I did some lsd on the last day I finished up antibiotics for an ear infection. Day drank and hung out at the pool most of the day just fine. When it came to go to bed I was sweating and in pain. Almost thought I had to go to the ER. Sometime in the wee hours the pain broke through and then I went to have some tea and watch the sun rise I felt something poking out of my ear pulled a 2 inch hard and long thing out of it. 3/10 not a fun time, but affirmed to me that the body will do what it needs to to heal on psychedelics.
I'm guessing a mixture of wax and dried out infection, potential bonus of cotton from a q-tip. I looked at it and threw it away because who wants to deal with that?
Interesting thing about that. Last time I needed antibiotics, the warnings for the specific antibiotic I was prescribed said not to mix it with ergot based medications.
One time I had the flu and was just sippin’ off a bottle of Delsym. I thought I didn’t need no measuring cup. It’s just a lil sip and it worked fine. Then a couple days into the flu, I took a swig before bed bc who can sleep with a cough?
Only that time, it didn’t taste like orange flavor. It tasted like a chemical mystery was brewing at the bottom of the bottle. I tripped balls all night. 0/10 would not recommend that.
Crazy how easy it was to do! I’ve never robo tripped on purpose. I took some 2ci my friend later said was “cut with DXM” and had a bad time. Then I had that Delsym adventure. Idk if I could bring myself to try it at this age.
I have also done that, but it was a measured amount for a cough(I must be over sensitive to it).
Felt so weird - like I was tripping but not in a fun way. Was very disassociated.
Next time I think I'll just accept the cough. Not a fun experience
You’re likely missing an enzyme in the body that breaks down dxm. The rare few that are missing this enzyme will get absolutely blasted by a normal medicinal dose of dex
Really depends how sick you feel and if you’re okay with that feeling being amplified and stretched out for hours. It could really go anyway, but usually when we’re sick, our body screams for rest. Listen to your body, if it says you should probably sleep through it, don’t drop tonight. If you’re having an overall positive feeling about yourself emotionally and physically and can stay awake for at least 6 to 8 hours, go ahead.
imo it’s just better not to risk it when you’re sick with a fever
I had a cold and decided I'd just lean into it with a shroom trip.
Solo journey - embryonic cocoon style with eyemask and headphones / psych instrumental playlist'.
It felt therapeutic.
Nothing special, I was feeling sick, used shrooms if I remember correctly, then did some horny stuff, felt fine but dull-ish, then couple hours after trip I got temperature. That's it. I wouldn't do it again since I bet my temp would be lower without tripping and physical exercises. Kinda waste. Considering it's lsd sub your body will be more exhausted
Yeah I got really sick one time but I was going to an amusement park, I decided fuck it and took it and still went and it was the best choice ever, I felt totally not sick on it and was having a blast. One of the best trips I’ve had, probably also cause I was at an amusement park too
Yes I had a really gnarly sinus infection a few months ago and took some tabs with my girlfriend who was just starting her period and dealing with a bit of a head cold. We watched memento which is one of our favorite movies but it rightfully tripped us out this time. So we went on a long walk around a nearby neighborhood (middle of the night at this point). I was having a hard time breathing with my sinueses and she was very uncomfortable with everything she was dealing with. We ended up getting in a bit of an argument on the way home. Once we got home we tried to watch some music videos and stuff that usually gets us in a really good mood but she was still sad from our mini fight earlier and it made things worse for her. Her vibe completely ruined mine. At that point we were both having horrible trips. I tried to shower to reset my mind and it didn’t help at all. It just made me feel worse. So we both went to bed. I’ll never trip again while sick and she will certainly never trip again on her period.
