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Fatal heart arrhythmias + drug use?

Siccness909

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Whats up BL....

I was wondering have any of you ever induced "V-TACH" (Ventricular Tachycardia) from drug use? Doesn't matter what substance. Some of you may know it's an extremely dangerous/potentially life threatening heart arrhythmia. I only ask because last year I had a very traumatic episode due to mixing .6 of crystal & about a .2 of Heroin ROA's include intranasal dosing the crystal and smoking dosing the H..

Don't wanna make this to long, to describe my mindstate at the time, I was sleep deprived about 72 hours consistently dosing speed up until the time, also hadn't ate anything whatsoever since I began the binge. As the 3rd day approached my dopamine was pretty much drained, I did the whole .6 of crystal within a 30 minute time frame attempting to feel some type of euphoria but my brain wasn't having it...

All I felt was a stage of overstimulation and near psychosis paranoia. Started to hear voices outside etc so since I wasn't getting any positive effects at all, I decided to smoke about a .2 of heroin I had left over at an attempt to just comedown and go to sleep.


WELL I basically smoked all the H on top of the speed I had did already and within I'd say 15-20minutes? I began to notice my breathing getting shallow and horrible chest pains/tightening. As it is I've been diagnosed with an Anxiety disorder so in my mind I thought it was nothing more than a panic attack...IT WASN'T Paramedics arrived shortly after i called 911, turns out my heart wa fluttering causing my heart rate to go anywhere from 170-185bpm and drop to 40-50bpm practically every 7 seconds it would flutter....I literally felt my ventricles tighten in my chest it was absolutely fucking terrifying! Luckily once I got to the ER, MD's told me I had a severe episode of VTACH caused by drug use and by their reports if I hadn't of received medical attention as quickly as I did, they said maybe 15-20 minutes later and I would have gone into sudden cardiac arrest and died...adding to my discharge report "you have a significant chance of dying if it happens again"

Anyway my fellow BLighters, have any of you ever experienced VTACH? Or other dangerous heart arrhythmias? Mind you I was only 20 Yrs old at the time with no preexisting heart conditions. I am personally very educated regarding my substance abuse and dont generally mix uppers and downers but guess I got a little carried away you could say...but yeah all thoughts/opinions are welcome THANKS!!
 
I smoked so much crack dude, I would literally fucking freeze in place looking at the peephole for hours. I did this for almost a year straight. Everytime I smoked I would be paranoid as fuck, and think that someone was coming to shoot me.

I won''t even go to the doctor because I know what they are going to tell me. I have been clean from crack for two years, but I know that one day, unless I randomly get killed in an accident or something, my crack abuse will be the death of me.

Just talking about heart problems gives me the chills.
 
I don't think the heart arrhythmia was from mixing uppers and downers, it doesn't "confuse" your heart or anything like that, that's just a myth... you did 0.6 of meth withing 30min after a 72h binge with no sleep, food or water. And it sounds like you abused meth heavily before that, the meth is what caused most of your problems, you pushed your body too much man.
Take it easy on the meth, you almost had a heart attack, you should be extremely cautious if you decide to keep using IMO
 
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