Long Term Coricidin/DXM/Cough Medicine Abuse

So, I abused Coricidin (triple c's) for about three years, along with Robotussin and Delsym on occasion.  At first it was with my friends on the weekends for about a year.  then i stopped for a while when i was on probation, and started back after six months of only smoking weed. this time i was hooked, taking coricidin by myself at least two or three times a week, and for the last year or so, i did it almost every day.  The most i ever took was 28 pills, but usually it was 16 (a whole box).  At the time, i didn't realize it, but I was delusional, and pyschologically addicted.  Finally, my mom noticed I was psychotic and took me to rehab.  My delusions were like everything from thinking i was being controlled by a snake that bit my brain to thinking my friends had planted a mind controlling microchip on my head in the form of a mole, just crazy **** like that and sometimes hearing voices and hallucinating, and A LOT of paranoia.   Other drugs i did just A FEW times during this period were LSD, shrooms, DSO, morphine, marijuana, and lortabs, plus a little drinking.   Since i've been sober for the last two months, I've realized that I was totally screwed up.  

Now WITHOUT ANY DRUGS, I'm having problems with my vision, like seeing specs of light, or my vision will be pixelated, and also lights like head lights, the moon, streetlights, the sun, etc. will be all stretched out, like when you squint really hard, except my eyes are wide open.  Other times i get blasts of light, like everything is overwhelmingly bright.  It's almost as if my eyes are still dilated.    My hearing is still like it was when i was tripping.  Music sounds so full and like it's got tons of reverb even when it doesn't, and i hear this constant white noise when i'm trying to listen.  It sounds crazy, but it's like i'm stuck in the afterglow of tripping.
Also, sometimes i can't sleep because my brain is racing with crazy *** thoughts, and then other times i feel completely stupid.  i'm having memory problems, trouble concentrating, and my muscles feel tight.  Off and on, I hear a voice in my head narrating my actions, I think it's from drug induced psychosis, and i'm still having fits of paranoia and delusions.  I can't tell if it's getting better of worse.  I'm scared I'm going to be tripping permanently.

Has anybody else been through this?   If so, how long does it take to feel like you've come down completely, or will it ever even go away?  Could it be withdrawals, or can you even have withdrawals from something that's not physically addictive?  How long will it take my vision to be normal?  Have I done permanent brain damage?  Are there any ways to speed up the healing process besides taking prescription drugs?  I think I've put enough chemicals in my body already, I'd like to get better naturally if that is possible.   If I stay sober, will drug induced psychosis ever go away?

[vicki595]

You need to see an M.D. , tell all of your symptoms,and what you were taking. Time to get honest with a professional...this is your brain!

Also,did you google cough syrup,abuse and side effects?

Vicki

[Matthew19H]

Well, i don't actually have a doctor or medical insurance...or money,   i guess i could go to county but at best they would write me a thirty day prescription and say ' take these pills' and then i would be like 'pills are what ****** me up in the first place' and then they would be like 'let us check your blood'  and then i would get an infection because it's a county hospital for poor people.

but seriously, reading these blogs on google is helping, some people have had similar problems, i just wanna know how well i'm going to heal if at all, and how long it's going to take.   most people are writing about their effects from coricidin while they're tripping and right after.  it's been two months.  will i ever stop feeling like i'm tripping?

[ali3674]

NO one can answer that question because everyone is different.  To me it sounds like you have done some serious damage to your brain , and your nerves.  U need to see a dr,

[coolguy6]

Ive been through exactly what youve been through, abused ccc's like a madman, trying to reach new plateaus, towards the end of my massive binging i was doing 30, even two complete boxes, I was completely messed up. The blurred vision when looking at lights, the truely insane idea and scenarios that would go through my head were frightening.Ive been off that stuff for about a year and half almost two now, i didnt abuse for as long as you, a year and a half of straight popping dxm everyday.I went from 8 and skyrocketed to 18 then 24, each trip.Those side effects go away, they start to fade slowly,your memory function will come back, fully.

[johnbob]

I took them from 16yrs old to 23....I can't say you will ever go back to normal because I know I am slow sometimes from it and have nerve damage.  I would be on ccc's for weeks at a time 24, 32, 72 a day.  I don't know how I lived...Honestly I would be more worried about the heart, liver, and kidney damage you may have caused, and or the higher risk of heart attacks when you get old.  Also if you are male the fact that it has a chance to enlarge your prostate... I have had chest pains from taking them since back when I was 16 and I still get them all the time.  Not being able to see a real doc *****, and I am in the same boat.  Don't mean to scare you but those pills are **** and they will kill you over time or quickly...  Hope you can keep off them, gl :)

