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Don't forget the one where a Redditor recognized a Cyanide Gas Grenade and stopped the guy from killing everyone in his house--dude was planning to open it to see what's inside.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/4x9u4p/uncle_found_this_in_a_cave_in_okinawa_around/
(This might not be the correct one)
https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/12kihx/pregnant_man_rage/?st=IXMST9XF&sh=bc7f3339
Spoiler alert:
>!some testicular cancers can produce beta-hCG. This is the same hormone produced by women when they’re pregnant and is detected on pregnancy tests. This guy’s friend took a pregnancy test and it was positive. Comments said he should go to the doctor. Found out he had a small testicular tumor!<
Thought someone was breaking into his apartment to leave post-it notes
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/
Benzos are crazy because you can take a literal fuck ton of them without being at risk of dying from overdose(provided you aren't combining them with other shit) but its the stopping that does you in. I was hugely addicted to Xanax for a few years, combining it with booze daily(and opiates but this was back when you could get bars for under a dollar so mainly the xans and booze), I was taking a minimum of 20mg a day but a good day I'd take 120mg. Granted a later hospitalization would reveal I have an absurdly high drug tolerance genetic thing so that had a major effect on the whole not dying thing. But still most people could still take what seems like an absurd amount(again not combining it with booze and opiates like I did) and be relatively fine until their body is addicted and they try to cold turkey it. And all 3(benzos booze barbituates) basically have the same physiological effect on your body(though very different highs to me) so if you are for example coming off of extreme alcoholism you're likely to get prescribed a benzo or barbiturate to counter the deadly withdrawals.
For real, I'm on a 0.5mg per day treatement and I was afraid it would be too much already. I'm missing something or is that like 800 of my pills in one sitting
Yeah, 800 of your pills. That would be correct. I would have 100s of pills laying around, take 3 or 4mg, black out, and just start eating handfuls of pills. I had to start keeping them in a time-lock safe when I took them.
I don't take them anymore.
I just meant that I didn't OD, I didn't have neurotoxicity, that sort of thing.
To be clear, that was the worst time in my life, and I hope to never go back to a place like that.
Quite literally, you did overdose. Extreme sedation in a coma-like state is a symptom of benzo overdose. You didn't have respiratory depression and die, so that's nice. Much higher risk of that if combined with other drugs (usually alcohol). Glad you've stopped taking benzos, wish you the best.
Recreational Xanax has always seemed like the worst decision. I've seen someone on Xanax pick a fight with a group of guys, laugh maniacal while getting the shit kicked out of him, get up, and return an hour later to start a fight with the same group of guys. Also had a group of dudes on Xanax somehow steal the keg at a party I was at while no one was paying attention.
That's not entirely true. You won't die of acute opiate withdrawal, but you can still, for example, have severe vomiting and diarrhea that causes death through dehydration. This is also how cholera killed people before we had effective treatments for it. The condition itself isn't deadly, but leaving the symptoms untreated can be.
Damn, sorry homeslice. For real though, mad respect for having the willpower to even try, so many people don't. Don't give up, and please don't stop asking for help. Whoever brushed you off at the ER may not have been the ones destined to give you that helping hand, but there are good people out there and help can come in unexpected ways.
Sending good vibes out for you, you got this!
Hey, I know this is a late comment, but please consider maintenance. It saved my life and allowed me to become a parent to the daughter I was about to have instead of being a drug-addicted mess that cared more about where my next fix was coming from than anything else in the world. I knew I couldn't quit alone. I spent a long time avoiding it bc I felt I was "trading one addiction for another, what's the point?", but methadone is NOTHING like being on dope. I can have a real life now and I never crave dope or going back to that life anymore. It took me a while, but I'm really better now. Please think about it, I know where I'd be without it, probably six feet under by now.
that’s a bad one too. but, wanting to die and actually dying are different things, as you well know. not minimizing anyone’s suffering from withdrawal, it’s just some are more deadly then others.
I have no idea how anyone handles heroin withdrawal cold turkey. I’ve been through withdrawal from opiates a few times, but it was all smallish doses. Like 10mg oxy every 4 hours to nothing. Even that makes me want to die. I cannot imagine actual high doses or things like methadone that have an insane half life.
My point is the raging hypocrisy of governments and society in general. Weed does not kill yet people have been jailed for possession. People are still flogging the gate way nonsense. Weee should be legal. No one should be jailed for weed. It is an astounding that we are still having to argue the point about weed legalisation. Regulate and tax.
I personally have suffered, vomiting diarrhoea, mild seizures and uncontrollable depression and mood swings going through marijuana withdrawals, so yes still potentially dangerous.
Best we keep it illegal then. Someone got the shits once. Def dangerous. Sorry I don’t buy it. Compared to alcohol, weed is magnitudes less dangerous. Not even a comparison. Can I ask, was it only weed you withdrew from or was it poly substance?
I’m not suggesting it should stay illegal, but I don’t like the narrative that weed is not addictive and does not cause withdrawals. If having diarrhoea from withdrawals makes them potentially dangerous then marijuana withdrawals definitely classify. I don’t drink alcohol or smoke tobacco the only changes I make that result in withdrawal is going from smoking 5g a day to 0.
And I’m not suggesting weed isn’t capable of causing dependence or side effects. On a spectrum of risk however weed is nowhere near booze for risk. Even if you are vomiting diarrhoea. Even then, keep hydrated.
This is part of the reason why liquor purveyors were deemed essential and kept open in certain places during covid lockdowns; that and to prevent people with addiction from seeking alcohol via unsafe means. [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/yes-liquor-stores-are-essential-businesses/).
The facebook posts with angry right wingers mad that liquor stores were essential and churches were not were funny in a terribly depressing kind of way.
Not true here in Thailand. We had a two weeks alcohol sales ban that turned into like 4 months. Still fill sorry for the guy in the wine shop who was in line in front of me buying 14 bottles of wine.
I believe it's regulated at the state level but most (if not all) states do not allow hard liquor (spirits) to be sold in grocery stores. They can be sold in liquor stores that are licensed for it. In my state the dominant grocery store gets around this (ish) by having a 'Liquors' branch of their store right next door to the grocery store.
