Discussion Anyone know how to induce a heart attack (don't have access to meds)?

[A_Spartan_Dead]

I need to plan CTB soon, and since I can't get meds at the moment (thanks to my doc) I need to find some way to induce a fatal heart attack. Any ideas?

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

That's not how heart attacks work.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Other than deliberately creating a sudden severe emotional shock, or, doing an extreme amount of physical exercise, I have no idea how to induce a heart attack. Neither of those will work unless you have a weak heart already or just get lucky.

 

[Jadeith]

First things first - let's use correct names for corresponding things because imho today's world reached it's fucked up state due to people having wild, unprotected ragefuck with the dictionary.
Heart attack is a condition when some of the heart's blood vessels become blocked, causing severe damage to the heart muscle. So the only way to "induce" it is either shitty diet (slow method) or causing blood clot or other mechanical artery blockage. Thing is, even if you somehow induce such blockade in your body, there's no guarantee that it won't get stuck somewhere else.
Aforementioned heart failure due to stress or other forms of overload will only work when your heart is already badly damaged and can't keep up with additional workload. Thing is that you'd rather collapse due to exhaustion than die from cardiac arrest. I'm not saying it's not possible, i'm saying it's rather unlikely. So, if you need fast and reliable method, i strongly suggest you to reconsider your choices. Botched attempts are no fun to live with.

 

[a4001]

I don't think inducing a heart attack is the way to go, nor is it even possible.

 

[A_Spartan_Dead]

That's not how heart attacks work.

First things first - let's use correct names for corresponding things because imho today's world reached it's fucked up state due to people having wild, unprotected ragefuck with the dictionary.
Heart attack is a condition when some of the heart's blood vessels become blocked, causing severe damage to the heart muscle. So the only way to "induce" it is either shitty diet (slow method) or causing blood clot or other mechanical artery blockage. Thing is, even if you somehow induce such blockade in your body, there's no guarantee that it won't get stuck somewhere else.
Aforementioned heart failure due to stress or other forms of overload will only work when your heart is already badly damaged and can't keep up with additional workload. Thing is that you'd rather collapse due to exhaustion than die from cardiac arrest. I'm not saying it's not possible, i'm saying it's rather unlikely. So, if you need fast and reliable method, i strongly suggest you to reconsider your choices. Botched attempts are no fun to live with.

I don't think inducing a heart attack is the way to go, nor is it even possible.

This is sad news, I was hoping there was a way. I'd heard someone had injected an empty syringe (just air) and managed to get a heart anurism which was fatal, but looks like I won't get the result I want.

 

[im so done]

Electrocution in the bathtub. I actually thought about this while taking a shower today.

 

[Dejected 55]

So... I accidentally did this to myself about 5 years ago.

Took me a while to fully figure it out, though.

Long story short... 5 years ago I had a heart attack a couple of days before Christmas. I had been experiencing an increasingly worse full-body rash that itched and was making it hard to sleep or do anything... while in the hospital, the rash improved... went back home post-heart attack, rested a few days, then started back to normal routine and rash started getting worse again.

I have touch allergies. I'm always finding some new thing that I used to not be bothered by but now am really allergic to touching. I have to be careful about materials and perfumes and soaps and plants... I can't pet someone I don't know's dog without immediately being able to wash. Not allergic to the dog, but who knows what plant that dog brushed against that I am allergic to...

Anyway, that experience I realized I was allergic to a new body wash I had bought... stopped using that, the rash cleared completely and I've been fine since. Meanwhile, my in-hospital recovery was quick... I've never had any negative tests since, and the doctors kept being surprised by that.

I did some research and realized... if you have severe allergies, and get into an anaphylactic shock situation, your blood vessels start to constrict... and we all have some plaque in there even if we are otherwise healthy and eat well... so it doesn't take a lot of constriction to block blood flow in a severe allergic reaction situation... and BOOM! You're having a heart attack that IF someone knew why, they could treat your allergic reaction and solve the whole thing... but ERs aren't going to know that if someone can't tell them that's what is happening, they just see the heart attack and treat that.

