Is it or is it not possible to OD on meth?

[randomJACKASS]

I have heard more no than yes but one time with a needle SWIM lost his sight and hearing for a few seconds and it scared SWIM bad......

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google more for info

[Micklemouse]

SwiR needs to start hanging out with some more educated people... Of course it's possible to overdose on meth. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a) wrong, b) misinformed, c) a likely candidate for a Darwin Award.

Not always fatal by any means, but still very, very possible.

Symptoms include Skin rash & blisters
dilated pupils
hyperthermia
profuse sweating, out of proportion to actual temperature
erratic heartbeat/arrhythmia
increased blood pressure (contributing to to the audio/visual disturbance SWiYou suffered)
hallucination, confusion, aggression
pulmonary oedema
muscle twitching & convulsions
kidney failure & related nightmares
cardiac arrest

I could go on...

(Source - two minutes on the internet fer Christ's sake!)

[randomJACKASS]

I did think so but I hear it all the time that you can't, when I say OD though I mean doing the funky chicken then lights out forever like, maybe that is rare but I don't doubt possible.....

[enquirewithin]

Fatal overdoses are possible, although the amount is quite large.

An overdose which will propel the user into a state of very unpleasant state of fear and anxiety, which resembles paranoid shizophrenia, is much easier to accomplish.

[old hippie 56]

A friend of swims seen a fatal OD on meth, wasn't a pretty sight he said. All that micklemouse said is very much true.

[enquirewithin]

Originally Posted by old hippie 56

A friend of swims seen a fatal OD on meth, wasn't a pretty sight he said. All that micklemouse said is very much true.

BTW, what do you mean by overdose?

[hh339]

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...allowing+ounce

[gargravarr]

When it comes to street products laced with other chemicals, isn't it possible that most deaths are a result of those chemicals and not the meth itself?
Just a guess. Usually you could do a quick google search for the LD50 of a substance and it'd turn up answers, but I can't find much for meth =/

[cecko]

i think swim could get a heart attack quite easily. swim once took meth n es and after a while he started sweating, shaking and his heart when pretty fast. i guess, if swim took more before this started he would have overdosed

[stay]

How much is usually too much in 24 hours for some people?

[Thylli]

Originally Posted by Micklemouse

SwiR needs to start hanging out with some more educated people... Of course it's possible to overdose on meth. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a) wrong, b) misinformed, c) a likely candidate for a Darwin Award.

Not always fatal by any means, but still very, very possible.

Symptoms include Skin rash & blisters
dilated pupils
hyperthermia
profuse sweating, out of proportion to actual temperature
erratic heartbeat/arrhythmia
increased blood pressure (contributing to to the audio/visual disturbance SWiYou suffered)
hallucination, confusion, aggression
pulmonary oedema
muscle twitching & convulsions
kidney failure & related nightmares
cardiac arrest

I could go on...

(Source - two minutes on the internet fer Christ's sake!)

Most of these symptoms sounds more like someone tweeking, or whatever you want to call it. Swim once was up for three days. Was trying to fight strangers who I thought was against me. My cousin found swim, took Swim to his house, and smoked a joint and to calm down. It was about 1:00 in the morning. Swim started walking home and wolves started jumping across the fence into the road at swim. Scared the shit out of swim. Havn't seen any Meth that good in years.

[Micklemouse]

Originally Posted by Thylli

Most of these symptoms sounds more like someone tweeking, or whatever you want to call it. Swim once was up for three days. Was trying to fight strangers who I thought was against me. My cousin found swim, took Swim to his house, and smoked a joint and to calm down. It was about 1:00 in the morning. Swim started walking home and wolves started jumping across the fence into the road at swim. Scared the shit out of swim. Havn't seen any Meth that good in years.

Of course it sounds like someone tweaking. It is someone tweaking. Add in the later symptoms & you've got someone tweaking to excess - an overdose. What you describe happening to SWiT is symptomatic of an overdose. One doesn't stay up for 3 days unless one takes too much speed, one doesn't hallucinate unless a) very sensitive, b) overdosing, c) sleep-deprived from taking too much speed - i.e. overdosing. The more one takes, even over time, the more likely the extreme symptoms described are to manifest. The longer one stays up, the more speed one has to take, & often in increasing doses to break through the exhaustion. Heightening the chances of... Da-Daah! Overdose!

