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Heath Ledger's Accidental Overdose - Discussion Thread (Was: Breaking News)
myprivatejack:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on February 07, 2008, 01:35:46 pm ---accidental overdose means that you take two instead of the one that is prescribed, or you take sleeping pills at the same time you take Nyquil, and the combination effect of these will kill you. What seems to make the most sense is that Heath took a pain killer and a tranquilizer and did not get to sleep, and a few hours later tried a different combination, and then took the over the counter sleep medicine. Some of those drugs stay in the bloodstream for two days or more. Changing drugs before the first type has cleared the system can cause disaster.
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Yes,yes,I understood what the phrase means by the meaning of the words... :) but what I don't understand is that Heath could take more pills than advisable or prescribed by his own initiative,it was not his style...I don't know if this makes sense,sorry.But for me there's only two explanations:or he did it intentionally-I´m sorry,but for me it doesn't make him a worse person...-or the progressive accumulation of substances in his organism was what became "a clockwork bomb" in it...Don't hate me,please,but it's what I feel.
Verona:
--- Quote from: myprivatejack on February 07, 2008, 01:42:21 pm ---Yes,yes,I understood what the phrase means by the meaning of the words... :) but what I don't understand is that Heath could take more pills than advisable or prescribed by his own initiative,it was not his style...I don't know if this makes sense,sorry.But for me there's only two explanations:or he did it intentionally-I´m sorry,but for me it doesn't make him a worse person...-or the progressive accumulation of substances in his organism was what became "a clockwork bomb" in it...Don't hate me,please,but it's what I feel.
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from the report and his dad's statement, he did not take "more" of any one drug than was prescribed... he took a few different ones, at small doses, that just didn't mix well together. He most likely did not realize that each one was still in his system, because he did not "feel" them. He was also exhausted and sick, from all accounts.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: myprivatejack on February 07, 2008, 01:42:21 pm ---or the progressive accumulation of substances in his organism was what became "a clockwork bomb"
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I think it was what you say above. But that's me.
Lynne:
This is the first time I've ventured in to the Heath Grieving forum and I don't really feel ready to be here now, so I'm about to leave again. I had an idea I shared via PM with Pete last night and maybe I'm grasping at straws, but I wonder if Heath could have had an undiagnosed condition like sleep apnea?
My logic is that he reportedly was having problems sleeping. When you have sleep apnea, even if you do sleep, you never feel rested because you wake up throughout the night often without realizing it. I don't believe sleep apnea can be diagnosed without spending the night in a sleep clinic nor identified via autopsy.
It does not ring true to me that even the long list of drugs in his system would have caused respiratory failure in a healthy person without there being an underlying condition. All I have is anecdotal evidence - I have combined two of the drugs in his system (xanax and oxycodone) when I had my broken ankle and more than once I increased one or the other because I wasn't getting relief. My mother takes prozac, ambien, xanax, and fentanyl in regular prescribed doses closely monitored. She is a COPD patient and physically she is in awful shape. Nonetheless, the TWO times she has had respiratory failure it was because of pneumonia/MRSA - i.e. a bacterial lung infection.
souxi:
Lynne from what I understand Heath had problems sleeping because he suffered with insomnia.
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