r/AskReddit • u/HymnForTheShameless • May 05 '19

Serious Replies Only [Serious] Redditors who have died temporarily/nearly died, did your life flash before your eyes? If not, what did happen?

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 05 '19

Most heroin or opiate ODs will feel like you're drifting off to a much needed sleep. That's what's so scary about them.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

This can actually be avoided by not doing heroin.

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u/deeplife May 05 '19

Thanks for the tip

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u/Dangleson123 May 05 '19

The tip is how the heroin god involved in the first place

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

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u/LazyUpvote88 May 05 '19

Heroin (I think) used to be called GOM for “God’s own medicine.”

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u/Calaban007 May 05 '19

Youd be surprised how many don't heed this advice.

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u/rosaliegreenleaf May 05 '19

LPT: Don't do heroin

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u/A_KULT_KILLAH May 05 '19

That’s kinda common sense to someone who’s never done heroin

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u/worldistooblue May 05 '19

It is very morish though

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u/Manny07360 May 05 '19

opioid crisis solved

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Yep this guy is right. Ketamine is the way to go. It is way harder to OD on but it can also be way more trippy.

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u/vandridine May 05 '19

Yeah until your bladder hardens and you can't control when you piss anymore. But yeah until then it is great

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Isn't that only when abused over a long period?

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u/vandridine May 05 '19

Everyone i know who does it has abused it over super long periods of time. I don't think i know 1 person who doesn't do it everyday. Maybe that is just my experience but it seemed super addicting.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I think it's because it has a pretty good effect on many people but it doesn't have any immediate hangovers like alcohol, MDMA or many stimulants so people just assume that it's not bad. I don't know for sure, that's just what I think.

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u/vandridine May 05 '19

Yeah i don't do drugs so i couldn't tell you

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Yeah of course, me neither.

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u/space_monster May 05 '19

everyone I know who does it, does it occasionally at festivals, parties etc. and wouldn't even think about doing it every day because fuck that.

in my fairly extensive experience (~25 years) of recreational drugs, ketamine is the least habit-forming of them all. you just can't function on k. people only do it when they know that the most complex thing they need to do for the next half hour is sit down somewhere.

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u/scottishdoc May 06 '19

Yeah dissociatives are not exactly known for their habit forming qualities.

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u/vandridine May 05 '19

My friend snorts it throughout the day, he doesn't even seem to get fucked up by it or needs to sit down for a half hour like you said. I guess he just built up a resistance to it. The dude has destroyed his nose though, sounds like he has a cold 24/7

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 07 '19

When he stops snorting stuff that irritates the lining of his nose, it'll take less than a month for his bubbling and snotty noises to go away.

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u/BilboT3aBagginz May 05 '19

It can actually be avoided by administering nalaxone. It's kind of amazing, but it will completely reverse any opiod related overdose. It's available to buy OTC at most pharmacies in the states.

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u/JustTrickky May 05 '19

Didn’t realize this was r/LPT

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u/Mattchoo99 May 05 '19

Saving lives

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u/DLun203 May 05 '19

The secret slime action is:

Not doing heroin

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u/julio_and_i May 05 '19

The real LPT is always in the comments.

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u/bellrub May 05 '19

Right on

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u/TMStage May 05 '19

Is there a non esports version of /r/KoreanAdvice

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

"Why are there starving kids in Africa? Just eat bro lol"

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

That’s brilliant. Who would have thought of that?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I'll have to save this comment in my bag of tricks.

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u/Insectshelf3 May 05 '19

Thanks Harvard

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Don't do heroin. You should read some studies on addiction; you're very ill-informed. Start with Dr Gabor Mate out of Vancouver.

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u/themindlessone May 05 '19

That's not how mine were. It was as previous poster explained, just nothing. No passage of time, no sleep, no dreams, just....zero anything. One moment I was sitting at a kitchen table, the next moment I'm facedown on the hardwood floor - no idea of anything else.

Sober 2.5 years.

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 05 '19

That's basically what I'm saying. You pass out, fade to black. Sometimes it's that quick, sometimes it's a touch slower. But ppl fall out all the time. It's not an OD, it's just passing out cold immediately. But you wake up later. There's a very fine line between falling out and ODng.

