I started taking painkillers and opiates about 9 months ago. I was in a car accident and got facial reconstruction and severe back problems. I was prescribed lots of opiates and really enjoyed them. Opiates are really nice but the dose to take gets increasingly high for a good feeling.
Carisoprodol
Well-documented
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 6 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki, PubChem)
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 6 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki, PubChem)
Aliases: Soma, Rela, Myolax, Vanadom, Carisoma
Summary
Carisoprodol, also known by the brand name Soma, is a carbamate sedative-hypnotic. Carisoprodol is used medically as a centrally-acting muscle relaxant, anxiolytic and hypnotic for the short-term treatment of insomnia. Carisoprodol also has weak analgesic effects.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 100-325mg | 325-500mg | 500-750mg | 750mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Sources
Oral
Dose ladder — PsychonautWikiOnset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 15-60 min | 2-5 hrs | 2-4 hrs | 4.25-10 hrs |
Tolerance
Build-up
develops rapidly within days; meprobamate metabolite contributes to dependence
Reset
Falls after you stop, at a rate that varies from person to person. If you've been using regularly, cut down gradually with medical help rather than stopping suddenly.
No tolerance chart. Our decay curves for these drugs were estimates, and a curve can make tolerance look longer-lasting than it is, which is the dangerous direction.
How fast tolerance to these drugs fades after a break has not been measured well enough to draw, so don't count on a dose you used to take still being safe: after time off, start with a much smaller amount and don't use alone. Mixing sedatives with each other, with alcohol or with opioids sharply raises the risk of a fatal overdose. If you've been using regularly, don't stop suddenly: withdrawal from benzodiazepines, alcohol or GHB/GBL can cause seizures or delirium, so get medical help to cut down gradually.
Sources: FRANK: benzodiazepines · Alcohol and Drug Foundation: GHB · FDA 2020: benzodiazepine boxed warning · FDA 2019: gabapentinoids and breathing · NHS: alcohol use disorder
Cross-Tolerances
Other sedative‑hypnotics (e.g., benzodiazepines, barbiturates)
Effects
Aggregated from 30 single-substance Erowid and 15 Bluelight experience reports; 27 Erowid reports where another drug was taken too are left out
Each bar shows the share of analyzed reports whose text mentions that effect — a mention is not always a first-hand experience (fear of an effect or something witnessed can count). Mentions saying the effect did not happen are left out; that check reads keywords, so it can miss some. The shaded band on a bar, and the small range after its number, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind. Fewer reports, wider band. Tap or hover any number for details. The second value is the Bluelight extractor's per-effect confidence; a dash means the row is Erowid-derived, which has no confidence measurement.
Rows resting on fewer than 20 reports show a count (“3 of 7”) instead of a bar. Why 20?
Effect glossary — · full glossary
Positive Effects 22
42.2% (95% interval 29 to 57 percent)
91%
26.6% (95% interval 16 to 41 percent)
88%
23.3% (95% interval 12 to 41 percent)
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16.7% (95% interval 7 to 34 percent)
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15.5% (95% interval 8 to 29 percent)
82%
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84%
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1 of 15
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Adverse Effects 18
15.6% (95% interval 8 to 29 percent)
82%
13.3% (95% interval 6 to 26 percent)
90%
13.3% (95% interval 5 to 30 percent)
–
10.0% (95% interval 4 to 26 percent)
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8.9% (95% interval 4 to 21 percent)
80%
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85%
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76%
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Also reported in combinations. In the 27 Carisoprodol reports where another drug was taken too, 6 (22.2%) mention hospital, emergency services or an overdose, 2 (7.4%) a seizure and 0 (0.0%) psychosis. In the 30 single-substance reports: 30.0%, 10.0% and 0.0%. These are not in the figures above: they cannot be put down to Carisoprodol alone, and a mention is not always something that happened to the writer.
Community Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, Bluelight, and Dose.wiki. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance. Tags summarise each author's own verdict — how reports are classified.
Erowid 8 reports 3 positive 2 neutral 3 cautionary visit
Hello, this is my report of my first experience with the muscle relaxant/sedative carisoprodol, soma, and how it led to my month and a half long psychological dependency/addiction. It all stated one night in February 2006. My four friends and I return from a night at the park. 9:00 P.M.
This is a journey from the first time I deliberately took Soma to the most recent time. A few years ago, I was into all kinds of illegal drugs, but not yet into opiates.
I am a 22 year old male who has done nearly every drug under the sun (except crack and heroin). I couldn't even list all the drugs I've got under my belt because I wouldn't be able to remember them and it would make for an extremely long list (easilly 40+ substances).
Although I have used Soma several times this report will detail my highest dose experience (4 350 mg tablets). Background: Being faced with another boring school day and wanting to get f'cked up, I decided to pop my remaining stash of Soma.
I recently happened upon some Soma pills that my friend J was selling. He let me get 5 for free and I took them home. That nights experience is as follows: Previous Substances used- Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Cannabis, Alcohol Current Prescription Meds- Skelaxin, another muscle ralxer but I didn't take it the night of thi...
Soma is a crazy, highly addictive drug for me. Its almost killed me three different times and I still want to take it. Here is a detailing of the first time I overdosed on soma this is the only time I overdosed that I have much of a memory of. First off, I need to say that Soma causes me to black out NOT pass out.
The following is a description of possibly the stupidest most careless thing I've ever done. 8:30 Ingest 2 Somas. I chewed them up, it's the worst tasting pill I've ever encountered. 9:30 Not feeling anything from the first 2 pills so I eat one more. 9:40 Getting frustrated so I eat 3 more.
Bluelight 4 threads 3 neutral 1 cautionary visit
6th July, 2012 (New Financial Year, Day 6) 18.9 grams (15 caps, 3.9 stems) plus 10.7 grams (stuff at bottom of evaporator, mostly stems) = not enough. I go to the park to get the last two fresh specimens of the season. Surprisingly I find five caps. Three of them are immature, but I pick them anyway.
Ahh, what a relaxing day was today... well, it wasn't the most relaxing day of my life at all, but after being in withdrawal from Benzodiazepines for some days, finally yesterday I could I get a nice amount of Lorazepam, together with a tiny bit (and I mean, something like 10mg, very tiny) of Risperidone, helped me to...
Just got my hands on some Pain-O-Soma. %) I love diazepam, temazepam and GHB. I've always been interested in old-school sedatives and I've been wanting to try carisoprodol for a while because it's a pro-drug to meprobamate. I took 700mg on an empty stomach earlier while I was waiting for my dinner.
So a couple of months ago I ordered some Soma online. It wasn't the first time I had done this, so it was no big deal. The first time I tried it I took 3 or 4 of the 350mg pills.
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