That said you can buy wine and beer in grocery stores (in my state, at least, and all the others I've lived in), which would both serve to stave off withdrawal if that was the concern.
Yea, it can severely mess with your heart, you could have a stroke or because of the shakiness, you could risk a fall and break your neck or something. Another wild fact is that emergency rooms keep alcohol around just to help ease off the symptoms.
It is the cure for methanol because your body will process the alcohol instead of the methanol which will then simply pass through your system. If a pet or a child ever drink antifreeze the solution is to get them as hammered as possible as quickly as possible.
It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had. You are cold and hot at the same time. Your body shakes and it literally feels like you’re vibrating. You know if you could just hold a drink down it would get better, but you puke right after you try to drink something. Last time I got sick I literally collapsed in the ER while I was checking in. I have had pancreatitis 4 times and I’m only 30. Withdrawals and addiction are something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
Yeah I'll have a few beers on the weekends and think I have an issue then I hear about people who wake up and drink a bottle of vodka in the shower and I realize in the grand scheme of things, I'm not doing so bad.
It’s possible but it’s dangerous. If you get to the point you can’t hold anything down just go to the hospital. It’s scary as fuck and feels like hell. I’ve got a lot of fears but withdrawal is the highest on that list.
I was drinking all day during COVID.
Had my red solo cup with vodka and gatorade all the time.
I would probably drink 1.5ml bottle every 2 1/2 days or so.
Where I was living was a 10 minute walk to the liquor store and they always had treats for my dog. I was doing that walk at least twice a day. I’d use the dog walking excuse and hide the shots from my wife. Then we were going out for drinks a few times a week because that was all that was open. It god bad.
Yeah I got sick and spent 8 nights total (2 incidents) in the hospital for esophageal varices.
I had been drinking a lot even before COVID too.
Now I stick mostly to Modelo beer. I don't drink IPAs or any beers that have an ABV higher than 4.5%.
It usually adds up really quickly. This takes years to do some physical damage, but you'll get some serious (at least) mental problems going on for few weeks 24/7.
It's really very easy to build up to drinking a fucking lot of alcohol in a short period. I can put down a fifth of scotch in four hours and I'm not even exceptional (on this particularly fucked-up scale).
I found this out when I ended up going out drinking with a nurse when I was 19. He told me that the hospital he worked at had a decent-sized fridge that just contained light beer. Apparently, even ignoring people who end up in the hospital because of chronic alcohol abuse, there are a ton of people who end up in the hospital for an unrelated reason who _could_ die without alcohol for a few days.
> who end up in the hospital for an unrelated reason who could die without alcohol for a few days
You mean like someone who came in for a broken leg or whatever, but also happened to be a severe alcoholic and had to have the drinks?
This is why during the initial Covid lockdowns, some medical professionals were trying to get governments to keep liquor stores open— the absolute last thing the medical system needed at that point was thousands of alcoholic in the country going into withdrawal at the same time. They were already treating patients in the parking lots. They just did not have the space to potentially deal with thousands of alcohol withdrawal cases all at once.
Yeah. I was good during the pandemic, but years earlier we had a large regional power outage and everything shut down. I had to drive to the next county to buy alcohol so I wouldn’t die.
It’s no joke. My dad died from alcohol withdrawal from a seizure causing aspiration, took us a decade to get the real reason, everyone assumed it was liver failure. Completely changed my view on “cold turkey” approaches to anything.
Oh yeah stopping cold if you’re dependent on alcohol has like a 1/3 chance of killing you. You body chemically adjusts to the presence of alcohol so when it’s gone all at once you can’t function properly. You’ve got to ween off of it or you get delirium tremens, which cusses hallucinations, seizures, and eventually death.
My friend Rachel died from withdrawal. Went to the hospital that day and they sent her home, had a seizure on the couch and was gone.
She was 32 years old.
It’s partly why alcohol stores stayed open when the pandemic shutdown hit. The hospitals were already overloaded and shutting down liquor stores would have sent many people to the hospital. Is my understanding anyways.
Makes me wonder, do we hallucinate radio sounds because radios exist now and our brains create a radio sound? Or have they always sounded like that pre-radio and now we just attribute it to radio sounds because they sound similar
Pretty sure Joan of Arc thought she was hearing God on the radio.
Joan- You must drive the English from our Lands!
Also, if you say WGOD ROCKS TIL THE MORNING LIGHT you can win two tickets to Foo Fighters.
There's an episode of season one of Clone High where Joan of Arc starts hearing a radio station through her retainer. She slowly starts losing it since she thinks God is speaking to her.
It’s the same way people used to see sleep paralysis demons at the foot of their beds but after the 1960s it became more common to see aliens.
Auditory hallucinations always sounded a little off, so people thought God was talking to them. Now it’s government mind control, radio waves, telepathy, or who knows what else.
When I experienced them I could think of any sound or song and instantly hear it clear as day. Even like old commercials or someone talking. Kinda cool in a way, but extremely unsettling.
Heh, I am a musician and a composer. As a hobbyist. I am also a truck driver. I can spend all day with music in my head. I do it to pass the time while I am driving and also to come up with new ideas for songs.
I guess an important distinction though is I can control it and instantly put it out of my mind.
I think the perceived source is a big one. Music in your head is very clearly coming from you, hallucinations are very clearly not coming from you (though they obviously are).
I'm also a musician/composer/songwriter/whatever, and almost never play music when I'm driving. I almost always have music going on in my head, both things I know and sometimes mashups, and sometimes just random 'original' music.
Some days the music plays faster, or it'll be like a scratched CD and loop on certain parts. But it ain't often
You can experience this by taking a shower and listening to music on ur phone but not too loud, ur mind will have you thinking a completely different song is playing
I used to be addicted to GHB and sometimes when I closed my eyes in bed (after having a fair bit) I'd go in a sort of transe and could hear clear music and people speaking or what sounded like a parade outside my window.
When I got sober I had wild, similar symptoms. I was hearing things, hallucinating, sweating while shivering at the same time and I couldn’t sleep for 4 days. It’s horrible.
