Health - Health Risks of Psilocybin Mushrooms

[Explotation]

I am thinking of going outside of the limmited world of Marijuana into Shrooms, but not without my research. What are some known health affects of Mushrooms?

[Phungushead]

Well, physically there are few (if any) drugs that are safer than
mushrooms... the biggest physical dangers that I can think of would
most likely be either getting the wrong kind of shroom
(misidentification) or having an allergic reaction (rare). There
are actually studies going on showing how mushrooms can have positive
effects on various conditions.

The only other health effects that they could potentially cause are
psychological, and that's also pretty rare... psychotic breaks almost
never happen on shrooms. I'd say that the most likely would be
HPPD - hallucinogen persisting perceptual disorder, and even then
shroom-induced HPPD is pretty uncommon.

So yeah, you're pretty safe with shrooms... definitely a good step
up/starter drug (My own first drug experience was 2.5g of mushrooms).

[Explotation]

Thanks a bunch for the info, when you get HPPD what happens to you and can it be cured?

[PenguinPhreak]

HPPD causes you to have hallucinations while sober. These
hallucinations are usually not very intense, and go away with a long
enough period of abstinence from drugs. I have HPPD, and I actually
enjoy it.

[Phungushead]

I also have HPPD (shroom-induced)... for me I'll get patterning on
walls and shit (usually mild), movement just out of the corner of my
eyes (most annoying in my opinion), and dark room "static". I've
generally learned to ignore it, and it usually doesn't bother me...
although it does get on my nerves sometimes. It's worse when I'm
stressed, tired, or sick. It's basically like an extremely mild
mushroom trip with only the visual effects. HPPD will go away on
its own, but you'd have to go like a year without psychedelics for that
to happen, and I have yet to do that.

So it's really no big deal, every once in awhile someone will get
severe HPPD and it'll drive them nuts... kinda sucks because even if
you know what it is, a lot of doctors don't, and who wants to tell a
doctor that they've been doing some illegal drug. I think they
can give you antidepressants, but there is no actual "cure" other than
time.

[Explotation]

Well if it really did get that bad I am pretty sure I would tell my doctor if it got that bad, thanks again.

[Nature Boy]

Never call the world of marijuana limited. If I could get a constant supply of top gear, I would never need another drug. Shrooms are great though. The only defects they cause from my experiences are the shits the day after and maybe a bit of an unsettled stomach. Not as bad as a hangover/E comedown.

[Explotation]

If it's not as bad as my worse hangover or the shits I get from Hacienda I am pretty sure I can live with it

[polloloco001]

if i start shrooming every weekend and shit i start to feel hella
shitty on the comedown. once i did them 4 weeks in a row and the 4th
time i felt hella bloated and sick for like 4 hours coming down.

[jaguarangel]

Everyone has a favorite allie. If it is a first time, start low like 1gm dry. There
have been studies done when it was legal that microdosing inspired
creativity in Architects and Mathemeticians who were looking to solve
problems.

[OiledMandible]

Or...do what I did.



Eat 7 grams your first time, and not remember the next 5 hours. (Except of course, for brief periods.)



I had an amazingly strong trip, probably blacked out, and at more than one point was ++++.



I would do it again



/Although in retrospect, I wouldnt do it my first time.

[LeadCenobite]

My first drug was hash oil, then I did pot regularly for like a year, then did coke, then pot again, then salvia divinorum (thestrangest drug ever..very intense though..would not recommend unless u want something crazy..did it 9 times so far), still did pot lots, then shrooms/pot. Shrooms are the funnest drug ever! If you start having a bad trip..like i did..just think its all in ur head and u will be fine..just relax. I have done shrooms 3 times and the nausea part feels a bit discomforting but goes away after a bit so its not too bad. I did not notice much health problems with shrooms..I felt really lifted and energized/happy/hyper..after though ur stomach may hurt slightly or feel like indigestion. I split half a 1/4 with a friend and we tripped so much..well I ate most of hers so maybe thats why I was trippin/halucinating and she wasnt. She felt sick and i was fine so she told me to munch on hers.. mm mm mm m shrooms! Dont miss out on it but be careful not to take too much on ur first time. DOnt wanna start something scary and have to ride it out for hours..

[LeadCenobite]

Also I thought the shrooms werent kicking in so I decided to smoke some pot cuz I was bored..all I felt for a while was a pot high so I was stupid and smoked pot. Soon as I smoked it I started tripping out hardcore. It was the funnest feeling I have ever experienced..speaking of which all three times I smoked pot after letting the shrooms kick in. Its a great feeling..I am not advising u to do it though. Just do shrooms first and see how u like it and go from there. Enjoy

[raven3davis]

IMO opinion shrooms have the least side effects of any psychadelic I have taken besides DMT. 2c-i gave me HPPD for a while, but I took shrooms several times a week for 2 weeks, and many many additional times and I didn't notice any HPPD at all.

[polloloco001]

yeah, umm, several times a week? not surprising that there was no hppd.
what is surprising is that the shrooms even made you trip. i am not
able to trip out more often than once a week. the tolerance for shrooms
increases and decreases really rapidly so its basically impossible to
trip more oftne than every 5 days. i have tried and it didnt work.

