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(DiphenhydramineHCL / 400mg) - First Time - Schizophrenia like effects.

Anon610

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Decided to give DPH a try. I've used Z-Quil to help me with sleep, and in doses like 125mg I was getting some crazy dreams.
So at work I picked up these 'help I can't sleep' pills. It contained (16) 25mg tablets of Diphenhydramine HCL.

This is my first trip report so bare with me. I'll give you a little background knowledge of my substance use. I'm very experienced with NN-DMT and Psilocybin. More so with DMT, with well over 100 trips. All of which were amazing to say the least. I've never tripped sucsessfully with any OTC drugs. I've tried a few times with DXM and no luck. Gelcaps or syrup. I just always end up passing out for some reason even with the non-drowsy formula. So I decided to try DPH.

0:00
Take all 16 tablets one by one within 5 minutes. Empty stomach. Cannabis and small amount of alcohol were consumed that day a few hours prior.

0:25
I begin feeling the effects. Slight nausea kicks in, nothing uncontrollable but noticeable. I decide to lay down.

0:40
I'm a little drowsy, but I don't fall asleep. I decide I need to use the bathroom. I walk downstairs, and the lightbulb died in the bathroom. Just my luck. Anyway, I notice the seat looks different, like its moving or melting like as if I was on shrooms or coming down from DMT. Upon closer look I see its these little legs, they kinda look like spiders but they aren't. Just the best way to describe it. I brush them off and they vanish into thin air. I knew it was a hallucination. At no point was I scared because I told myself, its just the drug relax. So I sit down on the toilet and start using the bathroom and I was thinking about the spiders I saw. I then decide to concentrate on the tub and I see them start to crawl on the edges. I was very interested in this. When I wanted the visual to cease, I'd blow them away. Washed my hands and got out.

1:00
Back upstairs in my bedroom now and I begin explaining to my friend about these 'spiders'. So I try to get them to appear again to examine them in the light. I begin focusing on my arms and I slowly see these white legs or strands start seeping from my pores. In amazement I go towards to light to look at them closer. I asked my friend if he sees them, of course he doesn't. And I'm like dude, they're right here and he brushes my arm and they disappear.

1:05
Still talking about the spiders I sit in my computer chair and go to plug in a USB cable. And I see a lot of these spiders. I was shocked because of how sudden they appeared. But I just jumped back and just stomped em out.
Its weird because you could feel them crawling on you, see them, and pick them up yet if you'd stomp, brush, or blow them away they'd completely vanish. Very real.

1:30
At this point I stop thinking about the spiders and they stop appearing. Now I'm laying in my bed to try to get some closed eye visuals. I begin seeing friends and family. Like their faces would come close to me stare at me and vanish back into my mind. I thought it was pretty weird, so I explain it to my friend of course. Then I glance up at my ceiling and its all static like. Like an old TV without any input. Just white noise.

2:00+
This is where my trip gets crazy in a way. I was talking to my friends and family who seemed to be sitting around me. I was talking to them the whole time, but I was fully conscious. My friend was supervising me the whole time and actually recorded bits of me being extremely delirious. For example, I was hallucinating that I was smoking a blunt with my mom (we smoke together) my friend, and my moms friend. So we're smoking the blunt and it goes to get passed to me and I go to reach for it and snap out of my 'trip'. I then realize my friend is across the room, there is no blunt and it's just us. Its crazy because the hallucinations were so vivid and seemed very real. I wasn't dreaming and I knew this. So basically I sat in my bed for about 2+ hours giggling and joking with friends and family who I swore were there. I also got extreme auditory hallucinations, hearing friends who weren't anywhere near me. Also, my short term memory seemed to be effected. I'd go to converse with my mom or friend and I'd be discussing a topic and 30 seconds in be like "wait what was I talking about again...?" and this was like clockwork. Always happening. This activity continued for about 4 hours.

Overall I can see why people might find this kinda trip scary. Its like being schizophrenic in a way, but if you tell yourself its just a drug it can be a rather fun experience.
Again, that's just my opinion and different people react differently to certain chemicals. Would I do it again? Maybe. Would I do it a lot? No. It's not something that really has a purpose, its just trippy. I'd rather stick with DMT of course, but this was a different experience and I'm glad I experienced it. Because it was unique.

If you try it, be careful of course. Start with 200mg and work your way up. No rush and DPH is cheap.
It does make your breathing shallow but I didn't have trouble with my respiratory system at 400mg.

tl;dr
Effects:
Hallucinations, deliriousness, dry mouth, blurred vision, and restlessness during the trip portion.

