Hi. Im the one who had a bad trip yesteday, I will try to link it at the end.
What happened? Well, I have viral rhinopharyngitis, and I was supposed to take meds for that, but I dont have money until next week so I decided to just…wing it. Power through the sickness. And thats when I decided to take a random pill I found on my vanity.
Why did I trip? Maybe because I was already having floaty feelings on my body or maybe because I tried to use the things I sell in the store to cure my symptoms (spoiler: that made it worse) or maybe because I was desperate to sleep so I took a huge dose of melatonin to sleep (510 mg to be exact, yes, they sell that high) and it all just combine.
How do I feel? Horrible. I have been spitting/puking white foamy saliva, have horrible stomach issues (gassy, acidic reflux, less hunger). I have no sense of smell or taste, my tongue feels both burnt and waxy, while my water tasted like burnt coffee.
Why I didnt go to a doctor sooner? I dont have insurance yet, I technically have it, but I havent been able to get a clinic so I couldnt go sooner. My diagnosis was made by a doctor on a pharmacy, and that is the best I could get.
I still went to work, I completed my shift, so Im hoping that I will get my payment in full. Sorry for the rambling on the last post, and I hope this one is more readable than the last lol
TL;DR: I was “stupi” and got high by mixing a bunch of things trying to get healthy again.
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Dude, you told us you took cold/flu meds, not a “random pill”. What in the world did you actually take?
Don’t get have free clinics in us cities any more?
For the record, melatonin regulates your body’s sleep/wake cycle, so taking supplements off it interrupt that. The effective dose is somewhere in 300mcg-5mg iirc, and more is not useful beyond that. A quick Google suggests that melatonin poisoning is a thing, and taking such a high dose could explain some of your bad experience.
My personal experience with melatonin is that it can help me adjust my sleep schedule, but in doses <1mg, and it tends to give me bad sleep due to sleeping warmer than I usually would and waking up multiple times during the night sweaty. I’ve rarely had good sleep while using it. So if I’m looking for quality sleep I’d usually avoid it, but that could be in part I’ve just not found the right form of it yet. That said probably you’ll sleep better if you can treat your symptoms. Anyhow taking random medication out of desperation sounds quite inadvisable
you get diminishing-to-no returns with melatonin over like. 3-5 mgs, just for future reference. More doesn’t help you sleep better/more effectively, it just makes your brain even worse at regulating sleep-wake cycle.
Sure hope your “shift” wasn’t in a job where you could hurt anybody by being an idiot.