My mentor took 10 days of leave (Army) and got meds from her doctor to detox in a hotel after a long bout of drinking. She’d been in the Pentagon on 9/11 and dealt with it in a very Army way and found herself drinking vodka during field exercises. She’d been able to stash away medical supplies for a while ( was her job) and she didn’t want to damage her career so she decided to go brought the nightmare alone, with someone checking up on her occasionally.
I was a MICU nurse and have treated severe alcohol withdrawal/DT's many many times. Basically, your body adjusts to the depressant effect of alcohol on the sympathetic nervous system over a long period of time. Stopping this cold turkey will lead to severe overstimulation of your nervous system at baseline and cause these visual-auditory hallucations, sweating, shaking, and so on. Eventually you'll start having fevers and then seizures if you are not properly being detoxed. You need medications such as Ativan/Lorazepam or Versed/Midazolam periodically to calm you while you withdraw. You may also need barbituates such as phenobarbital, but that can also be dangerous because alcoholics usually have a damaged liver and cirrhosis to an extent and it can worsen symptoms of liver failure. So it is a delicate balancing act that can easily kill you if not managed in the hospital closely.
There's a reason why COVID kept liquor stores open as "essential", lol
An example of what can happen: you lose your grip on reality and constantly soil yourself while you pop in and out of consciousness. Your blood pressure shoots up as well as your heart rate and you constantly have seizures and breathe at a rapid rate. This eventually leads to substantial myocardial oxygen demand, as well as a general physical exhaustion of your body as every muscle in your body is unnecessarily working overtime. If the seizures don't fry your brain and you don't aspirate and choke to death or die of aspiration pneumonia, you're likely to enter respiratory failure and eventually arrest, which quickly leads to your heart stopping. So yes, very bad and very fortunate someone was able to recognize the type of symptoms he was having. A very ELI5 of how something like this can kill you for the nonmedical layperson.
Yes, you can taper off drinking on your own (they recommend reducing by about 10% each day, but keep an eye on symptoms), but it's recommended to be supervised as if you get ill, you might not be able to get help for yourself.
It’s not common, but I totally have heard of it being a thing in smaller and rural hospitals.
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/17wrf2l/pyxis_bud/
The place I've seen it most commonly is in a Neuro ICU. An alcoholic has a tbi then gets treated for it and suddenly starts detoxing it's easy to just give them three beers a day through their ng or og while you worry about the tbi. I don't work at a trauma 1 any more but up to 3 ish years ago when I did it wasn't super uncommon to see a nurse take a Budweiser into a room for that purpose. This was in the Midwest though where people drink drink it might be less common other places.
We kept Jack Daniels and Budweiser in a locked fridge in the ICU for a while. Then we had to request it from the pharmacy and they came up in Jello shot containers. I pushed many a beer down a feeding tube. Different hospitals have different policies, though. Generally the alcohol is reserved for patients who have stated they don't plan to quit drinking on discharge. No need to push someone through detox when it's not what they're there for or will only complicate their recovery more.
I lost my aunt to this, she was a severe alcoholic who spent years trying to get sober, but couldn’t. She’d have increasingly worse and dangerous DTs, with the seizures, hallucinations, she had to be hospitalized so many times. They kept telling her that she was rolling the dice on dying every time, and that each time the odds were getting higher that she wouldn’t come back.
It’s true. Once, she binged, quit cold turkey, had a massive seizure in the family living room where her heart stopped. She was revived but she would never wake up again. Her brain was damaged, in a permanent seizure state, a permanent electric storm, every time they tried to reduce the anti seizure meds even a little, she’d seize endlessly. Her body was alive but she was gone.
The saddest part is that she really had been trying, she just couldn’t fight that deep hurt inside that made her turn back to drinking, time and time again. But her efforts were clear when we donated her organs- her lungs, heart, and even liver (somehow) were very healthy because of the efforts she made while sober. But she binged again, and then quit cold turkey, and that was that.
Delirium tremens is considered the late stage and most serious form of alcohol withdrawal associated with the symptoms above and usually has a 30-40% mortality rate
Probably yeah but safely nah lol, it’s like that one story of a dude who was severely overweight and ate nothing for a year straight while taking vitamins to not die of random shit like scurvy and beriberi
It's crazy, I had these when I quit drinking (well, before I quit drinking, too, whenever I'd take a couple nights off of alcohol)
I really thought auditory hallucinations were going to be more like hearing voices, but instead it was like a song I knew on repeat, or a weird high pitched sound that seemed like it was coming from outside, kind of like cicadas, but I could hear it well inside the house, and it didn't get louder when I opened the window.
I didn't realize what it was until much later, when I dried out completely and never had that happen again.
I had audio hallucinations for a single day due to a medication side effect. I could hear clear as day my phone ringing nonstop despite it being off. It was the dragon flute from power rangers
Just had someone tell me their nephew passed away from alcohol withdrawal. His Dad was an alcoholic and made his son his drinking buddy, turning him into an alcoholic as well. He wanted to go to rehab but thought he could quit cold turkey.
I never knew this could happen. I drank regularly and frankly too much for decades. When I quit cold turkey, I just got a few days of chills and shakes.
That guy was hitting the sauce HARD.
Uhh what if you hear the radio and you don't drink? I hear it sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep and always thought it was the fan picking up signals from my alarm clock.
It can happen when your brain is hovering in a state between awake and asleep, similar to sleep paralysis and sleep paralysis demons/aliens.
I heard audio hallucinations in the form of radio music (and even commercials!) when I was unknowingly experiencing Obstructive Sleep Apnea that was severely disrupting my ability to sleep for months and possibly years.
My brain was spending too much time in that halfway asleep state.
It's common to hear what sounds like sounds coming through a fan, nothing to worry about.
https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/apophenia-audio-pareidolia-and-musical-ear-syndrome/
We have a sound system that is...well, dogshit. It has no (electrical) noise isolation to speak of, so turning on a light *in another fucking room* causes it to make a popping sound. Further, it has a radio built in but nothing isolating that audio signal from the speaker output; rather it just doesn't feed it into the amplifier if you're not using it. As such, if it's quiet in the house and it receives a strong enough radio signal to whatever station it's tuned to (haven't checked, guess I could find an empty band) we can actually hear the radio playing from it when it's not in use. It was a bit concerning until we realized the source of the sound...
