SafeTrouble
Greenlighter
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Someone close to me did meth and ended up in the hospital. He's not exactly regular user, but from what he told me he does it "once in a while."
It should be noted that before he went on this meth binge, he didn't eat anything for about 2 days and was drinking very little water (how much is "very little" I'm not sure) during this binge. Anyway, he smoked quite a bit of it and slammed a pretty small dose as well a few hours later. He says the amount he smoked wasn't really an insane amount and that he definitely smoked before and was fine with it - it was just a bigger amount than he usually did. I assume this means a moderate-high dose.
Long story short, he started feeling some weird "pressure" near his stomach and realized something was wrong because he never felt something like it. It wasn't painful, it just felt like some localized pressure. He called an ambulance and once he got there, a bunch of weird thing started happening. He got that tingling feeling when your leg falls asleep ALL OVER his body. He flipped out and started telling the docs that the tingling feeling was on his head and everywhere else and he was having trouble breathing. They tried to hold this kid down to get an EKG reading but he kept fidgeting around too much and couldn't remain calm because he thought he was dying. So they had to sedate him and he passed out lol.
When I picked him up from the hospital the next morning after I got a call from them, he was still a bit disoriented and seemed slightly "out of it" like he didn't know where he was. He says the morning after was mostly a haze and he remembers everything up until the point that they sedated him. He remembers walking around the hospital with the IV drip still connected but he felt completely fine afterwards. He wants to try it again but I recommended against it. He's a good friend and if he does do it again, he should at least have more knowledge about the potential of an overdose.
A few questions:
-Were these symptoms (the pressure + tingling feeling all over body) symptoms of a meth overdose?
-I've read that those two symptoms seem more in line with DEHYDRATION rather than a drug overdose. He wasn't eating any food or drinking much water so he was probably very low on electrolytes and whatnot. Meth raises body temperature and blood pressure so you sweat a lot more and blood doesn't get around as efficiently thus you're losing electrolytes and not getting enough circulation which might have caused the tingling.
-Is a meth overdose even possible? Is it possible to die from meth in a regular healthy individual from a moderate dose? You don't hear much about meth overdoses or deaths.
It should be noted that before he went on this meth binge, he didn't eat anything for about 2 days and was drinking very little water (how much is "very little" I'm not sure) during this binge. Anyway, he smoked quite a bit of it and slammed a pretty small dose as well a few hours later. He says the amount he smoked wasn't really an insane amount and that he definitely smoked before and was fine with it - it was just a bigger amount than he usually did. I assume this means a moderate-high dose.
Long story short, he started feeling some weird "pressure" near his stomach and realized something was wrong because he never felt something like it. It wasn't painful, it just felt like some localized pressure. He called an ambulance and once he got there, a bunch of weird thing started happening. He got that tingling feeling when your leg falls asleep ALL OVER his body. He flipped out and started telling the docs that the tingling feeling was on his head and everywhere else and he was having trouble breathing. They tried to hold this kid down to get an EKG reading but he kept fidgeting around too much and couldn't remain calm because he thought he was dying. So they had to sedate him and he passed out lol.
When I picked him up from the hospital the next morning after I got a call from them, he was still a bit disoriented and seemed slightly "out of it" like he didn't know where he was. He says the morning after was mostly a haze and he remembers everything up until the point that they sedated him. He remembers walking around the hospital with the IV drip still connected but he felt completely fine afterwards. He wants to try it again but I recommended against it. He's a good friend and if he does do it again, he should at least have more knowledge about the potential of an overdose.
A few questions:
-Were these symptoms (the pressure + tingling feeling all over body) symptoms of a meth overdose?
-I've read that those two symptoms seem more in line with DEHYDRATION rather than a drug overdose. He wasn't eating any food or drinking much water so he was probably very low on electrolytes and whatnot. Meth raises body temperature and blood pressure so you sweat a lot more and blood doesn't get around as efficiently thus you're losing electrolytes and not getting enough circulation which might have caused the tingling.
-Is a meth overdose even possible? Is it possible to die from meth in a regular healthy individual from a moderate dose? You don't hear much about meth overdoses or deaths.
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