Point is... I've considered "what if" I go buy that body wash I know I'm deathly allergic to and just shower with it a couple of times a day for a couple of weeks... I wonder if I could trigger another heart attack. My heart attack had no pain... I just got dizzy and passed out... which is not typical for heart-attacks, but is more typical for severe allergic situations... so I think that method is viable if you know something you are allergic to and want to risk it.

 

[Jadeith]

I'd heard someone had injected an empty syringe (just air) and managed to get a heart anurism which was fatal, but looks like I won't get the result I want.

Here's an excerpt from reddit thread



So basically, while possible, you'd need quite a lot of it to actually have an effect you desire.

 

[A_Spartan_Dead]

So... I accidentally did this to myself about 5 years ago.

Took me a while to fully figure it out, though.

Long story short... 5 years ago I had a heart attack a couple of days before Christmas. I had been experiencing an increasingly worse full-body rash that itched and was making it hard to sleep or do anything... while in the hospital, the rash improved... went back home post-heart attack, rested a few days, then started back to normal routine and rash started getting worse again.

I have touch allergies. I'm always finding some new thing that I used to not be bothered by but now am really allergic to touching. I have to be careful about materials and perfumes and soaps and plants... I can't pet someone I don't know's dog without immediately being able to wash. Not allergic to the dog, but who knows what plant that dog brushed against that I am allergic to...

Anyway, that experience I realized I was allergic to a new body wash I had bought... stopped using that, the rash cleared completely and I've been fine since. Meanwhile, my in-hospital recovery was quick... I've never had any negative tests since, and the doctors kept being surprised by that.

I did some research and realized... if you have severe allergies, and get into an anaphylactic shock situation, your blood vessels start to constrict... and we all have some plaque in there even if we are otherwise healthy and eat well... so it doesn't take a lot of constriction to block blood flow in a severe allergic reaction situation... and BOOM! You're having a heart attack that IF someone knew why, they could treat your allergic reaction and solve the whole thing... but ERs aren't going to know that if someone can't tell them that's what is happening, they just see the heart attack and treat that.

Point is... I've considered "what if" I go buy that body wash I know I'm deathly allergic to and just shower with it a couple of times a day for a couple of weeks... I wonder if I could trigger another heart attack. My heart attack had no pain... I just got dizzy and passed out... which is not typical for heart-attacks, but is more typical for severe allergic situations... so I think that method is viable if you know something you are allergic to and want to risk it.

Not allergic to anything

 

[Dejected 55]

Not allergic to anything

Possible... but perhaps you just haven't found it yet. I'm constantly finding new things I'm allergic to that either I never had before OR used to not be allergic to, but now am.

Like... my mother always used Tide detergent for laundry. I moved into my first house in my late 20s and so I bought the same Tide detergent to use in my home. BOOM, suddenly I was allergic to Tide and had to switch to one of those "free and clear" for sensitive people ones.

Meanwhile... once on a vacation I was in a restaurant. I ordered mozzarella sticks as an appetizer. What I was brought were small breaded round things. Definitely not mozzarella but I thought maybe onion rings, so I took a bite... did not like it at all... turned out it was fried calamari. ICK! Later that night, I woke up in my room with a fever, strong stomach ache, and I was having hallucinations... as in, I KNEW there was someone in the bathroom who wanted to kill me. Took me an hour to get out of bed and look... I was super-paranoid and had a fever and headache and stomach ache and cold sweats for a couple of hours and it was a weekend in a strange place/hotel and nothing was open... eventually the worst of it passed and my hallucinations and paranoia died down and I got to sleep. Next day with sanity back intact, I looked it up and it was tell-tale signs of a seafood allergy experience.

Obviously I never ate that again... but it was a complete fluke I ate it that time or I'd have never known.

 

[a4001]

Here's an excerpt from reddit thread

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So basically, while possible, you'd need quite a lot of it to actually have an effect you desire

This. First Google result that comes up for air embolism suicide is a case study of a woman injecting 2L of air into her arm. Id imagine that was quite challenging.

 

[TheEmptyVoid]

I need to plan CTB soon, and since I can't get meds at the moment (thanks to my doc) I need to find some way to induce a fatal heart attack. Any ideas?

Cardiac arrest is more like it, because it's painless if sudden, I kinda hate that it's common to say "heart attack"