Oral use - Masking That Horrible Taste

[Hamburglar]

DJ Junkie is a big fan of CWE'd codeine, but he really hates the taste of it! Several times before he has almost vomited immediately after ingestion. After trying various combinations (combining with Kool-Aid, chocolate milk, etc) he has finally discovered a method that masks the taste.

The DJ usually has about 75ml of CWE'd solution to drink, so he puts two tablespoons of table sugar in the mixture and stirs vigorously until most of the sugar has dissolved. He the slams the mixture and chases it with some Sprite. He then immediately bites into a Melba Toast cracker which helps to further dissolve the taste. The DJ is not much of a chemist, so he isn't sure, but he thinks the sugar may also help increase the speed of uptake (insulin spike?).

Anyway, DJ Junkie has found this is an excellent way of masking the disgusting taste.... Perhaps for over-use reasons it's a bad thing that he's found a way to disguise the taste, but he wanted to share with some of other swimmers! Enjoy!

[Glibkid]

SWIM likes the bitterness and so had it with pomegranate and grapefruit juice with soda water [to increase to uptake]. He also added a bit of ribena as it was too bitter.

[Tripps420]

Ice cream soda is great for masking the taste. SWIY will hardly taste it.

[Tussipax]

SWIM does her CWE in 4 diffrent glasses. In each glass containing codeine solution she adds 5 tablespoon of aspartam powder then she adds some Diet Coke.
No calories and disgusting taste is well masked !

[RoboCodeine7610]

Swim thinks that triying to mask the taste always makes things worse.He just swallows it really quick and chases it with pepsi or 7up.

[TheNewLeft]

drink the solution with a straw while plugging your nose.

[honourableone]

Blocking your nose is very useful, as smell is a big part of taste. SWIM doesn't mind the taste that much, but always puts in a bit of concentrated fruit cordial (the kind usually mixed with water).

[Hamburglar]

Interesting to see all of these ideas. I'm not sure how you guys can drink it straight up though, SWIM finds it far too vile for that. I like the Aspartame idea though

[RadioHead]

To completely get rid of the taste try this (it may be going a bit overboard but it will get the job done)

1. Pour ~50ml of codeine mix or whatever you have into a glass

2. Pour 300ml of milk into the glass

3. Add a heap of Choc topping (or any other flavour if you prefer it)

4. Add some extra sugar (just for fun)

5. Stir and drink

6. Use a spoon to eat any leftover topping/sugar (the codeine could mix in with it a little, i'm not sure)

The taste it only slightly different to if you didn't add the codeine, the taste isn't worse or better, just different.

Although personally i recommend maybe shotting it straight and chasing with something else.

[InTheCity]

Man up and drink it straight!

Nothing seems to be able to mask the taste for SWIY, the best he can do is chase it with anything, lemonade or iced tea seems to work best for him

[RadioHead]

SWIM assures you, if you try the recipie in my last post the taste will be nearly completely masked.

But SWIM agrees, he tells me its best just to take it straight, and chase with as little as possible, as from what SWIM has told me, codeine has a better effect on an empty stomach.

[TheBadMan]

Sugar? Really? SWIMI always found that chasing codeine extract with anything sugar tasted horrible.
The best way to get rid of a bitter taste is with something sour.
Add an ounce of lemon juice to your codeine extract.

[Rainbowzz]

Hmm. dunno. Kind of find the taste, although not pleasant, interesting, kind of like its part of the trip itself.

[Yetti]

Ugh! SWIM recently did his first CWE and the taste was horrible.

He expected the bad taste from reading up about it here and prepared a cherry kool-aid mixture. I am told it tasted so bad that he then had to chase that with ovaltine.

Still tasted like shit though. Nasty indeed.

-Yetti.

[honourableone]

This will sound odd, but when you dislike the taste of something, try to enjoy that dislike. Taste doesn't really mean anything, it's just your brain's perception of something. Sorry to get so deep on quite a straight-forward question, but thats a good philosophy that can immediately make things bearable for SWIM (it doesn't only work with taste).

[TheNewLeft]

Originally Posted by honourableone

This will sound odd, but when you dislike the taste of something, try to enjoy that dislike. Taste doesn't really mean anything, it's just your brain's perception of something. Sorry to get so deep on quite a straight-forward question, but thats a good philosophy that can immediately make things bearable for SWIM (it doesn't only work with taste).

i actually try to practice this philosophy when it comes to physical pain. like if you stub your toe or something....but reducing the sensations to the level of just "electric pulses sending your brain a signal" you can beat that shit on some mind of matter type deal

[honourableone]

Originally Posted by TheNewLeft

i actually try to practice this philosophy when it comes to physical pain. like if you stub your toe or something....but reducing the sensations to the level of just "electric pulses sending your brain a signal" you can beat that shit on some mind of matter type deal

We're going off topic now, but me too. Trying to explain that I try and enjoy pain tends to weird people out though (for me that goes hand in hand with putting everything into perspective). I think "I am just a lump of matter with an exagerated sense of self importance, this pain isn't real and therefore it doesn't matter".

[Hamburglar]

Originally Posted by honourableone

We're going off topic now, but me too. Trying to explain that I try and enjoy pain tends to weird people out though (for me that goes hand in hand with putting everything into perspective). I think "I am just a lump of matter with an exagerated sense of self importance, this pain isn't real and therefore it doesn't matter".

I do this too. It can work really well up to a certain point. I find it particularly useful at the gym, when my muscles begin to burn I just think "this is just your brain transferring information from nerve endings, keep going."

Except that when it comes to SWIM drinking the CWE mixture, it seems to irritate SWIM's gag reflex, and no amount of mental power can overcome that