[espo1148]

dude im you i need help my story is too ****** up to tell so do what you gotta do there should be a dxm anonumous......e mail me we can start a meeting. ***@**** well save ourselves in the processs

[robouser]

im the same way im 17 ive been doing robotussin for a year and it was fun at the time and i tried to quit 2 months ago and its like im isane or somthing i never no whats going on i just always try to be normal i turn skinny when i dont do and pale then i did it yesterday and i feel like a person again like the way i use to be i dont have crazy thoughts any more but it will come back if i dont use again i thoughjt it was only me i feel liek a vampire if i dont get my blood lol

[bena415]

ya i have been on tripple cs for about 3 yrs. i am just now realizing what damage i did to my self. all i can say is to eat right in your diet and seek help in wholistic hearbal supplments. If it was for these thing i would not be heree today. i was at a time of taking anywhere from 2 boxes in the morning to 2 boxes at night. i went insane but luckly i had family for support they took me in and sent me to rehab but it didint work i ended up in a mental asylym in and got out in 09 now looking back at things i just thank god that im am alive. your mind will play tricks on you and you may need to feel like you need to take it but at the point of putting those pills in you, you have to stop and think about the damge you are doing to yourself and most importantly the ones who you love so dear. is it really worth it to keep doin the same insane thing over and over? i realized that the sooner i stoped the sooner the trippin would stop and the more human i would feel cause face it we all took these pills to fill a void in our life something that we thought that we were missing . but you know what i have learned is that without coming over these obsticals i would have not been able top endure the thing of which i have went threw. the more you say to yourself today is day 1  and todays is day 2 and so on and so forth the more you are traing your mind to not to depend on dmx . its hard at first but stay close to those who love you and care for you and you will be able to endure your addiction to corrciden.

[frankthebunny]

I don't know what's going on anymore. I don't even know if what I'm typing is coming out correctly. I've been on Dex for over a year and a half now majorly. I've taken enough to reach to 20th plateau. I'm happy to say i'm still alive but i feel crazy every second of every day. wich by the way goes by like years. i repeatedly look at the clock to to find out that time is standing still i've been two feet away from people that i couldnt tell you what that looked like or even if they were white or black, male or female. This is THE most powerful drug i've ever taken and today i stop. the voices in my head are telling me over and over to kill my friends boyfriend because she's not happy. i told her last night that she was a bird and that if i just killed her boyfriend it would set her free allowing her to continue her life in total happiness with her kids. i see now after reading these posts that maybe if i do that i will wake up to a jail cell. i've had feelings i could never ever describe in my life. like the feeling of being able to walk into a store, put the store in my pocket, then walk right back out. Or the feeling that if i didn't keep my eyes shut really tight that my soul was going to escape through my eyes and go on an adventure and leave my body behind. this is no cough medicine. this is the coricidin devil and i worn every kid who is taking this **** to get off it now. I am 18 years old my girlfriend is 8 weeks pregnant. My name is Michael Palmer and today is the day that i never touch cough & cold medicine again. peace

[sherryberry991]

Hope everything goes well for you. Keep us informed. Two thumbs up!!

[regretfulfiend]

