Carbon monoxide tent when to enter

[leerosa]

So i have the regatta malawi 2 tent to execute my plan. I have a CO meter which can measure up to 5000. The only question I have is that do people sleep in while taking the bucket containing charcoal with them. Or is it better for the meter to give an alarm and the enter. For the 1st method, Im worried of too low of a concentration. For the 2nd method I'm worried about zipping and unzipping which would release CO

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I have the same thoughts about this. I don't have an answer to this. But there's one thing: I would like to seal the zipper with tape once I'm in the tent and that won't be possible if there is a high CO concentration inside the tent. I doubt I can hold my breath fro that long.

As you have a CO meter - y don't you do a test? Place glowing charcoal and the CO meter inside the tent, once the concentration is near 5k open the zipper and then close it again a few seconds later. This simulates crawling into the tent. Then check how much the CO concentration dropped and how long it takes to build up again.

 

[Groundhog_Day]

Leaving tonight

There was a problem uploading my file. :/ Basically they're pretty white with a sort of hot red glow around them. I have them just outside the tent now. The bucket is emitting a fair bit of heat, is that likely to be a problem? I'll put it on a heat mat but I mean in terms of melting the tent...

sanctioned-suicide.net

I'm still undecided on this myself. In the above thread, Zanexx entered with the charcoal. They took sedatives and, in their last post said they could sense the CO in the air and, felt short of breath. They succeeded with their attempt. I'm currently still tempted to copy Zanexx, but i have marfan heart disease, restrictive lung disease, and panic attacks, so i'm not sure about the risk of respiratory or cardiac arrest whilst still being conscious.

I think the consensus here is more to let the CO level build to 10,000+ppm and then enter. In theory, you should pass out very quickly and, reduce the risk of being conscious whilst experiencing respiratory or cardiac arrest.

It's just hard because the only detailed confirmed successful goodbye thread here is Zanexx's, i think. The thread also includes a link to an accidental CO tent death where a cool bbq was taken into a tent, so again the death occurred from gradual exposure to CO. I think this is how most accidental CO deaths occur - gradual exposure rather than walking into a space with 10,000+ ppm.

Then you have Bridgeluvr's experience of failing after entering a car after letting the CO build up to 7,000ppm:

Hi, if you've made up your mind about doing this, be very careful with this method. I just got out of the hospital after attempting with the CO method in my car and may have lasting internal organ damage.

I used high quality lump charcoal with a $450 CO meter from TPI, followed @befree's (RIP) method to the T, effectively creating an airtight seal in my car with gorilla tape, using 2 charcoal grills with sufficient coal based on the interior of the car, etc. I reached 7000+ ppm (yes I know it's not 10,000+ but this should still kill within hours at the most and I was in there for 6+ hours undisturbed) which it maintained until I passed out and presumably after. Getting in the car, it was extremely hot (but not smoky, since it was only CO being produced), and I'm still having flashbacks about the few minutes I was hyperventilating in there and dousing myself with cold water to stave off the heat.

6 hours later, I woke up effectively paralyzed (I must have had convulsions in the car and paralyzed a lot of my muscles) and with intense brain fog and wasn't even able to reach the keys in my ignition, only my phone which was laying a few inches from my fingers to call my mom with a voice command.

In the hospital all my vitals were fucked and they pumped me full of oxygen with a high flow mask for a few days with a rotating CNA watching me 24/7 (yes, even as I shit). My ejection fraction was 20% at one point with severe chest pain and troponin in the thousands (like a heart attack). I may have lasting scarring on my heart that will increase my risk for heart attacks and may have to go on dialysis for my kidneys because I fucked them up so much with this (I'm in my mid 20s). Of course I was then transferred to the psych ward which is a whole nother can of worms but let's just say nothing has effectively changed since the 50s. Overall, this was an extremely traumatic experience. I'm not one who ever befor experienced PTSD flashbacks daily but now I picture getting into that car and hyperventilating with the heat daily. This experience has supremely fucked me up both mentally and physically. I may also have brain damage which can manifest in memory loss and cognition delays weeks or months down the line (stay tuned!)

Just sharing my honest experience for your guy's perusal and consideration. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Thanks all who replied with your support and kind words :) Me and the doctors both don't really know what "saved" me, the only things I can think of are a possible genetic resistance and maybe the concentration dropping extremely low when I opened the door for a second to get in the car and the display being slow to catch up or something?. Or maybe the meter (TPI 707) wasn't accurate for some reason, although I did follow their guide and calibrated and purged it in clean air beforehand and everything. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see the display reading on the meter when I woke up about 6 hours after getting in since I'd knocked it away when I probably thrashed in my sleep.

