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DXM (255mg) - First Time - Didn't Know How Serious it is

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DXM (255mg) - first time - "Didn't know how serious it was."


So I had read a little about DXM, researched what I could. I had gotten some advice from a friend to go for a second plateau trip. So I go to Wal-mart and picked up a bottle of Robotussin Cough Gels. I had a friend with me, but he didn't dose. I took 255mg at 2pm, in my living room. I weigh 120lbs.

It didn't kick in until about 5pm, but when I think back I don't really remember much between 2 and 5 anyway. I tried standing up and realized I could fly. I remember "flying"; flapping my arms up and down for like 10 minutes, just in one place. After that I started feeling really sick and posted something here on bluelight about how to come down, but there was really no way to completely kick it so I tried to ride it out by sleeping.

This turned out to be a bad idea I think. I'm laying on my couch and every time I closed my eyes I had closed eye hallucinations. I think the first one was that I was a computer and too many people were trying to "access my memory." It was really frustrating because I couldn't close all the pop-up windows in my life. According to my friend I sat up for a second, looked at him and said "Are you accessing my memory? If you are I need you to stop." and then lied back down.

The next real hallucination I remember was that I was swimming in the ocean with squids. Apparently I sat up and told my friend that I was friends with squids. He asked me why and I said "Because they are good at swimming." and then told him how it was a squids job to swim, and even though they could swim better than I could, I was still a good swimmer. This kept going on for I guess about 3 hours. In that time I remember realizing that I could control my dreams, but the DXM controlled me so it was really the DXM controlling my dreams. I could also hear my friend typing and suspected he was typing my thoughts. I asked him "Are you typing my thoughts?" and he asked me what my thoughts were. I told him that "My thoughts are my thoughts... I'm thinking about my thoughts being my thoughts and how they exist as thoughts... and I'm thinking about them." He didn't say anything and I remember thinking how he wasn't enlightened and I told him "It's a conundrum. I've opened up Pandora's Box."

A little while later I asked him if he would get me a popsicle and he did. He got one for himself too, but when I saw it I got freaked out and asked him how he cloned my popsicle. He said he just got another from the freezer and that made me really nervous because I thought he could clone things after that.

After a little while he started to watch Juno on dvd, and when I heard the song I said "Dude why are you watching that, that song sucks dick." (I actually think the songs in the movie are fine, I'm not sure why I said that) Then I kind of wanted to watch the movie and I felt like I was coming down for the most part but I still felt really drunk. We watched the movie and I tried to eat some pizza but I couldn't really stomach it and I started feeling sick. I kind of started to freak out here, just getting really nervous and shaky and wondering if I would ever come down.

I was still obviously messed up, it was about 11pm, I wasn't hallucinating anymore but like I said I was pretty much "drunk" and couldn't walk straight at all. I felt so terrible and just wanted to come down. We decided that I should come back to his house and go to sleep so that's what we did. His car was at his house, so he drove my car. I don't really remember much except feeling shaky and nervous and woozy the whole drive.

I slept from about 11:30pm to 7:30am and when I woke up I still felt a little tipsy but I had to drive home because he had school. I came home and looked up a couple things on bluelight to see if it was OK to take xanax to help with the come down, and finally decided it would be. So I took 1mg of xanax, and slept from about 12pm to 4pm and when I woke up, I could tell all the DXM was out of my system. I realized that I hadn't had anything to drink except a little water to take the xanax in over 24 hours, so I decided to get some food. I ate it and felt much better.


In closing I would just like to say to all the people who may want to try DXM, to take it VERY seriously. It is a true mind altering drug and is closer to PCP than LSD or Acid. It really shouldn't be taken lightly. I can honestly say that I personally never want to try it again, because of how long it took for me to come down on what most people are saying is a low dose. Even with all my "research" I never really understood how strong or mind-fucking this drug could be. It truly is a darker side of hallucinating. It has made my past few days (even before I took it) blurry and I can't really remember much about anything except what I typed above. I would not recommend any new drug users to try this because you will probably freak out. It's like you wouldn't tell someone to try PCP when they've never done any other drugs. Well I hope my trip report was interesting even if a little jumbled... Thanks to everyone who helped me here on bluelight.

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judging by the duration and intensity of trip of of 255mg, i would hazard a guess that you are CYP2D6 deficient. CYP2D6 is an enzyme in your liver that breaks down certain chemicals, DXM included. a certain small percentage of the population (i forget what off the top of my head) lack this enzyme, and thus are hyper-sensitive to DXM. look it up in the DXM faq. one of my friends lacks this enzyme as well, a strong dose lasted him almost 2 days. he hates DXM as well.
 
