This report needs to start a few hours before the experience I had. I had woke up at around 12 pm on a Saturday, I was a Senior in high school and it was prom night but I decided not to go because I wasn't about that life. Looking back on it, I should have gone to prom.
Amitriptyline
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Encyclopedic
Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 2 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- PubChem toxicity data
- dose data not in PW/TripSit (unverifiable)
Encyclopedic
Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 2 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- PubChem toxicity data
- dose data not in PW/TripSit (unverifiable)
Aliases: Elavil, Levate
Summary
Amitriptyline HCl is a tricyclic antidepressant used in the treatment of depression and occasionally sleep disorders.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 20-50mg | 50-100mg | 100-150mg | 200mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
Tolerance
Build-up
varies by mechanism; therapeutic tolerance may develop over weeks of regular use
Reset
typically days to weeks after discontinuation
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
3d
Half tolerance
8d
Baseline
~14d
Acute tolerance: develops within a single session — the reset numbers above apply after sustained heavy use, not after one binge. Within-session tachyphylaxis usually resets largely overnight.
Effects
Aggregated from 39 Erowid experience reports
Positive Effects 11
Sedation
51.3%
70%
Anxiety Suppression
48.7%
70%
Stimulation
25.6%
70%
Tactile Enhancement
20.5%
70%
Color Enhancement
15.4%
70%
Music Enhancement
15.4%
70%
Focus Enhancement
15.4%
70%
Euphoria
12.8%
70%
Empathy
10.3%
70%
Introspection
7.7%
70%
Body High
7.7%
70%
Adverse Effects 7
Confusion
25.6%
70%
Headache
23.1%
70%
Nausea
17.9%
70%
Memory Suppression
12.8%
70%
Motor Impairment
12.8%
70%
Muscle Tension
7.7%
70%
Pupil Dilation
7.7%
70%
Community Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Erowid 8 reports 6 neutral 2 cautionary visit
[Erowid Note: The dose described in this report is very high, potentially beyond Erowid's 'heavy' range, and could pose serious health risks or result in unwanted, extreme effects. Sometimes extremely high doses reported are errors rather than actual doses used.] Ok.
I've been taking Amitriptyline for three days now as a sort of research method to determine whether or not I should give it the green light for recreational use . After much thought, Amitriptyline is not a fun drug, period. It is indeed for those who need it and have a script for it.
I came across a large amount of Amitrityline so I decide to do some research to see what it does and how it could affect me. From the little internet info I was able to get my hands on I managed to find out that it is a Anti-depressive, but is also used for sleeping disorders and as a pain killer.
I decided one night to take Elavil because I had used it twice prior to this, and all it had done was knock me out similarly to the way an antihistamine usually does. I had taken it for the purpose of falling asleep earlier.
My friend has an intestinal disease that causes him a lot of pain so the doctors prescribed him with a lot of painkillers and one was Amitriptyline. My friend called me one night around 2am. Asking me if I wanted to sneak out and meet him.
This is hard to explain, but here it goes. I've been a long time suffer of depression/anxiety for about 15 years now. Although I've done tones of hallucinogens, up until last year I was only smoking dope and tripping on cactus & M'Gs, hadnt had dope, shrooms or acid for years.
I had been suffering migraines for about a month when my mother finally managed to convince me to go to a doctor. He found nothing that he could determine would cause these attacks and sent me to neruolgist.
Bluelight 2 threads 2 neutral visit
So this was a couple of years ago but I think it is certainly worthy of a trip report as it was by far one of the craziest 2-3 days of my life. It all started when I was dating a new girl (now the mother of my child and my Fiance).
Alright this is my third trip report and let me start by telling u about my self im 14, 125lbs and about 170cm. The story begins when I told my friend about "new" ways to get high and we could be able to find it in out houses. I started by telling him to look 4 sum T3 because i ahd tried it and knew it worked.
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