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Misc Does chloroform give a bad hangover?

CrimpJiggler

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I'm thinking about testing chloroform out as a sleep aid for emergency situations (i.e. if I can't sleep the day before an exam) but I hear it gives bad hangovers. One of the reasons I never use alcohol to sleep is because I wake up dehydrated (if I drink lots of water beforehand, I wake up bursting to take a piss) and hungover the next morning. I read that people still to this day use chloroform as a sleep aid so I know it works but how bad is the hangover?
 
I'm thinking about testing chloroform out as a sleep aid for emergency situations (i.e. if I can't sleep the day before an exam) but I hear it gives bad hangovers. One of the reasons I never use alcohol to sleep is because I wake up dehydrated (if I drink lots of water beforehand, I wake up bursting to take a piss) and hungover the next morning. I read that people still to this day use chloroform as a sleep aid so I know it works but how bad is the hangover?

Having once had access to nearly completely pure chloroform, I can answer your question. It does sedate me, somewhat, for a period after use (never tried to knock myself out). However, there was considerable nausea, combined with light dysphoria, after my uses of it.

As for the hangover-effect, well, it's definitely there. I didn't enjoy it at all, and the substance itself is certainly not worth the side-effects that accompany your dose, nor the hangover.

I'd just not use it, honestly. I have severe insomnia issues now, and even as a last resort I wouldn't use it.
 
Agreed. Chlorinated organic solvents aren't something you want to be huffing. Chloroform is a suspected carcinogen, among other things.
 
Chlorofom is converted in the liver to phosgene, a WW1 war gas and general nasty poison.

Part of the reason ether was prefered to chloroform for anethesia is that chloroform produces roaring hangovers in many. And like other chlorinated solvents, inhaling chloroform can mess with your heart.

Avoid usage of chloroform as anything except a solvent - it's not a good drug to use regularly
 
Sounds like a horrible idea to me.. Hah. But, when I was detoxing and getting no sleep for over a week, wanting to rip my hair out, I would have done anything and I actullay did think about knocking myself out but, luckily I took a different route than pulling a straight serial killer abduction move on myself.. :\
 
Chloroform actually makes a poor abduction drug. Unless your victim is complacent enough to breathe from a solvent-soaked rag for several minutes it is unlikely you'll do anything besides give their mouth solvent burns. What you see in the movies is a fabrication - it's never as simple as "smell chloroform, drop unconcious". You need to breathe a lot of the stuff.

A better solution for the everyman is promethazine, diphenhydramine, cyclizine, et cetera - first generation sedating antihistamines. Or even alcohol.
 
have you considered just buying a little bit of etizolam instead? there are far better ways to get to sleep than huffing chloroform.
 
I never did ask any of my victims if this happened, but I will be sure to ask the next one (though im sure she will have other concerns at the time) and let you know. Its not the most effective however any self respecting kidnapper would enjoy the brief struggle. Its not fun otherwize.
 
First single is a metal cover of the Bed Intruder Song ;)

...followed by a mathcore cover of Leonard Nimoy's classic 'Bilbo Baggins: The Greatest Hobbit of them All.'

On topic, literary accounts of chloroform always involve evil hangovers, and I've never heard of it being used recreationally outside of this thread. It's pretty difficult to find an effective emergency sedative that won't leave you feeling like shit in the morning, or at least a little groggy. If you're benzo-naive, you might try experimenting, in non-emergency situations, with either traditional benzos or zopiclone, and see if they leave you hungover (or with a foul taste in your mouth, in the case of zopiclone). If you haven't used/abused downers regularly, you may be able to get by on a therapeutic dose of zopiclone, valium or xanax - but try them out before you risk use in an emergency situation. Back in college, I used to rely on alcohol + weed to sleep, then take dexedrine and several glasses of ice water to get me through the hangover, but that wasn't exactly healthy, though I did get a good degree. Pharmaceutical sedatives tend to come in two doses - not enough and too much - and I'd be real careful about using them before exams. You might be better off going into an exam after a sleepless night than groggy from sleeping pills. Of course, there's always the option of knocking yourself out with a benzo and dealing with the hangover via Ritalin or Adderall, but again, that's not best of habits to get into. If you're going to try and use drugs of any kind functionally, make sure to test them first in circumstances where you don't have to function.

