Topic: one quick question before treatment

[digital_phreedom]

Does anyone know if compazine would be ok to take beforehand before nausea? I'm about 4 hours away from treatment and I'm so nervous/excited that my stomach is already doing backflips. I'm not really that concerned about throwing up. I think the purging is probably a good thing. I'm just hoping to be able to keep all the medicine down long enough to absorb it.

[sassyfras]

I'm sorry I can't answer your question, but your post reminded me of something else I've been meaning to ask. How long does it take for the Iboga to be absorbed? One hour...two hours...anyone know?

phreedom, this is so exciting..I'll be sending love & healing energy your way & look forward to seeing you re-emerge!

[riverhaven]

Just about any drug not coated with a prolonged release coating is fully absorbed within 30 min to an hour.  That doesn't mean you feel the effects then-- think phenibut, which for me doesn't happen until several hours later.  For me, I felt my ibogaine flood within the first hour.

Compazine is a mood altering drug and it may affect your ibogaine experience--- which I do believe, the purer, the better teaching you get.  Compazine may muddy that.  Not to mention-- some people ( I wasn't one)-- do NOT have terrible vomiting with it.  You can't know til you get into it.  Also drugs that help with nausea and vomiting don't really stop it- they all just help.... do you want to sacrifice the experience in case you vomit??  I'd just go with the ibogaine and try to keep your head still-- that's what makes you vomit-- as long as you keep your head still, you'll be fine.  I had horrible RLS-- and I could thrash my legs all I wanted-- just do NOT move the head LOL...

Good luck....

[GratefulDad]

I was in full on vision mode before I ever threw up my first time, and the other times, I held it in for a very long time before puking.  It definitely wasn't all absorbed even four hours after eating crude vinegar extract, one of the times, as it was all I could taste when I threw up, and it didn't really hit me full strength until I puked.  I think a lot of that was due to it absorbing in my mouth from my throw up.  I am unsure of nausea medications, but I wouldn't bother, although I have read of one that some have used to help..  I forget the name of it, unfortunately..  Staying still and focusing on something else should make it easy to hold down until it all kicks in.  I found, also, that poking a pin hole in the end of the capsule of extract before swallowing it helped it absorb faster..

[roy d]

Hi Sass,

when I take the hcl I throw up on the one hour mark then the experience starts.  This happened twice and at the one hour make.  On the extract I puked at the 36 hr mark and I was blitzed.  I think it made me start to come down.  Of course everyone is different.

 Roy

[sassyfras]

Thanks GD & Roy & River. That's interesting that River could move her legs all she wanted, that it was only when she moved her head that she started vomiting! And really strange that you felt you still hadn't absorbed the extract even after 4 hours, GD....what on earth was it doing all that time???  A mysterious substance for sure...

[GratefulDad]

It was sitting n the capsules in my nearly empty stomach from fasting.  I felt when they busted open as it soured my stomach, and I threw up not much long after..