefully) be alright in the short term. Emotionally, and psychologically I can see how one can be a danger to oneself at higher doses. However, the short term physical side effects in my experience, for my body, were bearable and recoverable even at the extreme dosage that I took.

I have no idea if there will be long term consequences.

Again, apologies to any who feel upset by this report, but I felt this information may be useful to a few others, so I decided to put it out there. Stay safe.



Edit: I am editing this as I would like this information to be available to those that use the search engine. I pray it doesn't bump the thread, as it's quite an embarrassing story. There were no long term side effects other than an inability to get high off 2ci when I attempted to use it again 4 months later. Yes, I tried it again. I never claimed to be a role model. Not sure of the dose but I believe I started at 30 and went up to 60-80 mg (over the course of a night). The only effect was a very, very minor swirling of the walls. No euphoria, or anything else for that matter. I have not touched it or damn near anything since. I consider myself fortunate there were no lasting effects. I've had plenty of blood work and tests done since, and I am in great health. It should be noted that this time includes a full year of near constant sobriety, excellent nutrition, and exercise. The body has an amazing ability to heal, but this does not negate how massively stupid this was. Had I been suicidal I may not have made it through. The emotional fragility of the experience is too strong. It's the part I remember most, and I don't think it was merely my circumstances causing it. If nothing else it'll destroy your ability to use 2c-i, and perhaps even similar substances. I never did try any of the other 2c's again. I did many stupid things during my heavy drug days, but this one really takes the cake. It is such a gift that I survived both this and everything else at the time. None of this, of course, guarantees there won't be consequences later in life.

Looking back after a year and a half, I would advise anyone who accidentally or purposefully took a massive dose to have someone monitor them. There is simply not enough information out there (last I checked, anyway), and you become too unstable. Still, it is survivable, and thus far with no long term consequences.

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Wow... 20mg the first day. The next day 30mg; ending up with 1000mg at the end of the week? That's a lot man! But I think you know it!

Don't consider yourself as an idiot, if this moment enligthened you, just be happy about it. Everybody makes mistakes. I hope everything is better for you now...

Be safe =]m
 
damn dude thats like taking half a sheet of lsd or something. Glad you're ok though. Sounds fucking ridiculous.
 
You could expect some minor emotional issues in the future. You could very well develop HPPD as well. 2C-I's side-effects are very under studied. I've read some things on it effecting thyroid function permanently. I wouldn't take that high of a dose again, if you like your mental stability that is ;)

Sounds like a very profound experience though man! Be safe.
 
How do you justify taking ONE GRAM of 2c-i? What made you think that this would be a good idea? I am glad that you seem to be OK after that experience, but who knows what you might have done to yourself by introducing such a large dose of 2c-i in such a short amount of time.
 
How do you justify taking ONE GRAM of 2c-i? What made you think that this would be a good idea? I am glad that you seem to be OK after that experience, but who knows what you might have done to yourself by introducing such a large dose of 2c-i in such a short amount of time.

As I stated before, I honestly expected to be dead in a very short time due to medical reasons I will not go into here. I wanted to blow my mind before the end. I am not yet dead, so I can only hope there aren't any long term consequences. It was stupid, it was a mistake, but it honestly has made me believe that it's harder than we thought to overdose and end up in the hospital on 2c-i.
 
There are no reported deaths from 2C-I, and very few hospitalizations. It seems to be a safe drug, short term. The long term effects have not been documented or studied in depth what-so-ever.

I of course I do not condone actions that could possibly be severely detrimental to someones health, but being as we don't know its side effects, and that he agrees it was a mistake, i don't see the scolding necessary. :\

OP: I hope there are no serious side-effects and that you continue to live a long fruitful life!
 
Holy shit. That's pretty much all I can say. I can never imagine looking at a huge pile of 2c-I powder and be like "I'm gonna eat all of that". It just seems insane.

If you want to go heroic I would suggest something that is known to be fairly safe at high dosages, like LSD or Mushrooms.

1 gram of 2C-I is beyond heroic though. It kind of IS idiotic.

I myself find 2C-I to be uncomfortable at just 20mg. It gives me headaches, stomach tightness/transient nausea, and some pretty annoying stimulation at that dose and that's only a slightly above moderate dosage. I can't imagine taking a gram at once even with a large tolerance.

I'm glad you came out of it okay though. It certainly was an interesting read. The description of your visuals were DMTesque at points with your entity contact/observance. I wonder if all psychs have the ability to induce this type of state at high enough dosages.
 
