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I thought most of the panic reaction during suffocation was caused by CO2 buildup, but that won't be happening with SN. Inert gases are meant to be peaceful even though the mechanism of death is oxygen deprivation, because CO2 can still be expelled. Is this unrelated?
Inert gas causes cerebral hypoxia and thus fading of awareness and eventual unconsciousness (which occurs ~30 mmHg) so rapidly that any dyspnea as a result of hypoxia is extremely minimal given a proper setup, especially if hypocapnia is induced beforehand through hyperventilation and if adequate CO2 purging is present either through exhalation valves or high flow rate flushing it out.
 
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High-level CO concentration - >10000ppm - should/can be included with your N "exception", I believe.
Yeah, maybe CO and inert gas (N2, Ar, He) but its difficult to achieve those concentrations of CO and guarantee that there isnt going to be leaks of gas. Also, for me, the consequences of doing it wrong are very scary (brain damage or being a vegetable)
 
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Inert gas causes cerebral hypoxia and thus fading of awareness and eventual unconsciousness (which occurs ~30 mmHg) so rapidly that any dyspnea as a result of hypoxia is extremely minimal given a proper setup, especially if hypocapnia is induced beforehand through hyperventilation.
I was wondering the same thing… There are plenty of videos of pilots going through high altitude training, where the o2 levels are gradually reduced in the room to simulate high altitude. You seem them start to lose coordination, get confused, and giggly as their o2 levels drop. Sometimes they take them almost to the point of passing out… and there doesn't seem to be any distress. So since inert gases would act the same way, displacing the o2, even with an improper, slower setup, there still shouldn't be much discomfort, correct?

Then I would imagine sn to be a similar mechanism, and any discomfort would be caused by the co2 buildup due to the abnormal respiratory rate and pattern? Not sure of sn affects the blood's ability to carry co2.
 
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I was wondering the same thing… There are plenty of videos of pilots going through high altitude training, where the o2 levels are gradually reduced in the room to simulate high altitude. You seem them start to lose coordination, get confused, and giggly as their o2 levels drop. Sometimes they take them almost to the point of passing out… and there doesn't seem to be any distress. So since inert gases would act the same way, displacing the o2, even with an improper, slower setup, there still shouldn't be much discomfort, correct?

Then I would imagine sn to be a similar mechanism, and any discomfort would be caused by the co2 buildup due to the abnormal respiratory rate and pattern? Not sure of sn affects the blood's ability to carry co2.
I think that an improper, slow setup could lead to some distress (probably mainly nausea, headaches, things like that rather than air hunger, but potentially some if hypoxia is severe enough without knocking one out)

SN should not lead to CO2 buildup because ventilation is not restricted. The discomfort is caused by metabolic acidosis.
 
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"There are fewer data relating air hunger ratings to levels of hypoxia. Hypoxia is a relatively weak stimulus, as might be expected from ventilatory response data"

"Hypoxia during free breathing is a notoriously poor stimulus for air hunger; the relief of air hunger produced by increased mechanoreceptor input and by the accompanying hypocapnia blunts air hunger to the point that subjects usually have severe decline in cognitive function or lose consciousness before reporting air hunger"

So, I think it's reasonable to conclude that air hunger from SN is probably caused almost exclusively by acidosis, especially considering that Kussmaul respirations caused by acidosis will induce hypocapnia.
 
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However, I had read testimonials saying that we breathe harder but without too much feeling of panic or suffocation...

Here, it is 3/10 peacefullness according to people...not 6 or 7/10


the girl who was filmed on video didn't seem to suffer too much...but we only saw part of it...there was no sound...

The question is, how long does it take to fall unconscious? or people who were found didn't say it was that horrible...10,20,30 min its very long...
The one I witnessed was around 15 minutes
 
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The one I witnessed was around 15 minutes
And there was a feeling of suffocation, how was the person, was she breathing heavily? during the 15 minutes, what happened? I spoke with a person from an "association" who attended, from start to finish, several end-of-life experiences with sn (it's real, it's not fake), he told me that we lost consciousness quite quickly...afterwards it was only elderly people so surely less resistant and the result is perhaps distorted with younger, healthy people...
 