I started doing dxm when I was 16, at which point I was already smoking weed and drinking way too many energy drinks. I also drank a bit of alcohol now and then but it was never a problem for me. The first time I did dxm I took 15 Sucrets (225mg) and then after that it was the same amount or a little more on the odd weekend, which turned into every weekend. My friend and I would take dxm late on Friday or Saturday nights and then sneak out to smoke weed after my parents fell asleep, which was a potent combination that produced effects not caused by either of the drugs alone. For the first couple months that was the extent of my dxm use, though I smoked weed almost daily at school. I had a girlfriend who disapproved of my dxm use and somewhat disapproved of my weed smoking so when I broke up with her near the end of the school year I started doing a lot more of both. I started craving dxm often and couldn't get it off my mind so I began taking it during my last class on Friday so that I could get a jumpstart on my weekend tripping. Then I was doing it on random school days and smoking weed a few times a day before school, at school, and then before work after school. I just didn't feel like I could be sober and I didn't think that mattered because it was easy to get away with being high. If I was sober I felt agitated until I got high on something. It turns out that was a result of the dxm and not the weed. Once you're used to the buzz of dxm and the neurotransmitters that it makes your brain pump out coming back down to reality feels like walking into hell. That was pretty much grade 11, during which I was playing sports for my school, which I had done since grade 9, but was slowly losing interest in them. By the time grade 12 rolled around I no longer wanted to play sports because the practices, which were practically every night, took away from my high time. At this point, or even before, I should have realized I'd be in for some extraordinarily bad times if I kept up my dxm use but that didn't register to me. All I could think was, "This drug is amazing." It made me feel euphoric or at least very content, it gave me all sorts of strange and interesting  pseudo-hallucinatory effects, and it gave me an enjoyable body buzz that was a mixture between dizziness, pleasure, numbness, and adrenaline. At first it made me somewhat clumsy like alcohol but after a while I got used to it and then it actually increased my athletic performance because the numbness and energy feelings remained. I liked it way too much and that combined with the realization that I could get away with doing it all the time led me to be on it all the time. I was taking anywhere between 450mg or so to 600mg a day and I started smoking cigarettes, which I never expected myself to do. I tried to detox myself from dxm once but that only lasted a few days. I felt depressed and sick to my stomach so I got back on it. Eventually my parents caught me a few times and sent me to rehab for three and a half months. The whole time there I lied and said that I had changed my mind about drugs but the first opportunity I got when I got out I was on dxm again. I was fearful to smoke weed because my parents said they'd be drug testing me but then I smoked weed a couple times anyway, had red eyes that gave me away, got drug tested twice, and both tests showed negative for THC, so I started smoking weed regularly again. Eventually my parents knew I was high all the time again so they kicked me out. That was a bad idea. I was broke and had to move into a homeless shelter, which was surrounded by pharmacies. I started doing dxm in even larger quantities. I was exercising and trying my best to eat well but with the unhealthiness of dxm and too much caffeine I lost a lot of weight and got quite burnt out. After a couple months I went to rehab again so that I could move back home. When there a doctor checked the size of my liver and told me it was twice as big as it should be. I figured I was in decent health because I was in decent shape but it turns out you can still be in shape and have messed up insides. My parents wanted me to stay in rehab for six months. After just under four I couldn't put up with the place anymore so I went to another shelter, also surrounded by pharmacies. My addiction took over my common sense and I looked them up on Google Maps and marked them down on a map of the city so that I could go to a different one every day. I felt free once again so I quickly regained the tolerance that I lost in rehab and then some and started doing 2 boxes of Coricidin a day. It didn't matter that I was clearly high as a kite to the shelter staff because they weren't going to do anything about it. Then I got arrested for basically no reason (unrelated to drugs) by a couple cops out to fill their arrest quota and my parents bailed me out and took me back. I continued to do dxm every day so they revoked my bail and then after a month in jail they bailed me out again, after which I was doing dxm but getting away with it with just a bit of suspicion from my parents. However, recently something happened. I've gotten afraid of using dxm again. I was researching artificial food additives and sugar and decided to cut them out of my diet but I was still doing dxm. I realized it's probably just as bad, if not worse. Who knows what kind of toxic junk those pills leave floating around in your system? I was looking in the mirror and noticing that I look kind of like a junky, which I assume means that my insides are not very healthy. I noticed the same before but didn't care and just lied to myself telling me it was from lack of sleep but really, it's probably because I've been putting toxins in my system for years now. I haven't done dxm in a few weeks now, even though I still sometimes get the urge to because of old habits. Music helps a lot. Whenever I get cravings I listen to songs that sound like they're about horrible addictions and I exercise. I encourage everyone else who does dxm to do the same. Slowly my cravings are disappearing and I'm actually beginning to feel repulsed by the thought of taking more dxm. I'm scared of what it's done to me. I may have some pretty bad health problems in the future because of it. I might end up going insane. I still feel like I can think logically but I also feel like I have less of an attention span and not as good of a memory as I used to.

[M5undastood]

i think a lot more people know about this than we think and people need to speak about it so we can help possibly prevent this in the future because i myself am coricidin long term abuser....probably definetely have an addiction  and im pregnant

[slayerepoch]

I love you all. there is something inside us that made this drug appeal to us.  many people think overdosing on cold medicine is stupid but they dont get it.  Where coricidin can take you only a coricidin lover can tell you.  I tripped for 4 1/2 years and stopped doing coricidin about 3 years ago and im 25 now. I may have devoloped a minor bipolar disorder from doing this drug.  But you know what I say **** it. the great times I had and the friends I had and the people I met and the adventures would have never been possible if it wasnt for those little red pills. yeah its terrible stuff and you cant keep doing it but i dont regret "exploding" "dude we're not even here" turning tv's off with my mind, making lit cigarette's float because the man fishing in the parking lot caught a magic fish and taught us how, matt's crown royal bag full of tripple-c's that we would go on magical adventures with, pissing cops off because they couldnt figure out whats wrong with me, watching someone drink an ashtray thinking it was carrots. I could go on forever.

