Methadone Uses

Question by –Takemeawaylove~Bailey–: What happens when you O.D on sleeping pills?
I’m NOT goin to O.D, or anything,
I’m just writing a storie for my creative writing class,
And it’s supposed to be this girl O.D’s on sleeping pills,
And “wakes” up as the perimedics are wheeling her into the hospital,
But my plan was that she’s laying there,
And she can hear, and feel things, but she can’t see or talk.
She can feel pain, and it feels like her muscles are ripping apart.
Does this seem realistic?
Like what really happens when you O.D?
If not please tell me what would happen, or what does happen, thank you! 🙂
Lol, sorry, I’m a bad speller >.< Best answer:

Answer by Munkee2
It depends. Sometimes a patient will try to talk and some even walk when asked even through they are deeply asleep after a small overdose and have absolutely no recollection of such later.

Others are completely unconscious. It dpeends what drug they take and how much of it.

Also, ambulance crew are called paramedics, not perimedics.

Answer by Amalaki Juice
Although it wasn’t sleeping pills, I have been dead due to an overdose (someone spiked my drink with methadone). Here is what it was like:

At first, everything seems normal. You are able to carry about your tasks normally. I was driving, talking on the phone, the norm. I went to eat at a restaurant across the way from my house. While I was finishing eating, I got a short cold sweat, a very, very short loss of consciousness (probably looked like a nod), and thought, “what was that? Odd…” and didn’t think much more into it. About 5 minutes later, paying the bill, and another cold sweat came on, and the blackout was just a slight bit longer. A lightheadedness began to set in. No pains, just spacey. But then it was back to normal. Another slightly longer round of sweats and ‘nodding’, and some worry begins to set in. So I drove home across the street, and went upstairs to my room with a friend. The next round of sweats were intense, but the lightheaded feeling kept me from really noticing it, and this blackout seemed to last for a minute or so. I sort of came to, feeling extremely fatigued, dizzy, nauseous, confused. Words were garbled, sight was blurry at this point. Basic motor function was near impossible. It was at this point where my last memory was, “I think I’ll lay down and go to sleep.” My friend, who was downstairs for a couple of minutes, came back up to find me going into respiratory failure, and turning blue. Fast forward 6 minutes and an injection of Levallorphan, I am waking up to paramedics carrying me down my stairs. And it was just like you see in the movies or on TV…blurry vision of paramedic, indistinguishable sounds, the glance around to try to understand what is happening. And then out again. I awoke again several hours later in the hospital, tired but cognitive.

As far as pain…I had zero pain. I was unaware of my surroundings. Unable to speak. But my story is opioid based and was an extreme overdose, not an OD on sleep medication, which could be potentially different. But for the first hour or so one is fully aware of the degradation of their condition.

I hope you can find this helpful.

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