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Re: IMPORTANT POLL - Fainting on magic mushrooms [Re: Mateja] 3
#24903475 - 01/10/18 04:18 PM (6 years, 18 days ago) |
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I have fainted once while on mushrooms and have been on the verge of fainting a few other times.
A friend of mine collapsed and had some brief convulsions (convulsive syncope, not a seizure) while on mushrooms a few years ago.
And about once a month around here on the shroomery, over the many years I've been here, I have seen threads about people mentioning a story about someone fainting while on mushrooms....or thinking that they or their friend had a "seizure" while on mushrooms and they're all freaked out about it not knowing what happened.....But from reading the descriptions of what happened and hearing the story of it all, in just about every case it sounds like the person fainted because of low blood pressure and/or low blood sugar (BP and blood sugar are related, low blood sugar can lead to low BP), and had some convulsions.
This is convulsive syncope and not a seizure. Convulsions are normal after fainting but they don't always occur. When people are tripping and see this happen to their friend, or if it happens to themselves, and if they are not aware of what convulsive syncope is....I can imagine how freaked out people might become, and of course the conclusion is "it must have been a seizure".
Another thing that stands out in all the stories I've heard about people fainting from mushrooms over the years (like I said, I see threads/posts on the shroomery about this happening somewhat regularly).....In most stories the person smoked cannabis shortly before they fainted, and cannabis can cause a pretty dramatic drop in blood pressure.
So mushrooms have the potential to make one's blood pressure all wonky, enough so that I've fainted from them before. If the person fasted before taking the mushrooms their blood sugar is going to be low which will contribute to low blood pressure even more so...And then if the person smokes some weed that's going to drop their BP even farther.
Fainting while on mushrooms is indeed a somewhat common occurrence, or at least it's not unheard of, it happens from time to time & often enough to be a "thing" lol. Mushrooms alone can make BP a bit wonky, throw other factors into the mix like fasting and/or cannabis and/or the person already having naturally low blood pressure as it is, and some people are going to drop ....It's pretty harmless (so as long as one does't hurt themselves when fainting/falling) but can be a rather scary thing to experience or see happen to another if you are not at all familiar with the symptoms of low blood pressure (especially when tripping). The symptoms & feels of low BP are pretty shitty & dysphoric, feeling dizzy & lightheaded, tunnel vision, feeling very hot & sweaty or cold sweats, pins & needles, lots of anxiety usually....If that starts happening to someone while they're tripping and they don't know why that's happening I can see it really freaking someone out....
Or if, while tripping, someone see's their friend collapse and go into convulsions they're probably going to be all freaked out thinking their friend just had a seizure...but there's a chance it wasn't (in most cases at least lol).
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Edited by openmind (01/27/18 09:56 PM)
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Re: IMPORTANT POLL - Fainting on magic mushrooms [Re: Neurotech] 1
#28081260 - 12/03/22 12:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Neurotech said: ...I get a vaso-vagal reaction that makes you feel faint or actually faint, sometimes accompanied by urgent BM. Its a sympathetic nervous system responsethat causes a drop in blood pressure. No blood in your brain, you faint.
Went on for years until I read about a technique that works for most kinds of feeling faint. Clech all the muscles in your legs and rear end as tightly as you can for a few seconds. Repeat. Voila.
I get a vasovagal reaction from bee stings and shots/needles.
I recently read about that technique of clenching the leg muscles/curling up to help.
Since I last posted in this thread nearly 5 years ago, I still see threads on this topic pop up around here pretty regularly.
I fainted on mushrooms a couple months ago. It occurred towards the tail end of the trip. During the comedown I smoked a lot of hash and I was planning on having a sauna session. Shortly before heading into the sauna I felt my BP start to drop, long story short I ended up collapsing in the kitchen while trying to walk back to my room to lay down on my bed. I should have just sat down on the kitchen floor, I knew what was happening and thought I could make it the 15 feet or so back to my bed but I didn't lol.
When I finally did make it to my bed a couple minutes after fainting, still with very low BP, I felt like I was tripping very hard/intensely for a few minutes.
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