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marble falls

(57,079 posts)
Mon Mar 1, 2021, 11:20 AM Mar 2021

A Guy Tried Mainlining Shrooms. Then They Grew in His Blood

A Guy Tried Mainlining Shrooms. Then They Grew in His Blood
The 30-year-old ended up in hospital with multiple organ failure and fungal infections after injecting a mushroom tea.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murder-homicide

by Gavin Butler
January 12, 2021, 8:40pm

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During a series of manic and depressive episodes, the man had read about the therapeutic effects of microdosing LSD and psilocybin, and decided to brew what he referred to as “mushroom tea” by boiling magic mushrooms down in water. He then “filtered” the concoction by drawing it through a cotton swab, and injected it intravenously.

Days later, the man started developing symptoms of lethargy, jaundice, diarrhea and nausea. Then he started vomiting blood. His family took him to the emergency department, where he was found to be suffering from acute kidney dysfunction, liver injury and multi-organ failure, and he was subsequently transferred to the intensive care unit—where blood tests revealed that he had both a bacterial and fungal infection in his blood.

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Over the following 22 days the man was given an intense course of antibiotics and antifungal drugs. He was also prescribed to continue taking the antifungal medication voriconazole long-term after leaving the hospital, so as to prevent the mushrooms from regrowing.

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Another case report from 1985 tells of how another 30-year-old man received an intravenous injection of psilocybin mushroom extract, resulting in similar symptoms of vomiting, muscle aches and acute fever, as well as low oxygen and high methemoglobin in the blood. The authors of that study further noted at the time that the event was similar to two previously reported cases.




Sometimes you do the drugs, sometimes the drugs do you.

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A Guy Tried Mainlining Shrooms. Then They Grew in His Blood (Original Post) marble falls Mar 2021 OP
I had a roommate who did something like this. Beakybird Mar 2021 #1
If only... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2021 #2
I followed Nancy's advice: 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #10
Greedy people, not satisfied with the natural high from psyilocybin, always wanting more. lark Mar 2021 #3
one late summer i picked a grocery bag of psycilocybes ........ rampartc Mar 2021 #9
Proper link mikeysnot Mar 2021 #4
Oh well. You know how it is on Vice. marble falls Mar 2021 #5
There is all kinds of stupid out there. CentralMass Mar 2021 #6
Corrected link UpInArms Mar 2021 #7
They're all horror stories. marble falls Mar 2021 #8

Beakybird

(3,333 posts)
1. I had a roommate who did something like this.
Mon Mar 1, 2021, 11:30 AM
Mar 2021

It was a mushroom brew made with some kind of "healing" fungus given to her by a friend. She had this fermenting in room temperature water and sipped it throughout the day. She offered it to me, but I thought it looked gross.
She became violently ill, poor young lady.

lark

(23,097 posts)
3. Greedy people, not satisfied with the natural high from psyilocybin, always wanting more.
Mon Mar 1, 2021, 11:35 AM
Mar 2021

I got plenty high from shrooms back in the day, can't imagine doing such s risky stupid thing to get more high. In fact, I stopped doing shrooms because the high was getting too intense and one time I couldn't talk, too overloaded. I decided right then that it was time for me to let go of hallucinogens and never did any again, even when hubby did some a few more times.

rampartc

(5,407 posts)
9. one late summer i picked a grocery bag of psycilocybes ........
Mon Mar 1, 2021, 12:49 PM
Mar 2021

ate some, tea with some, dried some for later. the days and visions got weirder and weirder until school started and i have not wanted to do it since.

my recommendation - these are serious drugs and should be used sparingly.

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