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

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FieldsOf · 23/09/2019 15:12

NC'd for this!
My DSis were talking about our heady young days and the 'dabbling' we did Confused
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 Sad Never touched anything ever again, that was about 15 years ago.
What's your worst experience?

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GidgetGirl · 23/09/2019 18:33

I've had many many wonderful, life-affirming times on mushrooms, and continue to do so now and again. Have also had fun on acid, but freaked out once and became convinced I was stuck inside the kitchen radiator. Well, not inside it as such - more like I WAS the radiator. Not quite the profound experience I'd been hoping for.

Night Nurse, however, does something horrible to me. I think it's the decongestant in it - last time I had it I thought the air had turned into the consistency of golden syrup. Eeeuurrgh.

LittleSweet · 23/09/2019 18:33

I took over the counter medication for nausea connected with migraines and it gave me jaundice. I didn't connect it to the tablets straight away. I was the colour of Marge Simpson. I felt the illest I'd ever been, the only other time I felt that ill was when I was in hospital with sepsis. I was so relieved when I read that jaundice was a rare reaction. Dr Google kept coming up with liver or pancreatic cancer, so I was thinking about how my dcs would cope without me.

htftosortit · 23/09/2019 18:35

Midazolam in hospital . I ‘came to’ being restrained by 6 people and was told I was violent/aggressive and kicking the doctors etc . Have had similar with diazepam .

Morphine I had visions that I was being wheeled to the morgue , and a dead man in the chair beside my bed . Not pleasant at all .

timshelthechoice · 23/09/2019 18:37

I took an anti-malarial drug one time that gave me the absolute worst nightmares.

DoubtingMyPatience · 23/09/2019 18:40

Also came here to blab about my horrible shitting blood experience with penicillin but that’s not what you meant..

And now I’m worthless because I was always too scared and pathetic to dabble in drugs Blush

BayandBlonde · 23/09/2019 18:41

Oh god, I'm not a recreational drug user now and I hate to admit this but Base (a strong version of speed) I had a bad session on (about 30 years ago) and it kept me awake for 4 days straight.

I was fucked for days. Not good

ICantBelieveIDidThis · 23/09/2019 18:46

Diazepam - paranoid delusions

Alcohol - violent rage

Venlafaxine - massive rise in blood pressure, chest pains and palpitations

Prozac - anaphylaxis

Aspirin and NSAIDs - allergy. Even the ibuprofen gel reduces my skin to crazy paving.

Someone else's 'old style' antihistamine - hysterical giggling. I was laughing at the chess board style of the canteen floor.

Handling cannabis brings me out in a rash.

Unescorted · 23/09/2019 18:53

A house share came home late one night after having a binge on something... he left sausages under the grill and passed out on the sofa. I woke up sometime later to find the house on fire. We were lucky to get out of the house alive.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 23/09/2019 18:54

I'm too square to have taken anything illegal.
However I have had two funny turns due to cold and flu medication.
The first was some meds my mum brought back from Canada. I have no idea what Canadians put in their medications but when I took it - oh boy. I still had a stinking cold, but it felt like it was happening to someone else. I was also a good half a minute behind everyone conversation wise so very little made sense. I felt very happy, but by the evening I felt terrible.
The second time - I took some ordinary sudafed and then half an hour later I remembered we had some of the much stronger sudafed in the cupboard, the stuff you have to ask the pharmacist for.
It was like my brain was suddenly firing on a whole load of extra cylinders it didn't normally have. It actually hurt. I had to keep my brain occupied as I felt like something bad would happen if I didn't. I was watching TV, playing a computer game and reading something on Mumsnet all at the same time. If I tried to stop, it hurt. I have never felt my brain race like that.
Later I discovered that the pseudoephedrine contained in the over the counter meds is a precursor for crystal meth. All I can say is if how I felt was even close to what meth is like - no bloody thank you!

Doingtheboxerbeat · 23/09/2019 19:00

I had the worst case of paranoia /realisation that I had made a terrible mistake after smoking weed at this guys flat on a first date Hmm.
He was Canadian, and I believe many don't use tobacco in their joints and I was not as experienced as I had made out , so it blew my head off.
I couldn't move or speak and his brother came home (they shared a flat) and I was convinced I was going to be raped by them.
My date was a musician and he made up a song on the spot and played it to me on his keyboard, singing to me that I need to go home. It would have been hilarious, had I not been so utterly fucked.

He and his brother sat there smiling as it was a massive piss take but I couldn't move my face to smile or speak.
In the end they called me a cab, paid for the cab and called me later to check if I was alright. They were lovely guys but I blanked any further dates because I was so embarrassed and completely out of my depth Grin.

NotMyCircusMonkeys · 23/09/2019 19:10

The last time I took cocaine the actual experience was fine, but oh my god the comedown... I suffer with anxiety anyway so it was probably a stupid idea in the first place, but I spent about a week convinced that my heart was going to stop. Awful feeling, has definitely put me off using it again for a long time!

Blutopia · 23/09/2019 19:47

I took speed as a teenager and mostly had a great time, although the night I mixed it with a litre of wine through a straw I had some weird hallucinations. Fingernails peeling off, lift doors opening in the wall where there was no lift, etc.