[dead_glostik]

I was a heavy dxm user as well but only abused CCC's for a short time.  I switched to preperations where dextromethorphan is the only active ingredient.  There is an antihistamine in the CCC's that builds up in your body over time and causes people to sometimes die of overdoses even though they may have only taken 16 pills in the session.  Robitussin long acting cough syrup and Robitussin cough gels are dxm only preparations - I state that for the sake of harm reduction.  This may be frowned upon by some but the best way to recover from whatever it is dxm does to your body is to quit dexing, be active, and SMOKE WEED. (Obviously only under the guidance of a doctor dealing with medical marijuana professionally)  The dxm creates a nervious tension over time and possibly causes nerve damage but the marijuana over time will force your nerves back into "relax mode" so to speak.  Depending on your duration of abuse it could take years to return fully but you will.  Also see: piracetam

[mookie377]

Hi mathew,I am glad you made it!! There are those you are constitutionally unable as a result of mental health to be directed to and comply with a treatment potocol.I can tell by the your vocabulary that you are an intelligent man.I believe your symtoms (symptoms) are that of(PAWS)Post acute withdrawl (withdrawal) syndrom (syndrome).there are studies on the brain that show it can take anywhere from 1.5 to 2yrs for the Neurological System to recover.I recommend a book by Dr. Daniel Amen:Change your Brain,Change your Life.Its a good read for an intelligent person. All the Best john

[Tstowe]

Wow. This blog is so helpful. I've been hooked on triple c's now for two years and am finally getting help. I was up to 2 boxes at a timeatleast 3 x a week. I was slowly killing the person was mentally and physically. I gained alot of weight and my brain reaction speed was at a halt. My wife was on the verge of leaving me. This blog is an awesome motivator and thank u to all the recovering users on here for sharing ur stories similar to mine and for making me feel like I'm alone w this.

[mike_mcgerry]

my name is mike and i used to take cordicidens everday for a long time when i was 16 im now 18 years old it never effected me that bad lately but until the past few weeks i notuced id wake up feeling just as high the day before i take used to take 16 ccc's a day and hear  ringing noise at all times sometimes im so bursting with energy i cannot sleep and sometimes i get so massive tired i feel like im about to passout where im sitting or standing i don't know what to do anymore and im scared that if i go to the doctor ill be thrown in a psychotic ward or back into rehab i have no insurance and no job so i dont want to be so far into debt that im thrown into prison for tax evasion i've already been to rehab and narcotics anonymous but i feel like im at the end of my rope and i'm scared that i'm going to die or lose my memory forever and that my wife will leave me i love her more then anything and if i lost her id truly want to just die is there anything i can do? anyway to feel like im not going to die everyday? its only been 1 day since ive taken them but i used to take 16 of them everyday and sometimes id take 8 more at night just so the next day id feel so high i thought it would be cool to be permanetly high but now... i cant even take a **** its been 2 days almost since i've taken a **** and i'm scared of my bladder exploding inside my body because its such a embarrasing way to die. someone... please tell me what to do... i have no phone the only way i can be contacted is if you email me.. my email is ***@**** if this website censors my email ill just space it or type it in code *********************(@) y a h o o . c o m (when typing it in make sure it isnt spaced and spelt correctly i go to the library everday im so scared.... i never felt hungy or cold lately i hope that someone else reads this and decides to respond to me. Well everone take care

[Tstowe]

It sounds like you are in a pretty tight spot. I'm a an RN student and former medic in the navy for 4 years so I have some knowledge on the medical side of things. As a recovering user myself, my first recommendation to you is to focus on breaking the habit first and soley focus on that. Before you can better your situation @ all you have to break the habit  cycle. I kno it's tough at first but u have to quit  cold turkey. That may mean u checking yourself in to a detox facility or maybe just some type of support group. This forum is a great place to start. I recommend also trying to keep itself occupied so u don't just sit around bc boredom is a huge factor in giving you the urge to take them. 2nd ly, it is defantely a  good idea to get a check up from a physician to make sure your renal(kidney) and hepatic(liver) aren't severely damaged and in need if a speciallized treatment. Both these test are just simple blood test. The physician will probally also recommend other test just to do a full functions test. I kno you said you don't hav insurance so my advice to you is to do some research on some medical INS out there. There alot of good co out there that are manageable u just have to find them. If that doesn't go well then I would try and atleast save some money up atleast for that one visit, enough for a full check up. In the mean time like I said, you have to stop taking these things. I'm going thru the same thing right now so  we can be a good support for each other. Thirdly, time is what it's going to take. Ur going to have to give your brain and neurological system time to recover. This is a lengthy process but it will happen. In the mean time do your best to maintain a healthy diet, including plenty of water(a multiVitamin wouldn't b a bad idea). As far as your relationship my wife was about one second away from leaving me bc of my addiction. My advice to you is to sit her down and show her you are serious about getting help and explain to her that your recovery process is going to take some time and that you need her support to help change your lifestyle. I kno this alot info but if you  are serious about this, this the way to start. I'll b on this forum regularly so if you need support I'll b here and it will help me as well. My email is tstart_25***@**** if you want to talk one on one. I'm not a physician or actual nurse(yet) bu like I said I have alot of experience in the med field and can provide w atleast the basic knowledge you need for a healthy life and re recovery. I hope this is helpful and I wish u only the best.

