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Codeine help

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Whats up everyone. Recently i just had a bad throat infection and my doctor prescribed me some Prometh cough syrup with Codeine to ease the pain and reduce my cough. I researched codeine a bit afterwards cause my doctor told me it was a narcotic and found out its similar to morphiend..i also found out that the amount of codeine required to feel the full effects is about 120mg. However, this cough syrup only contains 20mg per serving.. my question is.. would it be a good idea to take 6 servings of this cough syrup to feel the effects of codeine? Or would i risk ODing on the other contents in the cough syrup and just interfere with the effects of the codeine? any advice is helpful..
 
wrong forum. Moving to other drugs. Please read forum guidelines before posting.
 
What are the other active ingredients of the cough syrup? And what is the concentration?
 
This is information I gathered from erowid for ya.
http://www.erowid.org/pharms/codeine/codeine.shtml
"The best dose to start at is the 30mg - 60mg dosage. That way you won't experience many adverse effects and you can continue to take this small amount until you feel the desired effects, after that you can increase the dosage as you please. Most people settle around the 250mg mark for the best euphoria, with the least side effects. The best idea is to take in a situation where you won't become distracted. You can get yourself into a comfortable position and relax because you will become _quite_ relaxed. It may take 5 to 20 times before you can appreciate the effects. The effects are subtle like marijuana and it takes some time before you come to recognize them all.
The LD50 (lethal dose for %50) is 800mg in the average person. Death from codeine, unlike most opiates, includes restlessness, seizures and eventually death from respiratory arrest."
What else besides codeine does it contain?
high amounts of Acetaminophencan can cause serious damage to your liver (3000mg+)
 
if i were u id do a search on yahoo or whatever search engine u wanna use & find the safe highest dose of promethazine hydrocholoride u can use.
Keep in mind that it's mixed with codeine & some substances can be harmful to mix....
sorry i cant be more help........
 
I would just try the prescribed dose maybe 1/2 more and if you wait before doing more if your not happy is the best way to approach the other shit in it.
 
Originally posted by forgotten:
If you have no tolerance to promethazine (which I'm guessing you don't), anything above the 20-25mg mark (of prometh) will likely knock you out cold. If you were to take say 50ml of the syrup or 100mg of codeine, the 62.5mg of prometh would knock you out for sure, as it would most anyone. I would reccomend somwhere in the 10-15ml range.
I'll disagree with that statement. Prometh may make you drowsy @ high doses, but no more so than benadryl. Combined with the codiene, I would think that it would be quite a nice little noddy feeling.
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I have had what sounds like the exact same cough syrup. I used it once to relieve pain from some cramps. I took 80 mg worth and felt pretty nice...I suggest you do the same. The prometh does potentiate it a bit but not too much...
 
Whenever I take ProMeth I drink two onces. One to get started & a when that starts to wear off I drink the second. This is what gets me going. I don't know how much fo a tolerance you have. If you have rarely use then just try half an ounce & see what that does for you. Remember you can always take more so don't over do it at first...
 
Start off with a tablespoon! thats about three teaspoons! You will find it quite enjoyable. a threshhold dose is around 20ml but after some expierementation you can exceed this by alot.
 
codeine cough syrup is specifically formulated to contain relatively small doses of codeine compared to the other ingredients. the OTC codeine cough syrup here contains only 8.8 mg of codeine per 15 mL dose - along with 60 mg pseudoephedrine and 325 mg APAP (OTC codeine preparations here must be combined with at least two other active ingredients).
20 mg of codeine per dose is probably enough to eventually mess you up -- you'll need somewhere between 60 and 120 mg of codeine to feel good if you're new to it. i don't know much about promethazine.
basic stuff about codeine:
codeine is 'similar' to morphine, but it has an extra methyl group... it has -OCH3 instead of -OH. codeine isn't active by itself, but your liver can metabolize some of it (about 15%) into morphine, which is nicely active =)
 
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