Side effects - Nausea From LSD?

[Creeping Death]

I was wondering what kind of feeling you get in your body after taking some acid. I can sometimes get nausea from drugs like marijuana or alcohol, and it's not very comfortable.

I want to know if this is the case with psychodelics like LSD. Because that would totally ruin a trip for me.

If you are not comfortable with the risk of nausea than psychedelics
may not be for you. They almost all cause or nausea or sometimes cause
it.



However, LSD causes probably the least of any, at least for most
people. It is a very, very physically benign chemical. I have never
felt like throwing up on LSD, and in fact the more I have taken the
LESS sick I have felt -- one hit makes me feel kind of icky, like a
minor headache and tightness in the tummy, but 10 hits sent me so far
out of my body I felt nothing.

[D.U.M.B]

Shrooms makes me feel nausea (on the come up only usually)

Never get nausea or sickness from acid, can eat like a horse on acid and be grand

[matti_2003]

swim feel fine on lsd. if he has a bit too much, he can feel a bit wierd but its more a mental thing than a physical one and when coming down he feels a bit shit

[rebelrob]

Hey guys.

First off, I did a quick search on this forum for nausea caused by LSD. It seems like it can happen, but not often.

I had my first experience with a mate last night (Still have not slept yet, waves come on and off slightly. Took a blotter at 11:15pm last night, its now 3pm the next day). We were having a ball, with slight confusion and slight paranoia, but the visuals were entertaining enought to distract from the 'background noise' in our heads. The main issue here is that 5 hours into the trip things took a turn for the worst. My friend started freaking out from the confusion with time (which I was also experiencing. ie a thought seemed to last 10 minutes when it was only 1 minute on the clock). This confusion manifested into somthing else for my friend, in which he was stuck in a reality he wanted to get out of.

He started getting very ill and vomited about 8 times from what I can remember, chanting "help ... me ... help ... me, get me out of this".

We had ate at about 7pm, and i'm sure that had somthing to do with it but here is the interesting thing- He mentions the experience was the same as when he was on morphine in the hospital. Massive nausea, spinning out of control. He says it was exactly the same. The reality is nausea. Nothing more, nothing less. nausea.

I experienced nausea slightly, but i'm thinking that may have been a projection from him onto me.

Why is it that my friend got so violently ill in the same fashion as morphine, on acid? I can relate to it thinking of being really drunk, spinning, vomiting in the garden for the first time thinking "I'll never do this again. I want it to stop now..." (Then next weekend, its back on it

He is also hyper sensitive to opiates (ie normal pain killers make him sick.) He has also tripped hard on minimal amounts of DXM. I might note last night we smoked two joints which seemed to put things onto a higher level.

I'm feeling kind of funny here, typing here in this state of mind, ensuring i'm making sence. The word of the night would be "Plastic" for me, "nausea" for my poor friend.

So in wrapping up, do you guys think nausea is caused by the acid, or by my friends internal body rejected drugs in general?

[Nature Boy]

Originally Posted by rebelrob

He started getting very ill and vomited about 8 times from what I can remember, chanting "help ... me ... help ... me, get me out of this".

HAHA! Jeez that has me laughing so hard.

Seriously though, acid is known to cause some nausea, some of which I've experienced myself. Mushrooms tend to be worse though. Chances are your buddy just has a weak stomach. If he pukes out painkillers it doesn't surprise me that he would puke on acid.

[Jatelka]

Certainly SWIM has had some serious nausea on LSD before now, mainly because she's eaten a heavy meal or something with very strong flavours earlier in the day. She also finds that trying to eat/drink while tripping often takes things the same way. With her, worrying about body load is a sure-fire way to take things even further into a feed-back loop. Generally when she gets like this a head-rub or change of scenery into the outdoors seems to do the trick. She has, on one occasion taken a proprietary anti-nausea med which did SFA other than make her gag more while trying to swallow the damn thing. A friend of hers swears by ginger, and another friend tried one of those motion sickness wrist-band thingies once (amusing for trip-buddies if nothing else!) Unfortunately some people just get more nauseous than others.

[Dogears]

Nausia on LSD is very rare. Given your information on how long it took for the trip to comr on I'm betting it was not LSD

[Nagognog2]

Does sound like 5-Meo-AMT. It's famous for causing people to vomit, crap, and not sleep for 24 +- hours. In that it is a MAOI also, I wish those who knowingly sell it as LSD25 would step in front of a speeding bus.

[raven3davis]

Probably 5-meo-amt but cid has been known to cause nausea. Never made SWIM puke but it has done so to his friends. Shrooms dont really cause SWIM too much nausea unless they were picked from cow shit!

[nanobrain]

any psychedelic can trigger an unresolved engram (previous bad trip, surgery while you were under anaesthetic, psychological / physical trauma) in which case the body's first defense is to purge the material or attempt to divert the painful emotional content into somatic illness rather than taking the hard way of resolving.

that said, an empty GI tract (read fasting / enema) is almost a prerequisite for serious psychedelic exploration and minimises the chances and the need for messy voiding.

[Caliform]

Originally Posted by nanobrain

any psychedelic can trigger an unresolved engram (previous bad trip, surgery while you were under anaesthetic, psychological / physical trauma) in which case the body's first defense is to purge the material or attempt to divert the painful emotional content into somatic illness rather than taking the hard way of resolving.

that said, an empty GI tract (read fasting / enema) is almost a prerequisite for serious psychedelic exploration and minimises the chances and the need for messy voiding.

