Cutionary tale, DON'T TAKE TRAZADONE WITH SHROOMS.
TL;DR at the end.
Note: My experience doesn't speak for everyone. But mine was just awful enough to warrant me to feel like speaking up about trazadone.
I've tried searching these forums for trazadone and mostly see people asking about it. So here is my (fucking awful) experience with trazadone and shrooms that hopefully some of the curious might find. The experience inspired me enough to make an account and post about it, rather than silently lurk on this sight annonymously. Sad that this is my first official trip report... Here's the story:
I've been planning this mushroom trip for a while. I haven't tripped in about 2 weeks, so my tolerance is down. My friend has a nice place to trip at. All was going well this day, and it seemed I was headed for a really nice trip. The weather was nice, I was in a good mood. Everything checked out.
A little bit of a preface so you understand why I took trazadone without researching: I quit drinking a while back, and the only time I will partake is only a small amount before I do shrooms. The only reason for this is to take a little bit of the edge off of the come up. The batch I have now seems to have a slightly uncomfortable come up period for the initial hour. 2 drinks seems to take care of it like nothing else will, so it's become a small ritual before I trip. This led to a conversation with my friend, who is prescribed trazadone.
He asked me why I only drink before taking shrooms, so I explained the reasoning. While I'm drinking these drinks, my friend hands me a piece of a pill, and tells me it's "for nerves" and should help with the come up anxiety. It was 1/4th of a pill, and told me he takes a full pill as medicine, so it's not bad. Seemed harmless enough at the time, and I trust my good friend, so I took it without much thought.
A strong, uncomfortable body high set in about 30 minutes after ingesting the shrooms (~2.5g). I figured it's just the come up, even if it felt kind of off. An hour goes by and the uncomfortable body high is still in full effect, but the trip never kicks in. Now I realize something is wrong. I don't feel bad, just really body high. Absolutely NO mind-fuck, warm feeling, or uncontrollable giggles (which are typical for me with this batch and dose).
By this point I've completely forgotten about the pill I took and keep trying to rationalize why I'm not tripping. I start talking with my friend (who doesn't do shrooms) and tell him that I'm definitely high, but not tripping, and I'm confused. He then brings up the pill, thinking it should have helped. That's when I realize the pill might have ruined the trip, because I've read certain medications can fuck with a shroom trip. I ask him what the name of the pill was. "Trazadone" he says, and I google it. After reading results on Google, I realize I'm fucked out of a trip, as it is known as a "trip abortion" pill.
Shucks. No trip today, and now I have to wait at least another week (shrooms are hard to find here so I'm not wasting any with a double dose the next day for a proper trip) for a real experience. Sounds like I didn't really have much to worry about.
WRONG. More symptoms slowly started creeping up as the hours passed. First was awful nausea about 3 hours afterwards (not typical with these shrooms, always happens in the firsr hour, and not enough to puke). I vomit painfully into a toilet, and wonder WTF, this isn't right. Then, a really bad "come down" started happening. Trazadone is supposed to be an antidepressant, but a horrible depression set in on me, along with a really terrible feeling of loneliness. I also felt tired (turns out it's a sedative, too), but never tired enough to fall asleep. This was a horrible state to be in; Sad, lonely, sick, and drowzy. My friend took the rest of the pill, and he knocks out, leaving me to fend for myself.
So now I'm an emtional trainwreck with absolutely no one to talk to. It's hours after the shrooms have passed, and I didn't know when the sadness, lethargy, and sickness would go away. So far this is the worst experience with shrooms I've had, and felt compelled to write this cautionary tale to warn those who are thinking about trazadone. My advice: don't fuck with it.
Thankfully it did pass, later on that evening. I would guess about 9-10 hours after taking the dose. Even then there was slight nausea, but the negative emotions seemed to be mostly gone.
TL;DR: Was given a small dose of trazadone before trip. Trazadone prevents trip from ever happening. Crippling nausea, depression, loneliness, and drowsiness set in and persist long after a typical trip would have ended (9-10 hours later). THIS IS A CAUTIONARY TALE, DO NOT TAKE TRAZADONE.
Edited by Astark (03/03/18 10:25 AM)
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