[DeadgirlRave]

I have been sober off triple c's for 10 years. I did it for 3 years like you and for a year I did it everyday. I got up to 6 box's I still have all the same symptoms you do. Plus heart pains and I had a mild stroke. I also had seizures last time I used it even though I only took 8 pills and now almost every time I use hallucinatory drugs I feel like Im going to have seizures and it always brings me back to my coricidin  trips. I can't even smoke weed its like Im having a flash back  I start going through the mental hallucination of dex.The damage I did to myself is permanent and I fear that Im going to die of a heart attack and Im only 25

[jaelyj]

Hi every one i came to this sight because i was trying to find out info my boyfriend of 3 years has been taking c's off and on since i met him he use to do it only once and a great while but for the past 3 months he has been taking them every day . If i dont give in and give him money to get them he gets really angry until i give in . We live with my brother right now and my boyfriend had a really bad trip about 4 days ago he took a box and then drank on top of it he went crazy my brother had to hold him down it was a mess . so the next day he told us if my boyfriend didnt stop and he caught him on them we would have to get out we just moved here a few months back and i finally found work but we dont know anyone here he hasnt done them since that night so for about 4 days now but he is being really angry with me like its my fault he tells me i dont care about him if i did i would go buy what he wants . He says he is going to go steal them and if he gets caught it will be my fault for not helping him i dont know what to do he wont go to detox or rehab says he doesnt need it can any one give me some advice ... Oh and weed is not a option cant find it here anywhere ive tried cause he said the same thing please help i dont want to loose him to this...

[D0NTtrip420]

Dear Frank, im in the same boat as you are. My girlfriend is 17 im 18. shes 34 weeks preg. and i couldnt be happier. DOwnside to this is my kidney has kinda been hurting..i tripped off delsym for about a month staright with only maybe a day inbetween some 4 day long trips..its crazy how bad it ***** you up..i started doing tripple cs at about 14 and i wont ever touch them again. Yeah, its fun, its great, but think about what youre doing to your body guys? what happens when you wake up one mornign after a trip and your insides hurt so bad you can't move? thin what? what are you going to do thin? youve got way to much to live for in your life to be doing dumb *** drugs i mean once and while is fun but not ever ******* day like i was doing. yeah, it makes you feel like youre beyond everyone else..that you dont even have to speak to communicate with someone while trippin..this may be true...but just think about what youre doing to your insides guys..learn from this. be carefuL>!!!!!!

[Rockredemption420]

So happy I'm not alone....seriously thought that I was the only one who was totally like mental man....but it's ok we're all gonna be alright as long as we DON"T DO THIS DUMB **** ANYMORE!

[skilowpaw]

you know man, i dont think we are going to be ok, i took anywhere from 8-20 pill every day for about a year, that year of use was about 4 maybe 5 years ago, ive been completley clean and sober for 42 months. my memories of that year of skittles is like a dream, all distorted and unreal, im pretty sure most of you seen that "tail" of light coming off you cigarette cherry when it moved around, or when you spit in front of you it was almost as if you can see the path the spit went, like the light drag, when you come down off the trip, well.......days even like today when im stressed tired and worn out, i still get a moment of those trails. and moments of just spaced out staring off in the "distance" or things sort of "sliding" around like carpet sliding in and out of itself across the floor ya know what i mean? i think if these things are happening now at age 24 when i get stressed and tired, then i can only wander how truly ******, me, you and anyone else who went too far over the line, are going to be when we become old, tired worn out people. im pretty sure that the only good thing that could happen later on is developing a severe case of dementia and never even knowing we died : /  so yea, best of luck

[ShaveMaiWeasel]

I'm about to endure the journey of coming off these evil little red devils myself. I'm sure there's a long hard road ahead of me, but with negative people like redrockredemption420 in the way it's only going to get harder. Nothing is impossible when your mind is set on it. And anyone who's done coricidin knows it isnt physically addictive but damn is it mentally addictive. You'll go way out of your way to get them just for that couple hours of comfort. But as I type this I realize I'm going to have to endure a few weeks of extreme discomfort. Headaches. Intense Boredom. Body aches. Depression. All of this is to come. But their's a light at the end of every tunnel. And while this may be a long dark tunnel we have to venture through, their will be a finale. Stay strong, people. I'll do my best. [nowing you all are doing your best is a great support.

