DXM!! crazyiest night of my life! out of this world experience, MOST INTENSE by farr!

You're right... there is always self control. However, things can change after you try it the first time. I'm not saying you'll instantly be hooked, but its likely your attitude and self control towards the drug will change once you try it. It happens to people all the time who just want to "Try it only once to see what its like" and then before they know it they've fallen completely in love with the drug and get hooked.

And your parents and DARE officer were lying when they said pot was dangerous and addicting. They weren't lying when they said that about meth, though. It's too bad they don't get there facts straight... otherwise it leads to these sorts of false conclusions about drugs. So sad.

 

Yea really, I work with a meth head, he is ashamed to be real with me about that shit, you can see his teeth going, but he isn't so bad yet, but it has full and utter control over his doings, I have just never seen any good shit come from it, but this body here is not touching meth, you can do whatever you like Mr. Dot.

 

I suppose some people just have a more addicting mind state, ever since I did DXM for the first time in a highh dose all I wanted to do is do DXM. I can see myself doing it every weekened, it probally wont happen but my mind sees it happening. I've become addicted to muscle relaxers before, can eat an anti depressant like its candy anymore, but when things got to the point where it hurt my body I said no more, and then there was NO MORE. lol I suppose some people just go to points of no return, tell your friend to look at pictures of meth mouth, should make him stop. ha.

 

uh sorry this is a little off-thread but what do you guys suggest as a good first dose (in mgs) of gel capsules because im thinking about trying some either this weekend or next

thanks in advance

 

Uhm, about 300-400mgs, just drink a 4oz bottle of robitussin that has only DXM as active ingrediant, 1 4oz bottle will do alot for you.

 

You can't say that about the 4oz, Dot, unless you know how much he weighs. How much ya weigh, nickers?

 

if ur smokin weed with it i wouldnt do more than 250mg's for ur first time.... if the weed is really good than 200 mgs should do that trick. (assumin u weigh around 135lbs)

 

200mg? He might not feel anything . . . 400 is good for first time. My first time was with 650 and it was one of the best drug experiences of my life.

 

I agree with mr writer. If you weigh more than 150 though then you should up it 50mg for every 10lbs.

 

i weigh about 145lbs and i took 280mg approx... and smoked REALLY good weed, and idk what i would have done if it was anymore intense... but go for it. im just talkin from my experience.

 

I think some of you need to realise that cough syrup is a dense sludge of sugars, artificial sweeteners, thickener, and preservatives. its really unhealthy to include in your diet.

as for dosages.. everyone is so different. i took 300 and had a mild buzz and 600 got me 'trippin' in whatever way you could call dxm.

ps. i loved it! thumbs up.. except for the cough syrup bit. the high is really unique.. it would be good if dealers extracted it and sold it alongside K

 

extraction is very possible. if i had me 3000 mg of extracted DXM, i would be very happy, although my liver wouldnt. i heard of people i know taking extracted DXM, they say the high isnt the same.

 

Yeah, I considered doing this, buying alotta delsyum and extracting the DXM from it, just for the simple fact of, I'm tired of the cough syurp.

 

yeah, not to mention the holes in the brain deal, doesnt sound too promising

 

Holes in the brain? wtf lol

 

yeah, it puts them there, as does your liver suffer.

 

That is, if you mix it with a bunch of random shit. There is actually no true facts about what dxm alone will do to your system, personally I love it when a kid will chug a whole bottle of cough syurp with dxm and other deadly stuff combined, my buddy came over and started chugging nyquil, i laughed and let him.

 

haha. true. acetometaphin, a deadly advocate of live damage

 

Yeah, you can get alot of DXM only cough suppressants but no one actually knows the dangers of DXM completly, it's unchartered territory. Territory i'm willing to venture into!

A question of mine is, if mixed with valiums and stuff is it possible to give you the itch? Idk, yesterday (after of weekened doing 8oz of DXM) I got itches really bad all over my body, the only thing I did was valium and DXM so I'm confused about this. Could be my body saying eat another valium though, when I do alot of muscle relaxers over a long amount of time my body breaks out into bad muscle spasms once I haven't had it. Obviously this is addiction beating the fuck outta my body.

 

Running Head: SIDE EFFECTS OF DEXTROMETHORPHAN ABUSE

Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate dextromethorphan (DXM) abuse side effects. Subjects were 53 volunteers who had consumed DXM with a mean age of 23.4 years. The mean of side effects during first day was 12.49 and during the first week was 5.57. The causes of repeated DXM abuse were psychological dependency (46.5%), recreational abuse (32.6%). Neurological and psychological symptoms were the most common of side effects in DXM abusers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)(from the journal abstract)

Results:
Forty-eight males and five females participated in this study. The mean age of subjects was 23.4 years (range: 20–28 years old, SD = 1.83). Nine subjects (18.9%) did not have a history of consuming DXM for any medical purpose and other subjects had used DXM for chronic cough and cold with physician's prescription.

Twenty-nine subjects (54.7%) abused DXM more than 10 times and twenty-eight subjects (52.8%) had history of DXM abuse for more than 3 years. The mean of frequency of DXM abuse was 25.5 (range: 1–200, SD = 41.09) and the mean of first and last dosage of DXM abuse in our subjects was 336.3 (75–1125) and 623.5 (90–2700) mg, respectively. Fifty-one people (92.5%) reported history of other illicit drug without any addiction criteria (according to DSM-IV). The most common illicit substances which were abused by our subjects are listed in Table 1.
Table 1.