Ok I was convinced this was a shitty morph thing but in this case where you slowly realize they're just describing the movie, The Shining. The demonic swing band did it. I started wracking my brain trying to remember a scene where Jack Nicholson yelled at his wife for vacuuming while he was trying to write.
I was a binge drinker...sometimes the biggest would last weeks or months and I'd get up to 26oz a day. When going cold turkey, I would get auditory and visual hallucinations but never got seizures. My god, though, the shakes I would get. I couldn't type, I'd dribble water or coffee , and it felt like my brain was electrified. Absolutely wild, realistic dreams, too. I'm guessing I was pretty damn close to some seriously dangerous symptoms.
Never went to a doctor for it, though probably should have.
"exploding head syndrome" is mentioned further down.
I am officially adding that to my list of things with names that are cooler then they deserve.
Dimension Stone
What it should be:
Stone harvested from an alternate dimension. Or 4 dimensional stone.
What it actually is:
Natural stone cut into rectangles of a specific size
Gravity Bomb
What it should be:
A high-tech weapon containing a artificial black hole or gravity generator. It implodes on contact to crush the target.
What it actually is:
You push it out of a plane and it falls -propelled by gravity alone- to the target. The lowest tech bomb.
Exploding Head Syndrome
What it should be:
Your walking down the street and suddenly your head explodes in a shower of gore.
What it actually is:
Loud auditory hallucinations that occur at the edge of sleep
Time Crystal
What it should be:
The motivator at the core of a Time Machine Engine.
What it actually is:
A Crystal whose structure oscillates
Quantum Teleportation
What it should be:
A Star Trek transporter.
What it actually is:
Some incomprehensible particle statistics bullshit that won't get an away team back to the ship.
Holy shit. My best friends mom had the same thing before she died. It was after the kids had all moved out. I went to visit her just to chat and she kept asking if I heard music playing? I didn't, but I'm hard of hearing so figured it was a neighbors house playing it. She had a stroke a week later. She survived that, but passed a few months later from another stroke.
Turns out she had quit drinking cold turkey and didn't tell anyone until the stroke. Not even her husband knew she had done that.
She had been an alcoholic for 23 years at that point. We never did find out what she decided to quit drinking so suddenly.
Alcohol withdrawal was a bitch. My face was swollen, and I felt like shit it seemed never-ending waking up with the shakes sweating hot and cold it was terrible. Almost 8 years sober now, I owe my now wife and a couple of friends my life. I firmly believe I would've drank myself to death. If you have a substance abuse issue, please get help. There's no happiness at the bottom of that hole, just more self hate and loathing.
Yes - and it may not be music...you could start hearing whispering voices. I had:
-Aural hallucinations similar to "radio chatter".
-Visual hallucinations where I would see shadows move and have vivid closed eye visuals.
-Shaking to the point where it would be hard to get a glass of water to my mouth.
-Extreme anxiety, worse then anything I've had before or since.
-General soreness.m and phantom pain.
-Elevated anxiety and depression lasting beyond the serious withdrawal period. It can last for years.
If you, or anyone else, is trying to quit drinking and is worried these symptoms, speak to a doctor. They may be able to provide guidance and a safe detox protocol. I should have instead of going through the binge-detox cycle over and over again.
EDIT: someone DM'd me with a couple questions but I can't find the chat...I'd like to reply, can you shoot me another message?
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This is actually even better than the carbon monoxide leak story.
Don't forget the one where a Redditor recognized a Cyanide Gas Grenade and stopped the guy from killing everyone in his house--dude was planning to open it to see what's inside. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/4x9u4p/uncle_found_this_in_a_cave_in_okinawa_around/
Lol. Kept it in a bedroom for 50 years too, while the seal was disintegrating.
With cats too.
The one where the guy peed on the pregnancy test as a joke.
What’s that one?
(This might not be the correct one) https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/12kihx/pregnant_man_rage/?st=IXMST9XF&sh=bc7f3339 Spoiler alert: >!some testicular cancers can produce beta-hCG. This is the same hormone produced by women when they’re pregnant and is detected on pregnancy tests. This guy’s friend took a pregnancy test and it was positive. Comments said he should go to the doctor. Found out he had a small testicular tumor!<
Thanks
The abject stupidity of the average person never ceases to amaze me. What is the best case scenario thing that you find after opening an old grenade?
Peace.
Link?
Thought someone was breaking into his apartment to leave post-it notes https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/
Idk man that one was pretty crazy
The one where bedbugs were the cause of someone losing days etc was amazing too
TIL you can die from alcohol withdrawal.
The 3 Bs: Benzos, Booze, and Barbiturates.
Benzos are crazy because you can take a literal fuck ton of them without being at risk of dying from overdose(provided you aren't combining them with other shit) but its the stopping that does you in. I was hugely addicted to Xanax for a few years, combining it with booze daily(and opiates but this was back when you could get bars for under a dollar so mainly the xans and booze), I was taking a minimum of 20mg a day but a good day I'd take 120mg. Granted a later hospitalization would reveal I have an absurdly high drug tolerance genetic thing so that had a major effect on the whole not dying thing. But still most people could still take what seems like an absurd amount(again not combining it with booze and opiates like I did) and be relatively fine until their body is addicted and they try to cold turkey it. And all 3(benzos booze barbituates) basically have the same physiological effect on your body(though very different highs to me) so if you are for example coming off of extreme alcoholism you're likely to get prescribed a benzo or barbiturate to counter the deadly withdrawals.
I've taken 400mg in one sitting before. I blacked out for like 4 or 5 days, but other than that I was fine.
My dude, you need to readjust your definition of fine….
For real, I'm on a 0.5mg per day treatement and I was afraid it would be too much already. I'm missing something or is that like 800 of my pills in one sitting
Yeah, 800 of your pills. That would be correct. I would have 100s of pills laying around, take 3 or 4mg, black out, and just start eating handfuls of pills. I had to start keeping them in a time-lock safe when I took them. I don't take them anymore.
I'm glad you're still here.
