Overdose/ Self-Poisoning Question - od/tiredness

~invisible~girl~ · 14-04-2008, 01:00 AM

So I took kind of a lot of pills last night. Then I slept for like 12 hours, and now I've only been up for like 3 hours, but I'm still tired. Even though I've taken Ritalin (as prescribed, but it's still a stimulant), I can barely stay awake. I think the only reason I'm still at my computer is that I don't have the energy to put my camera away and walk the two feet to my bed. The stuff I took causes drowsiness, but it's supposed to be taken every 6-8 hours, and considering it's been over 15 hours, shouldn't it be out of my system by now?

Sarika · 14-04-2008, 01:13 AM

I think it's such a shock to your system that you'll be tired even longer. At least that's what I've found...I've slept for 3 days straight and that was from a very small od.

~invisible~girl~ · 14-04-2008, 02:43 AM

I ended up sleeping for an hour and a half after posting that. Which is weird considering I haven't taken a nap since was 18 months old, and it was 5 in the evening when I fell asleep.

I only took like 4x the OTC dose of the stuff last night (or technically 8x, because the OTC dose in the US is half what it is in most places), so I didn't think it would last this long. And why isn't the Ritalin keeping me awake, anyway? It keeps me awake when I haven't slept much, so why can I still go to sleep now?

And how am I supposed to get anything done like this? I'm already three weeks behind on my math homework, I have 50 pages of reading for psych for tomorrow, I have a huge paper (worth 60% of my grade) due in 10 days that I haven't even started, and my taxes are due in two days as well. So I really can't afford to not get anything done tonight.

BTW, the reason I had to put my camera away was that it was on my bed...