[LotusB34]

My boyfriend takes the Coricidin, or what ever equivalent a store carries. He has been taking it for I don't even know how many years. We have been together for 2 years he's taken it the entire time. He is 34 he takes a box and then takes 2 or 4 through out the day to maintain the high. He is so stupid on this crap he can't talk, he walks funny, his personality is so docile it's ridiculous, and worst of all he can't get it up. I am at my wits end with this crap. HE IS POWERLESS against this crap. I myself took a  box February 2012 just because I didn't understand why he was so hooked on it I HATED the feeling it was awful I haven't taken any since. It's not expensive it's easily accessible and from what I've been reading about it extremely addictive. My 18 year old daughter could easily walk into a store and buy it, that scares the hell out of me. I don't know what to do about my boyfriend he says he wants to stop but he can never make it  more than 24 hours with out it. I'm really just trapped and I don't know how to work it out. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

[luv2my5]

Is there a online hotline for talking with someone about this additction to help them quit?

[ImDONENoMore]

There are a lot of hotline nos to call - just google what you're looking for and you'll get a ton of links to help get you connected.  Good luck to you!

[RichelleJ]

I've been abusing robitussin since I was fifteen years old, and I'm now twenty. I can't get off of it, but I can feel my body completely going downhill. My tongue bleeds, my head aches, I can feel my liver hurting, and chest pains. I take roughly two large bottles of robitussin once a day, the whole bottle lasts me the whole day.. I'm scared, because now I do things without even realizing it. I wake up in the middle of the night and go on the computer, and actually speak to my boyfriend. And I have absolutely no memory of doing any of those things. I feel like I really have put some damage to my brain, and I'm terrified. But I can't stop. I need help.

[bahamamama13165]

Do you have health insurance? Can you go to inpatient rehab? You really need to stop.  Yes, it does cause lesions on your brain.  Your young, you can turn this around. You could always contact your local NA group for support. Good luck!

[Killform94]

I've read most if not all of your comments, I started taking "Triple C's" when I was 18, my fathers girlfriends daughter introduced me to them, along with a whole new world of pleasures I'd never known existed, this continued for about 8 months, after she left I found myself feeling empty with her gone and started to take them for more than just recreational purposes I wasn't having fun anymore I was taking them to fill a void that she left in my life, well one day I had a horrible horrible trip and puked for 3 days, I was coming up on 19 years old when that happened, I'm now 23 and I've taken triple c's or some equivelant of DXM a total of about 5 times in the past 4 years, each time its been a huge chore to even make myself swallow the stuff, as soon as I start to think about it my mouth starts tasting metal and I feel sick to my stomach and as I'm sitting here writing this I've had a box of Coricidin on the top of my dresser for the past 6 months to remind me where I was at one point in my life and just looking at it makes me sick to my stomach, I'm not quite sure what brought this negative side effect about but I thank God daily that I can't take them anymore like I used to, I have said a short prayer for each and every one of you out there struggling with this addiction, I've been there and I know its hard, NEVER EVER GIVE UP HOPE THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER IN LIFE YOU JUST HAVE TO WANT IT BAD ENOUGH!
God Bless you all.

[john699318]

Look up hallucinagenic persistence perception disorder or HPPD.  This will go away with time.  Stop smoking everything.  Caffiene will make you have worse anxiety than a normal person.  Start reading alot.  This will help you with your concentration problems.  God Bless you.  Pray for the Lords help.  I have had the exact problems for the exact reasons.  Ask Jesus to help you.  

[mylosthope]

