cocaine overdose symptoms?

ha my mom had a brain aneurysm from cocaine.... alomst died .......does she even deserve a second chance

Hi all, i have worked in psychiatric for 17 years and to this day i cannot understand why people but their lives at risk through using this killer drug.......or any drug for that matter !!

I have nursed people who have been lucky and lived (with all types of mental health issues caused through this)...and lost many patients who didn't make it....

If you want to die, jump off a cliff it's quicker!! It will get you in the end....THINK what you are doing to yourselves and you families!!

At the moment I have a nephew in hospital, with bleeding through the nose, throat etc...will he make it? who knows? he has a 3 month old son.. if he doesn't how will that child feel knowing his dad died of drugs......so sad :-(

Drugs are not clever!!!!

speeking from experiance and by that i mean lastnight, when having a coke overdose the first thing you will notice is, irregular breathing, i kept coughing and trying to catch my breath but it just felt like i couldnt get enough air, the second thing that happened was i got short panic attacks, followed by rubber legs ( shaky legs/ weekness of legs) increased plood pressure/ heart rate, and finally change or loss of vision. after i felt all of these symptoms i hit the floor thankfully in a 7/11 corner store where an ambulance saved my life, i was 10 minutes from being DEAD, so think about it.... is it worth it??

I had a cocaine overdose without knowing it. I was sat in bed one morning, polishing off last nights beers and a few lines, watching tv. As time passed on, the tinnitus in my ear was getting louder. I thought i had some wax in ther that was causing it so i startd trying to scratch it out. I was sniffing really hard when the loudest twang went of in my head, something like off a cartoon. The ringing didnt stop for a few minutes. After that when i did sniff, it felt like there was a a string pulling the inside of my ear and the inside of my nose, cartilidge, was loose. I couldnt speak normally, it was like stop-start jibber jabber. The side of my face went numb.

I went to the hospital where i was checked over, despite being ultra-paranoid, and slowly the effects wore off. When it was my turn to see the specialist I realised what had just happened, the doctor knew what happened and vigourously checked out my eyes and throat.

Thats when I stopped

Before that Id had all the symptoms wrote in this forum, speeding heart rate, pounding chest, wobbly legs, the worst case of paranoia you'd ever see(thinking the police were dressed up as council workers trying to catch me for killing someone by accident), loss of weight, bad teeth, everything smelling the same, when i did sniff up some fleshy coloured snot was in my mouth. None of that stopped me, I was well and truly addicted.

Now I have a family and a career as an artist to think about. If you think normality will never be a possibllity then your in deep

I am a very sad Mom of my beautiful daughter, Summer. She had just turned 23 in April 2009. She had 2 precious baby girls, one was 15 months old & the other only 6 weeks old. Having both babies at the same intensive care unit because they were positive for drugs & alcohol, my daughter soon lost custody of her sweet babies. I have them and they are progressing OK considering how their little lives started out. After her babies were taken away she continued doing cocaine & drinking heavily daily. In June 2009 the Sheriff came to my door with news my daughter was just found DEAD, had been dead 3 days. My heart knew what had happened but still when the coroner called me to tell me she died from cocaine overdose, I collapsed and still haven't stood up. I just read through all the users' posts on here & read how my daughters last minutes must have been SO petrifying and extremely painful. A horrible death she suffered. PLEASE everyone, STOP right now! You don't only kill yourself but you kill a big part of your family, friends and even people that never met you when they feel the pain of the ones who love you. If I get ONE person to STOP and NEVER, EVER touch it again...then my Daughter and I saved someone. I am her Mom, my life will never be the same, what will I say to her little girls when they wish for their Mom and I live her death all over again through them? Do any of you think this way when youre doing drugs or is it all about you. My God...it's not worth your life!

Hi, I'm 25 years old and have been using various drugs since I was 15. I've always mostly smoked weed, but have done mushrooms, cocaine(snorting, and free-basing), and meth(snorting and smoking) The meth I did for a few months when I was 20 and haven't used since, and cocaine I enjoying using every once in a while, with friends. I free-based it for a few months when I was 20. I continue to smoke weed, although only a fraction of the amount that I smoked between ages 15 and 21. actually I don't smoke at all for the most part, but that all depends on my jobs and various situations. Anyway, I just wanted to add that I only support the use of cocaine in social events, with people you trust, and know are cool headed in the event of panic or danger. before you ever do a drug, educate yourself as much as possible about the drug. including how it affects you, for how long, how long it takes to take effect, the amount of a single dose, etc. the more you know, the safer you and your friends will be. It's also good to talk to people that have done it before, but keep in mind that the effects of a drug are different for every user. So what takes 10 minutes to get one dude high might take 30 min for you. And I think the most important thing is finding out how the drug effects you before taking very much. With cocaine, the best thing I can think of is just snorting a very small amount at first, and go from there. having someone there with experience using will come in handy for knowing what a "regular" size line is. I don't necessarily condone drug use, but I think we should be free to experiment with what we want. As long as we you are at least 18.