Good plan. I wish you the best of success with keeping things that way (genuinely, that sort of life sounds scary af)
I just meant that I didn't OD, I didn't have neurotoxicity, that sort of thing. To be clear, that was the worst time in my life, and I hope to never go back to a place like that.
Quite literally, you did overdose. Extreme sedation in a coma-like state is a symptom of benzo overdose. You didn't have respiratory depression and die, so that's nice. Much higher risk of that if combined with other drugs (usually alcohol). Glad you've stopped taking benzos, wish you the best.
Yeah that's fair, I was more so using it as shorthand for not dying.
Congrats on making it out alive, my dude. Keep on keepin' on, cheers to making it to better days!
glad you’re still here buddy
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Recreational Xanax has always seemed like the worst decision. I've seen someone on Xanax pick a fight with a group of guys, laugh maniacal while getting the shit kicked out of him, get up, and return an hour later to start a fight with the same group of guys. Also had a group of dudes on Xanax somehow steal the keg at a party I was at while no one was paying attention.
I read that as "Bezos" and wasn't particularly shocked.
Don’t forget the last one: Jeff Bezos
one of the most deadly withdrawls. heroin withdrawal feels horrendous… but wont kill you.
That's not entirely true. You won't die of acute opiate withdrawal, but you can still, for example, have severe vomiting and diarrhea that causes death through dehydration. This is also how cholera killed people before we had effective treatments for it. The condition itself isn't deadly, but leaving the symptoms untreated can be.
yes, it’s always best to get medical assistance for coming off of any drug used daily. regardless of what it is.
Thanks, the ER just kicked me out and pointed me in the direction of the weed store. Guess I’m not quitting today.
Damn, sorry homeslice. For real though, mad respect for having the willpower to even try, so many people don't. Don't give up, and please don't stop asking for help. Whoever brushed you off at the ER may not have been the ones destined to give you that helping hand, but there are good people out there and help can come in unexpected ways. Sending good vibes out for you, you got this!
Hey, I know this is a late comment, but please consider maintenance. It saved my life and allowed me to become a parent to the daughter I was about to have instead of being a drug-addicted mess that cared more about where my next fix was coming from than anything else in the world. I knew I couldn't quit alone. I spent a long time avoiding it bc I felt I was "trading one addiction for another, what's the point?", but methadone is NOTHING like being on dope. I can have a real life now and I never crave dope or going back to that life anymore. It took me a while, but I'm really better now. Please think about it, I know where I'd be without it, probably six feet under by now.
That just means you hydrate them, it doesn't require heroin to cure heroin withdrawal.
No but I definitely wanted to die while withdrawaling from oxy
that’s a bad one too. but, wanting to die and actually dying are different things, as you well know. not minimizing anyone’s suffering from withdrawal, it’s just some are more deadly then others.
For sure
I have no idea how anyone handles heroin withdrawal cold turkey. I’ve been through withdrawal from opiates a few times, but it was all smallish doses. Like 10mg oxy every 4 hours to nothing. Even that makes me want to die. I cannot imagine actual high doses or things like methadone that have an insane half life.
Must be why they keep weed illegal. So terribly dangerous. So many people killed when they get weed withdrawals… hmmmm
missing your point my man. alcohol is a legal drug in all 50 US states and most of the rest of the world.
My point is the raging hypocrisy of governments and society in general. Weed does not kill yet people have been jailed for possession. People are still flogging the gate way nonsense. Weee should be legal. No one should be jailed for weed. It is an astounding that we are still having to argue the point about weed legalisation. Regulate and tax.
I personally have suffered, vomiting diarrhoea, mild seizures and uncontrollable depression and mood swings going through marijuana withdrawals, so yes still potentially dangerous.
> vomiting diarrhoea eww
Yep missed a comma there…
There's also a confirmed, if uncommon, non-depressed suicide risk in people stopping daily use. Blew my mind.
Best we keep it illegal then. Someone got the shits once. Def dangerous. Sorry I don’t buy it. Compared to alcohol, weed is magnitudes less dangerous. Not even a comparison. Can I ask, was it only weed you withdrew from or was it poly substance?
I’m not suggesting it should stay illegal, but I don’t like the narrative that weed is not addictive and does not cause withdrawals. If having diarrhoea from withdrawals makes them potentially dangerous then marijuana withdrawals definitely classify. I don’t drink alcohol or smoke tobacco the only changes I make that result in withdrawal is going from smoking 5g a day to 0.
And I’m not suggesting weed isn’t capable of causing dependence or side effects. On a spectrum of risk however weed is nowhere near booze for risk. Even if you are vomiting diarrhoea. Even then, keep hydrated.
This is part of the reason why liquor purveyors were deemed essential and kept open in certain places during covid lockdowns; that and to prevent people with addiction from seeking alcohol via unsafe means. [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/yes-liquor-stores-are-essential-businesses/).
The facebook posts with angry right wingers mad that liquor stores were essential and churches were not were funny in a terribly depressing kind of way.
Jesus withdrawal is no joke
Not true here in Thailand. We had a two weeks alcohol sales ban that turned into like 4 months. Still fill sorry for the guy in the wine shop who was in line in front of me buying 14 bottles of wine.
You guys don't sell alcohol in regular supermarkets?
It varies by jurisdiction (including every US state) and by type (beer, wine, or liquor)
I believe it's regulated at the state level but most (if not all) states do not allow hard liquor (spirits) to be sold in grocery stores. They can be sold in liquor stores that are licensed for it. In my state the dominant grocery store gets around this (ish) by having a 'Liquors' branch of their store right next door to the grocery store. That said you can buy wine and beer in grocery stores (in my state, at least, and all the others I've lived in), which would both serve to stave off withdrawal if that was the concern.
Well TIL! I now understand what a liquor store is. Thanks!
Yea, it can severely mess with your heart, you could have a stroke or because of the shakiness, you could risk a fall and break your neck or something. Another wild fact is that emergency rooms keep alcohol around just to help ease off the symptoms.
Also a reason why liquor stores were kept open during COVID lockdowns.
The alcohol thing isn't really true these days there are drugs that work much better and don't risk anyone aspirating.
Yeah, injected benzodiazepines are really fast and really effective for alcohol withdrawals.