Didn't notice any negative after effects. Again, I'm not saying go trip on DPH its fun I'm simply documenting my experience.
 
Nice report. Never tried diphenhydramine in recreational doses. Many people report spiders in their dph trips.
It's most likely your DMT experiences that kept you sane through this lol

Glad to hear you enjoyed the experience.
 
I, for some strange reason, love DPH. I've had multiple crazy trips, the most recent I remember hallcuinating so many objects I interact with normally, like a soda can, my phone, pencils etc and when I tried to pick them up my fingers would go right thru them. I also had a "family reunion" my two cousins, sister and friend came to see me, I hallucinated all 4 of them were there
 
Anytime i took that much DPH is was like having nightmares while awake for 8 hours (still thought it was fun...:\). Made my heart pound something fierce though, and my eyes popped so far out i thought they would evade me.
 
Nice report. Never tried diphenhydramine in recreational doses. Many people report spiders in their dph trips.
It's most likely your DMT experiences that kept you sane through this lol

Glad to hear you enjoyed the experience.

Yeah, I look at everything from a scientific standpoint when I trip to keep me calm. Its just always in my head. Seems to work great.

I, for some strange reason, love DPH. I've had multiple crazy trips, the most recent I remember hallcuinating so many objects I interact with normally, like a soda can, my phone, pencils etc and when I tried to pick them up my fingers would go right thru them. I also had a "family reunion" my two cousins, sister and friend came to see me, I hallucinated all 4 of them were there

That sounds great, do you do it alone? I'm thinking about experimenting more tonight out of boredom.

Anytime i took that much DPH is was like having nightmares while awake for 8 hours (still thought it was fun...:\). Made my heart pound something fierce though, and my eyes popped so far out i thought they would evade me.

Hmm, weird. I'm a small person and I've taken more than 400mg before. My pupils would be huge. But I don't get nightmares while awake. I haven't had a nightmare in a while. And don't dream to often. Could be the pot and DMT use, idk.
 
So I smoke weed and use dxm to get high (360mg to 720mg) last time I tried to get high on Dph(600mg) and had no trip, I felt sleepy and my legs were slightly heavy. Can someone tell me what went wrong? In my country we only have one medicine which is a syrup that contains diphenhydramine:
Amydramine:Na citrate 28.5 mg, Diphenhydramine HCl 7 mg and menthol 0.55 mg per 5ml...
Can it be any of the unactive ingredicents that are denying the Dph high?
 
It's not fun when you are so delirious you forget you have taken a drug.. and the hallucinations are not dream like.. they're nightmares :\

falcon.. I've taken more than that and not tripped before.. It might have been to do with the setting? It doesn't seem to work very well when you are around other people.
 
So I smoke weed and use dxm to get high (360mg to 720mg) last time I tried to get high on Dph(600mg) and had no trip, I felt sleepy and my legs were slightly heavy. Can someone tell me what went wrong? In my country we only have one medicine which is a syrup that contains diphenhydramine:
Amydramine:Na citrate 28.5 mg, Diphenhydramine HCl 7 mg and menthol 0.55 mg per 5ml...
Can it be any of the unactive ingredicents that are denying the Dph high?

Hard to say. I'm a small person, so maybe 400mg is a small dose. But at 600 you should be feeling something. Keep the lights on, stay on your computer and function for an hour or so after you've taken it.
Inactive ingredients shouldn't tone down the experience.
 
Hmm, weird. I'm a small person and I've taken more than 400mg before. My pupils would be huge. But I don't get nightmares while awake. I haven't had a nightmare in a while. And don't dream to often. Could be the pot and DMT use, idk.

Yeah 400mg is the most i've ever taken. It felt like my heart was gonna explode. But what i mean by nightmares while awake is that i would have delirious realistic scenarios happen before my eyes, like talking to people that weren't there, and when they vanished it startled the shit out of me every time.
 
Yeah 400mg is the most i've ever taken. It felt like my heart was gonna explode. But what i mean by nightmares while awake is that i would have delirious realistic scenarios happen before my eyes, like talking to people that weren't there, and when they vanished it startled the shit out of me every time.

Ah I see. In that case my previous use of psychadellics may have helped.
DMT is very in and out trip, like a bungie jump. So that kinda out of nowhere shit doesn't phase me much.
 
Ah I see. In that case my previous use of psychadellics may have helped.
DMT is very in and out trip, like a bungie jump. So that kinda out of nowhere shit doesn't phase me much.

When the feeling feels 'real' it is very different. DPH was my first 'trip'.
 