It's very nice that you say this because I have expirienced this as well (not with the enema, the unresolved engram) with mushrooms and LSD when recalling the 'bad' (unpleasant) expirience, I had (only once though) a bad trip by this because the psychological resistance was turned into stomach illness and the expirience went bad around the peak, when I was puking. That really sucked because my thoat didn't feel like my throat anymore, and the bodily reflex to cough up the contents of your bowels was gone, just as I felt a slimy wall which couldn't possibly be mine. I couldn't puke, but I got badly sick and tired while in a trip and finally got around to just lying down and letting it all go into my head instead of my body because it made it all manageable.

[MindCandy]

Somone Who Isn't Me had two hits of LSD a few days ago, and they began to experience nausea to some degree. They are are wondering if this is due to the LSD, or if LSD does not cause nausea. They had a few drinks as well, so that may be the problem.


On an unrelated note, what exactly is SWIM?

*There is a very useful "search" option: It's at the top of the page and just to SWIY's right. It is a gateway to all sorts of estoric (and not so) knowledge!

[sterling77]

Yea LSD does cause nausea, most psychedelics seem to. Usually isn't as bad as on shrooms in SWIMs experience though.

[Dogears]

Actually nausia from LSD is not common. If the nausia you experienced was more than mild, then there is a possiblity that it was not LSD.

One way to get a general idea of what the psychological signature of LSD feels like is to try LSA from Hawian Baby woodrose seeds. While LSA is different from LSD in many important ways both have a similar "feel". This will aid you in distinguishing authentic tabs of LSD from something that actually contains a phenethylamine or one of the simple tryptamies (LSD is technically a tryptamine, but has a more complex struture and very different signature.).

[grandbaby]

Originally Posted by Dogears

Actually nausia from LSD is not common. If the nausia you experienced was more than mild, then there is a possiblity that it was not LSD.

One way to get a general idea of what the psychological signature of LSD feels like is to try LSA from Hawian Baby woodrose seeds. While LSA is different from LSD in many important ways both have a similar "feel". This will aid you in distinguishing authentic tabs of LSD from something that actually contains a phenethylamine or one of the simple tryptamies (LSD is technically a tryptamine, but has a more complex struture and very different signature.).

When someone is complaining about nausea from (possibly) LSD, how can you go and recommend he investigate HBWR, one of the most fantastically nauseating psychs around?

I always got (some two or three statutes of limitations ago) a very distinct "stomach feel" from LSD, especially in low doses, and the same feel from mushrooms. It's not exactly "nausea", but it's in the family. I've been having recurring dreams lately that have brought back that feeling—but in my dreams, I'm taking so-called RCs. If the OP has a similar constitution, investigating other chemicals may not allow him to "feel out" the genuine article.

And, just to start driving this thread off-topic (sorry), trial-and-error is not anything I'd recommend for chem identification. So you can "feel" whether the acid's good or not—well, you can only feel it after you've taken it. "Well, it looks like this isn't acid after all, spanky, but DOI. Tell the maid not to bother making the bed for the next three days, because I won't be sleeping...."

There are testing kits that are cheap, legal, and readily available for less $ than a night on the town. Some will test positive for LSD. Some for other chems that might pass as LSD. If you're unsure, buy yourself some peace of mind.

(But thank you, Dogears, for bringing up the possibility that MindCandy might have got some RC instead of LSD; it's becoming all too common an occurrence: these are indeed troubled times.)

[Nature Boy]

SWIM has never experienced anything that could be accurately described as nausea during an LSD trip. Shrooms yes, but that's a whole different ball game because raw mushies are rough on the stomach. Perhaps the alcohol may have taken its toll. SWIM never drinks much alcohol when on LSD because it tends to taste unpleasant compared to the simple delights of water or milk. Come to think of it, a mate of SWIM's once got pretty sick after a hit of acid and only a litre of beer. Perhaps it's a very nauseating combo.

[Herbal Remedy]

Some say there is no nausea with LSD, but rather anxiety causing stress on the mind and or body. If this is the case, just make sure you are in the right state of mind, the right setting, well rested, and in good health for a trip. Smoking herb seems to relieve SWiHR of any of these anxiety symptoms, as well as boost his trip into the high gear. Some people like to drink a little (not tons) alcohol before/during a trip to help ease the anxiety, but i guess that is another topic...

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very good advice.!.

[sterling77]

SWIM always takes pepto bismol when he takes shrooms, it helps keep his stomach feeling good and helps out the nausea. Some people use Dramamine and other similar drugs to prevent nausea, but I remember Shulgin saying that it ruins the trip somehow?

[raven3davis]

SWIM has experienced a small amount of nausea on LSD and many other psychadelics. It all depends on how yourbody reacts to the drug. In your case, the alcohol probably had a lot to do with it. SWIMs friend once took lsd with some liquor and he puked a bit. He had never puked on lsd before that and has never puked on lsd since.

SWIM experiences nausea sometimes on the come up. Also, if he has not eaten all day he might experience some nausea. SWIM recommends eating something healthy a few hours before the trip. A remedy like pepto bismol might also help reduce nausea.

[MindCandy]

It was probably the alcohol because when I trip, I forget to keep track of how much I drink.

[Woodman]

Cid can cause nausea. Try not to eat too much before the event.

[Philomel]

One of SWIM's friends drank about six beers and ate three hits of acid on an extremely hot day and after he had worked (lifting things, etc.) for about five hours. SWIM's friend kept complaining about feeling ill and had to collapse in bed about half-way through the trip. Judging by this and other people's replies in this thread, alcohol and LSD are probably not a good combo.

SWIM has also experienced the "stomach feeling" that grandbaby mentioned. This is a weird feeling that makes you feel like you are hungry or that you need to vomit at the same time. SWIM thinks it is just part of the physical feeling of the drug. Yet it is not so bad and for the most part you can just ignore it.

[CrookedEye]

Alcohol, in swim's opinion, is best for after the peak, as it can help ease the come down, and help one fall asleep faster.. During the trip, it will kick one's tolerance through the roof, and so it can definitely make one sick..