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(Diphenhydramine/275mg)-Experienced-A nice, focusing, high

momma5

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I've noticed through reading all the trip reports, that most people have a bad experience with diphenhydramine (diph.) or Benadryll. Sometimes people see things that are scary to them, such as spiders. But through my use, of over a year, I've seemed to figure out how to get the high that I'm looking for with it.

I don't like using diph if I have anything to do. If I have to work, or go around town, or even converse with people that I'm not particularly close to, I'll definitely wait to take it. Tolerance does build up quickly. I've noticed that if I use it more than one night consecutively, I normally have to raise my dose by 25 mg each night. To start with though, you'd want to start with about 6 25mg pills, or 150mg. Dosing too high is what causes the deleriant effects, and causes scary visions.

Last night I dosed at about 3:00 AM, since that's when I get home from work. I dosed 275mg. Which is 11 benadryll pills. From dosing, I have about 30-45 min to get anything done and set up that I want to. I get in my jammies, set up my laptop for some youtube viewing, get some pot ready, and maybe make something to eat. (Later on, diph tends to make me hungry)

About 30-45 min into it, you start to feel...dreamy. It's sort of like being drunk, but sort of like being stoned. Except, there isn't the same brain-deadness. You aren't quite as stupid. You can still focus on things, you can still remember information, you can still write clearly, you just don't necessarily want to do anything productive.

The high peaks after about an hour to an hour and a half, and lasts about 3-4 hours for me. At the peak, I tend to feel almost like I've taken an opiate. It's really easy to get really "into" things. Last night I started to watch VSauce Leanback playlists on youtube, and didn't want to stop for hours. Everything becomes so interesting, and time goes by quickly. It's a great "boredom" high. Something to take when you're not really doing anything else, you're just bored, and want to experience an alternate perception.

At the peak, my body feels delayed, like it takes a split second to lift my arm after I've told it to. It's also easy to get lost in your thoughts, and they're the type of thoughts that you used to have when weed still got you "middle-school high". Contemplative thoughts that make you want to keep thinking.

Sometimes my heart starts to race a little bit, and sometimes I get restless limbs (like RLS, but everywhere), but it doesn't happen frequently, and it's usually when I took an extra pill after deciding that it wasn't kicking in fast enough, so that's usually my own fault.

The best part of the diph high, is that nothing is boring anymore. Everything is interesting. You can watch movies for hours, play some video games (not as well as normally, admittedly), or read some trip reports or a book. You just feel a little different while you do it. It's super hard to explain the exact feeling. The best way really seems to be "dreamy". Nothing is "dreamlike" in the sense that it's weird and unrealistic, your body just feels like it's in a dream. You may wake up the next morning and question if things were real, or if it was all a dream, but you will remember it all.

About two hours into the high, you start to feel like munching on something. Nothing too heavy, because your mouth is usually kind of dry, and anything "meal-like" feels like it takes too much effort to eat. I usually want something that I can just stick into my mouth and crunch or chew on while I watch, write, or read something. Normally it ends up being chips or candy. Sometimes I do end up hungry enough to go in and cook something quick up. It's not difficult to cook, and everything turns out tasting just fine.

Usually about 4 hours into the high, I start to come down. This brings with it an overwhelmingly tired feeling. You just wanna go crawl in the covers and go to dream land. Which is exactly what I did. Five minutes later, I'm fast asleep. It's easy to go to sleep during the high as well, since diph is very sedating.

Personally, when I wake up the next morning, I'm a little groggy for an hour or so, and then everything is back to normal. All in all, a good high for when you're alone, or with just a couple people.

WARNING: Mixing diph with stimulants can cause your heart rate and blood pressure to skyrocket to dangerous zones. Mixing with other downers or too much alcohol can cause your heart to slow down, also to dangerous zones. I have no proof of this, only previous experiences.

The above content is to be considered fictional, with fictional characters and events. It's all a lie. I do not condone illegal drug use, or using legal drugs in an illegal fashion. False. Falso. No es cierto. Comprende?
 
The above content is to be considered fictional, with fictional characters and events. It's all a lie. I do not condone illegal drug use, or using legal drugs in an illegal fashion. False. Falso. No es cierto. Comprende?
Diphenhydramine is legal for recreational purposes.

One of these days I'll take 50 or 75 milligrams to to see how sedating it is. Anything heavier is not something I want to experiment with, as some people experience auditory hallucinations at doses as low as 100 mg.

EDIT: For such an unusual choice of drug this has a lot of reports here.
 
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75 mg is probably what you would want to start with if you're going for low dose. 50mg is what they put in max strength sleeping shit.
 
75 mg is probably what you would want to start with if you're going for low dose. 50mg is what they put in max strength sleeping shit.
I've had 50 before for my morphine allergy, so I think I'll start with that and see what happens.

Is it possible for 75 mg to cause any sort of euphoria? I've read that deliriant doses are usually required for that, which I want to avoid for a whole variety of physical and social reasons. If DPH can do that in reasonably safe amounts I might actually want to use it occasionally.

EDIT: Also, it would give me the ability to say "I got high from Benadryl" and watch the horrified reactions of a bunch of underage drinkers who do not understand the toxicity of their drug.
 