A Certain Mouse has lost a good few nest-mates from amphetamine sulfate overdoses. And by lose I don't mean in a careless way, I mean the Mouse's nest-mates took enough to stop their heart. Forever.

[Thylli]

Originally Posted by Micklemouse

Of course it sounds like someone tweaking. It is someone tweaking. Add in the later symptoms & you've got someone tweaking to excess - an overdose. What you describe happening to SWiT is symptomatic of an overdose. One doesn't stay up for 3 days unless one takes too much speed, one doesn't hallucinate unless a) very sensitive, b) overdosing, c) sleep-deprived from taking too much speed - i.e. overdosing. The more one takes, even over time, the more likely the extreme symptoms described are to manifest. The longer one stays up, the more speed one has to take, & often in increasing doses to break through the exhaustion. Heightening the chances of... Da-Daah! Overdose!

A Certain Mouse has lost a good few nest-mates from amphetamine sulfate overdoses. And by lose I don't mean in a careless way, I mean the Mouse's nest-mates took enough to stop their heart. Forever.

The pot really seem change the whole thing, but swim was always paranoid on pot anyways. Swim has known of fatal overdoses from doing to much at one time. Especially doing to much meth with cocaine cut into it. Not saying it couldn't happen, but Swim just havn't heard or seen a fatal overdose from tweaking for to long. Just one sick individual for a few days.

[renegades]

So the consensus is that when swim hallucinates or becomes parinoid, she is ODing on the drug. The only thing that can be done, is some restful sleep and stop using the meth. Or you might be so out of it, neighbors call and the police take swim in on a 51/50 which means three days lockup at a psych hospital with the other city nuts. Swim would consider this an OD episode.

[Spare Chaynge]

its not good to be a paranoid schizo that has been up for 3 days thats a huge threat to society. even a heroin addict is probally less of a threat especially while high

[dogzz]

Heart attacks, and strokes are HIGHLY possible when excessive meth is taken,..... what is excessive?? that varies , each person is different. swim has seen 5 to 7 grams in a couple hours...and the person handling it well. Swim has also seen someone do less than 1 gram, and die of heart failure.
to quote I think clint eastwood,

"A man has got to know his limitations"

if you are gonna play , you better know yours

[izzy31]

If by OD you mean die, then yes it is possible however being very rare, because the amount needed to OD is much higher than what a person needs just to get a comfortable buzz.


Mono amine oxide inhibitor (MAOI) meds used in combination with amphetamine creates a much greater chance of death (compared to your chances without an MAOI), because the brain can actually poison (overdose) itself with dopamine...considering the addictive qualities of amphetamine, that's not so far-fetched, especially since anyone taking speed while on an MAOI is almost garanteed to have no idea what they're doing (either that or they're suicidal on some level)

[Pinkavvy]

An overdose of meth is simply taking so much that you are damaging your body, meaning staying up for more then 36 hours, or if you get tweeker showers hucinations. Sever od's can cause death... and continious minor od's can weaken your heart.

[Nicaine]

Gotta love the way people are redefining the term "overdose" around here... so if SWIM stayed up for three days *without* happening to be using meth during that time period, he's still "OD'ing" in some way? Or what?

P.S. SWIM happens to agree with the (above-linked) Wikipedia definition of the term, which has nothing to do with the length of time a certain blood-level of a substance is maintained.

[nonlinear]

dude, it's possible. my best friend did it.

[ruabadfish2]

After injecting Meth for 8 days straight SWIM was rushed to the hospital while hallucinating and experiencing all of the symptoms of a major heart attack. Hyper-ventilating, left arm pain and the feeling of an elephant sitting on her 18 year old chest. After arriving at the E.R., IV Valium was administered to bring down her heart rate which was well over 215 BPM. SWIM felt drunk and wired out of her mind at the same time while her mother, who was told by nurses to prepare for "the worst", watched helplessly by her side. The Valium wasn't working and they had to call in a heart specialist to give her some crazy medicine injected directly to her heart. After 2 wide awake nights in ICU she recovered for the next week in a hospital bed in full meth-induced psychosis (which lasted several months after the overdose). The Doctor later explained what had happened to the young girl. SWIM did so much Speed that her body/heart could no longer metabolize it and this caused her aorta (main heart valve) to go into spasm. SWIM did OD on METH.....SWIM almost died......and yes, SWIM has returned to METH again and again.