"Illusional" bladder problems on LSD - Bad/weird trip report and experiences

[Barris]

"Illusional" bladder problems on LSD - Bad/weird trip report and experiences

Hi there,

SHORT VERSION: Since I realize the post is too long, you can just skip it and tell me: is it normal to feel like you are pissing yourself on LSD, even though you retain total bladder control and sometimes you don't even have to pee?

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So, my friend Freckles had a problem on LSD a while ago. He started using LSD after having tried alcohol, MDMA and weed (including some very strong hash brownies). He dropped 1/4 and 1/2 tabs many times, having great experiences with friends. One day, he decided to drop a full tab with two friends, who dropped 1/2 each.

I'll begin by talking about the day before the trippy night. Freckles woke up aroung 11 AM, had some lunch and headed towards the town's centre, to meet his many friends. They were going to a Paintball match in the afternoon. It was fun, although a bit tiresome, and after the match (it was about 10 PM) they headed to Burger King, and after eating to a friend's party. They stayed there until 2 AM, when Freckles, Luckman and Bob dropped the acid. After it kicked in, they wandered around town till they headed running (for no reason other than fun) to Luckman's home. In the home there were two more guys who weren't on anything, just hanging around.

Freckles had ran a lot, and was having a good time, but was very agitated. After a while he still felt the same way, and communicated that to his friends: then there was an ackward silence moment where everyone was asking him if he was ok. He said he was. They started playing some cards, and Freckles was having short-term memory troubles (forgetting what cards he had, having to check to often, and so on) but managed to play ok.

The thing is, after a while, Freckles started to feel wet. It's important to remark that it was very cold, not only outside but in the room. He started to freak, wandering if he had actually wet himself, but he hadn't. At least he didn't think it was probable (another important thing to remark: he couldn't be sure if he had done it or not, even after going to the bathroom and checking). This problem haunted him all night and it was the worst one (constantly feeling he had to piss but not being able to do it). He also felt a severe pain in his back, and a constant feeling of restlessness. Then the other two guys left, leaving the ones (3) that were on LSD alone in the room. They sensed that there was something wrong with Freckles, but didn't say anything, and actually had some great conversations.

Then, Freckles and Bob headed towards Freckle's house. They watched "A Scanner Darkly" for the first time, and then went to bed. Bob quickly fell asleep, while Freckles spent that time just lieing in bed thinking. About 12 AM Bob woke up, Freckles showered and they went to the dining room to have lunch with Freckles' family. Bob was ok, but Freckles was still tripping (not as intensely as before, but still quite a bit). Then they left the house, walked some blocks together. Bob didn't realize Freckles was tripping, and since Frecks didn't want to alarm him he just said goodbye and headed towards a bar, where he was supossed to meet a girl at 5 PM. He reached the bar at around 3:30 PM, and just stayed there. Then the girl arrived, and since she wasn't supossed to know anything, Frecks faked being alright. It worked, he had a normal long conversation, then headed towards home. He had dinner with his parents, researched a bit about LSD in the PC, and eventually fell asleep (or passed out of exhaustion) at around 2AM. Next day was ok, he went to school, etc.

During the trip, there were moments where Frecks assumed he was going to stay that way forever, than he had gone mad. At first he freaked a bit, till he sort of accepted that fate.

Then, he never tried any psychedelic again, till some days, when he tried milk with THC while being on an acne drug (Tetralysal-limecicline) which thins the blood. It was really intense for him, but not for the other two guys (Bob and Bob's friend) who drinked the same amount. He had the same bladder problem, and also an extremely intense cotton mouth. He headed home, took a shower (drinking a lot of water in there), and then went to bed and started to feel a bit better. Everything was more pleasurable, and he actually had a great time.

Anyhow, Frecks wants to know if all of that is normal being on LSD. He is extremely thin, doesn't exercise much and so he is not too healthy, which might be an important fact, but he is not that unhealthy either. He is especially concerned with the bladder problem, and though he was never even close to piss his pants and retained total bladder control, he stil freaked and that kind of ruined the experiences.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my English (not native language)

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Psychedelics do different things to different people.

What you described never happened to me when I was on LSD but I remember eating mushrooms and while I was on those I had no ability to tell if I had to piss even though I'd been drinking grape flavored kool aid with a friend all night. I did piss later that morning but while I was tripping my bladder didn't feel full at all.

 

[greenmeanies]

In normal day to day sober life I have a fairly small bladder-- when the beers come out I make trips to the urinal about 2x as often as other guys.

While on psilocybin mushrooms and also another time on LSD I had sensations of needing to piss without being able to complete the task, as well as sitting in a chair and suddenly feeling wet all over. Matter of fact this sensation caused my first bad trip on mushrooms. Seems to be a pretty common theme.

 

[Vader]

IME feelings of pissing/having pissed yourself are very common on psychedelics, I wouldn't worry.

 

[Barris]

Ok, thank you guys, that's relieving

 

[Jesusgreen]

Agreed with Vader, and unfortunately because of amount of tactile hallucinations you can experience, there's often no way to avoid them or avoid thinking you really have pissed yourself.

I think the best advice would be to stay hydrated but don't drink too much, make sure you go to the toilet regularly, and just try to think about something else when you experience those weird sensations. I've had whole trips dominated by that feeling alone but I've noticed that's only when I keep thinking about it.

 

[J.Wallace]

I find more often than not, bladder problems on LSD usually stem from forgetting use the bathroom. I tend to get stomach cramps because I don't even realize I've been needing to piss, or even worse shit.

That's why I'll occasionally take a trip to the bathroom, even if I don't feel a desire to piss. 9 times out of ten I'm able to squeeze a few drops out and it helps greatly. Strange, I know!

 

[chiefopiate]

Happened to me before. On mushrooms I remember looking at my junk at one point and thought,"huh, lookin' a little small there." The next morning everything was back to normal. During my first DMT trip I had the feeling that I shit/pissed my pants and threw up in my lap, but when I came through in the next few minutes I checked to make sure and I had not and I didn't.

 

[Vader]

I used to spend every assembly in school repeatedly checking if I'd pissed myself, and that was just from weed. You'd have thought it would have put me off getting stoned before assembly..