I did 4 grams of pure today been on a 18 hour binge straight now started at 1pm and its now 6:34 am i have done a good size line every half hour. I have 3 lines left. Frankly I just wanna go to sleep. But I cannot until it's gone. I always get worried at the last couple that i'm going to overdue it. When I look up lethal doses of cocaine it says about 1.2 grams snorted. I'm assuming thats at one time. My question is every time I do to much I throw up. So in my mind I feel if i got to the OD threshold i would just puke. But I know I'm wrong. How dangerous is what i'm doing right now? I took my blood pressure after about the 30th to 35th line and its at 142/86 pulse is 85 so thats beginning hypertension but I honestly thought after this much good blow and how i feel it would have been alot worst... I also take 20 mg of Valium a day. Gah dont do coke its bad and your money goes down the drain but i never really thought it was that dangerous until i looked on here.

I have had a cocaine addiction for the last twenty years, I am 36 years old, actually I started 22yrs ago to be exact. I had a heart attack at 28 and have hep c from injecting the drug. I have lost so much through the years I would not know where to start...I know today that I have a greater purpose than being a drug addict. I have been clean for the last 14 months and had two relapses in this time frame. I take it a day at a time and try not to get too excited about things and have to always take into account how I am feeling at any given time of the day. I pay attention to the H.A.L.T. response when I think i am thinking about using, that is am I hungry, angry, lonely, or tired and in need of sleep, when i make sure that all these factors of life are met, my chances of staying clean are far better than had i not cared about my health and well-being, I hope that this can help someone else and I am always trying to help others cause I know its how i stay clean!! Thanks everyone and remember it works if you work it so work it your worth it!!!!!!!

i really dont relate to this particular article but further down it was what just happened to me like my vision blurred and i started shaking and i didnt know what to do its a very scary experiance

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dealers cut kedamine with cocaine. it's cat/horse tranquilizer.

Ive been doing a c for quite a while now. Just the other night I started feeling my chest compressed, almost fainting and felt like throwing up. My heart was beating supper fast. I seriously felt that I was dying I wouldnt stop sweating and my body was shaking. I looked into my symptoms and it looked to me as if it was a heart attack. PLEASE YALL Coke is a serious problem if you feel you have these symptons please get help.

oh well its the scond time thos has happened to me now ,,and both times have had near death experiences ,,i took around 4 g,s then was so paranoid swallowed the other g ,,next i knew i felt like my body was moving a fotforward then a foot back could not keep balance ,,next woke up in hospital after falling down so much but the let em outright away ,,i nevre told then i had had c ,

next time wanas yesterday ,,,

i took around 3 g s ,,the swallowedthethe one and a alf co s i ot paranoid ,,my girlfreind came bckrom being out to find me sweating and shaking !!! i apparently tried tostand up butjus fel over ,,i a downstirs ithe otel ad fell again she andthe woman a reception smeup table where apparentl was shaig ,

i think i was ndeaths door beuse i s rally sruggling t keep conciusness !!!! every beat of my heart flt likeit was gonna be the las t ,,i justkept sying to mysel f dont give up ,,,,it wasthe sam near death expeenc as t lat time ,,,,

HAVE NEVER HD TIS BFORE FRM SNORTING IT ONLY WHE I HAVE EAEN IT ,TH REASO FOR EAINGIS BECAS I GET SOPARANOID ,,

ITS CRAZY HOPEFULLY TAT WILL BE TH LAST IMEI EVE TAKE ITAS I HAVE BEE LUCKY ENOUGGH IN LIFE S FR,,,

can anyone tell me what stage i am at when i hae a experience of death like this ,,is it really nearly goodbyetime ?



i was really strugling to keep my cociousness,,after around 2 hors i was better ,,and have just gotten up after sleeping 26 hours !!



