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Heroin Heroin Overdose.

When your having an opioid overdose you never notice the signs and symptoms because of the user is usually too sedated. It's usually lowered bp, extreme drowsiness, followed by shortness of breath/shallow breathing, respiratory failure, and finally cardiac arrest.

This is why opioids are notorious for overdoses. Instead of trying to detect the signs, just limit your dosages.
 
Chromophobia said:
When your having an opioid overdose you never notice the signs and symptoms because of the user is usually too sedated. It's usually lowered bp, extreme drowsiness, followed by shortness of breath/shallow breathing, respiratory failure, and finally cardiac arrest.

This is why opioids are notorious for overdoses. Instead of trying to detect the signs, just limit your dosages.
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^^^

This. (By the way, good posts as of recently chromophobia)

The problem with opiate ODs is that you are usually very unaware of what's happening.. Often times you just go from very high to out cold. However, there are varying levels of overdoses. Some of them are more serious than others, where only an injection of Narcan will bring you back. Others you can come out of yourself, and for a much lesser OD but still right on the line, you might not loose consciousness at all.

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.


Edit: By the way, I know many people are interested in this topic of overdoses with various drugs, so myself and the other OD mods are going to be creating a detailed overdose mega thread with in depth descriptions of our real life OD's, what it feels like to overdose at various levels, signs and symptoms, and what to do if it happens. So be on the look out for that hopefully in the coming months.
 
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This. (By the way, good posts as of recently chromophobia)
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Thank you sir, appreciate your kind words.

The project you guys are working on sounds great I'm anxious to read into it.
 
For me personally I lose the ability to focus my eyes and my coordination goes out the window. Followed soon by intense vomiting / dry heaving.
 
^Thats only if your lucky and your body rejects to metabolise/absorb the substance.


Unfortunately in most cases that's not the case.
 
mr.scagnattie said:
Edit: By the way, I know many people are interested in this topic of overdoses with various drugs, so myself and the other OD mods are going to be creating a detailed overdose mega thread with in depth descriptions of our real life OD's, what it feels like to overdose at various levels, signs and symptoms, and what to do if it happens. So be on the look out for that hopefully in the coming months.
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cool, miguel. i look forward to seeing that hopefully it will redirect some traffic of that nature to more in depth and intellectual discussions:)

is it going to be only really relative to america (american centric) or can/will it be used universally with the info and subjects included? you know you guys could open a thread to the public to help contribute and from there you can compile the final copy:)

scagnetti said:
Very true.. If you look in the mirror and your lips looked like you just made out with a smurf.... you're probably in trouble. Hah.
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or you've just had a good night out;)
 
The reason I was asking is I shot heroin alone last night to try to get some sleep, i put in a little bit more than i was used to slowly upping the dose, and injected it, about 5 seconds after my heart rate for very fast and I was getting short for breath, I got up and started walking around my basement, trying to calm myself down, it was getting hard to breath but my lips and fingers were not turning blue which I kept checking for, after my heart calmed down, my breathing was still alot slower, and i felt extremely tired, tired enough to pass out while standing up, but i heard an overdose could just be you fall asleep and don't wake up, so i forced myself to wake up drinking water and eating chips, when i felt comfortable enough to get into bed and sit down my eyes were crazy i couldnt see stright my vision was going up and down, or my eyes would go crosseyed by themselves, things looked really blurry, sometimes i would have to close one eye to be able to see or look away or close both and squeeze my eye lids shut to be able to see straight again but I would only be able to see straight for about 20 seconds before it happened again, now this was at about 5am, i dont remember falling asleep but i just woke up at 7pm, what happened to me? Was I just really fucking high and thats what a nod is? (I never experienced a nod) or was my dope cut with something I tried looking up some things last night but couldn't read anything due to my eyes, I couldn't follow a straight line sentence.
 
tabsandcaps said:
i felt extremely tired, tired enough to pass out while standing up,... sometimes i would have to close one eye to be able to see or look away or close both and squeeze my eye lids shut to be able to see straight again but I would only be able to see straight for about 20 seconds before it happened again,...i dont remember falling asleep .
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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.
 
You're right now that I think about it I did feel really great and was nodding away as I was on the computer, yeah I'm taking a break now because today when I woke up all I was thinking about was damn that felt good last night I should get high again, so i'm taking a break for about a week, I might do it again next weekend depending on how I feel my self control will be, as I can now see how that can be so addicting, the high was like perfect a great high not over the top in length like meth, or too short like cocaine, perfect length and great feeling.