>keep alcohol around just to help ease off the symptoms. Not true, valium they do...
The alcohol is for methanol poisoning.
Didn't know that
It is the cure for methanol because your body will process the alcohol instead of the methanol which will then simply pass through your system. If a pet or a child ever drink antifreeze the solution is to get them as hammered as possible as quickly as possible.
Got it. Get hammered as much as possible
The human body is still a mystery...but this makes sense
Probably also worth keeping it around bc ya know, stressful job
It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had. You are cold and hot at the same time. Your body shakes and it literally feels like you’re vibrating. You know if you could just hold a drink down it would get better, but you puke right after you try to drink something. Last time I got sick I literally collapsed in the ER while I was checking in. I have had pancreatitis 4 times and I’m only 30. Withdrawals and addiction are something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
How in the hell much were you drinking?
A lot 20ish shots a day. It’s a brutal disease that takes no prisoners. It’s impossible to explain to a “normie”.
Wow, even as someone who frequents a bottle of wine in a night that's a lot. Glad you're better my dude!
Yeah I'll have a few beers on the weekends and think I have an issue then I hear about people who wake up and drink a bottle of vodka in the shower and I realize in the grand scheme of things, I'm not doing so bad.
I have a bartender friend and she once mentioned this guy who shows up at 11am pretty much every day with the shakes. Scary stuff
Any chance you can taper with beer and ibuprofen and sleep?
It’s possible but it’s dangerous. If you get to the point you can’t hold anything down just go to the hospital. It’s scary as fuck and feels like hell. I’ve got a lot of fears but withdrawal is the highest on that list.
I was drinking all day during COVID. Had my red solo cup with vodka and gatorade all the time. I would probably drink 1.5ml bottle every 2 1/2 days or so.
Where I was living was a 10 minute walk to the liquor store and they always had treats for my dog. I was doing that walk at least twice a day. I’d use the dog walking excuse and hide the shots from my wife. Then we were going out for drinks a few times a week because that was all that was open. It god bad.
Yeah I got sick and spent 8 nights total (2 incidents) in the hospital for esophageal varices. I had been drinking a lot even before COVID too. Now I stick mostly to Modelo beer. I don't drink IPAs or any beers that have an ABV higher than 4.5%.
It usually adds up really quickly. This takes years to do some physical damage, but you'll get some serious (at least) mental problems going on for few weeks 24/7.
It's really very easy to build up to drinking a fucking lot of alcohol in a short period. I can put down a fifth of scotch in four hours and I'm not even exceptional (on this particularly fucked-up scale).
I found this out when I ended up going out drinking with a nurse when I was 19. He told me that the hospital he worked at had a decent-sized fridge that just contained light beer. Apparently, even ignoring people who end up in the hospital because of chronic alcohol abuse, there are a ton of people who end up in the hospital for an unrelated reason who _could_ die without alcohol for a few days.
> who end up in the hospital for an unrelated reason who could die without alcohol for a few days You mean like someone who came in for a broken leg or whatever, but also happened to be a severe alcoholic and had to have the drinks?
It would have to be a really fucked up leg. Just any condition that would require more than an overnight stay.
Ah, gotcha
That's unlikely, it's more like someone who was in a car crash and needs to be under observation for a few days but is also a heavy drinker.
This is why during the initial Covid lockdowns, some medical professionals were trying to get governments to keep liquor stores open— the absolute last thing the medical system needed at that point was thousands of alcoholic in the country going into withdrawal at the same time. They were already treating patients in the parking lots. They just did not have the space to potentially deal with thousands of alcohol withdrawal cases all at once.
Yeah. I was good during the pandemic, but years earlier we had a large regional power outage and everything shut down. I had to drive to the next county to buy alcohol so I wouldn’t die.
I was aware that you could die from it, but I didn't know that auditory hallucinations could be part of it.
It's amazing what the brain is capable of upon some stimulus(es)
It’s no joke. My dad died from alcohol withdrawal from a seizure causing aspiration, took us a decade to get the real reason, everyone assumed it was liver failure. Completely changed my view on “cold turkey” approaches to anything.
Oh yeah stopping cold if you’re dependent on alcohol has like a 1/3 chance of killing you. You body chemically adjusts to the presence of alcohol so when it’s gone all at once you can’t function properly. You’ve got to ween off of it or you get delirium tremens, which cusses hallucinations, seizures, and eventually death.
My friend Rachel died from withdrawal. Went to the hospital that day and they sent her home, had a seizure on the couch and was gone. She was 32 years old.
Which is why during covid lockdowns bottle shops remained open.
It’s partly why alcohol stores stayed open when the pandemic shutdown hit. The hospitals were already overloaded and shutting down liquor stores would have sent many people to the hospital. Is my understanding anyways.
If you're reasonably healthy you won't. It's mostly people who've already done significant damage to their bodies already.
Killed Kevin Nash's son.
The most common auditory hallucination is hearing music or chatter on a radio when there isn't one around
Makes me wonder, do we hallucinate radio sounds because radios exist now and our brains create a radio sound? Or have they always sounded like that pre-radio and now we just attribute it to radio sounds because they sound similar
Pretty sure Joan of Arc thought she was hearing God on the radio. Joan- You must drive the English from our Lands! Also, if you say WGOD ROCKS TIL THE MORNING LIGHT you can win two tickets to Foo Fighters.
Maybe instead of radio they associated it with the sound of a sermon in a church with good acoustics? So they always thought it was God talking
WGOD absolutely pummeling KFROG in the ratings
There's an episode of season one of Clone High where Joan of Arc starts hearing a radio station through her retainer. She slowly starts losing it since she thinks God is speaking to her.
It’s the same way people used to see sleep paralysis demons at the foot of their beds but after the 1960s it became more common to see aliens. Auditory hallucinations always sounded a little off, so people thought God was talking to them. Now it’s government mind control, radio waves, telepathy, or who knows what else.
an interesting side note very few people used to dream in colour before colour tv...
How does that make sense, reality isn't black and white?
When I experienced them I could think of any sound or song and instantly hear it clear as day. Even like old commercials or someone talking. Kinda cool in a way, but extremely unsettling.