Also I’m not sure if it was just me being sick plus the mental exhaustion of tripping all night, but the next few days I had such bad depression. Those were some of the worst few days I’ve had in years. 10/10 do NOT recommend
lol yes I had Covid and took 5 gels……I don’t remember hours 2-4. Def don’t recommend. It intensified whatever symptoms I had but not during the peak. After the peak sucked bad lol
Back in the 80s, I went to this sound & light experience at Amherst MA. I was feeling a cold coming on so I didn't want to even try to smoke any weed and as the evening progressed, I started feeling sicker & sicker but decided that I still wanted an experience so I took my first ever hit of blotter. I had shroomed but never got spun up on acid. I knew about the typical hour wait for it to hit and at 45 minutes, I felt nothing so I took a 2nd hit. Looking back, the cold probably masked most of the come up because 10 minutes later I was tripping my teeth off!
Went with the flow and had a ball ending with me walking around campus at daybreak and evidently the acid beat away the sickness because I felt great after an 8 hour nap!!
One time mid trip i felt what i thought was a spider bite, or a small prick in my mid finger, didnt think much about it but my hand began to swell up to about twice its size over the next day and a half, admitted myself to the er to possibly get on antibiotics, wtv. I was then admitted and put on 24/7 penicillin for three weeks because i has endocarditis from what i believe was my past iv use. No venom or outside bacteria was discovered in my blood either. I fully believe my body reacted in such a way to get me medical attention when i needed it most due to psychedelics
edit: it’s not really related to “sickness” per say but i believe in the right setting your body can and will adapt
I have once when I had the flu the flu. If you take some ibuprofen and you're not terribly sick, it's not too bad. I actually didn't feel that sick, but if you notice that you have a headache it will make it worse.
Not sick and not LSD but I had an asthma attack while tripping on shrooms at eforest. It was right before odesza and I tried to tough it out but it was too dusty in the crowd so I went back to the tent. I didn’t realise my inhaler was almost dead before I left and I had killed it the day before. We had some oxygen tanks that helped a little. I just had to lie down and hope that I could get some sleep. Eventually I fell asleep but my homies woke me up to make sure I was okay because I was wheezing so bad. I fell asleep again and when I woke up, a buddy and I took the bus to Walmart and hitchhiked to an urgent care where I got a new inhaler and some steroids and felt good as new. That night was hell tho. I wasn’t sure if I was going to wake up the next morning.
I have but I tripped on the second or third day of having a fever and not really the peak of being sick. I just kept a bag and tissues nearby so I didn't have to keep getting up to blow my nose and kept a trash can nearby in case I had to puke at any point.
There was definitely some pain reduction, likely since both acid and shrooms are mild anti-inflammatories. Acid definitely was fun at low doses(100-150ug) and I played the remastered destroy all humans which is a hilarious game. I also watched planet 51 for the first time in a while and was laughing my ass off for most of the movie. Music was also awesome but I will say I used it to enhance my experiences with games and movies a little more than usual because if I was staring at the wall watching the patterns for an extended period I'd hyperfocus on my runny nose or general sickness. But when I was peaking I still had moments where I get lost just looking at geometry without thinking about my physical state. After the peak is where the hyperfocus came in.
It has the potential to be either really fun or really shitty depending on person and what you're sick with. I had a cold with a fever so I had cough, runny nose, body aches, and chills. But I was able to hold down food and water just fine and wasn't experiencing diarrhea or vomiting. I think if you have diarrhea it might be a bad idea because sometimes I will shit on the come up of acid, feel like I've been shitting a bunch and stay there for a while, but then when I think I'm finished I realize I barely shit at all. With diarrhea I feel like it would be a sense of shutting for an eternity which would be uncomfortable and I think it'd be similar with vomiting.
So a cold or something similar is probably fine, but food poisoning, the flu, or more major sickness would be a shitty time(literally and figuratively)
My worst trip ever (perhaps my only true "bad" trip) was the day I discovered I had my first case of bronchitis. I had a subtle cough for weeks but then one night I dropped and went to a concert alone - which I discovered was also a bit overwhelming. I've tripped alone and it had always been fine, but in a huge crowd with no one to anchor me was challenging. Anyways, that wasn't the really bad part, which was when I ended up in the mosh pit on the verge of fainting because I simply couldn't get enough oxygen despite breathing heavily. I had to spend the rest of the concert anxiously catching my breath by the bar. Not fun, but as they say, bad experiences make good stories.