Any sedative that's used in aneasthesia is probably a bad idea, with the possible exception of Midazolam, if you can find it: very short half-life, and without benzo tolerance, a low dose, like 7.5mgs, will knock you out pretty quickly, and wears off long before you wake up. But benzos are to be treated with great caution and respect - used occasionally, they can be a Godsend. Taken habitually, they're a quagmire, one that I'm still stuck in. Solvents are best avoided, barbiturates hard to find and prone to cause next-day grogginess, while newer drugs with sedating properties, often used as anti-depressants (Seroquel, Trazodone, Remeron), can all have weird and nasty side-effects. Find the mildest sedative that works for you, and take a few trial runs to make sure it doesn't impede next-day performance. Also, 'emergency use' could be a bad idea if if means 'okay, it's 3am, I have to be up at 7, better take a pill' - if you're going to take a sedative and need to function the next day, then plan ahead and take it early. And if you have no experience with sedatives, then start by trying the herbals - Valerian, Kava Kava - and OTC anti-histamines. Doxalymine succinate is pretty effective if you're njot a regular user of downers, and leaves much less of a morning after mental void than diphenhydramine. Melatonin's also worth a try - it can leave you reluctant to get out of bed, but once you're on your feet and get the circulation flowing, a little caffeine and you're firing on all cylinders. Very hit and miss, though - some swear by it, and some get no effects from it at all. It's a trial and error process, finding a sedative that works for you without rendering the next day a zombie haze. Chloroform is definitely the wrong direction: though it occurs to me that if you can trust yourself not to abuse it (and never use it with alcohol), GHB might be worth trying - again, it's very short-acting, so you don't have to worry about sleeping through the alarm. Herbal sleeping pills are generally a waste of time, but strong Valerian tea does work, in the absence of benzo tolerance: but most people need about ten teabags steeped in a pint or so of water for ten minutes to get any noticeable effect, and it smells and tastes like vomit. Pinch nostrils, glug, and chase with something sweet.
 
Valerian is available in capsule from most health food shops by the way. It still stinks likea mixture of stale mouse cage, old socks and gone off cheddar cheese, with a little hint of cat piss thrown in for good measure, but at least that way, one does not have to taste it.

Chloroform was used as a (very) early anaesthetic, but was ditched as soon as practical really, in modernized clinical practice.
It is both hepatotoxic, as has been stated, and sensitizes the heart to adrenaline, meaning a small unexpected shock, that would normally not even be noticeable as such, could potentially trigger a fatal arrhythmia.

And anything that produces phosgene in vivo..no..just....no.
Cl2C=O is a noxious, insidious poison that as earlier stated, found use as a war gas, for it could bypass the gas masks originally equipped for screening out chlorine gas. That, and it has much less in the way of warning properties, not being highly irritant to the airways and eyes like chlorine gas is, so it wasn't immediately obvious, and the action is delayed when inhaled, leaving those poor bastards stuck in the trenches completely fucked.

As for chloroform, also, the smell of the stuff is repulsive, it has a sickly sweet kind of stench to it, similar to dichloromethane and other halogenated hydrocarbons. I had to clean up a spill of chloroform in the lab not long ago, and 'ewww' doesn't cover it. Even wearing a respirator mask with a filter cartridge rated for halocarbons didn't completely check that nauseating smell.
 
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use one of the Z drugs, taking chloroform because you can't sleep the night before an exam is among one of he worst ideas you could have!
 
ghb would be great for this if you can get your hands on it

it will knock you out for 4-5h and you'll wake up feeling great
 
have you considered just buying a little bit of etizolam instead? there are far better ways to get to sleep than huffing chloroform.

Yeah I've tried etizolam, its good but chloroform is dirt cheap in comparison. However, from what I've read on this thread then the downsides completely outweigh the benefits so fuck CCl3. Its a good solvent but sounds like it makes a poor sleep aid. I know that ether is a lot safer (doesn't cause heart attacks in some people like CCl3 does) but I've never heard of it being used as a sleep aid.

ghb would be great for this if you can get your hands on it

it will knock you out for 4-5h and you'll wake up feeling great
Yeah I used GHB and GBL as sleep aids many times but the dopamine rebound is a bitch. Its a pretty good sleep aid when you get familiar with it. I used to take about 3g of NaGHB, fall asleep for 4 hours and the second I woke up, take another 3g and sleep another 4 hours. The trick is to get into bed the second you take it, because if you start listening to music or something while waiting for it to kick in then you won't feel like going to bed when it does kick in. Also, taking more than 5g doesn't work, I've overdosed a few times and each time woke up after 2 hours feeling violently ill and disorientated. I didn't fall into some deep, unrousable sleep like the bullshit media articles would have you believe.
 
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