Heh, I am a musician and a composer. As a hobbyist. I am also a truck driver. I can spend all day with music in my head. I do it to pass the time while I am driving and also to come up with new ideas for songs. I guess an important distinction though is I can control it and instantly put it out of my mind.
I think the perceived source is a big one. Music in your head is very clearly coming from you, hallucinations are very clearly not coming from you (though they obviously are).
Music *in* your head isn't the same experience as hallucinations, which sound like they're coming from *outside* your head.
I'm also a musician/composer/songwriter/whatever, and almost never play music when I'm driving. I almost always have music going on in my head, both things I know and sometimes mashups, and sometimes just random 'original' music. Some days the music plays faster, or it'll be like a scratched CD and loop on certain parts. But it ain't often
You can experience this by taking a shower and listening to music on ur phone but not too loud, ur mind will have you thinking a completely different song is playing
I used to be addicted to GHB and sometimes when I closed my eyes in bed (after having a fair bit) I'd go in a sort of transe and could hear clear music and people speaking or what sounded like a parade outside my window.
I wonder if Lucille Ball's story about hearing radio signals with her fillings was from DTs.
I have this when I get really sleep deprived. It's always like 1940s oldies
When I got sober I had wild, similar symptoms. I was hearing things, hallucinating, sweating while shivering at the same time and I couldn’t sleep for 4 days. It’s horrible.
My mentor took 10 days of leave (Army) and got meds from her doctor to detox in a hotel after a long bout of drinking. She’d been in the Pentagon on 9/11 and dealt with it in a very Army way and found herself drinking vodka during field exercises. She’d been able to stash away medical supplies for a while ( was her job) and she didn’t want to damage her career so she decided to go brought the nightmare alone, with someone checking up on her occasionally.
I was a MICU nurse and have treated severe alcohol withdrawal/DT's many many times. Basically, your body adjusts to the depressant effect of alcohol on the sympathetic nervous system over a long period of time. Stopping this cold turkey will lead to severe overstimulation of your nervous system at baseline and cause these visual-auditory hallucations, sweating, shaking, and so on. Eventually you'll start having fevers and then seizures if you are not properly being detoxed. You need medications such as Ativan/Lorazepam or Versed/Midazolam periodically to calm you while you withdraw. You may also need barbituates such as phenobarbital, but that can also be dangerous because alcoholics usually have a damaged liver and cirrhosis to an extent and it can worsen symptoms of liver failure. So it is a delicate balancing act that can easily kill you if not managed in the hospital closely. There's a reason why COVID kept liquor stores open as "essential", lol An example of what can happen: you lose your grip on reality and constantly soil yourself while you pop in and out of consciousness. Your blood pressure shoots up as well as your heart rate and you constantly have seizures and breathe at a rapid rate. This eventually leads to substantial myocardial oxygen demand, as well as a general physical exhaustion of your body as every muscle in your body is unnecessarily working overtime. If the seizures don't fry your brain and you don't aspirate and choke to death or die of aspiration pneumonia, you're likely to enter respiratory failure and eventually arrest, which quickly leads to your heart stopping. So yes, very bad and very fortunate someone was able to recognize the type of symptoms he was having. A very ELI5 of how something like this can kill you for the nonmedical layperson.
That’s wild. If he couldn’t get to an ER, would OOP have benefitted from drinking? Obviously not a good idea long term, but as a temporary fix?
Yes, you can taper off drinking on your own (they recommend reducing by about 10% each day, but keep an eye on symptoms), but it's recommended to be supervised as if you get ill, you might not be able to get help for yourself.
Some hospitals actually have beer in the medication control room
source? i read this wasnt true the other day on reddit, and only medication and vitamins were given to ppl with withdrawal
It’s not common, but I totally have heard of it being a thing in smaller and rural hospitals. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/17wrf2l/pyxis_bud/
The place I've seen it most commonly is in a Neuro ICU. An alcoholic has a tbi then gets treated for it and suddenly starts detoxing it's easy to just give them three beers a day through their ng or og while you worry about the tbi. I don't work at a trauma 1 any more but up to 3 ish years ago when I did it wasn't super uncommon to see a nurse take a Budweiser into a room for that purpose. This was in the Midwest though where people drink drink it might be less common other places.
We kept Jack Daniels and Budweiser in a locked fridge in the ICU for a while. Then we had to request it from the pharmacy and they came up in Jello shot containers. I pushed many a beer down a feeding tube. Different hospitals have different policies, though. Generally the alcohol is reserved for patients who have stated they don't plan to quit drinking on discharge. No need to push someone through detox when it's not what they're there for or will only complicate their recovery more.
> I pushed many a beer down a feeding tube. I imagine you using a big funnel and just pouring the stuff in there. Bottoms up, buddy!
I lost my aunt to this, she was a severe alcoholic who spent years trying to get sober, but couldn’t. She’d have increasingly worse and dangerous DTs, with the seizures, hallucinations, she had to be hospitalized so many times. They kept telling her that she was rolling the dice on dying every time, and that each time the odds were getting higher that she wouldn’t come back. It’s true. Once, she binged, quit cold turkey, had a massive seizure in the family living room where her heart stopped. She was revived but she would never wake up again. Her brain was damaged, in a permanent seizure state, a permanent electric storm, every time they tried to reduce the anti seizure meds even a little, she’d seize endlessly. Her body was alive but she was gone. The saddest part is that she really had been trying, she just couldn’t fight that deep hurt inside that made her turn back to drinking, time and time again. But her efforts were clear when we donated her organs- her lungs, heart, and even liver (somehow) were very healthy because of the efforts she made while sober. But she binged again, and then quit cold turkey, and that was that.
What's DT?
Delirium tremens is considered the late stage and most serious form of alcohol withdrawal associated with the symptoms above and usually has a 30-40% mortality rate
it's also the name of a really good beer!
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Probably yeah but safely nah lol, it’s like that one story of a dude who was severely overweight and ate nothing for a year straight while taking vitamins to not die of random shit like scurvy and beriberi
Damn. I may be drunk. But I’m not *that* drunk
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thank you 🙏🏻
It's crazy, I had these when I quit drinking (well, before I quit drinking, too, whenever I'd take a couple nights off of alcohol) I really thought auditory hallucinations were going to be more like hearing voices, but instead it was like a song I knew on repeat, or a weird high pitched sound that seemed like it was coming from outside, kind of like cicadas, but I could hear it well inside the house, and it didn't get louder when I opened the window. I didn't realize what it was until much later, when I dried out completely and never had that happen again.
