DOSE:

80 tablets

oral

Diphenhydramine

BODY WEIGHT:

145 lb

[Erowid Note: The doses described in this report are potentially life threatening. The amount taken is beyond a heavy dose and could pose serious health risks or result in unwanted, extreme effects. Doses such as this have been known to cause hospitalizations and/or deaths. Sometimes extremely high doses reported are errors rather than actual doses used.]
I'm 28. I work at a steel mill and I have no college degree. You'll have to take my word for this because I don't post any personal information about myself.

11:00 ish: took 80 pink caps, throat got tired of swallowing so many so I almost puked

11:30 extreme fatigue set in, believe me when I say it was physically difficult to move. Not the "oh haha, I'm high, soooo couchlocked hehe" but literal near paralysis, I couldn't walk. I out paste all over my mouth and throat so dry mouth was intense but not excruciating.

12:00 at this point everything went to shit. I was completely paralyzed so I just gave up trying to move. Everything was dreamlike, jumpy and flickery. On LSD everything is relaxed and flowing, on DPH everything is skittery like a low fps video game. My bedroom door swung open and suddenly a black figure dashes in. It teleports in front of me and stares at me. Even though its a silhouette with no eyes or face, I can feel a stare. No spiders, but thousands of black beads begin spinning around my wall. I can see a man in a hat, fully shadowed about 12 feet away. 6 minutes in I'm not sure if this is reality or I'm dreaming. I cant even check to see if my eyes or open or if they're closed. Cant move, just silently scream in horror as the entire room begins spinning at 900 mph with shadow people dancing around me.

12:25?: The spinning of the room keeps getting faster and faster until I can feel myself vomiting, but the pain and sensation feels oddly distant. I cant describe it. It feels like someone else if vomiting through my body. It is horrific nonetheless. A shadow person then chokes me, and I feel like I'm being strangled for a good hour before everything goes black. Everything begins fading to white. I realize I can move and walk around, and that I am not high anymore. Looking back this was obviously a lucid dream while I was comatose. I can't really compare it to anything, look up the SpongeBob episode "SB-29" and that's about as close as what I experienced. I was in a completely white space, and the whole time it was just ambient random noises like whirrs, buzzes, growls, screams, voiced whispering, lion roars, jet engines, and streaking lights. The sensations felt like sandpaper was being rubbed all over me, and I felt very cold. I cant put it into words but I felt like this was the longest part of the trip. My sense of time was so distorted I believe I was in the white space longer than I've been alive. What was less than 1 day legitimately, wholly, completely fuckin felt like 5-6 YEARS minimum. I have 6-10 YEARS worth of auditory and visual memories from that. 6-10 YEARS of my life were forgotten and replaced with those auditory voices, streaks, and noises.

12:40-5pm?: I don't know when the white space ended but now I'm in the middle of the road. Its reality, not some surreal dream. I see a shadow man about 300 feet away so I start running. I chase and chase but he never gets closer. Eventually I stop out of tiredness and suddenly the sky opens up and a gigantic black mouth just swallows me whole. What happens next is that from looking at Reddit, no joke. I cant see my own body, I just see a giant page that displays Reddit. I scroll through all the pages and all of the titles and comments make no sense, like "Trump reveals the reveals the reveals the truth about reveals" Eventually the screen fades and I feel vomit again, I can feel it bit don't see it.

5pm-8pm?: Pure blackness and pain. All I can say. Every part of my body hurts more than it ever has. The phrase splitting headache cant describe it, it feels like there's a hot coal between my ears. I still cant move, and I'm still knocked out. The hallucinations are just streaks and flickers now.

8pm-12 pm next day: Lots of buzzing noises, felt like I was covered by a swarm of bees that were constantly vibrating. Some point during this stage I woke up in a puddle of sweat and pink vomit. I tried to get up but everything exploded into beads and swirls and I felt a stabbing pain in my back. After about 1 hour of chilling I managed to find my phone and called 911 saying I OD'ed

2 am+: at the hospital they pumped my stomach and narcaned me even though I don't do heroin. Woke up later, not too much of an ordeal but I managed to spin it off as an accident and avoided the mental hospital.

I go for dialysis weekly now.

Aftermath: Quit my job for this trip and still unemployed. No insurance but I got Obamacare which covered a part of it.

I am on Dialysis and have permanent liver damage. Permanent brain damage and cognitive reduction reduced brain size Irregular heartbeat.

[Erowid Note: Unconfirmed Serious Injury Report. This report of a serious injury was submitted without verifiable details or contact information. Erowid is choosing to publish this report to invite public comment and to allow anyone who knows about this event to submit details that we can verify. Neither this report nor any report of a hospitalization should be considered reliable without details that can be verified through hospitals, police reports, family members, or news reports. If you have information about this incident or other experience resulting from the use of any psychoactive substance we cover, please contact sage at erowid.org.]

Exp Year: 2019	ExpID: 114375
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 28
Published: May 14, 2020	Views: 6,306
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