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[siannan]

Robitussin is so unbelievably foul that I cannot understand how anyone can consume enough of it to get stoned. Every time I take some I bellow afterwards from the sheer noxiousness of it.

Damn you, guaifenesin! Damn you to hell! And damn the pudding-thick phlegm that necessitates expectorants to get it the hell out of my trachea!

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[ragabashtule.livejournal.com]

I used to have bad dreams that my mom would give me Robitussin when I was sick, and it would burn holes through my cheeks.

-- Sarah

[wabmart.livejournal.com]

You can't get high off guaifenesin; it's the dextromethorphan. In fact, even if you get Robitussin DM you physically can't drink enough of it to get high without getting seriously ill from the guaifenesin.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

In high school, some of us gutterpunks would drink a bottle of Robitussin and sit on the floor and feel all wonky.

It's not the trip you would expect, but you can still get pretty out of sorts. But then we had to switch to Coracidin, or however you spell it.

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[wabmart.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's almost exactly what I'd expect. Dextromethorphan is a dissociative anaesthetic: it numbs not by deadening the nerves but by cutting off the signals. In a sense, if you cut your hand your hand would hurt but your brain wouldn't know it. In the same class are ketamine and phencyclidine, and what you're saying sounds pretty much like a low-grade K-hole.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, I never claimed to be cool, I only claimed to be in high school.

=P

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

I know that. I'm just pissed that guaifenesin works best/fastest in liquid form, and 'tussins invariably taste like python.

[meenk.livejournal.com]

M-O-O-N, that spells Captain Trips :(

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

Baby, can you dig your man? He's a righteous man.

[jennbits.livejournal.com]

robitussin doesn't bother me because i'm used to it, but i recommend entex (guaifenesin in pill form)

[mountain-hiker.livejournal.com]

That's how I feel about Nyquil. I have to drink pickle juice of all fucking things afterward to get rid of the taste. >_>

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

In a hair of the dog attempt to cover it, I usually take Ponaris (I think it's officially a nasal moisturizer or some shit, but it does a decent job of alleviating sinus congestion so I use it regularly) because I prefer tasting Pine-sol smell to the unpleasantness of the -tussins.

Incidentally, I have an acquaintance from college who trips on dextromethorphan and/or whatever's in Benadryl on a regular basis. Granted, it is the same person who told me her older sprog got into her Percocet (only licked the coating off a pill, didn't ingest any) because God was teaching her a lesson, so I'd take it with a pile of salt.