DXM was actually the first drug I ever tripped on, at the ripe ol' age of 13. It sucks that you had a bad experience, but some people (myself included) really like this drug, and I don't think it's a "bad" first trip..although what makes a first trip pleasant or unpleasant depends on more than just what drug you take.

Whatever floats your boat.
 
^yes, that's why it's recommended that first time users try out a low dose (~90mg) and then progress from there.

thanks for sharing OP.
 
Paragraphs please? This is so hard to read. I know how it is to get on a roll with writing, but it take 2 seconds to go back and indent and make paragrahs out of what you typed.
 
sorry about that, i separated it into paragraphs. i wrote it while i was still feeling pretty shitty after the trip and didn't even think about paragraphs. i also cleaned it up a bit and so i think it's a little more enjoyable to read as i tried to convey certain thoughts more clearly.

also to stirfry, i looked up the percentage of people who are CYP2D6 deficient and it was roughly 8% (6-10%) of the "white" population, so i would say that it definitely is plausible.
 
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A little while later I asked him if he would get me a popsicle and he did. He got one for himself too, but when I saw it I got freaked out and asked him how he cloned my popsicle. He said he just got another from the freezer and that made me really nervous because I thought he could clone things after that.

LOL! Man thats fucking great! Yeah, I'm not a fan of DXM either. I downed a bottle and it was a horrendous night after that. Never again.
 
toastedpanda said:
When I dosed about 200mg I just went to sleep to escape the nausea....

Woke up still tripping, thinking the whole day that I fucked my brain with robotussion.

yeah thats how i felt the entire day, like I permanantly fucked myself.
 
stirfry said:
judging by the duration and intensity of trip of of 255mg, i would hazard a guess that you are CYP2D6 deficient. CYP2D6 is an enzyme in your liver that breaks down certain chemicals, DXM included. a certain small percentage of the population (i forget what off the top of my head) lack this enzyme, and thus are hyper-sensitive to DXM. look it up in the DXM faq. one of my friends lacks this enzyme as well, a strong dose lasted him almost 2 days. he hates DXM as well.

I tripped for about 2 days off of 325mg DXM. I hate the chemical more than anything in the world. I'm definitely CYP2D6 deficient and DXM raped my brain for two days out of my life. I remember having hallucinations / dreams like that, not being able to differentiate them from reality, and wanting to sleep or die shortly after downing the bottle.

If you are CYP2D6 deficient then DXM will bring you closer to death than you'll ever want to be.

Fuck DXM
 
^^ That's how I feel about DXM. I don't think I'm CYP2D6 deficient however, because when I first started using DXM I loved it. Then after about 8 times it started getting nasty, and the 10th time I had a horrible experience, and ever since ANY amount of DXM makes me feel like the living dead for 2 whole days. The last time I took it, I took 20mg because I had a really bad cold and cough and wanted to stop coughing to sleep, and I woke up the next morning feeling entirely braindead and emotionless and horribly, horribly uncomfortable. I failed a math test that I would have normally gotten an easy A on... I was so braindead I literally sat there staring the whole time and didn't even put a pencil mark on the paper.

Perhaps I became deficient because of my use of DXM (Coricidin... this was before I realized how horrible Coricidin is for you)? Or perhaps DXM is just a dirty bitch of a drug.
 
I was really intrigued by this TR. Thanks for putting it up. :)

...and I remember thinking how he wasn't enlightened and I told him "It's a conundrum. I've opened up Pandora's Box."
Besides, anyone who can say "conundrum" while on DXM is my hero... :D
 
this is weird.. I am super sensitive to tryptamines.. or at least scared because of bad trips.. but I used to drink one or two bottles of tussin every weekend for a couple months when I was like 15 and I never really tripped out.. I just felt really fucked up like in a drunk kind of way.. man I love how different our brain chemistrys are!!!
 
Yeah i took about that much and had no hallucinations whatsoever. It might just be one of my favorite new drugs. It is absolutely great with a friend when you go out at in the city at night. If anyone asks, you just tell em you're a bit drunk ;)

The second poster is right, sounds like you've got some kind of enzyme deficiency.
 
swilow said:
LSD or acid...

haha, yeah I realized I said that like a week after typing the report. I typed the report during the end part of the 8th paragraph, so I was still a little messed up. I just never bothered to fix it 8)
 
I wish I could trip off of one bottle of DXM (syrup, i believe around 354mg). When consume that much, I only get up to a semi strong +. Basically just a bit of euphoria...
 
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