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And there was a feeling of suffocation, how was the person, was she breathing heavily? during the 15 minutes, what happened? I spoke with a person from an "association" who attended, from start to finish, several end-of-life experiences with sn (it's real, it's not fake), he told me that we lost consciousness quite quickly...afterwards it was only elderly people so surely less resistant and the result is perhaps distorted with younger, healthy people...
Send me a dm pls I would forward the experience to u
 
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I guess no method is peaceful. Dying will always be unpleasant no matter what.
 
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I guess no method is peaceful. Dying will always be unpleasant no matter what.
Sure u just have to be brave to accept that
 
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I guess no method is peaceful. Dying will always be unpleasant no matter what.
I don't think so. More like no method most people can access won't be unpleasant. A proper inert gas should not be unpleasant, for example.
 
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It is very individual and depends on case by case. Based on the cases I have read about (and that is probably all that can be found on this forum), maybe about 30% mentioned that they have some difficulty with breathing, most often "short" and "rapid" breath. Grunting and strange breathing sounds are almost always reported, but only after the person who consumed SN was already unconscious.
afterward if it's like after running a 100 m where you breathe very hard it can pass... for me it's the feeling of suffocation that you can no longer breathe and a strong tightness on the chest that scares me... but even if there is no suffocation, panic can happen quickly... I remember when I had taken a little too many opiates, I was breathing a little more difficult than usual but without choking, it was really very light, I had no respiratory depression and yet it was horribly panicking... I have rarely been so afraid in my life... so with the sn I can't even imagine...
To reduce and eliminate SI, fear, panic and anxiety, the protocol provides for benzos, which are extremely effective in this sense. Without benzos, the whole process can be very frustrating.

"There are fewer data relating air hunger ratings to levels of hypoxia. Hypoxia is a relatively weak stimulus, as might be expected from ventilatory response data"

"Hypoxia during free breathing is a notoriously poor stimulus for air hunger; the relief of air hunger produced by increased mechanoreceptor input and by the accompanying hypocapnia blunts air hunger to the point that subjects usually have severe decline in cognitive function or lose consciousness before reporting air hunger"

So, I think it's reasonable to conclude that air hunger from SN is probably caused almost exclusively by acidosis, especially considering that Kussmaul respirations caused by acidosis will induce hypocapnia.
Acidosis is certainly the main cause of Kussmaul's breathing, and as for hypocapnia, following the recorded cases on this forum, we could notice that almost everyone reported tingling of the hands or legs, which is one of its main symptoms. Essentially, the question of all questions in a practical sense for the implementation of the SN protocol is how to accelerate the loss of consciousness and reduce anxiety and fear. Currently, psychosedatives and tranquilizers are the only means of choice in this case, and with them, the timing of ingestion and dosage are key.
 
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C'est très individuel et cela dépend de chaque cas. D'après les cas que j'ai pu lire (et c'est probablement tout ce que l'on peut trouver sur ce forum), environ 30 % des personnes ont mentionné avoir des difficultés à respirer, le plus souvent une respiration « courte » et « rapide ». Des grognements et des bruits respiratoires étranges sont presque toujours signalés, mais seulement après que la personne qui a consommé du SN ait déjà perdu connaissance.

Pour réduire et éliminer le syndrome du sommeil, la peur, la panique et l'anxiété, le protocole prévoit des benzodiazépines, qui sont extrêmement efficaces dans ce sens. Sans benzodiazépines, tout le processus peut être très frustrant.

L'acidose est certainement la cause principale de la respiration de Kussmaul, et en ce qui concerne l'hypocapnie, suite aux cas enregistrés sur ce forum, nous avons pu remarquer que presque tout le monde a signalé des picotements des mains ou des jambes, qui sont l'un de ses principaux symptômes. Essentiellement, la question de toutes les questions au sens pratique du terme pour la mise en œuvre du protocole SN est de savoir comment accélérer la perte de conscience et réduire l'anxiété et la peur. Actuellement, les psychosédatifs et les tranquillisants sont les seuls moyens de choix dans ce cas, et avec eux, le moment de l'ingestion et le dosage sont essentiels.
yes but you still have to be sure that you are really unconscious during the grunts... and that it's not that you can't move...
I have been taking 10 mg of diazepam every morning and every evening for several years...it doesn't do anything for me...I think I should take 4 instead of one... but the problem is that benzos tend to cause respiratory depression
 
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yes but you still have to be sure that you are really unconscious during the grunts... and that it's not that you can't move...
I have been taking 10 mg of diazepam every morning and every evening for several years...it doesn't do anything for me...I think I should take 4 instead of one... but the problem is that benzos tend to cause respiratory depression
For the cases I mentioned, it is quite certain that they were unconscious. One of the problems with benzo is that it causes resistance, you would have to completely "clean" yourself from benzo in order to achieve the desired effect with the appropriate shock dose.
 