So obviously time for a break, the only thing i'm upset about is I didn't measure out the dose, but I'm pretty posistive I can eye out the dose I did have out, If i do wait about a week and eye out the same dose I had should I aim a little lower based on the break and the fact i'm not sure the exact amount I used, so with the overdose danger etc, even if that was my sweetspot, I think i should aim a little lower, is is even more of a danger if i inject a bit less, don't hit my sweet spot so in about an hour i inject a bit more to hit it? Will the heroin that's already in my system add to the heroin I add about an hour-two later and trigger an overdose? Or will the second dose not mix with the first and it's no problem?
 
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yes, if you're taking a week break you will definitely need to shoot for a bit lower of a dose. if you feel you don't find it the first time and you feel like you need to re-dose to get to your sweet spot an hour or two later, just be extremely careful, and dose up in VERY small amounts. or better yet, snort some bumps over a long period of time.
 
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tabsandcaps said:
What are the signs of a heroin overdose? Anyone here experienced one?
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I have experienced them multiple times.

You never see it coming. You finish your shot, the rush comes, you put your needle away and then you go somewhere. Your somewhere dark and warm and suddenly you can hear things. The noises annoy you because they are almost pulling you out from a warm and wonderful place. Suddenly something inside you kicks in and you can hear the voices clearly calling your name and you try to move. It takes every ounce of strength to start moving, open your eyes, and try to talk. It's as if your entire body is asleep but you fight it and then all of a sudden you are back to reality in a stupor gasping for air.

I don't know how but every overdose I ever had I managed to wake up from. My last overdose before I quit, I was pronounced dead when the ambulance came to try to revive me. They put a sheet over me and were taking me back to the hospital morgue. In the back of the ambulance I scared the fuck out of the EMT because I sprung up gasping and coughing for air. They tested me for brain damage at the hospital and I had none.
 
for me it's like you feel the extreme urge to take a quick nap, like when a child stays up late watching tv and says "I'll just close my eyes for a couple minutes." a "couple" minutes later was really a half hour later and I was all of a sudden surrounded by paramedics being injected over and over again with narcan.

I had a couple other experiences where I nodded out in my room and woke up on the floor, with my mother trying to wake me up. she said I fell off the bed and hit my head, but I had no idea that happened. this was a light od.

stick to doses you're used to, the time I woke up in the ambulance I had injected a half gram of h, when I usually did .25
 
I'm definitely looking forward to the Overdose thread promised by Mr. scagnattie. I hope it'll be up soon!
 
tabsandcaps said:
So obviously time for a break, the only thing i'm upset about is I didn't measure out the dose, but I'm pretty posistive I can eye out the dose I did have out, If i do wait about a week and eye out the same dose I had should I aim a little lower based on the break and the fact i'm not sure the exact amount I used, so with the overdose danger etc, even if that was my sweetspot, I think i should aim a little lower, is is even more of a danger if i inject a bit less, don't hit my sweet spot so in about an hour i inject a bit more to hit it? Will the heroin that's already in my system add to the heroin I add about an hour-two later and trigger an overdose? Or will the second dose not mix with the first and it's no problem?
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Eye out the dose? What the hell are you talking about? First of all you wont know if it's the same batch as you got last time which means the same amount may be weaker or stronger depending on if the guy had a re-up or if he knows that a drought is coming so they are cutting it even more. Second you are alone!.

You get your shit, you take a credit card, you make a line, you snort it, wait 15 minutes, see how you feel, and go from feeling. Second option? Don't shoot it all at once, start inject a bit, wait for the rush, see if it is overwhelming any of your senses, give it a minute, and then finish or stop, you can shoot up again later if you want even as long as you have an extra suringe that's not clogged by blood. And yes, heroin stacks, and a hour is not a window that will keep you safe.

You chose the right substance to fuck with.
 
tentram said:
cool, miguel. i look forward to seeing that hopefully it will redirect some traffic of that nature to more in depth and intellectual discussions:)

is it going to be only really relative to america (american centric) or can/will it be used universally with the info and subjects included? you know you guys could open a thread to the public to help contribute and from there you can compile the final copy:)
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It will be able to be used universally. It's not going to go into specific dosing or anything regional.. So, no matter what country you are in, how strong the drugs you get are, etc, you will be able to use it as a reference. And opening a public thread to aid in development might happen too. I know there's a lot of non-staff/former staff here with a lot of knowledge and experience I'd like to put to use.
 
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