Comedown - LSD Comedown and How to Avoid?

[redpoppy]

Quick question.

Has anyone ever had a bad comedown from LSD? EVER?

I dont' mean a bad trip, I mean after the trip day.

Any time in the following days or weeks?

SWIM never ever has after doing much of the stuff. Someone asked SWIM if it was possible to have a comedown, in the depressed bad mood, isolation type of way that E is known to do for many, midweek, after a weekend of indulgence.

SWIM does not know as SWIM only has her own experiences and memories of others and can't remember anyone complaining about comedowns.

I thank you in advance for your replies.

[Nature Boy]

Of course it's possible. SWIM never had a bad comedown but knows several people who have, people who probably dropped acid in the wrong setting and didn't expect the after peak effects to last so long. LSD must be respected and one must be ready to go through a long experience if they're gonna drop it.

[raven3davis]

SWIM is not a huge fan of the LSD comedown but the comedown has never made SWIM depressed or anything like that. SWIM will lay in bed exhausted unable to sleep. It gets annoying but you will eventually fall asleep if you try hard enough. It never hurts to have benzos for the comedown either. They will put you to sleep like a baby. SWIM has only experienced negative phsyical symptoms like exhausting and body aches. Sometimes he will be squirming in bed trying to get to sleep.

It is really not so bad though. In SWIMs opinion it is nothing comparable to a bad coke, meth, or XTC pill comedown.

[Nahbus]

SWIMs comedowns usually consist of him wondering if he hates or loves the feeling. It's somewhat relaxing, yet somewhat aggrivating for SWIM. It's nothing horrible, but only lasts untill he sleeps (benzos, yes. very good to have. SWIM never leaves home to trip without them).
Anyway, it's not a bad comedown at all (for SWIM). Bit hard to sleep sometimes is really all.

[redpoppy]

Hmmm, feels like the comedown is actually just the later part of the trip. I'm taking about after the effects have worn off. Say a good 12 horus after the drop.

[Djvr16]

SWIM gets the shakes and can't sleep for anything when it's time for the comedown (awwww). Usual stay up untill 4am or later.

[Jatelka]

SWIJ doesn't get "comedowns" unless she drinks too much alcohol the day after. Unless SWIY counts excess mucous and occasional sputum (as a result of smoking too many cigarettes) a comedown. Add alcohol to the post LSD mix and hideous headaches, nausea and low mood ensue. She thinks that this is probably because if she drinks she never gets round to eating a proper meal until 24 hours later.

Always assuming no booze: She gets a warm fuzzy afterglow, and her mental processes are slightly attenuated/nebulous for 24 hours, in a way that she can only view as positive. She finds that a lurch back to "straightness" is detrimental to the integration of her experience.

As for difficulty sleeping at the tail end of a trip: It never happens. She is always replete, content and fulfilled which makes for easy sleep.

[matti_2003]

Swim sometimes gets a depressed kind of feeling and feels aggitated. He usually has it with other substances though which may affect it. He has no problems sleeping though

[CrookedEye]

Swim gets tired sometimes the next day, usually dose dependant, as large doses seem to wear him out a bit more.. He never gets depressed, and actually usually gets more of a mischievous nature.. He likes to be witty and/or a smartass..

[Philomel]

SWIM usually smokes a lot of weed whilst tripping and gets so stoned that she finds it easy to fall asleep and just sleep through the comedown, feeling fine when she wakes up. SWIM highly recommends this method.

However, when SWIM doesn't have access to weed whilst tripping, she finds the comedown very exhausting and unpleasant. She gets anxious and stressed about things and feels completely scattered. Often it is hard to find her way home from SWAM's house in this state and SWIM ends up walking down the wrong streets, etc. and being freaked out by other people in general.

[jardo]

Besides the slight insomnia, 'comedowns' are usually fairly manageable for SWIM. Sometimes SWIM can pass out instantly, and sometimes SWIM just stares at the floating patterns that emerge from the ceiling for hours.

But like nature_boy_liam pointed out, LSD has to be respected and one must prepare for the *full* trip and not just the first half where one is peaking.

