What's the worst drug experience you've ever had?

[FieldsOf]

NC'd for this!
My DSis were talking about our heady young days and the 'dabbling' we did
For the record, I'm talking a few episodes of stupidity many many years ago, and am not in any way endorsing drug use, in fact this thread could be seen as more of a cautionary tale.
She told me that once she took magic mushrooms and had a completely awful experience where she felt nothing was real and she would be stuck in the 'dream' forever. She honestly never thought she'd get out. Never did it again.
I had a horrible experience on pills when I thought I was two different people. I kept switching between the two people and it was awful, I had no idea who I was or what was happening and it lasted about 3 hours Never touched anything ever again, that was about 15 years ago.
What's your worst experience?

I've had two,both prescription drugs. Twenty five years ago,when I first developed rheumatoid arthritis,I was prescribed a drug called Sulphasalazine,which is meant to slow the progress of the disease. You take it in increasing doses,one tablet a day for a few days,then two,then three,up to a maximum of four after two weeks. By the time I was on two a day,I couldn't stop throwing up. The doctor told me to stop taking them,but it took two days for them to get out of my system. I was literally retching non stop.
The other was also for my rheumatoid arthritis,shortly after the Sulphasalazine episode. I was given a gold injection. Twelve hours later,I came out in a bright red,scaly rash,literally from head to foot,and all over my face. I looked a right sight. So again I had to discontinue the treatment.

Using Aspartame the very common sweetener. At the time it was sold as Hermesetas Gold – pure white chemical powder.

Awful panic attacks and heart palpitations especially at night. Bloody nightmare.

My GP diagnosed the problem immediately, with the bad news that it’d take two years to clear my system. He was right.

It’s still on the shelf now, and in a lot of ‘lite’ soda drinks. It should be banned.

Alcohol. It has ended a childhood, broken trust and done untold harm. So freely and cheaply available.

Only ever had amazing times on recreational drugs, I'm a sensible, practically teetotal 47 year old now but look back on those days fondly.
Speed at raves (in clubs and fields!) acid at Glastonbury... such fun but maybe I was just lucky?

I'd tried a few things in my late teens in the 70's. One night I found myself in a car with some blokes who I knew vaguely. One gave me a tablet which he said was speed. Within a short while I was in abed somewhere miles from home watching hundreds of little monster type creatures moving all over the ceiling and down the walls towards me. It was absolutely terrifying as I had no idea what was happening so assumed it was real.
Looking back I'm glad I survived, nowadays I'd imagine I would have gone to the police as had been clearly given something that wasn't speed and ended up really compromising myself.

Smoking weed after a 10 year layoff. In the old days, it gave me a relaxed and cheerful clarity. This time, it hammered me practically unconscious for 2 hours, then I went into a paranoid downer for 12 hours. Never again.

Little Brother infrequently using weed in his late teens went on to develop a lifetime of schizophrenia and then died before he was 50... His quality of life with non-existent and the drugs used to manage the symptoms of schizophrenia improved it but can often contribute to early death. It broke our hearts and the stress of it all shortened my parents' lives.

RIP Little Bro xxx

Took a microdot in 1989 (strong LSD). 12 hour nightmare from beginning to end, where i saw the depths of hell, my own rotting dead body, people covered in blood, people with grotesque faces laughing. I thought my body was a skeleton and when i drank it was just coming out of my jaw and down my front etc. Didn't help that i lived in a squat where people smoked a lot of weed and listened to bands like Ozric Tentacles. I sat on the bed and thought if i lent back i would fall back into a pit of boiling lava, there were mice running along the walls and so on and so on.

It was completely horrific and affected me for years after. If i so much as smoked a tiny bit of weed I used to get terrible flashbacks. In fact sitting here writing this has made me feel a bit shaky and weird.

Hallucinationating I was travelling through stars and space when first given Citalopram...head rolling backwards, crawling skin..there were other horrible side effects too. I managed to wean myself off of them, and will never take AD's again.

Being unable to walk straight, lift my legs properly or stop crying after my drink was spiked in a restaurant, the next day I felt like I was dying with one of the worst hangovers I've ever had.

Despite years of all sorts, for me it was weed!

Mixed my drinks all night then finished with a bong.

Within 15min I was in the grips of a full on panic attack. Huge paranoia and terror. The initial episode lasted just under 4 hours. Felt absolute terror. Can't even describe it and I was convinced I was about to die. I begged DH to take me to A&E (he didn't thankfully!)

After I finally fell asleep, I woke to a 4 day mental health hangover. Anxiety, fear, worry, panic. It took me almost a week to feel fully 'me' again.

Funny as I'd been a regular smoker for 15 years prior to that. It came right out of the blue after never experienced anything like it in my life before. Something must has switched in my brain. I've never touched it since. Maybe I'm getting too old

The first time I took ketamine I was at a free party in London and it was literally like someone smashed the lens of my vision with a hammer, everything was fragmented and in shards. I pretty much dragged myself around London, alone, aged 17, off my face, for about 6 hours, navigating the tubes and the city to get to my friends and get home. At the time I didn't realise how incredibly vulnerable I was and it's only looking back now I realise that I was really fucking stupid. For about 4 years we all took loads of drugs, but that one experience stayed with me. The only truly horrible times were on cannabis actually, it made me intensely edgy and paranoid and never felt like a clean trip like acid did, it was always gritty and dirty feeling. I stopped for ages and then smoked a tiny amount on a hen do in Amsterdam and had the worst 3 hours of my life. The only time I have actually thought I would die was through alcohol.

