Misc Long term effect of DXM?

[tsquared44]

Im 25 now. When i was 17 in my senior year of highschool i was introduced to dxm from a friend. I hated drinking and smoking because of the headaches it gave me for sports. DXM was great besides the slight stomach ache early trip. By the time the summer was over and i was on my way to college, i probably accumulated 40-60 bottles of it (one bottle-one and a half). I suddenly quit due to the fact that i was on my way to a professional career in tennis. Within 3 years i was washed up and i couldn't compete against kids from others countries. This being from the skill of the players, not the after effects of dxm. Its been 8 years now. Apart from an opiate binge that lasted for 3 years after my 2 tennis career, i didn't go back to the robitussin. It just hit too hard and i was 21 for christ sakes. I was maturing up, breaking my bad opiate habits cold turkey and going clean for years now. I do take xanax for anxiety though, maybe to some im not clean. This question goes out to people who had an experience with dxm long term or just have some good info on the substance. I had anxiety on and off after the opiate withdrawals for some time which lead to depression/anxiety/panic attacks and strange feelings of unreality and just oddness, like im partially stoned. As an anxiety sufferer i delved deep into the dxm archives of permanent deterioration. I am very scared that something in my brain is messed up now. My doctors tell me im anxiety in a nutshell and all the drugs (only one that scares me is dxm) are all clear from my system. I am very nervous about this though. Doctors cant feel what i feel and its sometimes hard to explain exactly how I feel. It keeps me more sheltered cause idk if i might just tick one day from a brain lesion or psychosis. My girlfriend and i teach tennis lessons at a country club and im slowly noticing a decrease in drive and motivation as i feel i have destroyed myself now. Can anyone help me out. I might just get a catscan and see if i did something from my past. I think it will clear me up alot, take stress off and allow me to purpose to her since i been meaning to for a while now. Everyone who replies to this message, i appreciate your input/advice. Hope whatever hardships you have or had, you are floating free of it now, enjoying life and the beautiful things it lays upon us.

 

[Lorne???]

Olney's lesions have never been observed in humans. There is no proof whatsoever that DXM causes such effects.

As for everything else, I'm not a psychologist, but you should probably see one, and just try to relax. DXM has never been proven to have permanent effects, and opioids definitely don't(at least not that level of use) so it's not the drugs. Your doctors are right on that much; I understand it is hard to trust them, but at some point it's pointless if you don't.

Good luck, and welcome to Bluelight.

 

[sailor bugg]

Take it easy on the drugs and the DXM probably has no long term side effects on you. I've done a lot of DXM and I never found it left any permeant changes to me. See a psychologist and try to talk your problems out.

 

[dirzted]

Ya man, it's great that you got off that stuff, like others have said It's probably just your anxiety making you paranoid/hypochondriac-ish -

Therapist sounds like a good idea, we all have anxiety, and sometimes it just manifests itself into our perception of reality a lil' too much- that's a much more reasonable answer to your fears than some crazy brain legion caused by a bunch of Robotussin.

Good luck man

 

[CaveBear]

I too am no shrink but ive got about 20 years of going to see them under my belt. Try it and dont take anything other than what they may or may not prescribe and if they recommend seeing a therapist long term try that too. I use something nearly everyday whether booze or drugs, which is why my Psych meds probably dont work as well as they should........<<<<I just had a revelation...lol

seriously though give a therapist a shot for a while.

 

[Lorne???]

Based solely on your post, I'd say you need to try an anti-psychotic. Those symptoms are vague, but it sounds like you're on the edge. Medication for GAD might be advisable, though they're isn't much that's proven effective for that.

That level if paranoia/anxiety is extreme though, and you're at the age where psychotic disorders will begin to fully manifest.

But no one could know that from a single post, and you'll probably see this and become more paranoid. My point though is you do need to seek professional help if this is interfering with you're life, and attempt to take care if it beforehand.

 

[f33lg00d]

Having been addicted to both dxm and opioids, it sounds more like the post-acute withdrawal (paws) from opioids than an effect from dxm you haven't abused in years.

 

[THE_REAL_OBLIVION]

Long term effects of DXM ?

I won't be making a huge post (but I could), but in 2001 I bought a 100g jar of powder DXM. Overusing it at first was beneficial, the afterglows and all, best antidepressant there was. But after that if you don't stop and continue taking it everyday for a while until you got nothing anymore (I did it for 8 days in a row in .8/.9 doses) and I felt off for a couple years after that. I was able to perform just fine in college but smoking weed automatically summoned flashbacks or whatever you wanna call it. Probably because I always always smoked weed with DXM, to make it "kick in", I found DXM to be boring without weed/not as intense. Well it ruined weed for me for almost 5 years, it's not good to have instant dissociation from smoking some typical canadian 25% thc weed, I'd even try to find mids and couldn't, it's how things are here heh.

Abusing dissociatives for a long time in general is a bad idea, I've seen changes in behavior of some friends from pcp and k (often mixed with LSD for whats its worth) around 2000-2003, they all recovered, my best friend from childhood took the longest, he's still an idiot though, but a funny idiot. The jokes at his expense we had for years because in his diss psychosis he would see all of us (except me since he knows me since second grade) dressed as cops, would talk to his watch because there was obviously a wire in it, telling cops that he was flushing all his hash, weed, pcp and lsd and not to bother raiding him, looking for cameras in tiny cracks in the walls etc. But he's okay now, hell, he's even the first person from my old gang to have bought his house first (he got in the cheap since there was a major grow ops in the basement) but yeah, watch out still, dissociatives are known to be particularly loved by certain people who are already eccentric/weirdos and then when quirky turns into crazy, it's not fun at all, like that guy who was flailing around his rambo knife around when we were sitting around him so that he didn't hurt himself while muttering incomprehensible crazy stuff. It can make you do reckless things that you might not even remember, like him eating his last 15 south park lsd blotters he put in ice cream to "destroy evidence" after flushing down a couple ounces of weed and hash.