Has anyone had any PERSONAL experience with overdosing on medication?

Question:

A friend of mine keeps threating to overdose on something, and I really want to "scare" her away from it, has anyone here tried it? what happened to you? what did you do it on? She's going to therapy now, but she's having a hard time at the moment.

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i took an overdose of tylenol three's and some other pills..... (but i didn't unfortunately take enough to kill me... i mean i'm glad about it now...but at the time i was really pissed and the doctor's didn't think i was serious about suicide)...

anyway...my husband came home early....and i was crying and upset...and he asked what is wrong and i said that i took a lot of pills.. (something like 19...apparently that is way too few..but i used to take things very literally and would worry about oding if i took three tylenol instead of the two that was indicated...lol)

so they made me go to the hospital and they pumped my stomach with charcoal... it was a nightmare...having that tube shoved down my throat.... and the charcoal tasted bad when i threw it up..and i had charcoal diarrhea for a few days too.....

i would never try pills again i don't think.....

The results depend on what medication she overdoses on. In most cases it will not kill her. Her stomach will be pumped when she gets to the hospital. I have never experienced that, but I hear its not too pleasant. She might damage her liver and need dialisys. She could tear a hole in her stomach requiring surgery to repair. If she does actually die from overdosing, it will be a long and painful death.

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