this is just a short story about how i became (and may still be) heavily addicted to DXM. im posting this because i feel i may have had an exceptional experience, judging from all ive read online over the years. if you want to skip to my current health after extended heavy DXM use, skip to the line.
i began using DXM as a teen (like anyone). that part isnt interesting really. pretty infrequent use. that "50 trip limit" thing has truth to it though, before i hit my 20s the "magic" was mostly gone for sure.
i started using it heavily after my time in afghanistan. i found out theres quite a lot of DXM use in the military.. some worse than me. it quickly got to the point where i would use 300mg every day, then 300-600. eventually i broke my rule about never using anything with other active ingredients. i also became a very bad alcoholic and would frequently mix the two. for a few months, i even used "spice" variants in combination with the other two. undoubtedly this is how and when i broke my brain.. i now can black out and become some crazy, evil, possessed-like thing with a relatively small amount of alcohol (even from beer). when i mixed the 3 though boy, it was insane. a couple of times i would "come back" from my blackout state and catch myself rambling jibberish.
after maybe 3 months of on-and-off spice use i stopped using it, but the alcohol and more importantly the DXM remained. id say for over the last year i would use 300-900mg of dxm nearly daily. the first 3 months only 300, and progressively more. after a few horrifying near-death experiences while i was at work (in the US army mind you) using around or over 900mgs (at least half in triple c form), i cut back. checked myself into the army substance abuse program and stuff. i always went to my group meetings tripping though.. had a blast too! i was always the most interactive of the groups.
eventually, because of my abuse problems, i got out of the military. my dxm use hardly subsided though. for the few months after i got out, until the last time i was arrested (alcohol-related), i was still using fairly heavily. havent used it in about a month now. unfortunately i know its only a matter of time..
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after all ive read and been told about by everyone, i expected by now to have some noticeable brain damage. i dont though. not even that "static overlay"/HPPD some people report. im still considered to be "very intelligent" and am looking at going to med school. i have some slight memory issues, but id expect worse from the sever alcoholism and various head trauma alone. ive had a lot of blood tests and xrays of organs done, even brain scans. no issues. the only thing that seems to have come from this (and it is pretty serious) is high blood pressure. probably mostly related to the triple c's.. my highest recorded was something like 210/110, the doctors seemed surprised i wasnt having a stroke.. since cooling it with the alcohol and DXM though my blood pressure is fairly normal and im not even currently on any meds for it. really the worst health issues i had were while i was ON substances, and particularly the couple occasions i accidentally used DXM in combination with SSRI's, and twice 5-HTP (fucking redline..).
i began using DXM as a teen (like anyone). that part isnt interesting really. pretty infrequent use. that "50 trip limit" thing has truth to it though, before i hit my 20s the "magic" was mostly gone for sure.
i started using it heavily after my time in afghanistan. i found out theres quite a lot of DXM use in the military.. some worse than me. it quickly got to the point where i would use 300mg every day, then 300-600. eventually i broke my rule about never using anything with other active ingredients. i also became a very bad alcoholic and would frequently mix the two. for a few months, i even used "spice" variants in combination with the other two. undoubtedly this is how and when i broke my brain.. i now can black out and become some crazy, evil, possessed-like thing with a relatively small amount of alcohol (even from beer). when i mixed the 3 though boy, it was insane. a couple of times i would "come back" from my blackout state and catch myself rambling jibberish.
after maybe 3 months of on-and-off spice use i stopped using it, but the alcohol and more importantly the DXM remained. id say for over the last year i would use 300-900mg of dxm nearly daily. the first 3 months only 300, and progressively more. after a few horrifying near-death experiences while i was at work (in the US army mind you) using around or over 900mgs (at least half in triple c form), i cut back. checked myself into the army substance abuse program and stuff. i always went to my group meetings tripping though.. had a blast too! i was always the most interactive of the groups.
eventually, because of my abuse problems, i got out of the military. my dxm use hardly subsided though. for the few months after i got out, until the last time i was arrested (alcohol-related), i was still using fairly heavily. havent used it in about a month now. unfortunately i know its only a matter of time..
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after all ive read and been told about by everyone, i expected by now to have some noticeable brain damage. i dont though. not even that "static overlay"/HPPD some people report. im still considered to be "very intelligent" and am looking at going to med school. i have some slight memory issues, but id expect worse from the sever alcoholism and various head trauma alone. ive had a lot of blood tests and xrays of organs done, even brain scans. no issues. the only thing that seems to have come from this (and it is pretty serious) is high blood pressure. probably mostly related to the triple c's.. my highest recorded was something like 210/110, the doctors seemed surprised i wasnt having a stroke.. since cooling it with the alcohol and DXM though my blood pressure is fairly normal and im not even currently on any meds for it. really the worst health issues i had were while i was ON substances, and particularly the couple occasions i accidentally used DXM in combination with SSRI's, and twice 5-HTP (fucking redline..).