My boyfriend and i starting taking triple cs and delsym about 4 years ago on a regular bases. we would take atleast 24-72 cs at a time and trip for 3 days straight. i used to love the high but then my tolerence got too high and now i have to take enough to almost kill me. we were both consistantly doing dxm for about 2 years straight. i was literally insane, and i didnt even realize it. i would sit in my room at night and legitametly thought that two of my friends were in my room with me and i was talking to them the entire night. i could see and talk to them, and it seemed so completely realistic. i would crawl around the corners of my house at night digging around constantly looking for something but i couldnt ever remember what i was looking for. when i would try to talk, my speech was so disorganized, you couldnt understand a word i was saying. and i couldnt understand why i couldnt talk. ive had some really bad experiences with this drug, but by far the worse experience i had was when i drank 2 bottles of the family sized delsym. i remember sitting criss cross apple sauce on my friends room, and all of a sudden my heart starting beating really fast then it suddenly stopped and i got really cold and then i felt nothing.i was completely blind and incoherent, i thought i was dead. but for a second i thought i snapped out of it, i came to, and i was standing in the corner of the room thinking what the **** just happened, then i look on the floor and im just sitting there slunched over unresponsive. i couldnt even comprehend the situation that was going on, i thought that i had truely died. i walked up behind myself sitting on the ground and touched my shoulder and it was cold. i then turned around to look myself in the face. and this image still haunts me to this day. i was staring into the eyes of myself face to face, and i just looked so dead. my face was pale and blue, my eyes were blood shot, i was looking at myself dead. then this is where things got foggy, i remember nothing. and i was back in my body. it felt like i just took my first breath of life, i had no idea what the hell had just happened. and when i had asked my friends the next day what happened to me? they said i seemed fine, i was just sitting there talking with them and i never passed out. the reason i started abusing dxm was because i was extremely depressed and this was honestly the best way to escape from yourself and your head. i have been hospitalized numerous times for overdoses and suicide attemps i have even stayed at a residential facility. finally i just started hating the high everytime i did cs, it wasnt the same anymore, it just made me feel insane. i thought i had completely lost my mind, and some trips would last so long that i thought i would be permanetly like that. i stopped daily abusing dxm after about 2 years, mainly because i was instituationalized for half a year and i was also sent to the department of corrections for 5 minutes. but honestly those things were a blessing to me otherwise i would have never gotten off the cs and i could never think rationally again. its been about a year since ive done dxm, and i feel like i am permantely damaged from it. i have an extreme seperation from reality, sometimes i dont know whats real or not. i constantly have nightmares and my dreams are so vivid that i honestly dont know what was reality or a dream. i get really nervous when people talk to me, i try to keep eye contact but im constantly looking away. and i feel like when someone is trying to talk to me, my brain cant process what theyre saying fast enough and i get really confused easily. i am so overly paranoid about every little thing. i constantly go over in my head about the weirdest things happening to me. i have pretty bad social anxiety now, whenever someone is talking or laughing i automatically assume that they are talking about me and i freak out. i have also been having pretty frequent panic attacks, and each one is a little different. sometimes ill start to feel nausous and like im about to pass out, i cant breathe, then everything gets really loud at once and then i cant hear anything. i honestly feel like im dying. other times ill start to see flashing lights and my brain will start to feel all fuzzy and im hypervenilating and i have to seclude myself from everyone to calm down. my muscles are constantly tensed up without me even realize it and it cause alot of pain. i also unknowingly clenched my jaw so much that it hurts and my teeth actually loosen up. i have this feeling of inpending doom sometimes, but not all the time. sometimes i get so nervous and paranoid over nothing i think i see shadows in the dark and i feel like someones in my room, and not neccessarily a person, more so a demon. i feel so socially awkward when meeting new people, it makes me feel really unfortable. and i used to be such a social butterfly. sometimes i feel like im losing my mind, and i honestly dont know what is wrong with me. if you could be inside my head you would probably lose your mind. but ive learned to hide it well, for the most part. i dont talk to anybody about the things i experience because i feel disguisted by myself for having this wrong with me. i constantly get migranes (migraines), and randomly ill feel like im really ****** up in class. ill be sitting there and then i start nodding off and i feel so stupid and confused because i have no idea what shes talking about. ive been diagnosed so many different things, but they dont fit my problems. i honestly do think that i toxic physcosis from the long term use of dxm. i feel like my brains slowly deteriating. i forget how to spell 5 letter words. i have the most terrible memory. i honestly couldnt remember anything i did yesterday or any conversations ive had with people unless they remind me. it makes my friends so upset because im constantly retelling them same stories because i dont remember having the conversation and it makes me feel so stupid. i really need to seek some professional help but ive been to so many places and none of them have helped. i need a doctor that specializes in polysubstance abuse mental affects. and its a lot worse for my ex boyfriend, hes done a lot more than i have in life and it breaks my heart to be with him because i can see his brain deteriating. he forgets simple tasks such as opening a car door, making mac n cheese, and being able to hold a conversation. he is almost impossible to talk to because he doesnt usually understand and hell reply with like one irrelevent word. im just hoping that my problems wont progressively get worse. i cant still function normal in society but i fake it through every day, no one would ever suspect the **** that goes through my head. i just really need a good doctor to talk to.

[sweetpea12372]

If u want to live a long healthy life stay away from this ****!