Actually, during a particular trip, SWIM's most enjoyable experience of the entire trip was T+10 hours lying in bed watching the Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian DVD. SWIM always knew the man was a genius.. but like.. fuck.. he's a genius genius! RIP.

[mr. strawberry]

the comedown was always swim's face hurting from smiling so much and muscles all tence and back hurting. never liked the feeling but oh well. what goes up must come down.

[D-termine]

How would one go about this? Next day was alright, a bit off and perhaps a dirty feel, but it wasnt too bad. 2 days later SWIM is still exhausted and feeling a bit slow. The Acid was good and clean as far as I could tell, and MJ is out of the question as SWIM is on probation. Looking for more of an herbal/supplement type of thing that perhaps would replenish SWIM in the way that 5htp does after a MDMA trip.

[enquirewithin]

One could try taking acid earlier in the day so as not to lose too much sleep and then get some excercise in the next few days?

[rxbandit]

well acid also has a high affinity for serotonin receptors, perhaps 5htp would help. as a rule of thumb swim always drinks a hefty glass of water and takes various multi vitamins after any trip, it may be placebo but this seems to work for swim quite well. I also remember hearing certain nootropics decreased the comedown to certain pyschoactive drugs. however like enquirewithin said, i do believe that sleep is very important for feeling normal and is often neglected during such experiences.

[D-termine]

SWIM tried some 5htp, piracetam, a few multi's, fish oil, sesamin and a few other goodies as SWIM is very much into bodybuilding. The 5htp may have been too old though, however its good to know that L exert some of its effects on serotonin, that def helps. Sleep was shitty for SWIM the first night and he had to work the next day which didnt help. The following day was pure lethargy, however that may be attributed to the oral steroids SWIM is currently on. Perhaps someones liver is unhappy with them

[Mona Lisa]

It normally took SWIM about two days to completely get over an Acid comedown. She needed to sleep much of the first day afterwards and found that eating lots of fruit and veg helped. She would also crave things like tomato juice and fresh raw onions. But funnily enough, SWIM found acid less toxic-seeming than MDMA.

[vantranist]

LSD/mushroom comdowns to SWIM are the best comdown in the history of any drug... just a feeling of being "on ur level"

SWIM only expieinces tiredness if he didnt sleep much and the onlything for that is a good nites sleep.

[Jatelka]

SWIJ would strongly suggest allowing time to wind-down after a trip. Always manage transitions gradually.

She always schedules her acid for times when she knows she can bask in the warm after-glow for 48 or so hours before having to go back to the real world.

A light diet prior to the trip (she goes with fruit, nuts and yoghurt), not drinking during the trip (or the day afterwards) and not smoking too much all make acid "comedowns" pretty minimal.

In fact, all SWIJ and the flamingos usually feel post LSD is a bit vague and "fuzzy round the edges". Often tired physically, but in a contented, and satisfied way. There is none of the bodily discomfort that can occur post MDMA (but then she doesn't get comedowns from that any more, transition management again)

If one smokes then mucous/sore throat can be problematic

[Ontherooftops]

LSD doesn't have a comedown. There is suffering and reintigration. Really, there's no escaping it, pain and beauty are what the psychedelic experience is all about, right now SWIY's getting the pain part. Enjoy it, relish in it, bask in it. If its not worth it for you then maybe you should reconsider how psychedelics fit into your life at the moment.

[terrordemon]

just think of it as not a comedown, but a long end to your trip

enjoy it, swim LOVES the comedown. its like swim's in swim's normal state of mind but swim can still feel the acid

[Trebor]

Van these methods be applied to LSA?

[eltimmy]

Yoga, meditation, diet, rest. SWIM just went through a long, stressful period.* Treat it like recovering from a day-long hiking trip, or a marathon run.

[adictive_n]

The best....
1) lots of water
2) excercise is a MUST (feels sooo god)
3) raw everything....(vegs and fruits)
4) avoid vitamins and supplementS...THEY actually dont work for SWIM

[adictive_n]

SWIM has done LSD for some time now...enjoys it because at first it didnt had a "comedown"...now Swim finds herself mad really really mad the next day with EVERYBODY. SWIM gets irritated for NOTHING feels really depressed but the trip was worth it.
What SWIM is feeling...is it normal? What can SWIM do to avoid this?