Hahhh mixing Tussin with ginger ale....that takes me way back to my early DXM days (or should I say daze LOL) in high school when I was a depressed, desperate kid looking for any buzz I could find to escape reality. Whoever first came up with the idea of mixing cough syrup and ginger ale I dunno WHAT THE HELL they were thinkin'. I think I first read this suggestion on the website Totse at age 17. And I foolishly followed the suggestion and on my early robotrips I almost always mixed my Robitussin with the ale. I think this was a terrible idea as it didn't really help the taste or texture and left me wayy more Tussin to drink
. By the time I got to where I was drinking 2-3 4 oz. bottles for a good time I stopped using ginger ale and just straight up chugged the Tussin. I'd hold my nose and drink it slowly in big gulps. Over the years that method I've perfect is doing one big swig every 4 or 5 minutes. It usually takes me 3-4 gulps to down a 4 oz. bottle. At one point I was so addicted to Tussin that I could chug an 8 oz. bottle in less than 10 minutes, yikes...
I drink my tussin on a relatively empty stomach and occasionally eat a little bit of crackers first and spray my throat with chloraseptic spray to numb it so I don't feel the thick gooey texture of the cough syrup. Generally, I don't worry about the crackers or chloraseptic though and just chug the Tussin after having fasted a few hours. If I experience any nausea at all, which I rarely do, I curb it with MJ. Another way to kill the nausea is lay down in a dark room, shut your eyes, breathe slowly and meditate your way through the nausea- trascend it.
Has anyone else in here used DXM over 500 times? Somehow I still usually get a decent effect too, even from as little as 354 mg, so long as I keep my DXM use to a few times a month or less. Prob. part of the reason I still get a decent effect is I preload so heavily on grapefruit juice and Magnesium citrate (an NMDA antagonist). And by the way I never get DXM hangovers anymore, even if I do 900 mg at once. The key to avoiding Dex hangovers is simply using enough vitamins, supplements and nutrients.