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Benzos NOT OK!!! CNS_Malfunction... lil story.

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psyie

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Been a while sence ive been on BL. Missed yal a bit. I could of prevented this If i had simply educated myself.
Last night i can very close to becoming another statistic.
I got home very late last night after a very stressful day. When i got home i thought id unwind and calm down by eating two 325\5mg norco. 1 hour later i figure it would be a great idea to snort 0.50mg xanax. 30 min later i was felling nice calm relaxed and basically SUPER HIGH, so i got the high idea to snort 0.25mg More xanax. 15 min after that I was so loaded i could barely keep my eyes open nodding out as if i was on heroin. I figure not a problem I need some sleep anyway. so i turn the tv off n lay down for some zzzzz. within that 5-10 min before I completely fell asleep. I started to dream i was drowning\sufficating. I normaly dont have nightmare or even bad dreams, so i jus tried to wake up to end the horrible dream only to realize that i wasnt dreaming I really was badly sufficating. I had forgot how to breathe. I really didnt think that was possibly seeing as its such a simple thing to do, but it happend. I lay in bed thinking im going to die if i dont resume breathing. I started to twitch and shake all over and ended up convulsing myself out of bed. I fell on the floor and when i impact i opened my eyes and gasped for air at the same time i stopped shaking. I was now on the floor gasping for air, and trying to roll over and sit up. as i sit there i think about what just happend and how horribly scary that was, and how glad i was to consume air once again. I got off the floor slowly, and shuffled to the kitchen to get some coffee. I was no longer sleepy jus sedated. I was afraid to attempt to sleep as i really almost died. i sat up and watch tv for another 8 hours exhausted. i was still scared to sleep but i really didnt have a choice as i kinda jus passed out. to my surprise i woke up after ~9 hours of good needed sleep. jumped on the computer and researched my experance and why. From what I read Opiates and Benzos are not the best combo if you intend to Function. I got the high i thought i wanted but i almost died. I will never mix those two drugs again ever. Thanks for reading, If thread is in wrong location Please relocate. I just had to share. i still cant believe i almost died, even tho i understand why. Peace...
 
This is a good post (if you put in breaks), showing how even smallish doses of mixed CNS depressants can be fatal.
 
I don't think you almost died man. opiates and benzos are dangerous when mixed, but 10mg of hydrocodone and .75 mg xanax (snorted?!)? I dont think so man. You might have just freaked yourself out, its possible you have sleep apnea and the depressants made it worse. either way your bodys reflex to breathe eventually wins and I dont think the amount of drugs you took could have caused severe enough respiratory depression to kill you. Like you said you noticed it and woke up, that's what happens and that's the reason you didn't die.

if it makes you feel better maybe you should avoid mixing benzos and opiates. that isn't an outrageously dangerous cocktail though, milions of people are prescribed that exact combo by legitimate doctors and I doubt you'd be able to track down a single case of it killing someone.
 
deaths from mixing benzos and methadone, or benzos and heroin =/= death from mixing low doses of benzos with low doses of hydrocodone.
 
What you're failing to see is that heroin and methadone are only "across the yard" from hydrocodone. Low doses of both don't usually result in death, but this person clearly was in danger by his own account, and for you to say he wasn't isn't just unethical, its blatantly wrong.
 
I guess if he believes he almost died than it doesn't really matter, but I dont really see where the line is drawn. If I walk too far out on the side of the road and a truck goes by you could say I almost died, because if the truck were 2 feet over it would have hit me. The dose he took wasn't a deadly dose, or else he would have died. there was no medical intervention that saved him, no naloxone, no cpr, no defibrillation, he woke up. trying to quantify how close he was to dying is pointless. don't take xanax and hydrocodone together any more, mixing the two classes of drugs in general is bad form.


and yes methadone and heroin are "across the yard" from hydro, but they are also both known for having some of the most extreme respiratory depression in their class, and are both excepionally dangerous when mixed with benzos. I say exceptionally because methadone and xanax is a major killer of people on mmt, most clinics will throw you out after one dirty urine if benzos are involved. vicodin and xanax isn't the safest way to be spending your evenings, but it's not notably lethal otherwise it wouldn't be prescribed as often as it is, in similar doses to what op took.
 
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