DXM Tripping

Tripping is a slang term referring to the effects DXM users feel when they take high doses of cough syrup or other DXM products. When "tripping," some users describe different "plateaus" ranging from mild distortions of color and sound to visual hallucinations, "out-of-body" dissociative* sensations, and loss of motor control, along with other side effects such as confusion, dizziness, double or blurred vision, slurred speech, impaired physical coordination, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, rapid heart beat, drowsiness, numbness of fingers and toes, and disorientation.

Kyle Talks About DXM Tripping:
"I met [this girl] at the mall. So we go to the CVS and she looks around and picks up the cough medicine and we were going to see a movie in the mall. We took the DXM and it’s been 20-30 minutes and I’m starting to doubt [the tripping] -- I’m all skeptical thinking it didn’t work. She’s like, ‘Don’t worry, it will kick in!’ 35-40 minutes into it, it hit me and this thing starts coming on heavier and heavier – it hit me like a tank. It was bad, it was bad – it was too much for me. I started to get nauseous and I was like, ‘It will pass, it will pass.’ Once you come over the peak it will be all good. But it didn’t go away and I had to leave the movie because I thought I was going to vomit. When I got up I almost fell right back over because I had been lying almost all the way out and when I stood up I couldn’t make the adjustment and I started to fall over. I had to grab the seats in front of me, because I couldn’t stand up – you can’t call this a high – this was like a comatose."

Listen to Kyle’s story.