For me, it really depends on how you're feeling. LSD won't magically make your illness worse or better, but not feeling well can dramatically change your trip. That goes for whether you're ill or you have an injury - anything that can cause distractions. It's not to say that you can't have a good time, but it becomes more difficult when you have those things nagging.
Did it at Lost Lands this year, kinda of ruined the day because all I could focus on was the mucus running down my throat and how I couldn’t breath through my nose.
My wife had a bad sinus cold and the lsd wouldn't let her take her mind off of it. I boiled some tea and gave her a hot head/temple/scalp massage with a towel for a while and had her breathe in the steam. So it was a nice time in a way. My need to take care of her really took over.
in general not to be recommended while experiencing any physical discomfort or illness. I have not so good experiences tripping whilst ill or anything if the like.
I don’t recommend it, acid fucks with your sinuses (it was originally studied as a potential allergy med) and for me personally typically causes them to swell and stuff my nose. The one time I tripped while sick I had the worst headache because of the sinus pressure.
have candy flipped with a cold once. thought the entire time something was stuck in my throat and felt like i was on the brink of puking because of it for the entire peak. don’t recommend
Yep. Every time I’ve had Covid I’ve only had the mildest of symptoms so I’ve always treated it as a week long surprise vacation. I build a pillow fort, get high, and watch movies.
Only did it once when I had a pretty strong cold. I had gone on a weekend trip to a mountain chalet with my gf and some friends for my birthday and the place was amazing so there was no way I wasn't gonna drop with them.
All in all, the trip was actually great. Thankfully my nose wasn't too congested until later in the comedown, and anticipating the amplified discomfort helped. What I didn't anticipate is the extreme fatigue I was gonna feel in my body which made me pretty incapacitated compared to my friends lol.
With that being said, I wouldn't do it again. Being sick will make it very difficult to enjoy a trip and get the most out of it
I was sick with covid and had fever as well. Took 2 panadols to fight the fever and 2 tabs for the trip. These tabs were from a new batch and i was not sure how strong those were but i tripped for almost 20 hours so they were plenty strong i guess.
Not the best of the things to do for sure. Once the panadol was out of the system i was tiered and lethargic spent most of the night im the quilt which isnt really a bad thing i like tripping in bed too but its not like usual being in bed tripping if that makes sense.
I came down with pneumonia once while on some blotter at a show. I was coughing and had lots of fluids. A homie dropped me at the e.r. It was rough. Don't recommend it.
I did some lsd on the last day I finished up antibiotics for an ear infection. Day drank and hung out at the pool most of the day just fine. When it came to go to bed I was sweating and in pain. Almost thought I had to go to the ER. Sometime in the wee hours the pain broke through and then I went to have some tea and watch the sun rise I felt something poking out of my ear pulled a 2 inch hard and long thing out of it. 3/10 not a fun time, but affirmed to me that the body will do what it needs to to heal on psychedelics.
What was the thing tho!?
I'm guessing a mixture of wax and dried out infection, potential bonus of cotton from a q-tip. I looked at it and threw it away because who wants to deal with that?
Interesting thing about that. Last time I needed antibiotics, the warnings for the specific antibiotic I was prescribed said not to mix it with ergot based medications.
Never seen a warning like that, but it makes sense!
That's an incredible story.
Oh thanks this will help my internal bleeding
🤣 Haha I do not know how this would affect it and in good consciousness cannot recommend that you give this a try!
You can’t just leave us hanging on what the fuck was in your ear and how it got in there
I just did. Not recommended since it throws your body's temp regulation a little off
Not on LSD.
One time I had the flu and was just sippin’ off a bottle of Delsym. I thought I didn’t need no measuring cup. It’s just a lil sip and it worked fine. Then a couple days into the flu, I took a swig before bed bc who can sleep with a cough?
Only that time, it didn’t taste like orange flavor. It tasted like a chemical mystery was brewing at the bottom of the bottle. I tripped balls all night. 0/10 would not recommend that.
