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DXM, (300mg) - First Time - Damn you Sorbitol!

Don Luigi

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A few days ago I decided it was time to try DXM. I had a bottle of Robotussin Full Strength for dry coughs. It was a 100ml bottle with 150mg of DXM in it. I was going to try this small dose to get a feel for the drug but I decided I should buy another bottle to get some better effects.

I pre-rolled 4 joints of some nice pollen before drinking the medicine so that it would not bother me during the experience.

T+0:00

I began to drink the first bottle. It was a thick red medicine and did not flow too easily the taste was not bad at all. Upon finishing the first bottle I ate a handfull of pringles so that I wouldn't have all the medicine just sitting in my stomach. I drank the second bottle which was harder than the first and I was almost sick but lay back and managed to hold it down.

T+0:25

I had been playing guitar waiting for the first alerts. And they finally came. I felt slight relaxation and my head felt a little bit funny almost like a light drunkness. I began to feel some nausea so I lay down stretched out on my bed and smoked a joint. I put on the music and lay on the bed with my eyes closed but making sure not to fall asleep.

T+0:55

I was definatley feeling it now although I was becoming a bit tired so I turned the music up louder so that I would not fall asleep. With my eyes closed I was travelling through a mesh tunnel/tube which didn't suprise me as all my CEV's on mushrooms are like mesh. This tunnel I was travelling down however was rather faint and would disapear and then come back. I decided to smoke another joint to help things along.

T+1:10

I was seeing double which didn't bother me as I planned to keep my eyes closed. By now I had begun to kind of drift out of reality. The music would slow down until it was unrecogniseable. With Thom-Yorke's vocals sounding like 'Ha-Ha's' and the music was just like someones voice. Whilst I was slipping in and out of reality or conciousness I don't really know, I would talk to the person singing whatever song was playing. They would not respond but In my head I was saying random things to them. Most of the time I was at work whilst having these conversations and I was recomending products for them to buy and even making fun of them but I had no control over it.

As I drifted in and out the music would take its proper form again but the volume seemed to be changing. All of a sudden I heard a very loud swooshing noise and I became worried but upon investigation it was a very heavy hail-shower outside.

T+2:00

I sat up from my bed and opened my eyes and looked at the clock and it read 22:00. It had been exactly 2 hours since I had taken the medicine. Sitting up was a bad idea as I began to feel very nauseous. But I had prepared for this by keeping a plastic bag beside me so I proceeded to puke into the bag. I puked up alot of the red medicine which was the first time my vomit smelt nice.

When I was done spewing I sparked up another joint and returned to laying down with my eyes closed. I continued to drift in and out of reality for brief periods at a time. It was rather nice and I was talking to more singers including Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Thom Yorke and Janis Joplin.

T+4:00

At this point I noticed an awful lot of strange bowel movements happenening. The clock read 00:00 I found it so strange that these unpleasant events were happening at percise intervals. I stood up and I could hear the loud squishing of fluid transfering from my intestines into my rectum I had to get to the toilet fast. I ran to the toilet and I sat there with painful diahrreah for a good 30minutes. Ten minutes after leaving the bathroom I had to run back in. This continued for the rest of the night and I felt absolutley exhausted.

There was no diahrreha the next day. I should have realised I would get diahrreha when doing my research. I had researched it on erowid and it said Sorbitol can cause Gastric problems and possible severe diahrreah but I just reckoned it wouldn't happen to me.

All in all the 'trip' was a good one with no OEV's present except for everything looking like it was 'buzzing' a bit. But I will not repeat DXM with this particular brand of medicine for obvious reasons. The good just didn't outweigh the bad for this trip. So take my advice and don't take DXM medicines with sorbitol in them.

Thanks for taking the time to read =D
 
lol your idea of a good time is severe diahrea?

EDIT: That statement above was in response to someone saying 'it sounds like a really good time, I wish I was there' which has now been removed.
 
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DXM products always give me the shits to some degree, with gel caps being by far the worst. i like to call those 'the psychedelic laxative' as i have the shits the whole trip. normal syrup isnt as bad though, i just get one or two blasty shits when i begin to trip, them im done. delsym gives me no stomach/intestine problems, but the trip is reduced because of the time release mechanism. DXM hardly ever makes me nauseous to my stomach though.

sorry it was unpleasant for you, DXM just isnt for some (a lot actually) people, maybe try Ketamine to experience the dissociative state.
 