I am thankful beyond my wildest imagination that 'legal highs' weren't commonplace when I was young, because I would have taken them and I would' have got screwed up on them.

In hospital after having my 3rd child I hallucinated on morphine, through a slit in the curtain I could see all these awful things happening down this long tunnel and the sound of babies crying and muffled voices was just awful. I, in my sleep deprived state, became determined to keep awake because I didn't want them to come in and steal my son and hurt him. That was a pretty awful night.

I would absolutely never do drugs again, I'm quite glad I experimented and wouldn't change it, but I'm done.

@BigusBumus
I had VERY similar experience in 1990 on LSD - like you, it affected me for years 😱

Two asprins in a bottle of cola was the drug of choice in our youth

Illegal: When my university house mates and I made space cakes and misjudged the amounts. It sounded to me as if everyone was speaking backwards, which was at first hilariously funny and then completely terrifying. I had to go and hide in my room and lock the door for the rest of the night.

Legal: Nytol, which I took once, and the resulting combination of sleep paralysis and dreaming that the devil was standing at the end of my bed ensured I will never take again. Or gas and air while giving birth to DD. I took one puff and started projectile vomiting, which was apparently very bad as I was in the birthing pool at the time. DH was trying to catch it all in a cardboard bowl while the midwife was shouting “don’t let it go in the water!!” Deeply disappointing as I’d been told it would make me feel brilliant.

I've taken tons of illegal drugs and had a fab decade doing so. Smoked some Spice a few years back (when it was legal) and was traumatised. I couldn't think, speak or move for about 2 hours. My brain forgot all of the words. I remember looking at the chair and the window and not knowing what they were called. And I only had two puffs on the joint.

I'd rather my kids did Class As then touch any of these new synthetic drugs. It was terrifying.

Oh god we’ve all had those furry wall moments at some point, Op!

A couple of times smoking weed I went weird (once had a panic attack) and the other my friend and I just couldn’t take our eyes off this mantelpiece, couldn’t speak or move, we just both knew we had to focus on that to stop ourselves from dying or imploding or whatever.

Another time did coke but it was actually speed, that was hectic. My best friend went really paranoid (she’d drawn some eyebrows on her forehead with felt tip and was begging me to wipe them off.) Yeah it wouldn’t come off lol.

Another friend spent 2 hours hiding under my hair (face pressed to the back of my neck) after taking a pill at a festival. The softness of my hair was all she could hack!

There must be lots more I just can’t remember them right now! Must be all those drugs messing up my memory 🤭

Good but very distant memories now I am totally teetotal!

@milksoffagain

Some of these sound utterly terrifying. I also felt a bit 'weird' even writing about mine in the OP. The brain is a strange machine.....

Another friend spent 2 hours hiding under my hair (face pressed to the back of my neck) after taking a pill at a festival. The softness of my hair was all she could hack!

I laughed. I'm sorry.

I've had all good experiences with recreational drugs, not that I've had many.

It was the morphine they gave me after my c section that did me in. I tried to leave my bed after six hours and thought I could fly. I hated every second of being on that and instead just took paracetamol from then on it, even though I was in immense pain!

All my recreationals have beeb quite fun. Even my 'bad' trips were exciting in a roller coaster sort of sense.

Once was 'possessed' on shrooms. Another time had a demon manifest from the night time clouds and lean down to consume me. Can't find good shrooms these days or I'd do them again in a second.

As a teen I was hospitalised with a kidney infection, but they weren't sure it was that so they starved me in case I needed surgery. Then gave me diclofenac and pain killers on an empty belly so I was sick a lot. Then gave me an anti emetic injection while family were visiting and it went to my head, literally, I felt it travel up to my brain. And then I burst into uncontrollable tears and couldn't speak, even though I wanted to desperately to tell my family I was fine, it was just the drugs. It was like someone injected me with depression. I say that as someone with experience.

Got paranoid after a night smoking weed at a friend's house. Walking to the Tube to go home, I was convinced that ever car that passed me contained a sniper. I was ducking down behind hedges and all sorts. Awful!

I've taken a few things but oddily enough my worst experience was on gas & air whilst in labour with dc1. That stuff doesn't like me at all. The lack of sleep and dehydration weren't helping but I swear there was a large green and yellow snake wrapped around my thigh. The hospital were equally sure they don't let large snakes roam the labour ward.

Thank you OP x

@FieldsOf haha don’t be sorry, it was hilarious!

In seriousness, the worst reaction I’ve seen to a drug was my mum withdrawing from alcohol. She could genuinely see a man looming over her shouting in her face. Another time she lost it and wrote ‘leave me alone’ in lipstick on all the mirrors.

I would say it’s one of the worst drugs going :(