Newsgroups: alt.drugs From: HARPETH1@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu (_VTA9390:) Subject: [Dramamine] Message-ID: <1994Jan18.101339.11371@news.vanderbilt.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 10:13:39 GMT On a different note, I've seen several postings regarding Jimson Weed (Datura Stramonium I believe). I was always curious about this plant, but the effects described sound similar to Gravol (Dramamine), which I HAVE tried. I for one would class it more as a deliriant than a hallucinogen. The trip started with a nice stoned feeling, but quickly changed. When staring at any white object (ceilings, and even cups or cupped hands) I noticed a strange clear gellatin-like substance that seemed to jiggle and spread towards me (looked a lot like the alien in the Predator movies). While doing LSD or psilocybin, I have always been able to tell reality from hallucinations. This is not the case with Dramamine. Several times I car- ried on conversations with individuals before discovering they were non- existant. I saw people and objects that were not there as well. Perhaps the worst aspect of the trip was the auditory part. I constantly heard my name being called, and sound is magnified to a very uncomfortable level. Speech (even from myself) was not only loud and difficult, but VERY slurred. Com- munication was difficult due to the fact that I would forget what I was talk- ing about in mid-sentence, and would finish most sentences off by saying "Uh, nevermind...I forgot." The amount of paranoia that prevailed throughout the trip was unbearable: especially after I saw my brother rise out of a pile of clothes in the floor to tell me that my father (who happens to be the head of a drug task force) was calling me. Maybe all of this was due to the fact that I was alone for the majority of this experience (nightmare). Definate- ly a one time experience for me. Not recomended for the weak of heart or mind. Especially at that dosage: 24 tablets! Jamey ============================================================================= Message-ID: <162302Z02051994@anon.penet.fi> Newsgroups: alt.drugs From: an55866@anon.penet.fi Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 16:16:18 UTC Subject: dimenhydrinate Hi, After seeing the posts on Marezine, I checked out anti-emetics in general and anti-histamines, and came across the anti-histamine hallucinogenic tendency. So I got some dimenhydrinate, the local Rite-Aid variety (cheaper than Dramamine), and paid four bucks for two boxes of twelve at 50 mg each. I was going to take them with a friend, but another friend wanted to split them three ways, so we had eight apiece (400 mg). We were pretty tired before we took them (about one in the morning), and especially with the anti-histamine property of putting one to sleep, we decided to have some coffee. We, being stoopid, put a hefty amount of Bailey's in our coffee, which I think was one of the reasons we didn't react much. About forty minutes passed, and we finally started feeling it. When inquired about my head, I said, "I think my brain shrunk." It felt very odd--not light, not heavy, just empty. :) When spoken to, we would have a delay (five to ten seconds) before we could reply, which started amusing me, but I couldn't seem to help it. I went to bed about two hours later (had a fun time walking there, too), and tried to sleep. I thought it was wearing off. The dry mouth thing was buggin, so I kept some water by my bed. I had a hard time going to sleep, especially when a couple times I was choking and found it difficult to bring in air through my throat (as opposed to through my lungs). I am a MILD asthmatic, and I was just starting to get sick, so that probably had something to do with it, but my friend said he started having to _think_ about breathing. I woke up about seven hours later alive, but with a pretty good headache. I only talked to one of the other friends, and he said he was still messed up that afternoon with the delay and stuff. I guess I'd try it again, but with no alcohol (I doubt what we had was a very big factor, though) and more dimenhydrinate (to try to get the hallucinations). If anyone has tried it under better conditions, please post (especially whether or not you had hallucinations), and thanks in advance. ============================================================================= From: George TatarskyNewsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: Re: Dramamine question Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 01:20:17 -0500 Message-ID: black.peter@scarolina.edu writes: >I remember reading in the Natural Highs FAQ that high doses of Dramamine can be >extremely dangerous...however I was recently told that if you take one whole >box of Dramamine, that's 12 tablets, it's a major mind fuck...anyone have any >more info about this, is 12 tablets lethal or severely dangerous, anyone tried >it, etc.? Thanks... I believe the active ingredient in Dramamine is 50 mg of dimenhydrinate. Check out: Gardner et all. Dimenhydrinate abuse among adolescents. Canadian J. Psychiatry 1993; 38:113-116 To summarize, several cases are described where teens typically took 5-15 tablets (250-750 mg) at a time habitually for a year