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My First Trip (DXM)

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Metropolisforever

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Tuesday night, I took 60 Wal-Tussin DXM cough gels. Earlier that night, I had had two energy shots. I had just recovered from some sort of illness. I laid down on the sofa under my sheet, and, for some reason, acted as if I was going to sleep. I believe the TV was on (Adult Swim, as always). I got some incredibly weird feelings - I'm not sure what really happened, what was a dream, and what was part of the trip. It was really bizarre. I got all these odd feelings related to dying and Jesus (who I don't even believe in). For once, I really wasn't afraid of dying and, yet, at the same time, I wasn't really sure if I was already dead or not, or if I was dreaming, or what. I can't even describe it in words. I've never felt that way before. It was my first trip. I kept getting up and going to the bathroom. Sometimes, I would stand there for several minutes. It was hard to urinate (too much information, I know). A few times, I might have just imagined going to the bathroom. Just sitting up could be confusing and dream-like. Did I sleep during the trip? Yet again, I'm not really sure what, exactly, happened.

The day after, I got the usual hangover feeling, and an awful clog in my throat that made it painful to eat and drink.

I'm still pretty confused about what happened. Should I try taking an even higher dose next time?

This thread might sound ridiculous to you guys, but you have to remember that I've never tripped before. I've only done weed, alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, inhalants, crappy mushrooms that didn't make me trip, and lower doses of DXM. You really cannot understand what a trip is like just from reading about it over and over again. I now know this to be the truth.

It's really hard to describe the whole thing here. So, I'd better post this before I add even more details.
 
60 at 15mg each? 900mg... That's a rather large dose. Hard to pee is a normal side effect by the way!

Back to the question at hand, I wouldn't recommend taking a higher dose - although it really depends on how much you weigh... a skinny guy would be all the way to Jupiter at that dose..
If you want a smoother but FAR more intense trip, smoke some weed about 1 - 2 hours into the trip, it'll become far more intense and much nicer. I would highly discourage taking a higher dosage, and if you do try the weed, take a lower dose so you can realise how strong it is! Maybe.. 3/400 ?

Oh, before I forget, if you do have such a large dose again or smoke weed with it, it can get very scary all alone.. no point in having a bad trip if you can avoid it with a mate at hand!
 
900's a lot. I wouldn't recommend that much for a first time. Hah, I didn't listen to advice like that either, my first time was 1065 mg time release - 6 oz delsym - with 355 mg more at the peak - 4 oz robo max - totalling 1420 mg. Not something I would recommend to others; it turned out well but it was predominantly really confusing. I pretty much never take that much these days. Started out with 600mg trips after that, then went down to 450, then down to the 300-360 range. Honestly it would be less confusing to do that in reverse. I just had some strange intent/desire for my first trip to experience something completely novel and second plateau sounded too comprehensible. It was completely a completely lifechanging first trip but... YMMV too much to recommend the same to others. Starting low is more likely to confuse you less because you get used to what's going on in the state and then higher doses are less confusing.
 
Was I on the third plateau?

I once took one large bottle and one small bottle of Delsym (I believe that's about 8 ounces), but it didn't really have much of an effect on me. This is the first time DXM has ever really made me trip.
 
Metropolisforever said:
I'm still feeling negative after-effects from the DXM. How long is this going to last?
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I dont know why you took so much... too much serotonin in the brain can cause seretonin syndrome which is a potentially life threatining condition which occurs rapidly. next time if i were you id only take like 25 cough gels.
 
900 milligrams is a hell of a lot. You'll probably feel strange for a week or two, ignore the feeling or get used to it cause it will hang around the more you pay attention to it.
I would strongly advise against taking more if you started to lose bits of your memory of the trip and the confusion was apparent. DXM produces quite the hangover for many people.

And if there were no other serotonergic drugs (antidepressants etc) in your system serotonin syndrome is no worry. You haven't inflicted permanent damage on your brain - aside from the memories of your trip.
 
That's seems like a lot, I've done DXM about four or five times and when I did I drank one of the small bottles of robitussin. That or the gelcaps, but in either case I was usually out of my mind. I remember the hangovers being pretty rough for me.

-djstrip
 
sounds like a 4th plateau trip. I hit 4th once, and the "barrier" between life and death became very slim... death seemed like an everyday thing to me (hard to explain) and I almost wanted to stab myself to see how death would feel (wasn't gonna do it, it was just a wierd thought) and for some reason, I thought death was an everyday thing for other people too... it was pretty wierd.
 
For the trip I mentioned (1420 mg, most of it Delsym), I took the DXM on a Friday night, was very out of it the next day, still feeling slowly declining detachment from my body through Tuesday. So, it took four days of recovery before my body felt fully normal again. I could function just fine in my classes on Monday though, ignoring the lingering aftereffects which were subtle by that point, so perhaps a better measure would be two days of recovery before *functionality*.
 
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