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lopsidedcrawdad1
Experienced
- Jun 22, 2023
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Im starting to think death cap mushrooms might actually be a decent method. Earlier this year an antidote to the poisoning was discovered but the antidote has only been tested on mice and the survival rate only went from 10% to 50%. Most importantly though, the antidote was only that effective when administered within 4 hours of mushroom ingestion. When administered 8 and 12 hours after ingestion, it was useless. You wont even start to feel any side effects from the mushrooms until 8-24 hours after ingestion. My thought was that you could eat a bunch of these mushrooms (even one small bite could be potentially lethal), wait as long as you possibly can after starting to feel pain to go to the hospital, then just act confused like you didnt know what was causing this and receive pain meds till you die. One problem with the method is that the mortality rate in people that receive medical attention is only between 10-30%. Because the mortality rate many years ago was 90%, I think todays low mortality rate could be addressed in a few ways such as eating a second dose right before going to the hospital, eating huge doses (In almost all cases of poisoning by deathcaps, only 1 or 2 mushrooms were actually eaten), and self medicating with opioids, alcohol, etc. to manage pain in order to delay visiting the hospital as well as further impairing liver function. If anyone has any thoughts on this please let me know!
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