Heroin Heroin Overdose.

[Swimmingdancer]

If you are lucky enough to not just pass out right away, some of what you may feel would be this:

-Tingling sensation in face and fingers after injection.
-Way too strong of a rush, actually painful pins and needles
-Blurred vision
-Slowed breathing

If you feel any of those especially any together (the blurred vision in particular) you might have time to call an ambulance and save your own life.

I don't know if those should be taken as signs of an overdose. Blurred vision is extremely common with opioids, and the tingling/pins and needles I've had plenty of times without being anywhere close to an OD, it tends to happen more with certain dope that is poorly refined like tar heroin, that type of powder dope that it actually tar heroin mixed with lactose, or dope that has morphine in it. Slowed breathing - it depends how slow it is, opioids do slow your breathing even when not near fatal doses. When I have actually seriously OD'd I didn't have any of those symptoms aside from the slowed breathing - I just felt like I had to sit down and take a nap and then my breathing stopped. My friend said my lips and nails were blue and she could wake me so she called an ambulance thankfully. Moral of the story is never inject heroin alone, if you have a serious OD it's very unlikely you will be able to do anything to save yourself.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

I don't know if those should be taken as signs of an overdose.

You might not agree.. but they certainly shouldn't be ignored either. Serious blurred vision is not normal on opiates.. If you take a shot of H and all the sudden you can barley see.. that's a bad sign. And, as far as the pins and needles go.. You know when it feels more intense than it should, and during an OD, the rush can sometimes be almost painful.

I've had OD's where all of those symptoms presented and I've had them where I just fell alseep and didn't wake up. The point is that they can be a sign.

That list was just one scenario for how OD's can be presented, and wasn't meant to be all inclusive of all OD's. If I were to write out every way it could happen at every level, It would be an essay. That's what the overdose megathread will be for, which I will probably be PM'ing you for your input about.

 

[rhun]

-Tingling sensation in face and fingers after injection.
-Way too strong of a rush, actually painful pins and needles

These two symptoms in particular aren't for OD really... You could be having a histamine reaction to the dope.
I've been getting EXTREME prickling, intense itchyness, and just a very weird but strong rush whenever I IV lately..
But once the rush is over the symptoms go away and I'm not even really that high.
I'm on methadone so that may be a factor. But the dope is always from the same guy.
I'm thinking whatever is in the dope... but my friend never gets a reaction, its weird.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

You might not agree.. but they certainly shouldn't be ignored either. Serious blurred vision is not normal on opiates.. If you take a shot of H and all the sudden you can barley see.. that's a bad sign. And, as far as the pins and needles go.. You know when it feels more intense than it should, and during an OD, the rush can sometimes be almost painful.

I've had OD's where all of those symptoms presented and I've had them where I just fell alseep and didn't wake up. The point is that they can be a sign.

That list was just one scenario for how OD's can be presented, and wasn't meant to be all inclusive of all OD's. If I were to write out every way it could happen at every level, It would be an essay. That's what the overdose megathread will be for, which I will probably be PM'ing you for your input about.

Thanks for explaining, I just meant that any of those symptoms can be present without an OD and that one can OD without the the first 3 symptoms. So people shouldn't assume they need immediate medical attention simply because they have one of those symptoms (depending on the degree), or that they don't need medical attention if they don't have those symptoms

 

[mardoux]

if you've been responsible and slowly upping your dosage, as you said, i highly doubt that however much you added was enough to kill you if your last dose felt comfortable. what you've described in your post is, for me, a textbook example of a good fucking hit. and to answer your question, yes, you were definitely nodding. that being said, it sounds like you've found your sweet spot, and i wouldn't up your dosage beyond this for quite some time, especially if you're going to be using alone. with IV heroin there is a VERY thin line between a kick-ass hit and a trip to the hospital.

now that you've experienced the epitome of an IV heroin experience, it certainly couldn't hurt to start thinking of taking a break, even of just a day or two, since trying to relive this high you've just described is the perfect formula for addiction.

god this makes me want a hit....its been five years and no i'm not gonna do it but DAMN do i miss it sometimes.....because the addiction part is why i'm not nodding out this second, actually the withdrawl part.