I have had the same type of visuals on DXM before. when I closed my eyes I was inside a never ending orange tunnel and was travling through the tunnel very fast. I fortunately I was not looking for a DXm high. I bought something that I thought was E but truned out to be DXM....the next day and a half was hell.
 
I just had a 300mg experience with dxm as welll, was thinking about posting a trip report but my experience was pretty similar, I used gelcaps though and never got nauseous enough to through up.

The most profound thing I noticed during my own trip was how difficult moving around was, my legs almost completely ceased to work, I had to shuffle around like an old man hardly bending my knees at all. Good times though!
 
This is why you should cook up the cough medicine. Takes an hour or so, definitely worth it though. Much less nausea and no diarrhea.
Google agent lemon for extraction techniques.
 
stirfry said:
DXM products always give me the shits to some degree, with gel caps being by far the worst. i like to call those 'the psychedelic laxative' as i have the shits the whole trip. normal syrup isnt as bad though, i just get one or two blasty shits when i begin to trip, them im done. delsym gives me no stomach/intestine problems, but the trip is reduced because of the time release mechanism. DXM hardly ever makes me nauseous to my stomach though.

sorry it was unpleasant for you, DXM just isnt for some (a lot actually) people, maybe try Ketamine to experience the dissociative state.

I enjoyed the effects when I wasn't blasting liquid feces out my bum or throwing up. I would very much like to try ketamine but noone I know has tried it(plenty have lied). My good friend is training to be a vet so maybe in a few years she can hook me up 8(
 
I had a similar experience in BC last summer. I bought a bottle of cough syrup that was an almost exact knock-off of Robitussin long-lasting formula (Benylin or some such name, tasted like maple syrup :D), drank 2/3 of it and headed to the Sun Yat Sen Garden to sit and enjoy the scenery. When I discovered belatedly that the cough syrup contained sorbitol it threw my day off course in unpleasant ways, albeit not quiet as extreme as yours. Try for DXM-only cough gels next time, those seem to be the least inclined to induce nausea.
 
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Go for a Zicam Cough Max Mist. Consistency of water, less than an ounce of liquid, and 400mg of DXM.

Goes down easy and no poopsies. I dont do red meds for that same reason.

Also the Cough-Gels are an option, they dont have nearly as much as that stuff you had and they dont taste bad.
 
I was just using this trip as a wedding anecdote recently, so decided to look and see if it had survived the purge :)

A number of years ago, I tried DXM again. However this time it was 1mg. I don't remember the experience much. I'd been taking quite a bit of MXE in the time before this and thought I'd give it a rest on night and finally tuck into the gram of DXM that I had been slightly scared of for a couple of weeks. I didn't think to prepare after my previous attempt (because I thought the pure powder would circumvent the problems assossciated with the ROBO mixture).

The effects came on quite slow until they reminded me, briefly, of a drunken ketamine trip. I soon felt very nauseus and could almost hear the starting pistol in my bowels for everyone to star the race. I got to the bathroom and clinched my arse because to vomit was more important. I began to vomit but this uses some of the same muscles as your anus - I had to sit on the toilet and boak through the gap in my legs, over my wee willy, to mix with what looked like a discared bowl of coco pops (non branded ones, of course ;)).

I had nothing left in my stomach so I was just dry heaving, accompanied by the diahrreah, as I couldn't risk standing up to get a drink from the tap. This caused some blood vessels in my face and nose to burst.

I basically had a 'Kenny's Dad' moment from 'South Park', whereby I was experiencing emesis, diahrreah, and epistaxis at the same time :\ Ontop of that, I could barely move my limbs and hit my head on my own need; and I was having a confusing, non pleasurable, DXM experience. I finally evacuated all of the fluids that my body deemed appropriate and went to bed where I had a more delerious experience, almost similar to diphenhydramine. I don't remember much, I just woke up feeling wonky, but less wonky than MXE.

My stomach has never been good with large doses of powders. Vaporising/Insuffulating is my preferred method as I'm less likely to lose the product to Armitage Shanks. There seems to be such a fine threshold. It seems I can take ~120mg of MDMA and feel just slightly nauseus but will with no emesis. If I got just a few miligrams over that in a single dose, I seem to get very warm and must vomit.

Sorry for bumping such an old one :p

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