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What about survivors of SN attempts, do they report intense feelings of suffocation? From what I remember reading it wasn't too bad.
 
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I do not recall reading any reports of survivors of failed SN attempts who mentioned a feeling of suffocation after ingestion at any stage. Mentioned, in numerous individual cases: tachycardia, tingling in the hands and feet, rapid breathing, dizziness, blurred vision, feeling of heat in the limbs and body, disorientation, nausea, vomiting, burning sensation in the throat and stomach, extremely salty taste, unpleasant feeling, intensity of pain from 2 to max.5 (on a scale of 0 - 10) but not the feeling of suffocation.
What about survivors of SN attempts, do they report intense feelings of suffocation? From what I remember reading it wasn't too bad.
 
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I do not recall reading any reports of survivors of failed SN attempts who mentioned a feeling of suffocation after ingestion at any stage. Mentioned, in numerous individual cases: tachycardia, tingling in the hands and feet, rapid breathing, dizziness, blurred vision, feeling of heat in the limbs and body, disorientation, nausea, vomiting, burning sensation in the throat and stomach, extremely salty taste, unpleasant feeling, intensity of pain from 2 to max.5 (on a scale of 0 - 10) but not the feeling of suffocation.
Why do you think some people experience burning sensation in the throat/stomach and/or pain (headache?), but others do not? I heard someone propose that it's because SN reacts with stomach acid and that an antacid would help with this, but I'm unsure how true this is.
 
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Why do you think some people experience burning sensation in the throat/stomach and/or pain (headache?), but others do not? I heard someone propose that it's because SN reacts with stomach acid and that an antacid would help with this, but I'm unsure how true this is.
Unfortunately, we can only guess about it, but this thesis of yours regarding stomach acid seems quite rational and certain to me. In general, people react differently to medications, food and even poisons, it is extremely individual and represents a complex set of numerous factors (body condition, age, body weight, health, some genetically predisposed factors and so on). However, there are conflicting opinions about antacids, and according to my knowledge, they are sometimes recommended and sometimes excluded from the protocol. There are some theories according to which Antacids generally slow down the effects of SN and thus prolong the whole process, while others claim exactly the opposite. I think the latest protocol from 2024 does not recommend the use of Antacids (someone wrote about it here on the forum).
 
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Unfortunately, we can only guess about it, but this thesis of yours regarding stomach acid seems quite rational and certain to me. In general, people react differently to medications, food and even poisons, it is extremely individual and represents a complex set of numerous factors (body condition, age, body weight, health, some genetically predisposed factors and so on). However, there are conflicting opinions about antacids, and according to my knowledge, they are sometimes recommended and sometimes excluded from the protocol. There are some theories according to which Antacids generally slow down the effects of SN and thus prolong the whole process, while others claim exactly the opposite. I think the latest protocol from 2024 does not recommend the use of Antacids (someone wrote about it here on the forum).
The latest protocol does not recommend them, yes, but I don't think we should put much stock in the PPH when there are so many errors and inconsistencies in it. I'll do more research on the physiology of them and SN ig.
 
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Why do you think some people experience burning sensation in the throat/stomach and/or pain (headache?), but others do not? I heard someone propose that it's because SN reacts with stomach acid and that an antacid would help with this, but I'm unsure how true this is.
I would think the burning sensation is caused by the saltiness and maybe some of them had ulceras/irritated esophagus from before.
And the headaches I would think are normal since SN makes you hypotension
The latest protocol does not recommend them, yes, but I don't think we should put much stock in the PPH when there are so many errors and inconsistencies in it. I'll do more research on the physiology of them and SN ig.
What kind of inconsistencies yu have detected? No offense, Im justt really curious
 
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I would think the burning sensation is caused by the saltiness and maybe some of them had ulceras/irritated esophagus from before.
And the headaches I would think are normal since SN makes you hypotension
That might be.

