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GBL Withdrawl = Kill Me NOW

AuralAssassin

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I was an idiot. I read all the "super mega happy GBL" threads around and decided hell yea, it's for me.

Go through serveral bottles, and no real hangover affects. Well, then I get another bottle and do my regular dose, but soon after decide that I wanna push it a little bit. 2.5 ml became 4ml with a 3 hour (sleep)break and then 4ml more = sleep

I did this for about a week with no problem... well, I wake up after a weird 7 hour sleep(involving antihistamines for nausea and for sleep, as I knew I couldn't dose anymore...

I wake up feeling slight flu, but I don't think anything of it. I have to work overnight. I go to work and look afright. Smoke some weed and my heart starts pounding. Weird, I'm all paranoid... somehow I make it through the night, knowing now what the problem might be.

I go home and dose.... out like a light.

Wake up and dose.... out like a light.


This goes on for about 10 days... one day I wake up for work and I get there... the heat feels excruciating, there is noise, it's bright, people coming in and out.... my heart starts pounding... I rush home and dose for the rest of the night.

I dose for the last time at 4:00am and lay down on my couch to pass out. I wake up SICK and FIENDING at 4:32... 32 minutes?

I immediately vomit and I sit and try and force myself to sober up, to let it go...

in the end, I did the smart thing. I called my mom, I told her what I had been doing and that I needed help. I went to the ER and came clean, they laughed, but one Dr there with a trach scar(obvious former user) and explained what I had done.

prescribes me 20 x 1mg lorazopam and gives me 2mg right then to take.... they kick in and I go home to wait until someone can drive me to the drug store..

I have 12 x 1mg ativan left, and I don't know how long they will last...

anyone know how long a 4ml every 2-3 hour habit for 5 days will leave you going through withdrawls?

I am almost out of Benzo's, and I can't handle this on my own. I don't have a supplier... is there anything OTC I can get to help the effects of this shit???

please, I am begging. I finally ate something today... BARELY... and I haven't thrown up in at least 24 hours I think. I don't know if I stop taking the benzo's if that will start again...

also is 1mg lorazepam every 6 hours for roughly 4 days enough to be concernd about a second withdrawl?

any natural/legal cures?
 
diphenhydramine will help sleep.

Immodium is suppose to help with opiate withdrawals, not sure if it will help with gbl withrdwawls tho.

Also get to the local GMC health food store and buy some GABA. GABA attaches to the same receptors and will definatly help with some of the withdrawls.
 
drew345 said:
alchohal will help as it acts on the gaba receptors


I am a recovering alcoholic, so I can't do that. I wish, but I'd be right back with the shakes and on benzos again...

p.s. is the amount of Benzo's I'm taking...

20mg over the course of 4ish days enough that I need to be concerned with possible withdrawl from that stuff?

should I gradually space them out?
 
Im am very happy for your sake that you stopped when you did, G withdawls can be really danerous.

Alcohol will help, the problem will be keeping it down but you said you had'nt thrown up in awhile so good luck I guess.
 
Getting help ASAP was the right thing to do. You should be proud of yourself.
 
Yep sounds like GBL to me, after a few days of use I'd be strung out and sleep deprived.
But seriously dude c'mon, its like a few days of sleepless nervousness and then its over. I think you might have underlying issues since you were an alcoholic before and GBL is also a GABA agonist.

EDIT: I do know how serious GBL/GHB withdrawal can be but in this case we're talking about a 5 day habit, not 5 months-years of 24/7 use. Would anyone here think a 5 day benzo binge was serious?

Oh and look into phenibut, but with your history of problems it could just cause you more trouble.
 
A really good drug for helping withdrawl from sedatives (like Opiates or Benzos) is Sodium Valproate (called Epilim in australia, and Depake (spell?) in USA.

I suspect it will help withdrawl from GHL/GHB too.

Good luck
 
Chemethist said:
Also get to the local GMC health food store and buy some GABA. GABA attaches to the same receptors and will definatly help with some of the withdrawls.

Does this really have an effect at all, seeing as GABA doesn't cross the BBB?
 
Indelibleface said:
Does this really have an effect at all, seeing as GABA doesn't cross the BBB?

I guess thats a matter of opinion.

My opinion is that no it does not, and the real OTC supplement for GABA agonism is phenibut. The stuff feels like time released valium and works wonders for tapering off of GBL addiction.
 
Well jeez. It's certainly not a matter of opinion. It's a fact one way or the other. Does it, or doesn't it? I don't think personal chemistry is a factor with this one.
 
I finished 250ml over a month previous... just slowly...

then this time

It was more like a 14-15 day bender... 3 days of regular use 2.5 every 4 or so hours boost it.

no biggie... then I went on the 4ml every 2 hours just to not be shaking trip for 12 of those days.... I'd pass out and wake up vomiting and shaking and needing more or I felt like I might die. I know I couldn't pretend that way and be around people who loved me. They even told me on the way to the Hospital that they had come over to see how I was because I wasn't answering my phone.... I was pale and "not breathing" and when they touched me I started breathing again.

Turns out some people were ready to stage an intervention.

So should I look for phenibut?

is it legal and OTC in America?
 
Yes. It can't make you feel any worse I'm sure.
Yes. Try health food stores.

Avoid opiates and other depressants on it. Stimulants will be lessened in effect. Let us know how it goes.
 
I've also heard about Lyrica and things like that... would I be wise to return to the doctor and see about this anyway, as I have a sleep disorder(hence ODing all the time on GBL)??
 
Lyrica is generally perscribed for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy. Nerve pain.

Would it be wise to see a doctor? Fucks sake yes. Anything is more wise than drugging your sleep disorder and putting yourself at risk. There are more ways than medication to combat a sleep disorder. Routine changes, diet changes, drug changes. Talk to a doctor. Stop self medicating. It doesn't fucking work. It masks the problem. It does not treat it.
 
center said:
Well jeez. It's certainly not a matter of opinion. It's a fact one way or the other. Does it, or doesn't it? I don't think personal chemistry is a factor with this one.

Yea I agree about the differences in personal chemistry, I mean some people claim to gain effect from oral GABA but I don't. Should I call them liars? Same thing with loperamide.
 
I don't know actually. Maybe it is personal chemistry then. I just assumed that humans as a whole population would incorporate foreign produced chemicals into the bloodstream in the same way. Like, you know...it may have a pronounced effect varying greatly from your friend next to you...but in the end the route of absorbtion and processing?(dunno the medical term) of the chemical is the same.

If, that is, it even crosses the blood brain barrier.
 
It is funny, because I have re-lapsed into GBL binging today early morning. I could not fall asleep, so I knocked myself out. Woke up 2 and a half hours after dosing, with some very vivid dreams. I had actually passed out in a weird position, which had my shoulder screaming in pain. I did, in fact, dream about complaining from the nasty pain on my shoulder.

I woke up really horny, classic to me, and spent about 1 and a half hours looking for porn on the net. Then decided to call it a day, knocked myself out as I could not fall asleep at about 7:30 AM. Woke up 2 hours later, horny as fuck again and dizzy. Went to work for a few hours, came back and re-dosed this fucker just to feel spun out. I was on my way back from work thinking how I was fiending for the drug.

I am now feeling GBL intoxicated, but it allows me to forget about my current problems. It is not that I cannot deal with them, as I am cirrently solving them, it is simply that I cannot deal with the freaking 24/7 anxiety, especially since it does not allow me to fall asleep, and I cannot afford to be without sleep as whilst my professional schedule is not very hectic, I am training very hard for my given sport.
 
You can get phenibut in health food stores in America? Where have I been?!

Seriously. I thought you had to order it.
 
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