Oh god. Sadly, I do have an ipecac story that's mostly a product of my own idiocy. Let's just say that I came to a crossroads one day and decided that I'd feel worse if I allowed the second dose of cold medicine I'd taken (not realizing how similar the ingredients were to what I'd already tried) to melt to efficacy in my stomach.
I tried the finger down the throat. Didn't work.
I remembered the Ipecac in the first aid kit. Silly me, I thought I'd cough up the pill and be done with it. Six hours later, thirteen vomiting incidents into my ordeal, I decided to call an expert to find out just exactly what I'd done to myself.
"Oh no, tell me you didn't..." Not a great thing to hear from the operator at the poison control center.
Apparently, Ipecac causes you to vomit, not by irritating your stomach lining, but by fiddling with your central nervous system, depressing something that keeps the peristalsis rippling down, not up.
The first thing I felt was as if I'd been given a lobotomy. Ipecac doesn't make you nauseated. It just drapes a leaden stupid over your thought processes. Nothing happens so much as just losing your will to live. Then, there's very little warning before the contents of your stomach is in your mouth - just a vague unease deep below your stupor. And it doesn't stop for hours.
Then you'll have an Ipecac hangover for a day or so and once your head clears you'll vow never to do that again unless your life is truly in danger.