Atleast your alive but one thing no one has metioned and something you seem to not have thought of is how this would have effected 2c-i had you died. If they would have found out you OD'd on a psychedelic drug the media would have most likely eaten that shit up. It only took a couple of deaths from 2-c-t-7 to be made illegal and in most cases the 2-c-t-7 was taken with MDMA or people just snorting huge amounts. So even though you thought you were going to die anyways you probably should have thought about how it could have effected other things rather than just yourself. Atleast it seemed amazing and wasn't a waste though!
 
Atleast your alive but one thing no one has metioned and something you seem to not have thought of is how this would have effected 2c-i had you died. If they would have found out you OD'd on a psychedelic drug the media would have most likely eaten that shit up. It only took a couple of deaths from 2-c-t-7 to be made illegal and in most cases the 2-c-t-7 was taken with MDMA or people just snorting huge amounts. So even though you thought you were going to die anyways you probably should have thought about how it could have effected other things rather than just yourself. Atleast it seemed amazing and wasn't a waste though!

Indeed, that is part of the point of my apologies. I had thrown out the package and sincerely doubt they would have found the substance even in an autopsy, from what I know of the process. But, that was a distinct possibility, and while it's not anothers concern should one risk their own life, it is when it could harm others. Again, I apologize. I look back at it and am just ashamed at myself, and apalled at the massive waste it was. I imagine you can get similar effects with a much smaller dose.

The night before this ridiculously retarded dosage I did take a LOT, in the order of several hundred milligrams and came out perfectly ok, so that fueled my suspicion that I would indeed NOT die.

But it was so idiotic of me and so selfish. I primarily share this to let others know that even if you take a slightly larger dose than you're used to (and that does not mean in the order of 100mg+, because that's still ridiculous) that physically you can get through it. Though everyones mileage will vary.
 
What exactly is the psychedelic threshold?

(just realized that was my 50th)
 
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^Its the point in which the experience becomes out of body. You lose contact with your physical senses and they are replaced by the effects of the drug. I have achieved an out of body experience through meditation, though its nature was far different then passing the threshold.
 
wow!

i'm pretty sure that if you had died during the trip, they would have been able to recover a couple hundred milligrams of unmetabolized 2c-i from your intestines, blood, and urine ;)
hell, i bet someone could get a +++ just from shaking hands with you!

my hat is off to you sir, and i hope your unrelated medical problems do not cause you any undue emotional trauma. huzzah!
 
OP: That's insane. Great descriptions of the experience though; thanks for that.

Hopefully you no longer think your death is imminent.

You could expect some minor emotional issues in the future. You could very well develop HPPD as well.

Does HPPD sometimes come with a delay? I actually know someone who got serious HPPD from 2c-i abuse (semi-daily use for a month). The HPPD was there immediately and hasn't gone away after another year.

Personally I'm quite paranoid/conservative about my psychedelic usage, and part of the reason is because I feel I might be sensitive to HPPD-type side effects (with phens at least). Even an average dose of 2c-e gives me subtle HPPD effects for 2-3 weeks. I would guess that if the OP isn't already aware of such symptoms then he might be in the clear... but maybe I'm mistaken.
 
Yeah, I have some minor HPPD as a result. It's not really noticable, but certainly there. It's just minor trails when I unfocus my eyes a bit as one does during a trip. It certainly wasn't there before this event.

Also, I'd like to state for anyone getting any ideas out there, that it was utterly not worth it. The emotional instability that followed left me in a very vulnerable state. Also, I may never be able to get the same enjoyment from 2c-i again, either through whatever went on in my head or simply by the massive tolerance I have now.
 
^What you describe isn't HPPD. It is a possible symptom of HPPD, but does not sound like you have the full-blown ailment. My HPPD makes the outlines of things constantly wobble, small objects seem to move farther and closer, there are liquid-like patterns flowing over most solid colored objects, and some other stuff.

HPPD is more likely to develop using tryps not phens. The high does just meant you were more likely to develop it. If all youre having is trails your fine.
 
Great rapport on a insane experience.

I also find myself getting uncomfortable on doses at 20-25mg.

Glad to hear that you're OK. I hope you stay that way. :)
 
I can relate to the op. I consumed 500mg of 2c-i over the course of 7 days. I don't remember the exact doses either. This was about a month ago, and no noticable side effects yet. So you can dose as high as 100 to 200mg,and survive, but I would not advise it. Some people's bodies can handle it, some may not. Don't be like me, be careful.
 
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