Lmfao i did the same thing 20 years ago lol!! Kept sipping off the bottle next thing i know im robo tripping on accident not fun
Crazy how easy it was to do! I’ve never robo tripped on purpose. I took some 2ci my friend later said was “cut with DXM” and had a bad time. Then I had that Delsym adventure. Idk if I could bring myself to try it at this age.
I have also done that, but it was a measured amount for a cough(I must be over sensitive to it). Felt so weird - like I was tripping but not in a fun way. Was very disassociated.
Next time I think I'll just accept the cough. Not a fun experience
You’re likely missing an enzyme in the body that breaks down dxm. The rare few that are missing this enzyme will get absolutely blasted by a normal medicinal dose of dex
Really depends how sick you feel and if you’re okay with that feeling being amplified and stretched out for hours. It could really go anyway, but usually when we’re sick, our body screams for rest. Listen to your body, if it says you should probably sleep through it, don’t drop tonight. If you’re having an overall positive feeling about yourself emotionally and physically and can stay awake for at least 6 to 8 hours, go ahead.
imo it’s just better not to risk it when you’re sick with a fever
I had a cold and decided I'd just lean into it with a shroom trip. Solo journey - embryonic cocoon style with eyemask and headphones / psych instrumental playlist'. It felt therapeutic.
I have and was so over stimulated I didn’t even remember I was sick.
This. Yes, body doesn’t feel sick for 18-20 hours straight, the whole trip. You feel sick again after being sober again. Lol
Nothing special, I was feeling sick, used shrooms if I remember correctly, then did some horny stuff, felt fine but dull-ish, then couple hours after trip I got temperature. That's it. I wouldn't do it again since I bet my temp would be lower without tripping and physical exercises. Kinda waste. Considering it's lsd sub your body will be more exhausted
I took acid when me and my wife had Covid. We half heartedly tried to fool around, then just sat there watching movies until we could sleep.
It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t the boost we were hoping for. It was more being sick while tripping than tripping while sick if that makes sense.
It was a nice change of headspace.
You ever smoke cus your sad and your still sad just stoned ontop of it? Replace smoke/stoned with trip/tripping and sad with sick
This is such a bad analogy
Can you supply a more suitable analogy then?
you should consider your health first
Yea was not a chill time felt off and “dirty” all throughout. Wound up feeling even sicker after the trip. Would not recommend
Yes, when I had the flu and it helped with my headaches. They disappeared completely, and didn't come back
Yeah I got really sick one time but I was going to an amusement park, I decided fuck it and took it and still went and it was the best choice ever, I felt totally not sick on it and was having a blast. One of the best trips I’ve had, probably also cause I was at an amusement park too
Yeah. Did shrooms while having a very slight cold. Felt like I was choking for the entire trip. Do not recommend.
Yes I had a really gnarly sinus infection a few months ago and took some tabs with my girlfriend who was just starting her period and dealing with a bit of a head cold. We watched memento which is one of our favorite movies but it rightfully tripped us out this time. So we went on a long walk around a nearby neighborhood (middle of the night at this point). I was having a hard time breathing with my sinueses and she was very uncomfortable with everything she was dealing with. We ended up getting in a bit of an argument on the way home. Once we got home we tried to watch some music videos and stuff that usually gets us in a really good mood but she was still sad from our mini fight earlier and it made things worse for her. Her vibe completely ruined mine. At that point we were both having horrible trips. I tried to shower to reset my mind and it didn’t help at all. It just made me feel worse. So we both went to bed. I’ll never trip again while sick and she will certainly never trip again on her period.
Also I’m not sure if it was just me being sick plus the mental exhaustion of tripping all night, but the next few days I had such bad depression. Those were some of the worst few days I’ve had in years. 10/10 do NOT recommend
lol yes I had Covid and took 5 gels……I don’t remember hours 2-4. Def don’t recommend. It intensified whatever symptoms I had but not during the peak. After the peak sucked bad lol
After recovering from covid, I felt like I had symptoms again during a mushie trip. And was beating myself up for being impatient during the trip.