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I usually feel a sort of euphoria at around 200mg, so for you I would say maybe 75-100mg would give you the euphoric sort of feeling. It's not the same "type" of euphoria as an opioid though. It's....different. But still pretty wonderful in my opinion.
 
You have to make yourself stay awake past the sleepy, drowsy point. If you want to give it another shot though, don't start with 250mg. Start at a normal starting dose, and start watching some youtube, or a movie. My favorite to wait for diph to kick in is VSauce Leanback on youtube. Give it a full hour to hour and a half, and then enjoy :) It is a very sedating high, but you should notice the high for sure.
 
I usually feel a sort of euphoria at around 200mg, so for you I would say maybe 75-100mg would give you the euphoric sort of feeling. It's not the same "type" of euphoria as an opioid though. It's....different. But still pretty wonderful in my opinion.
I'll try 75 mg at some point in the near future. I'm not so sure about 100, because there is a small possibility of hallucinations at that dose. It would be safe in the sense of not producing dangerous tachycardia, though.
 
I've never personally heard of somebody experiencing hallucinations with anything less than 300mg. That would be something that would be really scary to go through. 100 mg is just two doses max strength unisom...something that I'm sure a lot of people would take just trying to go to sleep at night.

Like I said though, you have to make yourself stay up past the point where you get sleepy and the medicine is making you want to crash. So i guess most people would just fall asleep after taking that kind of dose. But if they got distracted, and started to hallucinate just trying to get to bed...

It's cases like that, that make people want to put things behind the counter.
 
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I've heard of it happening to some people, though generally it does take much higher amounts. I should probably do some more research on this drug before I try anything.

Part of this is just my natural anxiety about intentionally inducing a delirium. This stuff is safe enough for me to be somewhat willing to mess around with it, but it's certainly a step up from caffeine in terms of mental alteration and potential consequences.

"It's cases like that, that make people want to put things behind the counter."

This a drug with anxiolytic properties at standard allergy-relief doses, strong psychoactive effects at only two or three times that, and high-dose anticholinergic deliriums that far exceed LSD in mental impairment and bodily harm (not that the latter point is unusual for these legal hallucinogens). I find it very surprising that the DEA has largely left it alone.

The mid level euphoric, mostly non-hallucinogenic effects are poorly known and documented for some reason. That may has something to do with it.
 
I'm pretty sure that it has everything to do with the massive amounts of money that they make off of it being available to the general public. Although, your point has everything to do with it as well. Because the recreational value isn't widely documented , they don't feel any pressure to get it out of public hands.

Sure, they make money off of medications that you need a prescription for, but not near as much money as they make from popular OTC medicine. Think about how much money ibuprofen rakes in. As does diph. They put it in everything, just like they do with ibuprofen. Its in cold medicines, allergy medicine, and even sleep aids. Not to mention its in NyQuil itself. Mixed with alcohol of course.

But I'm sure the government is aware of its high dose effects.
 
It depends.

First of all, we don't use SWIM here. Everyone knows that SWIM, or pets, really still means you. If you can't own up to your drug use, don't talk about it and just keep it to yourself.

However, like I said, it depends on if its safe or not. Do you have a tolerance at all to diph??

If you have a tolerance, and 250mg is what you would normally take, then yes, it should be safe. Gabapentin doesn't really increase your heart rate at all, but it does increase drowsiness, so you may want to go easy on the dose. Take a little less than you normally would. Like maybe 25-50mg less.

But that's off of what you would normally use to be getting the diph high. If 250 isnt your normal dose, and you usually just take the basic dose (25-50mg), then I wouldn't take anymore than 125mg.
 
When I did it i took 350 mg of Benadryl gel caps at 8 AM and 450 mg of diphenhydramine in syrup at 2:00 PM
it was fuckkked uppp
I don't care anymore when people whine about bad shroom trips, EVERY diphen trip is a bad trip of its' own poison
 
Like I said in my original post:

If you dose too high before your tolerance is built up, diphenhydramine is a deleriant, and not a pleasant one at that.

I prefer the doses that are considered low in relation to my tolerance so that I don't make it to the hallucinogenic state. I prefer the relaxed and focused high that diphenhydramine gives you at low recreational doses. Which for a first time user, would be around 100mg. I, however, have been using it for years, not only in a recreational manner, but also just to sleep. My tolerance has built up to an extreme level, which is why my doses are so high.

Even so, I'm still only using, at the most, 275mg. There have been times in the past where my tolerance was a bit higher, but I don't ever remember getting to a dose of 450mg, although I could be wrong.

A dose that high is very dangerous without a tolerance previously built up. Diphenhydramine is a very toxic drug when dosed to highly. It can cause heart palpitations, rapid heart beat, cardiac arrest, extreme paranoia, frightening delusions, bleeding of the brain, and a whole host of other problems.

You should be very careful in your dosing when using this drug for recreation. Diphenhydramine's high last a very long time, so if after an hour the high isn't where you want it to be, you can increase your dose at that time, and still get the effects as if you dosed it all at the same time.
 
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