The most common illicit substances which were abused by our subjects
Illicit substances Frequency (%)
Alcohol 51 (96.2)
Marijuana 47 (88.7)
Sedatives 38 (71.7)
LSD 36 (67.9)
Morphine 29 (54.7)
Ecstasy 28 (52.8)
Cocaine 16 (30.2)
Heroin 13 (24.5)
Phencyclidine 11 (20.7)
Special K (Ketamine) 11 (20.7)
Others 13 (24.5)
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According to participants, 3.8% had history depression and anxiety in the last year which they did not receive any treatment. In this study, all subjects experienced minimally 3 adverse effects during the first day and 51 subjects experienced minimally 1 adverse effect during the first week. The mean of side effects during the first day was 12.49 (range: 3–28, SD = 5.71) and during the first week was 5.57 (range: 0–14, SD = 3.38). Table 2 shows the adverse effect of DXM and frequency of everyone during the first day and first week (1–7 days) after the last abusing dose of subjects. All of the subjects had 3 side effects at least, although no emergency care was needed in them.

Table 2.

Adverse effect of DXM reported by research subjects
Autonomic side effects

Sweating
Tachycardia
Fatigue
Tachypnea
Flushing
Cool feeling
Gastrointestinal side effects
Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Constipation
Neurological side effects
Dyskinesia
Speech disorder
Dizziness
Mydriasis and photophobia
Blurred vision
Diplopia
Imbalance
Dysaphia
Tremor
Psychological side effects
Euphoria
Trance
Apathy
Laughing
Tongue biting
Auditory hallucination
Visual hallucination
Insomnia
Nightmare
Anhedonia
Dysmnesia
Hyper vigilance
Attention deficit
Learning impairment
Flash back
Panic disorder
Hyperactivity and inclination to dance
Sexual side effects
Increased libido
Decreased libido
Inclination to make love 16
Others
Itching
Fatigue
Urticaria
Myalgia
Icterus
Facial edema
Reinforcement



The causes of repeated DXM abuse were psychological dependency 46.5% (20 subjects), recreational abuse in 32.6% (14 subjects) and physiological dependency in 2.3% (one subject).
4. Discussion

Our purpose in this study was to assess adverse effect of DXM in young adult abusers. DXM is absorbed quickly from the gastrointestinal tract; (within 30 min) and its duration of effects is about 3–6 h (half-life of about 2–4 h) (Shaul, Wandell, & Robertson, 1977). So after DXM abuse, many side effects especially gastrointestinal adverse effect are seen during a few hours and it is more common than in the future days. Despite frequent consumption of DXM by our patients, they did not have to refer to emergency care at the time of abuse. It can be due to low half-life of DXM.

Dextrophan acts as phencyclidine (PCP) in the brain and the toxic effects of PCP and DXM are similar together (Jahng et al., 2001, Sharp, 1997 and Wolfe & Caravati, 1995).

In this study, there was no death and any adverse effect in patients that needed medical support, although there are some people who are at increased risk of side effects of DXM with its normal dosage like those who take it along with MAO inhibitors and serotonin reuptake inhibitor drug use or those with P450-2D6 enzyme polymorphism (Sharp, 1997).

Euphoria, altered time perception, feeling of floating, visual disturbance, tactile, visual and auditory hallucination, disorientation and increased perceptual awareness are primary psychological symptoms that were identified by Krenzelok (1990), Miller and Gold (1991), Wolfe and Caravati (1995). In our study, hallucination and flash back prevalence were 50.9% and 52.8%, respectively and our subjects abused DXM for these reasons. Hallucination states that are seen in DXM abuse, is similar to LSD, PCP abusers and MDMA (Ecstasy) (Wolfe & Caravati, 1995 and Yoo et al., 1996).

DXM is available in various combinations with other medications, and approachability of this drug in Iran is not controlled. For these reasons, DXM abuse is being increased every day.

Jasinski (2000), Liu et al. (2003) and Zapata et al. (2003) showed DXM reduced withdrawal symptoms and attenuates the behavioral or toxic effects of cocaine by reduction in opiate substance requirements and it is one of the causes of DXM abuse in addicted people. It also prevents hyperthermia in amphetamine drug abusers such as Ecstasy (Farfel & Seiden, 1995).

According to Jones, Gallagher, and McFalls (1988), drug abuse can be classified into two categories: licit and illicit psychoactive drugs. Also, there are five forms of abuse including: experimental use, social recreational use, circumstantial, intensified and compulsive use. Murray and Brewerton (1993) believed DXM is a nonaddictive licit drug that does not have physiological or psychological dependency, although produces a substance dependence syndrome. In this study, although 18 subjects had to abuse DXM again, it is probably abused in circumstantial or intensified forms and others abuse DXM recreationally. According to Momodou (1996), DXM is abused because it is more readily available, cheaper and more socially acceptable than other licit substances. It is not associated with any widely known effects and its physiopsychological implications are not fully established or known to the potential abuser population.

Conclusion:
Dextromethorphan abuse is a potential social problem in the future and availability of DXM over the counter to all age groups must be revised.


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