Mercury

I think I caught something from those filthy people at the Salvation Army last week. I came down a head cold but thankfully it wasn't a full blown flu. I was pretty incapacitated for about a week there.

So?

So I went to my Rite-Aid (strapped with my rewards card) and browsed the cold remedy isle. Low and behold(!) there is a ***NEW*** kind of Robitusson on the market! Apparently the company is doing a bit of an image change, they even have new packaging with green and blue boxes. The new syrups are "Peak Cold" and "Lingering Effects". Although technically at the time I was experiencing the peak of my cold, I noticed that the Peak Cold only contains 10mg of DXM while the Lingering Effects contains 15mg of DXM. So guess which one I bought ($6.99).

The next day I drank 9/10ths of the little bottle in a single dose....

Yeah, it took me back to the good old days.

I don't really drink cought syrup when I'm not sick because it seems far less appealing when I don't have any actual cold symptoms. But when I am sick, Robitusson goes down quite smooth indeed.

The effects came on swiftly and strongly. I really do love dissociatives.

I actually drank it before going to work! It wasn't my first rodeo, ya know, so I knew I could handle myself (and I did). There is something about carrying out tasks on DXM that is a strange mix of importance, confidence, anxiety, relaxation and independence. Every responsibility that was thrown put me in this primal-like defensive mindset where I absolutely OWNED the situation. I was acutely aware that I was very much "the man". Anyone who looked at me funny (and they did) did not elicite my paranoia but it incited within me a grave curiosity what they could possibly do about my situation. I waited on edge for someone to confront me for any reason because I was all too happy to defend myself for a time. But everything was above all managable and successful on every single account.

To be more to the point: I love DXM because it puts me in touch with the whole "fight or flight", reptillian brain. It feels magnificant to have such an instinctual capacity to avoid waste, stupidity, problems and instead to seek safety and security and economy.

Ftw!

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my_scatterheart

Were you super sleepy when you got home?

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Mercury

No I didn't get sleepy. It's not like NyQuil.

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Geeno

drug abuse ftw

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Terry

A few years ago I had a cold and I was like "omg I'll get robotussin and relive my high school glory days!" so I took like the whole bottle then threw up everywhere and felt really dizzy and laid down for the rest of the day and thought, wow I was dumb in high school.

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Purd Hupley

The only good part of a cold is getting to slam the Nyquil. Mmmmm...good stuff.

Mercury

I used to throw up my Coricidin D's as part of the "process" of coming up. I don't throw up my tussin. It does make me want to take a shit though. I always take it on an empty stomach too.

That's just wrong.

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eldizle

i had a thought like this awhile ago. I instead bought some echinacea blended tea with some other things that have a long history of human use as good herbs for minor stuff.

started drinking it just as it felt like I was going to be really shitty the next day before work, didn't feel shitty that day. started feeling a lot better, on a lot more compact time schedule than felt normal for a flu.

not exactly scientific proof of concept, but they've been used for a long time, and seemed to help in my instance.

lots of helpful herbs for making life easier.

my_scatterheart

oh, so then you had THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE, THEN?

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Mercury

Ummm, well, I was certainly "in the moment", to be sure. It sure makes a day one for the books.

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Terry

I need to start using "one for the books" more.

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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The Rev

Getting high on cough syrup. Yeah. If I did that when I was a kid, my friends would have beat the shit out of me for my own good. Too much time in front of the NES fucked more that a few of you kids up, I'm not unwilling to say.



The Rev

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Kompressor

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Mescalito

Don't they sell DXM OTC in the US?

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deadhead94

Your answer was in the first full paragraph.


He misspelled aisle but that shouldn't matter.

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profit

you sick whimsical bastard

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Captain Cannabis

lol

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adventure

I was 20 and the store manager of an Eddie Bauer and had a wicked cold, So I figured Id just swig some Robitussin back, (I first checked the ingredients) that was an interesting evening... I ultimately had my assistant manager close, I told her I was too sick to stay any longer. I talked outside and the effect multiplied. I stared at my car for about an hour. Ultimately after walking around the parking lot and deliberating whether or not to drive, I took a $40 tax ride home. I did have quite the interesting conversation with the driver.

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SageTree

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Stanton Peedman

9/10s of the bottle Mercury?? Really?

Go all the way or don't go at all