[Joker420]

I am David Jervis Jr and I have abused all forms of Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide and Dextromethorphan Polistrex containing products for the past 7 years of my life. I am 21 and turn 22 on June 30th, 2013. I am increasingly paranoid and I do not eat or sleep for days when I am sober. I have become irritable and even violent. I also hallucinate constantly and frighten people when I talk to them, and they even fear for their life when I'm telling jokes. I have become disturbed and everyone knows it. I have noticed that I do not feel emotions the same anymore, and fear/guilt have grown stagnant. Anxiety festers to a life-threatening level, and my short-term memory is now shot, but my long-term memory has actually increased sixfold over the years. My heart pounds often, but I am actually able to run mile after mile and I lift weights. I just recovered from a relapse...but every single time I binge for weeks and weeks at a time taking 16-32 at a time, about 1-3 times a day. I feel as if my mind is no longer the way a human mind should be. I feel alienated, but I remember everything I see or hear, smell or taste...and the only time I do not remember anything is when I have psychotic episodes and black out.
I hope this is informational to all who read it.

[KT12345678]

i'm 25 years old and i first tried cori when i was 13, i used to do it in high school on the weekends with my friends and i would take 10-16 pills to get high. i stopped taking them my junior year of high school because one of my friends got caught doing them so all of our parents were keeping a close eye on us. however, now that i am in grad school for counseling i have started taking them again. at first i took 7 pills on the drive home to visit my family over Christmas break. i have a lot of anxiety and it helped me calm down. but now i have been taking them for 3 months straight and take 14 in the morning and sometime 8 more in the afternoon. it makes me feel awake and alive and focused and happy. i am also on an antidepressant and for some reason the combo is so amazing. i don't know if/when i will stop but i'm not having any negative side effects at all. it makes me sleep really well, i eat less which is great because i'm trying to lose weight. i know it is harmful to ur body but i feel sooo good! i also smoke pot daily and all 3 together is like the best cure for my depression and anxiety that i have ever found. but at the same time i feel so GUILTY for abusing this stuff.

does any one know what i'm talking about or has any one had this experience? i don't really get messed up anymore on them i use them to be productive and get stuff done.  

[selfinduced]

Check out fallonrains post. She articulates what lies ahead in this addiction to these type of meds. You sound like such a bright girl with your whole life ahead of you. Honestly I don't know the longterm effects/damage first hand but have read many horror stories on the dead end road you'll certainly face. Please stop now while your option is still there and your not in so deep that you'll suffer unneedlessly. Much luck to you.

[caseyrae]

To KT1234 5678 I am going through the exact same thing. E mail me, I want to talk. Im rachel, 19 years old. ***@****

[happypenguin]

i started doing triple cs when i was 18 yrs old it is some of the happiest memories of my life, i absolutely loved tripping and was addicted to the overwhelming feeling of happiness and confidence i gained from them, at certain times i thought i was a princess, i also would go on stealing binges at wal mart and not think twice about it and thought i was invincible doing just all kinds of crazy things... the very first time that i took them i took 64 because i had only take 16 and was so convinced cold medicine couldnt get me high so i kept popping them not realizing that sometimes it took a while to kick in i ended up taking 64 the first time and  there after went from 16 for a while up to at the most 100. honestly. i took them all day everyday and built up a super high tolerance i thought i was invincible but you know what im lucky im not dead. instead i ended up spending about 3 1/2 years of my life in prison over stuff i dont even remember doing like stealing from stores and fighting its really crazy to come down from a trip and sleep for days in a jail cell until you finally come around and wake up and have to ask a guard why you are in jail what did you do. i lost ex to the drug, as he is still strung out on them severely i lost my home my vehicles and even my daughter because i wouldnt stop tripping, this all lasted from the age of 18 until i was 23 years old im now 25 and live with the regret every day of my life,

as to get back on ur question, some of the side effects may never go away, everybody is just different some are more lucky then others some ppl are so crazy from them they are in mental hospitals my tick from triple cs was that i would what u call "jerk" it was like i was overdosing off of them and having seizures and my vision would go crazy along with my hearing i would be in another mental world now being almost 26 sometimes as i sleep i feel like im going into that darkness STILL after being clean for years and i will jerk awake with a severe headache and a feeling of pressure at the base of my school and i will be in pain all day, they havent been as frequent but they still happen. also i lost some of my hearing in my left ear, because when they were coming out my system all the nasty toxins coming out my body made me sick and i developed a severe cold because the cccs are a cough suppressant it suppresses all the germs into your body and once u dont have the drug anymore it all comes back out through ur pores and body at once after being suppressed for so long.... i got really bad ear infections and sinus infections that i lost that hearing. my short term memory has also been damaged which still hasnt gotten any better you can tell me something and i will immediately forget it or i will repeat myself.

everybody is different the drug effects everybody in a different way.... i know this may seem a little harsh but all you can do is pray it goes away because you dont ever know what damage you really have done to your brain until its already done. there isnt a lot of information on the after effects but just be happy your still alive because many are not. if you are still abusing stop now before you end up in jail or prison or even worse dead. because it all comes in stages.
best of luck maybe if your lucky it will all go away.