Then I rememberer I had exercised that day and was healthy again and suddenly the symptoms went away. So likely all in my head.
Back in the 80s, I went to this sound & light experience at Amherst MA. I was feeling a cold coming on so I didn't want to even try to smoke any weed and as the evening progressed, I started feeling sicker & sicker but decided that I still wanted an experience so I took my first ever hit of blotter. I had shroomed but never got spun up on acid. I knew about the typical hour wait for it to hit and at 45 minutes, I felt nothing so I took a 2nd hit. Looking back, the cold probably masked most of the come up because 10 minutes later I was tripping my teeth off!
Went with the flow and had a ball ending with me walking around campus at daybreak and evidently the acid beat away the sickness because I felt great after an 8 hour nap!!
One time mid trip i felt what i thought was a spider bite, or a small prick in my mid finger, didnt think much about it but my hand began to swell up to about twice its size over the next day and a half, admitted myself to the er to possibly get on antibiotics, wtv. I was then admitted and put on 24/7 penicillin for three weeks because i has endocarditis from what i believe was my past iv use. No venom or outside bacteria was discovered in my blood either. I fully believe my body reacted in such a way to get me medical attention when i needed it most due to psychedelics
edit: it’s not really related to “sickness” per say but i believe in the right setting your body can and will adapt
I have once when I had the flu the flu. If you take some ibuprofen and you're not terribly sick, it's not too bad. I actually didn't feel that sick, but if you notice that you have a headache it will make it worse.
Not sick and not LSD but I had an asthma attack while tripping on shrooms at eforest. It was right before odesza and I tried to tough it out but it was too dusty in the crowd so I went back to the tent. I didn’t realise my inhaler was almost dead before I left and I had killed it the day before. We had some oxygen tanks that helped a little. I just had to lie down and hope that I could get some sleep. Eventually I fell asleep but my homies woke me up to make sure I was okay because I was wheezing so bad. I fell asleep again and when I woke up, a buddy and I took the bus to Walmart and hitchhiked to an urgent care where I got a new inhaler and some steroids and felt good as new. That night was hell tho. I wasn’t sure if I was going to wake up the next morning.
I have but I tripped on the second or third day of having a fever and not really the peak of being sick. I just kept a bag and tissues nearby so I didn't have to keep getting up to blow my nose and kept a trash can nearby in case I had to puke at any point.
There was definitely some pain reduction, likely since both acid and shrooms are mild anti-inflammatories. Acid definitely was fun at low doses(100-150ug) and I played the remastered destroy all humans which is a hilarious game. I also watched planet 51 for the first time in a while and was laughing my ass off for most of the movie. Music was also awesome but I will say I used it to enhance my experiences with games and movies a little more than usual because if I was staring at the wall watching the patterns for an extended period I'd hyperfocus on my runny nose or general sickness. But when I was peaking I still had moments where I get lost just looking at geometry without thinking about my physical state. After the peak is where the hyperfocus came in.
It has the potential to be either really fun or really shitty depending on person and what you're sick with. I had a cold with a fever so I had cough, runny nose, body aches, and chills. But I was able to hold down food and water just fine and wasn't experiencing diarrhea or vomiting. I think if you have diarrhea it might be a bad idea because sometimes I will shit on the come up of acid, feel like I've been shitting a bunch and stay there for a while, but then when I think I'm finished I realize I barely shit at all. With diarrhea I feel like it would be a sense of shutting for an eternity which would be uncomfortable and I think it'd be similar with vomiting.
So a cold or something similar is probably fine, but food poisoning, the flu, or more major sickness would be a shitty time(literally and figuratively)
My worst trip ever (perhaps my only true "bad" trip) was the day I discovered I had my first case of bronchitis. I had a subtle cough for weeks but then one night I dropped and went to a concert alone - which I discovered was also a bit overwhelming. I've tripped alone and it had always been fine, but in a huge crowd with no one to anchor me was challenging. Anyways, that wasn't the really bad part, which was when I ended up in the mosh pit on the verge of fainting because I simply couldn't get enough oxygen despite breathing heavily. I had to spend the rest of the concert anxiously catching my breath by the bar. Not fun, but as they say, bad experiences make good stories.
