can you give yourself sepsis? i see no posts about it... maybe bc it's a stupid question, idk, but...

[SufferingInDenmark]

i know the fatality is extremely high from that.
just wondering like...
if there's anything you can do to get sepsis.
i know it's probably a painful death, but the fatality rate looks great for suicide.

 

[openBottomJeans]

I have a lot of broken teeth. Abscessed teeth. They hurt every day. All I know is that mouth infections CAN lead to sepsis. So I don't bother seeking treatment. Although the process is slow. I've had teeth problems for years. I don't think sepsis will get me unfortunately

 

[Dejected 55]

Sepsis is, essentially, when you have an infection that gets "inside" your body. Like, normally you might have a skin infection or a particular organ, like an inflamed appendix... but when an appendix bursts, then ALL that infection goes everywhere inside of you... and your immune system only works on itself as a closed system, if an infection sets into your body in the spaces in between, essentially on the outsides of all your insides... that's a really tough thing for a doctor/surgeon to clean up.

Imagine your toilet exploding and shit is everywhere in the bathroom, I mean EVERYWHERE! And you have to clean every last little bit from every tiny crack in the wall OR else... that's sepsis. I don't really know how you "give that" to yourself.

 

[tormentedhusk]

Don't do it it's not a good way to go.

 

[SufferingInDenmark]

Sepsis is, essentially, when you have an infection that gets "inside" your body. Like, normally you might have a skin infection or a particular organ, like an inflamed appendix... but when an appendix bursts, then ALL that infection goes everywhere inside of you... and your immune system only works on itself as a closed system, if an infection sets into your body in the spaces in between, essentially on the outsides of all your insides... that's a really tough thing for a doctor/surgeon to clean up.

Imagine your toilet exploding and shit is everywhere in the bathroom, I mean EVERYWHERE! And you have to clean every last little bit from every tiny crack in the wall OR else... that's sepsis. I don't really know how you "give that" to yourself.

i heard there's certain animals that can bite you and you can get it from.
i saw something about a homeless guy bitten by a certain type of snail or whatever the fuck it was... and he got sepsis from it, i think

 

[TAW122]

It's not a pleasant or quick way to go, and yes, there will be a lot of agony and suffering before one finally succumbs to death itself via sepsis.

 

[Dejected 55]

i heard there's certain animals that can bite you and you can get it from.
i saw something about a homeless guy bitten by a certain type of snail or whatever the fuck it was... and he got sepsis from it, i think

It was either misstated or you misread something possibly. Sepsis is not something you "catch" from anyone or anything. It's an infection in your body that gets out of control and beyond your body's ability to fight.

I mean, technically an animal bite can get infected and if not treated properly could lead to sepsis... since theoretically any infection could get out of control if not treated and cared for properly.

Sepsis is not a disease in and of itself. It's any one of a number of infections IF they run rampant and out of control in your body.

 

[dontwakemeup]

Sepsis happens when your body can't fight off an infection. Our body unfortunately fights for us even when we don't want it to. I guess it depends on the infection you give yourself (if you actually could do that), your current immune system, and waiting to see if your body will heal itself or sepsis will occur. Most people while septic won't be in their correct mind once they go sepsis. I would love to die, but I wouldn't even consider this as a method or one I'd ever consider or attempt.

 

[tvisongur]

There's a chapter in The Good Women of China by Xinran that includes letters from a teenage girl to the author detailing her essentially committing suicide in this manner while in hospital, by squishing a large fly into an existing wound. If I remember correctly, she had some sort of condition that made her more susceptible to infection.