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I know we've talked about this before, but

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injest:
frustration...I know with these dang allergies and bad sinuses..after two dang months I just get DESPERATE for some relief. I know I have taken more than I am supposed to...and closer together than I should...I have just been lucky.

RouxB:
Having 6 different drugs in his system doesn't mean he sat down and took 6 different drugs all at once. What we don't know - and never will- what the concentration was of each, how long they had been in his system or when he took them. 

When people take medication-prescription and over the counter- and it isn't working, they frequently up the dose thinking it that will do the trick and simply underestimate the consequences or they keep trying something different hoping that will work. I suffer from migraines and I assure you I have taken aspirin in larger doses and more frequent intervals than recommended.

The bottom line, though, is that the how and why does not in any way impact my feeling about him. He is magnificent no matter.

 :-*


 

ifyoucantfixit:



      I will say first off..... Well I consider myself a smart person.  But I have been prescribed a lot of different medicines by several different doctor, for differing things.  I have some that i take regularly, and
some that i take only occasionally..
      I was given a prescription by mistake and it was fine and dandy
with my everyday group of meds.  But I had reason to take a muscle
relaxant one day..and when I took the two of them together, it was
nearly a lethal dose of meds.  I was knocked out in a matter of a minute..I was lucky to be woken up by my grandaughter.. If she hadnt gotten hold of me i might have been a goner. 
       So it is like the perfect storm.  When some of the bad things
all come together, and make the fatal thing happen...

   The ignorance is in not being told everything when you have the medicines prescribed... Those little dont drive or operate machinery tags are not nearly sufficient to inform
people of what can happen.

Penthesilea:
Oh Elle.

(((Elle)))

The one insight I gained from this whole disaster is that meds stay a lot longer in your system than I would have thought possible. I honestly didn't know that they can stay in your system over days and build up on another.

Wanna know my personal theory on what happened to Heath (and it's not more than that)? I think he changed to different meds after his return to the US. Maybe one day still taking what he had taken in London, the next day switching to another set of meds, hoping they would work better and not knowing that what he had taken the day before was still in his system and that the stuff could add up.

Still, it leaves the question why he took that stuff at all. Insomnia? Well, it happens to a lot of people, and I wouldn't interpret anything into it, if it were the only pills he had taken. Painkillers? Maybe the cold/supposed walking pneumonia he's said to have had at that point.
But anti-anxiety drugs? And the combination of those three types of meds? I'm sorry, but that doesn't speak of a person who is in synch with themselve. And that's one of the saddest things in this whole horrible story.

 :'(

serious crayons:
A couple of other possibilities.

I myself, when taking prescriptions meds, especially painkillers, have occasionally forgotten when I took the last dose. So maybe he just lost track.

And it's possible that he felt depressed enough that his attitude became careless. Not like he was trying to hurt himself, but more like he just didn't care enough to pay attention.

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