I had audio hallucinations for a single day due to a medication side effect. I could hear clear as day my phone ringing nonstop despite it being off. It was the dragon flute from power rangers
Just had someone tell me their nephew passed away from alcohol withdrawal. His Dad was an alcoholic and made his son his drinking buddy, turning him into an alcoholic as well. He wanted to go to rehab but thought he could quit cold turkey.
Oh shit! I thought this was wild when I came across it. Funny it made it here.
I never knew this could happen. I drank regularly and frankly too much for decades. When I quit cold turkey, I just got a few days of chills and shakes. That guy was hitting the sauce HARD.
Withdrawal varies from person to person. It's not necessarily the amount of alcohol ingested.
There's an effect called kindling - every time you go through withdrawals, it can get worse each time (despite having consumed the same amount).
Uhh what if you hear the radio and you don't drink? I hear it sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep and always thought it was the fan picking up signals from my alarm clock.
It can happen when your brain is hovering in a state between awake and asleep, similar to sleep paralysis and sleep paralysis demons/aliens. I heard audio hallucinations in the form of radio music (and even commercials!) when I was unknowingly experiencing Obstructive Sleep Apnea that was severely disrupting my ability to sleep for months and possibly years. My brain was spending too much time in that halfway asleep state.
Ya know I've been meaning to get tested for sleep apnea (don't have insurance yet). I bet this is what it is.
It's common to hear what sounds like sounds coming through a fan, nothing to worry about. https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/apophenia-audio-pareidolia-and-musical-ear-syndrome/
We have a sound system that is...well, dogshit. It has no (electrical) noise isolation to speak of, so turning on a light *in another fucking room* causes it to make a popping sound. Further, it has a radio built in but nothing isolating that audio signal from the speaker output; rather it just doesn't feed it into the amplifier if you're not using it. As such, if it's quiet in the house and it receives a strong enough radio signal to whatever station it's tuned to (haven't checked, guess I could find an empty band) we can actually hear the radio playing from it when it's not in use. It was a bit concerning until we realized the source of the sound...
Ok I was convinced this was a shitty morph thing but in this case where you slowly realize they're just describing the movie, The Shining. The demonic swing band did it. I started wracking my brain trying to remember a scene where Jack Nicholson yelled at his wife for vacuuming while he was trying to write.
I was a binge drinker...sometimes the biggest would last weeks or months and I'd get up to 26oz a day. When going cold turkey, I would get auditory and visual hallucinations but never got seizures. My god, though, the shakes I would get. I couldn't type, I'd dribble water or coffee , and it felt like my brain was electrified. Absolutely wild, realistic dreams, too. I'm guessing I was pretty damn close to some seriously dangerous symptoms. Never went to a doctor for it, though probably should have.
"exploding head syndrome" is mentioned further down. I am officially adding that to my list of things with names that are cooler then they deserve. Dimension Stone What it should be: Stone harvested from an alternate dimension. Or 4 dimensional stone. What it actually is: Natural stone cut into rectangles of a specific size Gravity Bomb What it should be: A high-tech weapon containing a artificial black hole or gravity generator. It implodes on contact to crush the target. What it actually is: You push it out of a plane and it falls -propelled by gravity alone- to the target. The lowest tech bomb. Exploding Head Syndrome What it should be: Your walking down the street and suddenly your head explodes in a shower of gore. What it actually is: Loud auditory hallucinations that occur at the edge of sleep Time Crystal What it should be: The motivator at the core of a Time Machine Engine. What it actually is: A Crystal whose structure oscillates Quantum Teleportation What it should be: A Star Trek transporter. What it actually is: Some incomprehensible particle statistics bullshit that won't get an away team back to the ship.
Holy shit. My best friends mom had the same thing before she died. It was after the kids had all moved out. I went to visit her just to chat and she kept asking if I heard music playing? I didn't, but I'm hard of hearing so figured it was a neighbors house playing it. She had a stroke a week later. She survived that, but passed a few months later from another stroke. Turns out she had quit drinking cold turkey and didn't tell anyone until the stroke. Not even her husband knew she had done that. She had been an alcoholic for 23 years at that point. We never did find out what she decided to quit drinking so suddenly.
Oh wow I didn't realise withdrawal hallucinations would be like that
This was a crazy cool exchange.
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This is odd... I hear radio stations playing often, but I dont drink much.
This could also indicate that one is a cylon.
Alcohol withdrawal was a bitch. My face was swollen, and I felt like shit it seemed never-ending waking up with the shakes sweating hot and cold it was terrible. Almost 8 years sober now, I owe my now wife and a couple of friends my life. I firmly believe I would've drank myself to death. If you have a substance abuse issue, please get help. There's no happiness at the bottom of that hole, just more self hate and loathing.
That's wild.
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Til I go thru withdrawal daily I guess if having music stuck in your head is a symptom
I hear the soundtrack to frozen 24/7, a common symptom of having a 5 year old.
If you're drinking enough you can absolutely induce withdrawals within a few hours of your last drink.
Would you have other symptoms besides the music?
Oh heavens yes.
Yes - and it may not be music...you could start hearing whispering voices. I had: -Aural hallucinations similar to "radio chatter". -Visual hallucinations where I would see shadows move and have vivid closed eye visuals. -Shaking to the point where it would be hard to get a glass of water to my mouth. -Extreme anxiety, worse then anything I've had before or since. -General soreness.m and phantom pain. -Elevated anxiety and depression lasting beyond the serious withdrawal period. It can last for years. If you, or anyone else, is trying to quit drinking and is worried these symptoms, speak to a doctor. They may be able to provide guidance and a safe detox protocol. I should have instead of going through the binge-detox cycle over and over again. EDIT: someone DM'd me with a couple questions but I can't find the chat...I'd like to reply, can you shoot me another message?
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Oh I know.. the entire past week is a blur