What to tell your sitter?

Ooop.. I just found this while continuing to dig dig dig.. http://www.ibogaine.desk.nl/wells.html My instinct here is to just delete the thread but maybe I'll live it here for a few days just to give everyone else a chance to nab that link ;x -MW

your sitter(s) should be prepared to help you to the bathroom, clean out your purge buckets, really just be there to make sure you are fine... and in the unlikely scenario that if something were to go wrong, they would not be afraid to call for help.   You may want to talk, you may not, you want your sitter to be able to leave you alone, but yet not leave you ALONE,  if that is what you want.  someone to help you drink liquids,  someone who isn't going to ask you a million questions or talk to you too much during your flood.  When I sit for people I do like to keep notes,  if they say something about the experience that they might forget later, I will write it down, I like to keep a journal of when they took their test dose, how much, next etc.. so you can be aware of how much you have taken.  When I sit for someone,  I generally am there for the beginning, in the same room.  at least the first hour (after the buzzing starts and they have lied down) until I get a feel of how they are reacting to the medicine.  If they are very nauseous  may stay with them longer,  after the nausea subsides I would insist on giving them a bit of water, not too  much until you know they are going to keep it down.  Maybe some ginger beer (no alcohol) to settle the stomach a bit.  If the person isn't nauseous I will maybe leave them alone a bit earlier.  I might ask if they would like to be alone, but I would check on them every 15 to 30 minutes or so, or if I hear purging, or that they are trying to get up,  I will go in immediately... these are just some of the basic things a sitter should do. You don't want your sitter to talk to you too much, unless you feel like it, you may more toward the end. You want your sitter to make sure that you don't take the Iboga until you are experiencing withdrawals, also you want them to be able to give you more if you are still stair-casing your dose after the flood has begun. You do want your sitter to help you with using the bathroom, drinking fluids, cleaning buckets etc.  If you decide to listen to music, you will want them to be your DJ. . You may want them to keep a journal, definitely keep track of how much and when you have taken each dose... keep reading, have yours sitter read up a bit as well if possible.   Your Mother would probably be a perfect sitter roxine

Also, yes you will want it to be dark, black out the windows if possible, get an eye mask...  Your eyes become very sensitive to light.  Yes, you should be in as much withdrawal as you can stand before ingesting it... and be truthful about it!!!

Great replies lalababa - very concise summary, this will help a lot of folks better understand sitter responsibilities.  I cannot think of anything important that has been omitted or overlooked, it really is pretty basic care giving and looking after. Eye-shades are ideal and comfortable, darkness is very important, the deeper you get into the trip the more trance potential opens and light can potentially disturb the momentum...the hallucinations from ibogaine are way different from the traditional psychedelics/party drugs. They have a very staccato and stroboscopic quality and any outside light can distract one's ability to stay centered and focused while the process deepens. Your sitter(s) should check in on you with a flashlight, quietly and gently and it is best to have something worked out before hand regarding the 'check in' schedule - according to whatever dosing protocol you decide on. This helps alot - the first hour or two of development can be a bit confusing until threshold is reached and breached. After this, if all is on point, from the outside it may likely appear the person is asleep (my brother actually snored like a big ole sleeping dog, never saw that before) - once the total dose is in and you get settled, there is really very little left for a sitter to do other than quietly hold space and do an hourly check-in...knowing what is and is not an emergency is pertinent: purging may or may not occur, by no means does everyone experience this. It can also take many shapes - from sweat to tears to vomiting and diarrhea. Even if someone is purging 'hard' - (loudly heaving) this does not constitute a need for medical intervention. Above all - do not panic or over react to anything. Sitters: just stay alert and aware and hold positive thoughts. Keep the surroundings quiet unless music is requested. There will likely be no need for any kind of 'guidance' or psychological 'redirection' required of the sitter, ibogaine is unique in this property - that it is very personal: something shared between itself and the one taking it, typically there will not be any desire to communicate with the 'world' while one is underway, and if the experience is deep enough, the ability to engage in coherent dialogue will be extremely limited. Simple, short 'yes' or 'no' answers to any questions...but IMO it is best to just simply BE and let the thing happen on its own, if your charge needs you between the check-in's it will probably be due to a purge, and you'll hear that I like to keep copious notes too, this is a real good idea. Keep up the times and amounts of the doses, make some notes about the physical condition of the initiate - like heart rate, and BP if you have the equipment. Once full-on trance is achieved, things for sitter to look to - quietly check in on person, softly let them know you are there to check on them and touch their skin, get a feel for clamminess and or perspiration (neither of which mean alarm) and write down your observations in notebook. By and large IME - you can expect to see fluctuation in heart rate - mostly as the drug comes on - some mild perspiration and or clamminess, chills and goosebumps. Most of these will melt into a calm repose as the medicine works more deeply and then it is just a periodic look-in to make sure everything is still on point, which I expect it will be. Serious problems are uncommon and emergencies very rare - I picked up a cheap oxygen monitor (O2 Sat) at a drugstore - it attaches to the index finger and will quickly reveal the pulse rate on the LED screen. Easy non-invasive way to get info. Many blessings and safe journey!