But the oddest was getting accidentally twatted on secondary skunk. I visited a friend who was a heavy weed smoker, the room was thick with pungent smoke but I declined to partake. When driving home later I started to get the strangest sensation of tunnel vision - I suddenly didn't recognise where I was, and even though I made it home I didn't remember much of the journey other than the terrifying tunnel of passing trees in the dark.

The following day I went to work but had a horrible sick, hungover sensation and couldn't focus on objects properly. I mentioned to a colleague what I'd done the night before, and he pointed out that I was probably off my tits on weed.

Prescription drugs are the worst though. Most just make me shit my pants, although sertraline gave me some pretty impressive night sweats and my lungs strongly resent the presence of nitrafurantoin.

After a gallbladder op - prior to which I had begged the anaesthetist for maximum anti-emetics and no opioids, for the hardest of hardcore nausea avoidance - I found myself absolutely unable to move my limbs. For 9 hours. Other patients came and went with their knee ops and hernia ops, having tea and biscuits and being discharged, whereas I continued to lay prone in the bed gurgling incoherently wondering if they'd removed my brain. Turned out they'd given me fentanyl. People actually take that stuff for fun didn't they? Fuck that, it was hideous. Even worse, the hospital staff thought I was faking so I could stay in. What bloody planet are they on that they would think I wanted to be there any longer than necessary?

Casander · 23/09/2019 20:15

Not illegal but Cyclizine by IV after having a huge dose of morphine in hospital.

Hand on heart thought I was going to die and even now I can't explain how exactly I felt or why. It was like a huge panic attack and I was utterly terrified.

Sagradafamiliar · 23/09/2019 20:18

I get dark just drinking and wappy on certain prescription drugs. I'd definitely die if I tried anything hard I just know it!

Blutopia · 23/09/2019 20:18

Interesting Casander - I was also given a big dose of cyclazine after the op I mentioned. Wonder if it was that rather than the fentanyl that made me feel so dreadful? Suppose I'll never know. I didn't feel panicky, but my body felt like lead and I could barely move. Felt sick, not puke-at-any-moment sick, more like travel sick. Couldn't even sip water.

FieldsOf · 23/09/2019 20:31

My DH was awful on sertraline as well, literally dripping in sweat and constantly panicked.

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inwood · 23/09/2019 20:31

I had some awesome nights on E. Millennium eve being one of the best.

Took Mogadon on a long haul flight and thought I was going to die. Worst thing ever.

Haven't touched anything harder than ibuprofen since.

fantasmasgoria1 · 23/09/2019 20:38

I spent close to a year on morphine. It made me vomit a lot, I lost 2 stones, food and drink tasted different, i would fall asleep in class at uni for a few minutes at a time, it was horrible. For the last few months before my operation it barely touched the pain!

EllebellyBeeblebrox · 23/09/2019 20:42

I had some marvellous times on weed, but never fancied anything trippy as I suspected I'd go to the dark side and have a horrendous time. Pills have been fun on rare occasions but the come down from coke literally made me want to die. I suffer with depression anyway so it was probably entirely predictable but my god, the relentless misery of the chemical comedown is what finally put me off drugs.

crosser62 · 23/09/2019 20:49

Trying to stop young, fit, healthy and much loved young people from dying horrific deaths following their experience of drugs.

The vision of a mother screaming her lungs out, shaking and throwing herself over her dead child will be with me forever.

YesQueen · 23/09/2019 20:55

@crosser62 Thanks my cousin is dead age 33 because he had tramadol and cocodamol. He was still in pain (severe back pain) so someone gave him fentanyl patches and he was so desperate...

carsleyladiessociety · 23/09/2019 22:07

Penicillin- anaphylaxis.

Haloperidol- paranoia like nothing else I have ever experienced.

Pethidine- hallucinating and thought that I was a SAS sniper trying to kill the enemy who was my rather unfortunate DH

Midazolam- relaxes me to the point where apparently I think breathing is an optional extra

All of the above are considered genuine drug allergies- I love it when people ask me if I have any drug allergies and what the reactions are

zafferana · 23/09/2019 22:12

I had some horrible drug experiences. Once smoked pot which had been laced with opium (I didn't know this!) and completely freaked out. Someone found me crawling around the back garden of the house we were at, completely off my face. I had several horrendous flash backs afterwards too for months. I didn't dare drive, in case I had one. Also had a horrible reaction to E - my heart was racing so much I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Acid totally freaked me out - normally stationary objects were moving around and it was horrible. Hash gave me a pounding headache. The only drug I ever liked was speed! The rest were rubbish and I avoided them like the plague once I got a small amount of sense.

zafferana · 23/09/2019 22:16

Night Nurse, however, does something horrible to me. I think it's the decongestant in it - last time I had it I thought the air had turned into the consistency of golden syrup. Eeeuurrgh.

That would be the pseudoephedrine - fucking horrible stuff! It has a nasty effect on me too. Seriously, I can't take drugs of any kind - I freak out completely!

IdblowJonSnow · 23/09/2019 22:16

I took some dodgy speed when I was 20 and was ill for days. Only time I've ever had a Dr out to visit me. I lost 10lbs and only weighed about 7 stone!
Otherwise I've taken plenty of drugs and enjoyed 90% of experiences. - Many moons ago.