
Sick&TiredURGH
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- Aug 8, 2022
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Last October I went to A and E five days after taking an OD. This was on the advice of a GP.
I booked the GP appointment because my partner requested that I do so.
I'd also done an internet consultation, where the Dr on the website I was using advised me to go to a and e. I asked (this was three days after regaining consciousness) if I could still die and he said yes, entirely possible.
So my partner was aware that I had taken some kind of overdose, helped me to bed, from where I had collapsed on the floor but didn't call an ambulance.
I'm still unpicking that one, I am glad he didn't but also a mmmn, ok then...
So five days after regaining consciousness, my GP advises that I go to A and E and even offers to call an ambulance for me
Went to A and E, spent a day there had bloods run (slightly raised liver enzymes but nothing else wrong).
Several hours later I talked to the pysch person on duty and explained that I was thoroughly fed up and just wanted to go home and they let me leave.
A month later I was traveling to stay with family for an extended period and as I was going abroad, my GP gave me enough meds to cover that period of travel (six weeks or so).
Currently have enough amitriptyline in the house at the moment to open a small pharmacy.
But I want to know why my OD didn't work.
Took 20 or so amitriptyline, two bottles of wine, 20 cirtazine (sp antihistamine prescribed for vertigo) at least twenty melatonin and 50 MLS of Methadone.
As well as some Lyrica earlier in the day (I abuse this drug on a regular basis.)
I don't understand how I survived and really wish that the OD had worked.
Anyone able to give me an idea of why my OD didn't work?
I now understand that for Amitriptyline to be effective for ctbing the dose needs to be around 20mgs per kilo.
I think for my next attempt I will aim to take forty Amitriptyline as well as ten diphenhydramine. Taken first for the anti nausea effect.
And the melatonin (useless to use to OD on, I understand that now, but repeating the totally unaware of anything happening around me thing would be grand!!)
And then an hour after taking those (will be fighting unconscious at that point I imagine) I will eat parts of a yew tree.
But mostly this thread is about why didn't the drugs kill me last time?
Hopeful bump?
I booked the GP appointment because my partner requested that I do so.
I'd also done an internet consultation, where the Dr on the website I was using advised me to go to a and e. I asked (this was three days after regaining consciousness) if I could still die and he said yes, entirely possible.
So my partner was aware that I had taken some kind of overdose, helped me to bed, from where I had collapsed on the floor but didn't call an ambulance.
I'm still unpicking that one, I am glad he didn't but also a mmmn, ok then...
So five days after regaining consciousness, my GP advises that I go to A and E and even offers to call an ambulance for me

Went to A and E, spent a day there had bloods run (slightly raised liver enzymes but nothing else wrong).
Several hours later I talked to the pysch person on duty and explained that I was thoroughly fed up and just wanted to go home and they let me leave.
A month later I was traveling to stay with family for an extended period and as I was going abroad, my GP gave me enough meds to cover that period of travel (six weeks or so).
Currently have enough amitriptyline in the house at the moment to open a small pharmacy.
But I want to know why my OD didn't work.
Took 20 or so amitriptyline, two bottles of wine, 20 cirtazine (sp antihistamine prescribed for vertigo) at least twenty melatonin and 50 MLS of Methadone.
As well as some Lyrica earlier in the day (I abuse this drug on a regular basis.)
I don't understand how I survived and really wish that the OD had worked.
Anyone able to give me an idea of why my OD didn't work?
I now understand that for Amitriptyline to be effective for ctbing the dose needs to be around 20mgs per kilo.
I think for my next attempt I will aim to take forty Amitriptyline as well as ten diphenhydramine. Taken first for the anti nausea effect.
And the melatonin (useless to use to OD on, I understand that now, but repeating the totally unaware of anything happening around me thing would be grand!!)
And then an hour after taking those (will be fighting unconscious at that point I imagine) I will eat parts of a yew tree.
But mostly this thread is about why didn't the drugs kill me last time?
Hopeful bump?
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