I managed to find this, which provides a list of the symptoms experienced in 95/132 cases, but this may be somewhat confounded by the mixed dataset of accidental and intentional poisoning as well as survivorship bias.
 
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Why do you think some people experience burning sensation in the throat/stomach
I suspect that some samples of NaNO2 may have traces of NaOH among the impurities, since one of the ways to produce NaNO2 implies using NaOH as one of the reagents

2 NaOH + NO2 + NO = 2 NaNO2 + H2O
 
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What kind of inconsistencies yu have detected? No offense, Im justt really curious
I'm just going to address the issues with their SN protocol, because I don't feel like typing out the rest I found.

their advice to use oxazepam right after taking SN, even though the onset time is 30-60 minutes and passing out from SN usually takes a lot less time.
suggesting that >24 hours is needed even though SN has never taken this long.
Lowering SN's peacefulness score from 7 to 6 while stating that 40/40 cases they have witnessed were peaceful.
their suggestion that one could use an amitriptyline-digoxin switch with SN, even though this will substantially increase risk of vomiting.
their 400 mg propanolol megadose that is both unnecessary and may increase nausea
their contradictory advice about using b-blockers, stating that it may speed death and then saying it may slow death and then advising it after stating that its benefit cannot be established
and then things they omitted that i feel they should not have: no inclusion of painkillers, no advice to make a second cup in case of vomiting
I suspect that some samples of NaNO2 may have traces of NaOH among the impurities, since one of the ways to produce NaNO2 implies using NaOH as one of the reagents

2 NaOH + NO2 + NO = 2 NaNO2 + H2O
Thank you for your input. I'll look into this.
 
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I'm just going to address the issues with their SN protocol, because I don't feel like typing out the rest I found.

their advice to use oxazepam right after taking SN, even though the onset time is 30-60 minutes and passing out from SN usually takes a lot less time.
suggesting that >24 hours is needed even though SN has never taken this long.
Lowering SN's peacefulness score from 7 to 6 while stating that 40/40 cases they have witnessed were peaceful.
their suggestion that one could use an amitriptyline-digoxin switch with SN, even though this will substantially increase risk of vomiting.
their 400 mg propanolol megadose that is both unnecessary and may increase nausea
their contradictory advice about using b-blockers, stating that it may speed death and then saying it may slow death and then advising it after stating that its benefit cannot be established
and then things they omitted that i feel they should not have: no inclusion of painkillers, no advice to make a second cup in case of vomiting

Thank you for your input. I'll look into this.
Also meto only is mentioned as an anti emetic. But in the "best" method DDMPAh Meto + Ondensatron is mentioned as an anti emetic.

Also there is a study showing the combination of these 2 medications has better effectiveness against vomiting over 70% compared to only one meds. Also a study states Meto is inferior compared to Ondensatron in preventing vomiting.
The combination looked for me more logically and better, because you have meto that its strength lies in gastric emptying (so speed of SN absorption and faster loss of consciousness) and Ondensatron strength lies in avoiding vomiting.

Offtopic rant: I think PPEH focus is not so much more on SN or N anymore. They want to move away from methods where one needs a medical professional or medication to make the end of one's life reliable or peaceful.
 
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Also meto only is mentioned as an anti emetic. But in the "best" method DDMPAh Meto + Ondensatron is mentioned as an anti emetic.
Yeah, I noticed that as well. Odd that they only advise this for DDMAPh.
Also there is a study showing the combination of these 2 medications has better effectiveness against vomiting over 70% compared to only one meds. Also a study states Meto is inferior compared to Ondensatron in preventing vomiting.
The combination looked for me more logically and better, because you have meto that its strength lies in gastric emptying (so speed of SN absorption and faster loss of consciousness) and Ondensatron strength lies in avoiding vomiting.
I agree. I plan to combine meto and ondansetron for this exact reason.
Offtopic rant: I think PPEH focus is not so much more on SN or N anymore. They want to move away from methods where one needs a medical professional or medication to make the end of one's life reliable or peaceful.
100%. Nitschke and company are focused primarily on the sarco pod, and it shows
 
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100%. Nitschke and company are focused primarily on the sarco pod, and it shows
Yeah, pretty obvious that they are putting all the odds on Sarco, which I find sad because very few people can afford go to a country that have a Sarco or afford to print the 3d model that they want to make public, allegedly.
 
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