Any other meds on board?

I haven't tripped since college (acid and shrooms). Chronic pain keeps me on Fentanyl and Soma. I don't think I will try DPH in such a large dose. That whole CNS respiratory failure thing could be a real bummer.

However, I do take DPH or Zzzquil or both (100mg max) to sleep if I am all jacked up on caffeine. 50mg pills first. Not asleep after an hour or two, I will hit the Zzzquil. Now I know what causes some of those crazy ass dreams!


I like the fact you had someone not trippin with you for the initial trip. In college, we never let a noob trip alone or wander off. We insisted on having a trip master until you were experienced.
 
... In my country we only have one medicine which is a syrup that contains diphenhydramine:
Amydramine:Na citrate 28.5 mg, Diphenhydramine HCl 7 mg and menthol 0.55 mg per 5ml...
Can it be any of the unactive ingredicents that are denying the Dph high?

Don't know where you are, but in my travels to Europe I found "Benadryl" in a couple of countries. I was a little bit surprised to see the trade name there, but it is just straight diphenhydramine sold as an antihistamine.
 
Any other meds on board?

I haven't tripped since college (acid and shrooms). Chronic pain keeps me on Fentanyl and Soma. I don't think I will try DPH in such a large dose. That whole CNS respiratory failure thing could be a real bummer.

However, I do take DPH or Zzzquil or both (100mg max) to sleep if I am all jacked up on caffeine. 50mg pills first. Not asleep after an hour or two, I will hit the Zzzquil. Now I know what causes some of those crazy ass dreams!


I like the fact you had someone not trippin with you for the initial trip. In college, we never let a noob trip alone or wander off. We insisted on having a trip master until you were experienced.

How do you feel on your opiates? Do you take a high enough dose to say cause you to nod out? I mean, I take 100mg of Morphine Sulfate with it once and was absolutely fine. The opiate made me feel good and great. As usual.
Also at higher doses you kinda get restless. Almost speedy.
 
Great report! Sounds like you had a lot of fun, in a round about way :P

Its weird because you could feel them crawling on you, see them, and pick them up yet if you'd stomp, brush, or blow them away they'd completely vanish. Very real.
Always gets me. Like I said in the other trip report, I spend the night glitching out on this stuff trying to get the bugs off me. I swear to god you can feel them bite you. I've never really got past that stage to full on hallucinations, however. Although like you said, people react differently to different drugs.

I'm curious though, did you ever experience the inability to swallow without extreme nausea? Whenever I try to drink on DPH the smallest drop of water makes me feel like I'm going to puke my guts up.

So I smoke weed and use dxm to get high (360mg to 720mg) last time I tried to get high on Dph(600mg) and had no trip, I felt sleepy and my legs were slightly heavy. Can someone tell me what went wrong? In my country we only have one medicine which is a syrup that contains diphenhydramine:
Amydramine:Na citrate 28.5 mg, Diphenhydramine HCl 7 mg and menthol 0.55 mg per 5ml...
Can it be any of the unactive ingredicents that are denying the Dph high?
I can take 400mg and only suffer from minor hallucinations, whereas Anon610 here gets full blown delirium - different people have different reactions, and you may just have a high natural tolerance. This being said, is the drug you have this: http://drugs-pharmaceuticals.knoji.com/amydramine-syrup/ ? If so, you're going to need to drink a lot of it to get a good dose of DPH - you're looking for Diphenhydramine HCI in particular. 300ml for 420mg with that mixture. I'm not sure how safe the other ingredients are in high doses so it may not be the safest thing in the world to do.

If you're in the United Kingdom you can get 'Nytol' which contains either 25mg or 50mg of DPH per tablet. They come in boxes of 16 (400mg and 800mg total respectivly)

I also don't think respiratory depression is much of an issue unless you get to the extreme doses in the range of 800mg+, but by that point you have greater things to worry about (heart and kidneys come to mind). The only major side effect I've found when combining it with other sedatives is the heavy heart beat, which probably isn't a good thing.
 
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The spiders heh i remember trying to explain those to my friends when i did this and they said i should just go to sleep... I always feel kinda paralyzed to where i know i can move but when i try its like a really awkward and bad feeling and trying to swallow spit or water felt kinda impossible or like too much work bleh
. I vividly remember zoning out multiple times and a few of those times id snap back kinda and id always swear there was a cheeseburger in my hand, each time i would go to bite this imaginary burger my friends would ask if im okay haha ofcourse my explanation sounded nuts to them. I hate that shit, dph is deffinetly not even amusing for me.
 
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