Be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with Nifoxipam

I'm no stranger to ultra-potent, long half-life benzodiazpines. In fact, I used to be dependent on them for years (phenazepam, flubromazolam, clonazolam, the works). I tapered off; good for me.

So, I was placing an order with a vendor the other day and I hadn't quite met the minimum order price. So, I figured, "why not?" I didn't even do any reading except dosages. 1mg - ok that's not too terrible after dealing with flubromazolam and flunitrazolam. This is what the scarcely available literature says it's good for.

I wasn't even intending to try it. I know what long half life benzos do and how deceptive they can be. But I needed to sleep the other night, and the regular old bromazolam wasn't doing it (not much: 1mg). So, I dipped into the Nifoxipam. 1mg exactly - it was not a very concentrated solution, so I'm confident that was the dose. This was Sunday night.

It didn't do anything. I ended up falling asleep, and woke up and felt normal. I went to work on Monday, and did fine. Tuesday, I had off, and I managed to solve a house-related crisis (the air conditioner failed and we keep chinchillas who are very sensitive to high temperatures). Then, in the mid afternoon Tuesday or so, I start stumbling. Slurring my words. Talked to my mom on the phone and she asked me "Are you drunk?" I insisted I wasn't. I didn't think I was inebriated, as I hadn't taken any drugs at all since I smoked a bit of weed the night before.

Today,, I took a sick day from work. I can't walk straight, and it's very hard to write this down. I'm misplacing items and finding them again, only to re-misplace them in a bit of a loop. I'm confused, but I'm articulate. I do not feel like I want to sleep. I've flushed the Nifoxipam, and I don't know if I'll have to take a sick day tomorrow too.

I don't think any of you should be fucking with this one. It's delusions of sobriety to THE MAX, and the half-life is like 100 hours. None of my other drugs do anything: I managed to get myself out of bed with 30mg of 4-MeTMP, and I had a couple of coffees. Fuck me, at least I'm awake.

I see a very real possibility of this being coma-inducing.

are you sure this isn't some form of medical emergency unrelated to the substance you ingested? That seems weird it doesn't show effects until so many hours later.. Will heed your advice regardless. I haven't heard of that one yet.

Gluonimatrix said:

are you sure this isn't some form of medical emergency unrelated to the substance you ingested? That seems weird it doesn't show effects until so many hours later.. Will heed your advice regardless. I haven't heard of that one yet.

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I just saw somewhere that the duration lasts 10-75 hours, wowzers

There doesn’t seem to be a conclusive consensus on half life, but ~40 hours post reading is a while for things to suddenly go sideways, especially considering you had a completely normal day Monday.. also 1 page is not a big read by any means.
Like @Gluonimatrix suggssted, I’d see a doctor to rule anything else out. It’s also too bad the mag was discarded so it can’t be tested…
Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!

ochemdim said:

There doesn’t seem to be a conclusive consensus on half life, but ~40 hours post reading is a while for things to suddenly go sideways, especially considering you had a completely normal day Monday.. also 1 page is not a big read by any means.
Like @Gluonimatrix suggssted, I’d see a doctor to rule anything else out. It’s also too bad the mag was discarded so it can’t be tested…
Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!

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I agree, better safe than sorry.

I really don't like doctors. I'm basically just gonna cut out all of the drugs for a while, including weed and nicotine. And I'm even taking some detox supplements. Let's see if that clears my system and helps with my sleeping problems.

thatguy69 said:

I really don't like doctors. I'm basically just gonna cut out all of the drugs for a while, including weed and nicotine. And I'm even taking some detox supplements. Let's see if that clears my system and helps with my sleeping problems.

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Best of luck mate. This kind of thing is always a scary wake up call to the kinds of risks we’re taking when reading mags with such little history behind them.

Hope you feel back to 100% soon! Keep us posted

I went to the vitamin Shoppe and I bought some extreme detox supplement. Had some lunch and took a shower. That was about five hours ago now and I'm actually already starting to feel better.