DXM: 450mg first plateau????

[thewayjoshis]

So I haven't robo tripped in a while and I felt like it today so I searched my house for any abuse-safe DXM-containing products. I found an unopened bottle of dayquil and I know dayquil has other active ingredients, but for some reason this one didn't. Just DXM HBr. It was full, so I drowned it at about 4:30 PM (about 350mg). I barely felt buzzed about 2 hours later. About 2 more hours later I was really dissapointed in this trip because all I could feel was a slight 1st plateau buzz. So I found and drowned a 1/4 full bottle of robitussin DM (so about 100mg). I am laying down here in my bed typing this at 11:00 PM and I barely feel high at all and I'm wondering what in the absolute fuck I did wrong... I still can feel a buzz and still feel a little trippy with minor closed-eye hallucinations. It took me 2 hours to barely feel anything at all, and now it's just a basic, mid-first plateau trip and I'm wondering how in the fuck 450mg of DXM only got me to a first plateau. On top of that, I weigh 120 lbs. I can speak completely clearly and have a fluent conversation with my dad in the next room, he has no idea what I did. Since it took me about 3 hours to start 'tripping' does this mean I may get to the second plateau later in the night or something? Will this just be a long draggin ass trip? It was HBr not poly so I don't see how it could be extended release. Any thoughts on this? Because I'm just 100% confused and disappointed.

Edit: It is now 12:10 AM and I have been having pain in my right kidney ever since it randomly growled at me at about 11:30. Is this bad?

 

[Lys]

DayQuil Cough only contains DXM HBr, so if that's what you took then it's perfectly normal.

What was your DXM tolerance like when you were using it before? Dissociatives have the unfortunate ability to produce extremely resilient tolerance, to the point that taking long breaks will not necessarily make it go away very much.

Also, if your kidney is still hurting now then I would probably get it checked out, as it may or may not have anything to do with the DXM... but if it was just transiently during the experience, it may just mean you should take a short drug break to give your metabolizers some rest.

 

[thewayjoshis]

I only done DXM about 8 times total, and it was about every 2 weeks. I havent done it for maybe 2 months since this. My kidney is fine now tho.

 

[Lys]

Ah I see, well I can't imagine that would be the issue then. You haven't been doing any other dissociatives in between have you? That could cross-tolerate, but if not, you may just need to give it another shot. Sometimes drug experiences just don't quite take off the way you want them to, you know? If you've had success with it before then I can't see why you wouldn't be able to again. Also, glad to hear about your kidneys, if they hurt again I would pay attention to it but sometimes a strain is just that and nothing more.

 

[thewayjoshis]

All right thanks. No i haven't been doing any other drugs at all recently except weed and hydrocodone but nothing major. I did just do another robo trip 2 days after a made this thread and it worked fine. I just used robo DM this time instead, i guess dayquils just fake shit or sum lol. Well anyway I plan on doing one last high second plateau trip and then give the third plateau a first try. Yolo right? ��

 

[Lys]

That's good to hear, glad it worked out. And yeah, I've never heard of anyone using that brand before so maybe there's a reason haha. Sounds like fun though, I've only had one third plateau trip on DXM and it was one of the strangest experiences of my life (in a good way). Definitely worth experiencing at least once!

 

[PhunkMasterQ]

So here's the thing, DXM tolerance does NOT disappear. It's absolutely one of my favorite substances and I've taken enough over the course of my life to kill at least 3 full grown elephants. I have experienced the fourth plateau several times, and have even touched the fabled Plateau Sigma. But with all of that I still have no idea what my proper dosage is. It seems that every time I robotrip my plateaus are different. I've gotten to the point where 4 bottles of off-brand (534 mgs each) will either get me to between a high 3rd breaching on 4th plateau, or a high first breaching on second. I find that what you eat will change the effects immensely. I often make an effort to starve myself on my robotripping days, as the DXM is broken down by the liver, similar to alcohol. Grapefruit juice and Ginko Biloba supplements are also wonderful potentiators .

Shine on you crazy diamonds.

 

[thewayjoshis]

Whats the third plateau like?

 

[Lys]

It was the only experience I ever had on it that really felt comparable to a full psychedelic trip, but was still quite different. I went back and forth between periods of strong dissociation and relative lucidity, though for the first couple of hours I completely forgot I had taken a drug. During that phase at the heavier points I experienced a loss of self and became objects and concepts. Between that I was still just in my room lying down or sitting up in bed, and I didn't know what was going on, but I still had some level of self-control in me that kept me sitting there rather than moving around in my confusion, so that was nice. The only visuals I really had were during the out-of-body parts and leading up to them, and they were faint and distant, colorful but I was too dissolved to really pay attention. When I was in my room, I saw only what was there but it looked sort of like a demented cartoon. Once I regained enough normalcy to remember I was tripping, it just became more like my second plateau trips but with an added sense of wonder, until I feel asleep and woke up mostly sober again.