[Softrat]

Shrooms as long as you use them moderately should have essentially no harmful effects to your health.

[godismdma]

Explotation--


I would be extra carefull with the whole thing with tellin a doc about you expiriencing HPPD! Doctors view that as drug inducedschizophrenia and will deffinitly give you ant-sychoticsand epilepsy meds(for mood stabilization)! trust me you dont want doctors givin you meds for schizophrenia!

[Nature Boy]

Originally Posted by godismdma

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<SPAN =bold>I would be extra carefull with the whole thing with tellin a doc about you expiriencing HPPD! Doctors view that as drug induced*schizophrenia and will deffinitly give you ant-sychotics*and* epilepsy meds(for mood stabilization)! trust me you dont want doctors givin you meds for schizophrenia!</SPAN>

Good point. Some of those anti-psychotics doctors prescibe are absolute death traps. I dunno if anyone reads The Sunday Times Magazine here but they had a massive feature about that this week.

[xpr´k]

mmmm i like a bit of drugs but i'm also a bit worried about my health . My favourite drug has always been XTC . I cant stand THC anymore cause i ended up with a 2 year depression after smoking the stuff basicly nonstop for over 6 months and then having a pretty bad accident leaving me crippled on the couch for about8 weeks . It drove me over the edge .


The more i read about shrooms the more i feel the urge to try it , i got 1 slight problem though . I dont have that many friends that do drugs , hell most of em are only slighty aware i used to take em in my teens .


What i'm trying to find out is this , can you take shrooms on your own, for the first time (or ever) without freaking out .


How often does this stuff give you a bad trip (god i hopenever , been clean for to long tbh , i need some escape)

[Phungushead]

Wouldn't recommend having your first shroom experience alone... start
with a very low dose if you want to do that... once you're a little
more experienced, tripping alone can be okay, as long as you don't go
overboard or anything. SWIM prefers to trip with company though -
tripping alone has a higher tendency to bring out bad memories and
stuff.

SWIM's never had a bad trip on shrooms, and overall I don't think bad
shroom trips are that common... just don't take them if you're not
mentally ready, or take a stupidly high dose - 2 things that could
potentially cause a bad trip.

[polloloco001]

i had my first shroom experience alone. it was wonderful. granted, i
was talking to myself in the mirror, believing i was several different
people havign a conversation, for well over an hour and a half, and
when i had finally lured myself away form it i talked to several other
objects in the room, so it was not as if i was totally alone .
it was an excellent trip though. i saw this dart board on my wall like
zoom up close like some wacky camera trick and i thought that i fell
down the drain in my sink. they were some of the more intense visuals
ive ever had and at the end of it i was convinced i had to do it
again...and again and again...

[a-SalviaLover]

Well, I have those HPPD, too. It's cool. I think it's more of an imagination than disorder. You just begin to seekthe psychedelic in the outer world. Tomorrol I'll have plenty of shroomz, weed and some MAOI - this would fire me on a rocket to the world of the gods. Shroomz are great.

And about the health aspects. Shroomz are really among the most harmless drugs of them all. The main prolem in my opinion is about our behavious in the outer world. If you turn out to be on the wrong place things might get really nasty. After my last mind blowing trip I'm not sure that you are completel harmless for yourself and the others around you while on shroomz. That's why trips must be planned well. Those emotions are way more powerful than you can handle at higher doses. And that's cool.Bbut my girlfriend accidentally clawed my on he hand and I began clawing her really cruelly. After a few moments when I realised what I was doing I began apologising and entreating her to forgive me. She wasn't mad at me but I was literally mad at her. And I don't think that in a ritical situation things would go well while on shroomz. I think tha's the main concern. That's why they have to be done smartly and everything has to be planned well.

[Explotation]

Originally Posted by godismdma

Explotation--


I would be extra carefull with the whole thing with tellin a doc about you expiriencing HPPD! Doctors view that as drug inducedschizophrenia and will deffinitly give you ant-sychoticsand epilepsy meds(for mood stabilization)! trust me you dont want doctors givin you meds for schizophrenia!

Thanks for all this advice, 1g dryed worked out great.

[miss_who]

Hello there.


I'm making a documentry about the ban of magic mushrooms in the UK. Could anyone tell me the death toll of magic mushrooms is?


My film will be a non-bias (well a little bit I love shrooms) and informative documentry about those crazy mushies. Any help at all would be lovelly.


Thanks for reading, will love to hear from anyone soon (the deadline is soon, I need to hand it in!).


miss_who


(Jen)

[Nature Boy]

I've never heard of anyone dying directly of magic mushroom use and I'd imagine that it's highly unlikely that it's ever even been an issue with them. I heard somewhere that it takes over a kilo of raw mushrooms until they become poisonous enough to kill someone but it's highly unlikely that anyone would die this way because one would vomit out the mushrooms long before their stomach would become infected. Much like cannabis, magic mushrooms are quite harmless when ingested.Edited by: nature_boy_liam