For me, it really depends on how you're feeling. LSD won't magically make your illness worse or better, but not feeling well can dramatically change your trip. That goes for whether you're ill or you have an injury - anything that can cause distractions. It's not to say that you can't have a good time, but it becomes more difficult when you have those things nagging.
yes, i had covid while on it but it wasn’t that bad i was just horribly congested, the trip was not effected other than my breathing
Did it at Lost Lands this year, kinda of ruined the day because all I could focus on was the mucus running down my throat and how I couldn’t breath through my nose.
Yes. I took LSD while sick with bronchitis and had a beautiful experience.
One time I got chased by dogs on my longboard around 2am and I wasn’t even sure if they were real
Just popped a tab on my 4th day of what is likely covid lets get it
Opiate withdrawals so yes in a sense lol. Wouldn't recommend btw
Ive tripped while my ass and legs were covered in poison ivy blisters
Was starting to come down with the flu but dropped shrooms before Jurassic world premier in theatres anyways.
Wasn’t super sick yet, but it’s essentially all I could think of most of the night and movie.
my ex had strep throat a few years ago and we tripped lsd. amazingly they felt like themself after the trip (not saying it’s a cure though lmaoo)
Oh yeah. A few times. And I still loved every minute of it.
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My wife had a bad sinus cold and the lsd wouldn't let her take her mind off of it. I boiled some tea and gave her a hot head/temple/scalp massage with a towel for a while and had her breathe in the steam. So it was a nice time in a way. My need to take care of her really took over.
LSD I had a migraine come on just as it started to hit. It was horrible. Do not recommend!
in general not to be recommended while experiencing any physical discomfort or illness. I have not so good experiences tripping whilst ill or anything if the like.
I don’t recommend it, acid fucks with your sinuses (it was originally studied as a potential allergy med) and for me personally typically causes them to swell and stuff my nose. The one time I tripped while sick I had the worst headache because of the sinus pressure.
have candy flipped with a cold once. thought the entire time something was stuck in my throat and felt like i was on the brink of puking because of it for the entire peak. don’t recommend
Yep. Every time I’ve had Covid I’ve only had the mildest of symptoms so I’ve always treated it as a week long surprise vacation. I build a pillow fort, get high, and watch movies.
Only did it once when I had a pretty strong cold. I had gone on a weekend trip to a mountain chalet with my gf and some friends for my birthday and the place was amazing so there was no way I wasn't gonna drop with them.
All in all, the trip was actually great. Thankfully my nose wasn't too congested until later in the comedown, and anticipating the amplified discomfort helped. What I didn't anticipate is the extreme fatigue I was gonna feel in my body which made me pretty incapacitated compared to my friends lol.
With that being said, I wouldn't do it again. Being sick will make it very difficult to enjoy a trip and get the most out of it
Nope no one has ever done that in the history of all humanity.
DO NOT TRIP WHEN SICK OR INJURED
I have on lsd on Covid and RSV. Covid wasn’t terrible Rsv sucked tho
I used to.. then I just got sick of it ☝️
I was sick with covid and had fever as well. Took 2 panadols to fight the fever and 2 tabs for the trip. These tabs were from a new batch and i was not sure how strong those were but i tripped for almost 20 hours so they were plenty strong i guess.
Not the best of the things to do for sure. Once the panadol was out of the system i was tiered and lethargic spent most of the night im the quilt which isnt really a bad thing i like tripping in bed too but its not like usual being in bed tripping if that makes sense.
I came down with pneumonia once while on some blotter at a show. I was coughing and had lots of fluids. A homie dropped me at the e.r. It was rough. Don't recommend it.
i have and i honestly forgot i was even sick. my voice was sooo fried tho
Just recently, and it was fun. Took my mind off the sickness for the day and gave me energy to do things as well
Yeah, it was fine, but it's like being sick and doing anything else, just a bit off.
few times, i dont even notice that im sick tbh