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Heroin - semi-exp. - overdose

not_broken_420

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Prior to this experience, I had snorted heroin a few times and injected it a few, less than 10. My boyfriend, another friend, and I got some the other night. Until this point I had been shooting pretty much every day for the past 5 days, so I had a bit of a tolerance. My boyfriend has a way higher tolerance than I do, so we both snorted some to gauge the strength. It was pretty decent. He shot his first and then measured out less than half as much for my shot. He didn't do a whole point, so I did less than half a point. I had a gut feeling that I should do half of it when he asked me if I wanted to, and I should have gone with that.

As soon as he took the needle out of my arm (I still don't trust myself to inject shit) I felt that familiar rush, but much stronger. I said something along the lines of "I've never felt this good of a rush before..." and decided to lie down on the bed. My boyfriend (M), G, and B were hanging out talking, assuming I was just enjoying my buzz. Suddenly M looked over at me and realized something was wrong. He ran over to me and started saying my name, shaking me, etc. He said I was completely unresponsive, not breathing, and my face was blue, but I had a pulse. He said he gave me CPR and just kept me standing up. All I remember is not being able to see or understand what was going on, and all I wanted to do was go to sleep. I was basically too fucked up to know or care that I was dying.

When I finally came to, M and I were sitting on the floor facing each other and I realized what had just happened and we both started hysterically crying. He told me he didn't know what he would do if he lost me, etc. G said if I hadn't started breathing and stood up in the next 30 seconds he would have called 911. I'm very glad I have friends that would rather call an ambulance than just let me die because they are afraid of legal consequences. And if I had been alone, I definitely wouldn't be here right now, as I had no idea what was going on.

No matter how much you think you know what you're doing, there's always a risk..just keep that in mind. Hopefully I won't get a bunch of scolding for this post -- I had no reason to think that dose would be too much, since my boyfriend shot over twice as much. Trust me, I've learned not to be over confident when dealing with this shit.

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Not to sound cold, but if you really don't want to lose your bf (or have him lose you), then perhaps you need to stop injecting heroin. Just a thought. I'm sure you've had it before. Its not too late to figure out how to stop.

peace and hope,
samadhi
 
Well from a selfish perspective, at least if you would have died, you would have gone out happy and wanting to sleep. You wouldn't have suffered at all.

And as bad as it would have been for your boyfriend, you wouldn't have had to feel bad about him feeling bad because you wouldnt even exist anymore.
 
Great to hear you're ok.
I'm sure you know this, just in case: heroin is one of the hardest drugs to know the strength of what you have...choosing to inject it is a poor decision because of this. I'm sure some one that does it often will disagree with me, but even the most knowledgeable heroin user is at an extremely high risk of overdose (in comparison with most other drugs)
In other words, shooting heroin is always a bad choice and is one of the best ways to overdose.
Things like this, as much as they suck, can often be good wake up calls for the people that go through it, either personally or as an observer. By wake up calls I don't mean "omg drugs r bad dun do them," I mean you get a better appreciation for your life and the lives of the people you're with. Another thing is a new respect for the drugs you use, increased caution...etc
Have fun and be safe.
 
The Is said:
Well from a selfish perspective, at least if you would have died, you would have gone out happy and wanting to sleep. You wouldn't have suffered at all.

And as bad as it would have been for your boyfriend, you wouldn't have had to feel bad about him feeling bad because you wouldnt even exist anymore.

I'm pretty appalled by this post. Don't even know what to say really, that's just... fucked up. It's great and all that you put "from a selfish perspective" but come on man. Nobody wants to go out that way, no matter how selfish. It would completely crush everybody who is close to her.

OP, glad to hear you're okay. I had been an IV heroin user for a few years up until a month and a half ago and was lucky enough to never OD or even be around an OD, but my wake up call was a close friend of mine committing suicide via heroin and Xanax because she couldn't get out of the hole that addiction had dug for her.
 
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