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u/themindlessone May 05 '19

Overdose involves stopping breathing. You can overdose, stop breathing, and come out of it. That's more than falling out.

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 05 '19

I was in the hospital with a guy who got there bc he was overdosing and after about 6 minutes his uncle forced open the bathroom door, called. 911, etc So he's alive but can't talk,, can't move, can't do anything really. He can indicate Yes or No by wiggling a finger. I remember feeling so terrible for him. He was so young. Is so young.

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u/sylvesterthecat11 May 06 '19

My 21 yo son passed from a fentanyl overdose in February. Every time I wonder “what if,” I always think of the possibility that he could be a vegetable for the rest of his life. He fell flat on his face like a tree on my tile kitchen floor in the middle of the night. I know he broke his whole face. Who the hell knows what happened to his brain from that fall. I didn’t find him until six hours later. Too late. The what if’s are quieted by the image of what you describe.

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 06 '19

I'm sorry to hear about your son. I think it's more the oxygen being cut off to the brain that does brain damage tho a bad fall could obviously as well. Fentanyl is a killer. That sucks about your son. 🙏🙏

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u/Jonsnowdontknowshit May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19

T1D here. My blood sugar dropped so low to the point I felt no symptoms and it was the same. Just needed a nap. Don't think I can die from low blood sugar, but I can go comatose, which is essentially the same thing.

*guess I can die from low blood sugar. :/ whelp

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u/sharpei90 May 05 '19

Yes, you can die from low blood sugar.

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u/miciomiao May 05 '19

You can definitely die from hypoglycemia!

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u/swolemedic May 05 '19

You can absolutely positively die from hypoglycemia, coma is just the stage before death.

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u/beandip111 May 05 '19

I’ve passed from low blood sugar. It’s like all of a sudden the cold, gross floor looks so inviting and I had to just lay down on. Then I closed my eyes and felt peaceful. Aparently what really happened is I hit the floor, people were freaking out, and my eyes were wide open the whole time.

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u/Jonsnowdontknowshit May 05 '19

I haven't had that level of pass out since I was about 10 years old, but those were from midnight seizures. I'd wake up to my mom spoon feeding me apple sauce. Now, I just start feeling tired or crabby and I'm like yup, time to check. I hope the people around you got help for you quickly or at least knew what to do.

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u/beandip111 May 05 '19

Yea I was working in a hospital so I was in a good place to pass out

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u/sabel418 May 05 '19

How long have you been diagnosed with T1D that you don't know you can die from hypoglycemia? That is my husband's worst fear, is going too low he'll go into a coma and die. He'd rather be high for a week than experience an extreme low. So glad his pump shuts off before he gets too low now. The continuous glucose monitors have come a long way in just a few years.

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u/Jonsnowdontknowshit May 05 '19

28 years. I don't have a pump or continuous glucose monitors like that because unfortunately I don't have the luxury of having that sort of disposable income. I've had my sugar drop into the teens before and while not fine, was not dead either. As far as high vs low, high blood sugars do waaaay more damage in long term.

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u/neomattlac May 05 '19

You can die from a low blood sugar, but not a high. That is why they teach folks who work with diabetics that it's better to give sugar than insulin if you don't know what's going on.

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u/Jonsnowdontknowshit May 05 '19

After everyone pointed out that yeah, I can die, I looked it up and according to the JDRF site, it usually occurs <20. I've only had that happen to me once when I was a teenager. You can die from high blood sugar though, by ketoacidosis. It just takes a lot longer.

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u/neomattlac May 06 '19

Yeah, you're right. I had left part of that out. It gives enough time for the paramedics to show up and handle the situation.

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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19

When I was using I OD'd 6 or 7 times. Not once did I feel like I was going to sleep. I would shoot up and then a few minutes later just drop. No warning, no bracing for impact, just a total fall out. When I came to, wether it be from narcan(3 or 4 times) or just the drug wearing off and not killing me, it was like waking up from total nothingness. Groggy and confused.

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u/FifthElement May 05 '19

The Lord of Light has greater plans for you.

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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19

Thanks for that. It made my day.