DONT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF SWALLOWING THIS STUFF ,,I KNOW EATING A LINE DONT DO MUCH BUT ITS NEALY KILLED MEI RECKON ,,



DOES ANYONE THINK I NEARLY DIED ?

Let me tell you my experience using cocaine. I am by all means not bragging but I'm positive the amount of cocaine my body can tolerate
is way more than average. Im 6'1 220. My wife recently left me for another man and had to sell our house that I worked so hard to get. I haven't touched cocaine for 6 years. I bought the bag and did a line getting that instant euphoric feeling. As the night went on I found myself doing more lines in a shorter time span. I was sweating and had extreme racing thoughts and emotions. My heart rate was probably somewhere around 160 and I realized this was not good. Instead of panicking I grabbed 3 bottles of water and sat down and drank them slowly.
I took slow deep breathes until my panic subsided and then took a luke warm shower due to my body overheating. I laid in bed trying to fall asleep. That didn't happen for another 15 hours. The next 3 days my chest hurt as if I pulled a muscle or something. I have backed off the cocaine for a bit and its been 2 weeks and my chest still feels the same. I don't want to go to a doctor for fear of finding out I have irreversible damage, or worse so much time to live. I did this to myself for a reason that shouldn't have been. I may have escaped death this time but something tells me I am on borrowed time. The truly sad part is I have a 4 year old son that is disabled and this drug is so powerful that I put this first and him being without a father second. Let this be a wake up call to anyone doing this or wanting to do this. You will become a slave to the drug and to death. Its Russian roulette as to if it will end your life the first time!

I have been an IV drug user for well over twenty years, shooting cocaine just about every day of my life, along with heroin. Although I have never had a overdose, because I know how much I can handle, I have witnessed fatal and non fatal overdoses. I attribute the fact that I have never experienced an od to my cautiousness. Every time I get a new batch of cocaine I do a start off "test shot" to see how strong the material is. With this approach I can feel straight away what i am dealing with, and then measure accordingly. The overdoses I have witnessed have been usually violently erruptive and have gone down quick. The seizures have almost always been non fatal, but I have been in the same room with people who havent been as foprtunate. Like someone who wrote in before me, I too am not a doctor, but these seemed to be heart attacks. On the contrary, heroin overdoses always seemed so slight in bodily reaction, them usually simply falling asleep (appearing to be), never to wake up again. Being very observant and consistant in terms of suppliers are two ways to avoid any situations that might prove fatal. Ive managed to side step it for a long time, and its not by chance.

Sadly, I've been smoking crack for around 3 years now. This is my last day.
It all started with a girl. She gave me a hit and the sex was amazing. Or at least I thought it was.
You see, ( at least for me ) crack really doesn't feel that good. The first hit was cool, the others are never as good.
I started when i was 30. Up until then, I never touched any drug ( not even alcohol ). I enjoy sex A LOT, and the crack made it a little more exciting. I have managed to hold a 60 hour a week job while smoking crack. Nobody around me suspects it. I have a lot to lose.

I started smoking crack once a week, then twice a week, until now I smoke every day. Maybe 10 hits a day.
I have noticed the following:
-a litte moody
-feeling tired
-falling asleep easily
-weak
-sometimes I cough up snot laced in black stuff.
-my teeth ( although I do brush 3 times a day ) feel dirty
-loss of interest in friends
-chills

Even though crack isn't THAT great, I enjoy the first hit of the day. The rest never feel that good.
I generally purchase my crack from 2 people.... both of them never that great of stuff. Their stuff always tastes different.

Have I overdosed? Not really, but yes.
It happened 4 times. I got shaky, and my heart wanted to beat out of my chest.
I thought I was going to die. It's NOT fun. Today was my last hit... I could tell the crack wasn't the greatest.
It tasted far too chemically.. even when i cooked it.

There's too much to lose. I have a beautiful / loving wife ( she has no clue I use... nobody does )
I have a great job that I love ( and overpaid... hence the drug habbit ), great parents....
Crack is awful. Do not use it or if you do, don't give ANYONE a hit. Not everyone gets addicted, but a large portion does.
After three years of this c**p, I'm pretty sure I've done massive amounts of damage to my body.

No more! This drug is awful.
come to think of it, all drugs are bad. I still haven't drank alcohol, BUT I did try weed.
That stuff must have been laced in something because it felt WORSE than when I smoke too much rock.
Good luck to you if you're trying to quit.