GBL (GHB) - Experienced (so I thought) - A warning to users out there

[EpicureanDream]

I had been taking GBL (which is converted to GHB in your body and is just effective) fairly regularly over a month. I was using it as an alcohol substitute and a hypnotic (as I'm continually afflicted by sleeping problems).

Here's my story:

I took 3ml GBL (4.8g GHB). I didn't really feel much although 3ml never really did much to me. An hour passed, I wasn't feeling it much still so I decide to take another 3ml. This sounds ridiculous now but at the time it was a good idea (it's not as if I haven't took that much before, I thought it would be fine). I carried on as normal for a little longer, I was fairly wasted.

I woke up 4 hours later in a very odd position. My trousers were drenched. Was it sweat as I initially though? No! I had fallen asleep climbing over my bed (I climb over my bed to get to and from my computer), with my minidisc player still in my hand and had pissed myself!

I thought I had experienced sleep attacks before. They usually involved falling asleep in a sitting down position and with some warning so I could snap out of it. This happened with no warning (I have no memory) and I fell asleep while moving!

I hope this has been more than a pointless ramble to some of the fellow G users out there. Imagine collapsing in a club like that!?! I was more than likely in an unrousable sleep and if I was in a club, an ambulance would have been called.

Take heed!

 

[Dave]

Did you dose in the same place as you normally do?

Since you were taking a fairly high dose, I would assume you have a tolerance to GBL. It has been noted that when regular users of a particular drug (studies have been done with heroin addicts, but it can apply to most if not all drugs) take that drug exclusively or almost exclusively in the same setting they develop a location-dependant tolerance. Basically, once they enter this setting, it is recognized as being associated with the drug, and since the body tries to maintain homeostasis as much as possible it 'prepares' for the drug, causing a higher degree of tolerance than if the drug were used elsewhere.

This effect has caused many ODs from much smaller than usual doses, and may explain what happened to you. Also, I've noted that I black out a lot more when taking GBL rather than GHB, which is one of the many reasons why I don't take GBL any more.

 

[PurrrinInOk]

^ I've seen this happen with GBL before to a friend of mine. He was literally in a coma like state, and this person was no GBL virgin. It scared me to death, this is why I do not take GBL anymore.

 

[EpicureanDream]

Did you dose in the same place as you normally do?

Yes.

One factor you must consider is how full/empty your stomach is. I have noticed on an empty stomach it will only take 10 minutes to kick in but on a full stomach it can take over 45mins to kick in. This could catch a lot of people as they might redose.

I think I made three judgment errors:
1. The amount of food in my stomach delayed the onset
2. I thought I had left it longer than I did
3. I didn't consider the very steep dosage curve (ie. I doubled the dose. I should have added 1ml).

 

[EpicureanDream]

^ I've seen this happen with GBL before to a friend of mine. He was literally in a coma like state, and this person was no GBL virgin. It scared me to death, this is why I do not take GBL anymore.

Yeah

It hasn't put me off GBL but I'll be more careful in the future and take heed from my past mistakes. The dosage curve is no different to that of GHB though but I guess you mean you do not take GBL or GHB.

I'd take GHB over GBL anyday, just to avoid that awful taste!

 

[rhtips1]

i too have passedm out on ghb and woke up in a puddle of piss ....glad I'm not the only one who pissed theirselves (i was also contemplating that it was sweat because it didnt smell like pee but i noticed it had ran down my legs and my socks soaked it up ....they were yellow from the pee, so then I knew what it was)

 

[EpicureanDream]

i too have passedm out on ghb and woke up in a puddle of piss ....glad I'm not the only one who pissed theirselves (i was also contemplating that it was sweat because it didnt smell like pee but i noticed it had ran down my legs and my socks soaked it up ....they were yellow from the pee, so then I knew what it was)

Haha, snap! Just be thankful you didn't vomit and had to go to the hospital to get your lungs drained or was found by someone not in the know and sent to the hospital. Fuck, it could have gone so horribly wrong!

Further reading: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=1926

 

[high on stemz-nseeds]

Haha damn. The first time I did ghb I ended up pissing myself too. But it was because I was fucked up and couldn't find the lightswitch in my friends bathroom. I had woke up having to piss like crazy, it hurt. So standing in the bathroom doorway frustrated I couldn't hold back and I SOAKED myself. It was embarrasing but no one found out and it didn't really stink.