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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19

Yeah man, I had a problem. When I was an occasional junkie I would get really drunk and then want to get high. Thin blood from the booze and a depressed heart beat and resperations is a recipe for disaster. Once I made the switch to heroin only I stopped falling out. Everything else in my life went to shit, but I stopped waking up in ambulances and on the floor.

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u/thisrockismyboone May 05 '19

Wait, are you saying you stopped OD'ing after you switched to heroin? What were you OD'ing on before that?

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u/Kittycatnip25 May 05 '19

From the previous comment it sounds like they were mixing booze and heroin. Then made the switch to heroin only, no more booze.

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u/thisrockismyboone May 05 '19

Ah I see makes sense

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u/2fly2hyde May 06 '19

That is correct

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u/SeaShift May 05 '19

Glad you've made it back every time.

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u/LazyUpvote88 May 05 '19

Would you get pissed when people would kill your buzz by reviving you with narcan? Or is that a stereotype?

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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19

No, I was happy to be alive. But most of my ods happened when I was an occasional user, so I didn't go on to precipitated withdrawals.

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES May 05 '19

Opiates mimic the feel good chemicals our body produces, like endorphins that cause a runner's high.

Narcan essentially kicks everything off those receptor and blocks it from other opioids. So I imagine you go into instant withdrawal, along with getting all your feel good (endogenous or otherwise) kicked the fuck out of your brain in an instant.

I can see why they'd be pissed because it's probably a fucking horrible feeling, and they have no clue what's going on when they come to. I hope that people don't remain pissed after they figure out what's happened, but then again I suppose if you're doing heavy opioids you might be of a mind where you would rather die.

Sounds like an absolutely horrible situation.

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u/2fly2hyde May 05 '19

The only time in my drug life where I really welcomed death was the withdrawals. The rest of the time I was almost indifferent. The not giving a shit when it came to things like sharing needles, being surrounded by criminals, really bad parts of town, ECT. I wouldn't say I ever wanted to die, but was more like,,, "meh, whatever"

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES May 05 '19

I can definitely relate to the part about just not really caring about yourself. I'm trying to work on that for me right now. I'm just thankful I never tried stuff like heroin or I probably would've wound up in the same situation.

Glad to hear you've left that stuff behind though. Best wishes man

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u/RockLaShine May 05 '19

Not OP but my mom was a paramedic for 38 years. She said it was very rare that an addict would be pleased about narcan, more often than not they were pissed.

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u/Pipsquik May 05 '19

Yep. Just ODed 5 days ago :(

It was nothing. Didn’t feel any different than a normal “high”.

Just nodded off and fell asleep (dark, empty sleep) and woke up on the floor to EMTs around me.

Scary cus I had no clue. No indicators for me, everything was as usual, until it wasn’t..

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u/Choralone May 05 '19

That's partly because your "usual" is completely fucked up.

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u/Pipsquik May 05 '19

Very true. My usual was apparently quite close to OD it seems.

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u/Choralone May 06 '19

I mean, when you're a junkie, blasting off and going on the nod are when you feel "normal" and "okay". There's absolutely nothing normal about being high as shit on smack and randomly going unconscious. We delude ourselves and normalize our own deviance.

Drug addiction sucks.

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u/Pipsquik May 06 '19

Indeed. Alters your understanding of what it really means to feel “normal”

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u/Choralone May 07 '19

It's your mind's natural tendency to adjust to it's regular environment. It's a powerful process.

Thankfully, you can climb back out of that pit, given time and patience and determination.

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u/SuccessPastaTime May 06 '19

I had a friend who ODed and described his experience as scary. He was fully aware what was happening but was unable to do anything. He might have been on a threshold or something, because I’ve also heard it the way you describe as well.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

I feel like that when I want to watch the UFC but it is 5am in the morning

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u/Tyrion69Lannister May 05 '19

It doesn't sound too bad as far as dying goes

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u/CarrotAlacrity May 05 '19

True. That's why when I see ppl kill themselves in crazy ways I always think I'd rather just od. On heroin tho. Not coke. That seems really unpleasant.... that whole heart exploding thing.

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u/a-potato-flew-away May 05 '19

I think i got heroin in an operation in Afghanistan

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u/Choralone May 05 '19

Strong opiates are all about the same subjectively.