or more. The patients were described as chrnically depressed and amotivated. Symptoms "remitted with successful treatment of dimenhydrinate abuse". Based on this paper abusing this OTC antihistamine appears remarkably safe. I've taken 100 mg at a time and get a pretty strong, low quality, low euphoria, "scrambled" type buzz which comes on at 45-60 minutes and is completely gone at 150 minutes. You build up a tolerance very rapidly. This stuff would not be the drug of choice for anyone with access to alcohol, weed, benzos, etc. Maybe taking 500 mg produces a better quality experience. ============================================================================= From: neptune@netaxs.com (GANJA DiGEST [WRiTER]) Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: DRAMAMINE [READ!] Date: 7 Jan 1995 05:07:41 GMT Message-ID: <3el7it$4n4@netaxs.com> Hello all, I would like to talk to everyone about a story.. The Camp Experience of Dramamine. It was this summer, and I was at summer camp, I am mentally addicted to pot, and have an addiction to speed. Anyways, i went to this christian camp in misourri (Kanakuk?anyone heard of it before?) Anyways, I went there and for about 3 weeks, I was sober, I started getting used to being sober and learning to handle it, but one day I just kinda bugged out and wanted some drugs. I had always heard that if I took 12 Dramamine I would trip, I had never tripped before this experience.. So I said what the fuck I 'll pretend to be sick and then I'll sleep in the nurses office, when they goto bed i'll digest this dramamine. So I go in, the nurses say ok you can stay here to night.. I wait till they sleep, finally I go in and steal the bottle of dramamine and go back to the room that I was staying in [the infirmery], I popped 12 , waited an hour and then it didn't do anything, so I popped another 12.. [bad mistake].. Pretty soon my hand just started to wiggle. Then about 10 minutes later, the trip stopped being euphoric, and seemed like reality, I had forgotten that I took the Dramamine, and was completely out of it. I would go blank and not see anything for like 2 minutes, really freaky. I went out of the room to go to the nurse's fridge to get a drink, I looked outside, and god strike me dead a dark tree turned into a man w/a black overcoat, black beard and a low brimmed black hat walking towards me, then he turned back into the tree.... I was bugging out so I went back to the bunk bed and tried to go to sleep. I was on the bottom bunk and noone else was on the top, noone else was in the room, suddenly my friends that I had met at camp [bunk mates] , their heads would swing down from the top bunk and start talking to me, it seemed so un-euphoric and real that I started talking back to them and they'd go away and i'd get really frusturated, I don't remember what happened after that. The next thing I remember was waking up and not being able to walk straight, I was shaking heavily all over my body. The nurse said good morning and gave me a cup of orange juice, not knowing I was fucked up, then suddenly I started shaking so much that the oj spilled all over me.. I forget what happened next, next thing that I remmeber was I was lying on the nurses lap in a big blazer and I didn't know where I was or where I was going. The next thing I remember was being in the emergency room in a hospital.. They stuck an iv in me and I was totally out of it, they gave me drug tests, and luckily the three weeks that I'd been in camp took out all of the pot and speed in my urine, probably from drinking so much water b/c of the heat. When the doctor was talking to someone in the next room, I could have sworn he was talking to my sister, I actually thought my sister was here, she was crying. The doctor said 'I have found large quantities of thc in jeffrey's urine' but he really didn't say this nor was my sister there. Then this was real: The doctor was on the phone w/my dad and said that I had a 'acute psychosis' and should be admitted to the 'Springfield, Missouri psychiatric ward'!! My dad refused and said he'll come pick me up. They shot me up w/ some shit andI left and they took me to mcdonalds, there I sat down, went to tie my shoelace but instead went for the nurse's sitting next to me and tied her shoe!, then I took my straw and put it in her drink. We wen't back to camp and they called my dad. My dad flew in immediatly to pick me up. While i was waiting for my dad the dramamine wore off except for one thing new, I was itching uncontrollably all over my back, so I ripped off my shirt and looked to see what was itching me, I thought I had spiders crawling all over me, but there was nothing, just bad itching. My dad picked me up and I was fine. I will never forget those two crazy, scary, and insane days of my life. Does anyone know what happened that night, If possible could some one give me a detailed discription of what happened. And if anyone had a similar experience or whoever has tried Dramamine, tell me what thier experience was like. Could someone please write me private or here and tell me what went on, I have yet to know. Till this day , noone knows what happened to me that day, they think i had a nervous breakdown. WRITE BACK PHULEAZE!! .. The Rainbow Father ..