Near death plugging methadone - what now?

kemiskro

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Dear everyone.

Let me share my recent near death experience on methadone and have your inputs on the situation and how to move forward.

For a while I have been playing around with oxys and a week ago two friends and I were plugging methadone.

I end up plugging approx 200 mg methadone. Dont ask me how, this was the major mistake.

About an hour later I am flushing out any remains in my butt and trying to vomit, realising things are rapidly moving out of control.

The next thing I sense is the ambulance crew asking me questions, and telling me my body temperature was 34 degrees celcius when they got to me and I was 5 minutes next to dying. Luckily my two friends had called emergency doctors in the nick of time.

All night in hospital I am vomiting and dozing on ad off, being administered naloxone. My breathing is impaired and stops every ten minutes until the alarm goes off and I realize it is time to breathe.

Anyways, I survived and now Im left with an uncertain feeling in my body and brain. Still high on methadone, it seems I am still shaky with the nods, although decreasing now.

Mentally I am in shambles, realizing I nearly threw away my life for a bit of chemical fun and lust for drugs. I have two sons, a great job and have just gone through a relatively happy divorce with my kids mother. I have great friends, but no one I can tell this to, because methadone use is a huge taboo and I feel ashamed as it is. Its just really hard every time I think of nearly having robbed my great sons of their father. Of being so stupid. Of not knowing how to deal with oxys and drugs from here on.

I hope this all makes sense in the midst of all the non - sense! Thanks everyone!
 
Glad that you pulled through and still have the abilility to consider these things...
Its amazing what the human body can deal with, and how potentially close we come to dying every single day... whether our chosen pastime is taking drugs, or surfing, or rock climbing, scuba diving or just driving to the park to walk in the sunshine.
Admittedly some activities are higher risk than others, but I have known someone to die while playing tennis.
I am sure you will continue be an excellent father.
 
I had a similar experience, not quite the same, or really seemingly as severe, but it comes down to this....you got to be smart with your drug use, if you are going to abuse drugs, do your research, know your limits and respect the substance.

Even with that being said, drug use can be risky, but in my experience it can help things turning downhill in cases like this.
 
Thanks for the above three reflections.

Useful, caring, ressourceful and right to the point all 3 of them.

I tried flashing the situation to a person near me, but ended up having to justify my actions, explain more than could be explained and having to deal with her anxiety towards drugs on top of everything. Ended up spending more energy on that, than on my own situation.

So thanks for the comments, they are really spot on, and I kind of feel I am ready to move on, a valuable experience richer, a new bottom record milestone and hopefully a bit more clever :-)
 
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