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DustyBottoms



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Weirdness during the comedown...
#23449911 - 07/17/16 01:34 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yesterday afternoon I took an ⅛ of cubes down in Houston with my two buddies. We ate them at 2:30pm and 60-75 mins later, we were having a pretty smooth trip. Things were normal all the way through until the come down.
I would say it was about 4-5 hrs after we ate them that we were standing in the kitchen just snacking and bullshitting. My buddy went into the pantry and grabbed a couple ring pop suckers. As he was handing them out I started to feel a little lighted-headed, dizzy. The kind of light-headedness you get when you stand up too fast.
I didn't think anything of it at first but it kept getting more and more intense over the course of what felt like 30-45 seconds, and then my body got hot as balls. It then became very hard to focus on what I was seeing and I felt like i was seriously about to pass out. My friend later said that I looked like a zombie and was totally expressionless.
I staggered to the couch and laid down. I went up to feel my face and it was dripping in sweat. Sooooo fucking sweaty as if I had been running on a treadmill for 30 mins. Within 2-3 mins the feeling was gone and my body cooled down.
From that point on for the rest of the night, the only place I really felt comfortable was on that couch. Anytime I was in the kitchen I would start thinking about how terrible I felt and I would walk out and go back to the couch.
I've never had anything like this happen to me before. Not during a trip or outside of one. I'm 35 yrs old and I'm in pretty good health. I was with my two best buddies that I've known since I was 15 yrs old and could not have been in a more comfortable/familiar environment.
Any ideas WTF this was? Have any of you ever experienced anything like this?
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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: DustyBottoms]
#23449991 - 07/17/16 02:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sounds like you were becoming dehydrated, were you drinking water?
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DustyBottoms



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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: Kinshino]
#23450003 - 07/17/16 02:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Some but not a lot. My piss has been relatively clear though the last couple days and not mustard brown/yellow.
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musiclover420
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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: DustyBottoms]
#23450027 - 07/17/16 02:13 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Maybe it was a blood pressure thing? I have heard of people fainting on shrooms from not eating.
Were you smoking a lot or anything else that may have contributed to it?
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openmind
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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: DustyBottoms]
#23450374 - 07/17/16 04:06 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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DustyBottoms said: .....As he was handing them out I started to feel a little lighted-headed, dizzy. The kind of light-headedness you get when you stand up too fast.
I didn't think anything of it at first but it kept getting more and more intense over the course of what felt like 30-45 seconds, and then my body got hot as balls. It then became very hard to focus on what I was seeing and I felt like i was seriously about to pass out. My friend later said that I looked like a zombie and was totally expressionless.
I staggered to the couch and laid down. I went up to feel my face and it was dripping in sweat. Sooooo fucking sweaty as if I had been running on a treadmill for 30 mins. Within 2-3 mins the feeling was gone and my body cooled down.....
And here's the weekly post about someone experiencing low blood pressure on mushrooms on not knowing what happened .
I see posts about this happening to people several times a month, pretty much every month for years now. It's a regular thing that I hear about around here. I've experienced it my self on mushrooms, on LSD, and with cannabis as well, and it happened to a friend a couple months ago while he was on mushrooms, though he actually ended up fainting/collapsing to the ground for a moment.
What you described totally sounds like a result of low blood pressure....Starting off with feeling dizzy/light headed, then feeling hot/sweaty, not being able to focus on anything, feeling on the verge of passing out, and probably looking pale and spaced out, and feeling terrible in general....all of those are symptoms of low blood pressure, something that seems to be a somewhat common side effect of mushrooms (doesn't always happen and doesn't happen to everyone, but it's totally not unheard of...Like I said, I see posts around here about this happening several times a month for years now).
When blood pressure gets low like this, one can potentially full on faint/collapse and go into convulsive syncope....that's another thing I see people post about on here kinda often, LBP on mushrooms causing one to collapse and go into brief convulsions and folks always think it was a seizure leading some people to believe the mushrooms cause siezures (but convulsions during syncope are normal, and not a seizure).
If it happens again, just sit down somewhere and relax and follow your breathe. Drink a bit of water and maybe get a little bit of food/sugar in your system.
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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: openmind]
#23450759 - 07/17/16 06:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've never had this issue and I have naturally low blood pressure always have. I eat copious amounts of salt though.
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Peyote Road
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I say low blood pressure, Ive had this happen to me on cannabis and shrooms.
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Re: Weirdness during the comedown... [Re: DustyBottoms]
#23451125 - 07/17/16 08:33 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Were you smoking weed around this time? Because if so that's probably why. They both lower blood pressure.
People who pass out while on shrooms will go and blame the shrooms not even thinking about how they just smoked bowl after bowl. People tend to forget about weed in these situations because of how benign it seems usually.
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openmind
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Quote:
ShadeOfDeepPurple said: I've never had this issue and I have naturally low blood pressure always have. I eat copious amounts of salt though.
My BP is naturally relatively low...I've fainted/collapsed and gone into convulsive syncope about 4 times from just cannabis/hash over the past 7 years. Once from relatively low amounts of cannabis/alcohol. And I've experienced very pronounced LBP symptoms similar to what the OP described, but right on the verge of completely passing out, 3 or 4 times from mushrooms & LSD over the years.
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AuroraBorealis88 said: Were you smoking weed around this time? Because if so that's probably why. They both lower blood pressure.
People who pass out while on shrooms will go and blame the shrooms not even thinking about how they just smoked bowl after bowl. People tend to forget about weed in these situations because of how benign it seems usually.
Totally...like you and the others in this thread mentioned, cannabis will do it for sure. Most of the stories I hear about on here from people experiencing low blood pressure or full on fainting from mushrooms as a result of LBP, it usually occurs after they've smoked cannabis and/or cigarettes....It definitely can occur when no cannabis or tobacco is involved, but cannabis can cause a rapid drop in blood pressure and will just exacerbate the LBP in general.
LBP can be a weird/terrible feeling experience in general...IME it's pretty dysphoric, a bit dissociating/spacey head space, dizzy feels, potentially anxiety provoking (especially if the person doesn't know what's happening)...and if one is high on a psychedelic and doesn't know what's happening it can be damn unsettling to the person and/or those around em'...even more so if the person's BP gets so low that they actually faint and go into convulsions .
The first time it happened to me (it was after 2 or 3 beers & 2 or 3 bowls over a couple hours or so, and I actually ended up fainting), I was kinda tripped out about it and didn't know what had happened. Then later that night I started to put the pieces together of the symptoms, and how alcohol & cannabis can both drop BP dramatically, and realized it was all the result of my BP getting too low.....Now I'm able to identify the early signs that my BP is getting too low and I'll usually sit down and chill out for a minute, follow my breathe, sip some water and eat a snack.
Dehydration and/or low blood sugar can exacerbate low blood pressure too.
But yea...once again, I see threads/posts about this around here alllll the time. I understand why peoples are concerned , because it can definitely be a shitty and unsettling feeling/experience if you don't know what's happening.
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