Chantal
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- Oct 5, 2019
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On January 10th this year, I took more than 150 propranolol 40mg tablets (6g). In order to potentiate the effect of the drug (and to avoid waking up for any reason), I also took 60 pills of Clonazepam 2mg + 30 pills of dimenhydrinate 100mg (very common antiemetic here in Brazil). I woke up about 17 hours later unable to move my legs. Desperate, I called my dad, who took me to the hospital. I spent one night there and the next morning I was discharged. According to the doctor on duty, my difficulty in walking was just a "thing of my head." When I tried to walk, I fell on the aforementioned doctor and had to get out in a wheelchair. It would be comical if it were not tragic.
At home, my mother decided to take me to a trusted angiologist to investigate what had happened and what could be done in front of that condition. I was already swollen, with pain in my hips and legs and still having difficulty standing. He immediately asked for my hospitalization and I spent two weeks receiving treatment and taking tests. In the end, little has been found, much less understood. Some doctors thought I was lying. How did I not die after taking such a madly high dose of propranolol?
No thrombosis, no noticeable heart problems. What remained was a venous insufficiency and a pain in the left hip that almost disappeared. The circulation problem is getting milder and weaker.
Liver enzymes are back to normal and kidney functions are fine.
What do you believe may have happened? What could I have done wrong not to be dead or in a worse situation?
I will really appreciate your attention in helping me understand this failed incident.
EDIT: I didn't vomit and didn't perform activated charcoal gastric lavage (at first I omitted from doctors the fact that I had overdosed on medicines 'cause I didn't want to be saved).
At home, my mother decided to take me to a trusted angiologist to investigate what had happened and what could be done in front of that condition. I was already swollen, with pain in my hips and legs and still having difficulty standing. He immediately asked for my hospitalization and I spent two weeks receiving treatment and taking tests. In the end, little has been found, much less understood. Some doctors thought I was lying. How did I not die after taking such a madly high dose of propranolol?
No thrombosis, no noticeable heart problems. What remained was a venous insufficiency and a pain in the left hip that almost disappeared. The circulation problem is getting milder and weaker.
Liver enzymes are back to normal and kidney functions are fine.
What do you believe may have happened? What could I have done wrong not to be dead or in a worse situation?
I will really appreciate your attention in helping me understand this failed incident.
EDIT: I didn't vomit and didn't perform activated charcoal gastric lavage (at first I omitted from doctors the fact that I had overdosed on medicines 'cause I didn't want to be saved).
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