How to know if overdosing on hydrocodone

[moecloudy]

Okay I am tolerant to hydrocodone. I take 70-100 mg twice a day. Took 70 at 1:30 and another 90 at 6. Never done it that close together before. I just got off of work. I am laying in bed and I'm so sleepy. I've slept about 3 hours on Tuesday and yesterday about 7. Been at work all day. So my question is how is someone supposed to know if they're sleepiness is possible od or just normal. Thinking about it is making me panic which means harder to breath so know I'm having trouble breathing and I'm sleepy. Is it od or is it from panic and actual tiredness?? How can someone know? Can my dosage cause od to a very tolerant person? Please help

 

[The Doc.]

You usually don't know until its too late I'm afraid that's why gobbling down as many pills as you do has killed so many people by them overdosing, or from the toxicity of acetaminophen getting to them. People usually just fall asleep and don't wake up sometimes you'll realise hey I can't breath no matter how hard I try and if you can get a shot of naloxone very quickly then you can be brought back but its a very scary uncomfortable experience you don't want to go through. Be careful taking all these pills there is no surefire way you can avoid an OD if you value your life this much you wouldn't be taking these ridiculous doses of hydrocodone.
I can't tell you if your gonna die based on your tolerance there's a lot more factors at play such as how you metabolise the drug etc. So I can't give you a "safe" dose where you can be blasted but have no chance of an OD but I can say doses like that have killed people before even when they thought they could handle it.

 

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Shallow breathing is the first sign, if your breathing is labored I wouldn't go to sleep till that's gone away.