No preexisting health conditions, and only other thing I can think of is it had rained a few days beforehand so the damp/cold weather may have been affecting the charcoal's burning time? I did take about 3 hits from a THC vape pen, a handful of 30mg weed gummies (perhaps a bit much :o ), and a bottle of pinot grigio about an hour beforehand to calm my nerves and help me ease into sleep, so maybe I went a little too crazy on that? One other poster asked about how long I was in the car before it reached 7000 ppm; sorry for not clarifying before but 7000 ppm was what I read immediately before I got in the car and opened the door; the numbers continued to hover around that afterwards though, sometimes dipping to the high 6000s but maintaining around that level at least while I was conscious to read them. I can recall being in the car for probably about ~2 minutes during this time and reading those numbers while dousing myself with water before I lost consciousness. The only physiological reactions I got during thos emoments were the hyperventilating and the feeling of the intense heat. But yeah like I said I guess the level could've dramatically fallen right after that somehow though? Really have no idea.

And yeah, based on the reaction I'm sure there was some lingering CO2 present but it wouldn't seem like there was a great amount by that time just based on observation. I waited a good 45mins-ish to an hour after lighting the coals and made sure they were only smouldering/no smoke was being visibly produced, and I would've expected to have a lot more effects like coughing or eye irritation when I got in the car if there was somehow a sizeable amount of CO2 still being released by the coals, right? I would be interested to see that concentration too though.

Ayways, I'm now in a 5 day a week Adult PHP program which is definitely...something lol, at least it's not the psych ward. I was kind of in a rut in terms of my schooling/career before this and am kind of taking this as a sign to drastically change my life path towards something else and just shoot and see what happens, I may as well I guess. Not religious or faithful at all, but all my CNAs during my hospital stay kept saying that I must have failed for a reason and I still have something left to do, so I guess we'll see about that haha. So not currently planning to imminently CTB, but the fleeting thoughts are definitely always there. Thanks for asking :)

I don't mean to alarm or scare anyone necessarily with my story, but I just wanted to put it out there as a data point for consideration, this very well may have just been a fluke or anomaly, it seemes to have worked as expected for very many others who went through similar steps with the method and may have reached similar concentrations, etc. As a part of my treatment plan, I think I'm going to deactivate my account for the time being at least; I hope the details I provided can somehow be of use. Thanks for taking the time to read my experience regardless :)

 

[leerosa]

Leaving tonight

There was a problem uploading my file. :/ Basically they're pretty white with a sort of hot red glow around them. I have them just outside the tent now. The bucket is emitting a fair bit of heat, is that likely to be a problem? I'll put it on a heat mat but I mean in terms of melting the tent...

sanctioned-suicide.net

I'm still undecided on this myself. In the above thread, Zanexx entered with the charcoal. They took sedatives and, in their last post said they could sense the CO in the air and, felt short of breath. They succeeded with their attempt. I'm currently still tempted to copy Zanexx, but i have marfan heart disease, restrictive lung disease, and panic attacks, so i'm not sure about the risk of respiratory or cardiac arrest whilst still being conscious.

I think the consensus here is more to let the CO level build to 10,000+ppm and then enter. In theory, you should pass out very quickly and, reduce the risk of being conscious whilst experiencing respiratory or cardiac arrest.

It's just hard because the only detailed confirmed successful goodbye thread here is Zanexx's, i think. The thread also includes a link to an accidental CO tent death where a cool bbq was taken into a tent, so again the death occurred from gradual exposure to CO. I think this is how most accidental CO deaths occur - gradual exposure rather than walking into a space with 10,000+ ppm.

Then you have Bridgeluvr's experience of failing after entering a car after letting the CO build up to 7,000ppm:

CO readers have a high margin of error. Mine can read up to 5000. But has a 20% chance of error which is a lot. Pretty sure he had a faulty reader. With concentration like that, Bridgeluvr should have been dead under a hour. He succeeded later when he increased his charcoal amount x4.

 

[Groundhog_Day]

CO readers have a high margin of error. Mine can read up to 5000. But has a 20% chance of error which is a lot. Pretty sure he had a faulty reader. With concentration like that, Bridgeluvr should have been dead under a hour. He succeeded later when he increased his charcoal amount x4.

I'm not saying you're wrong, as you may have more information than me, but bridgeluvr's last post here said that he was taking it as a sign to drastically change his life, and he wasn't planning to ctb, and was going to deactivate his account. Are you sure that he succeded later? I know strawberry931 failed in his car, and a member here said he succeeded with a later attempt using more charcoal.

Sorry if i'm being pedantic or anything like that. I was just surprised to hear that about bridgeluvr, after what he said in his last post here.

 

[leerosa]

Oh I think I was referring to strawberry931

I'm not saying you're wrong, as you may have more information than me, but bridgeluvr's last post here said that he was taking it as a sign to drastically change his life, and he wasn't planning to ctb, and was going to deactivate his account. Are you sure that he succeded later? I know strawberry931 failed in his car, and a member here said he succeeded with a later attempt using more charcoal.

Sorry if i'm being pedantic or anything like that. I was just surprised to hear that about bridgeluvr, after what he said in his last post here.

I think I was referring to strawberry