gloomycatboy
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- Jan 21, 2026
- 5
on tuesday i took a staggered overdose (over ~1.5h) roughly 30-35g of paracetamol tablets. even with it being listed as a non-method on here, i'd done clinical research into what amount of it would be likely to fuck me up well even if it didn't actually kill me. i was planning on waiting at least a few hours after taking them to see how i was feeling and maybe seeking help if i was starting to feel bad at that point. this went sideways as i'd decided to take a couple of drinks as well, partially due to it making the paracetamol potentially more dangerous, and ended up messaging a friend only about 5 minutes after i'd finished taking them. i got to hospital within an hour of this, and was processed through a&e relatively quickly. despite all of this, within about 30 minutes of getting to hospital i started feeling violently nauseous and, even with the n-acetyl cysteine drip in my arm, which reverses a paracetamol overdose, i continued to be aggressively nauseous and threw up many more times over the following 8 or so hours. iv anti-emetics did not even touch this nausea. if i'd waited even slightly longer to go to hospital i would have been fucked and barely able to go, and there had been a 5 hour wait for an ambulance when i'd called. it's now saturday and i'm still in hospital, only just medically cleared and still waiting for a psych consult, which might take until monday. don't do this shit if you're suicidal, it is stupid and gruelling and even if you think you know what you're doing (like i did), you probably do not. i was told i had taken well above a potentially fatal dose of paracetamol, which was of course my intention, but if you actually want to die, then do something that will kill you, not something that will genuinely physically torture you for days if not weeks upon end before actually killing you if you don't seek treatment in time.
