Drug overdose is an accidental or intentional use of medicine or drug in an amount higher than what should normally be used or is prescribed by the doctor.
Accidental drug overdose may happen due to misuse of prescription or commonly used medications like pain relievers, cold remedies etc.
Symptoms for each drug overdose differ depending on the drug taken. In this article we will discuss dealing with Tylenol overdose Acetaminophen is the generic name for Tylenol.
This drug is very common, used to pain reliever. Overdose of Tylenol or Acetaminophen can cause liver damage. The symptoms of Tylenol overdose include nausea and vomiting, appetite loss, tiredness, paleness, and sweating.
The second stage of symptoms of Tylenol overdose points towards liver failure and may include abdominal pain and tenderness, swelling in the liver, and some blood tests for liver enzymes.
If the overdose symptoms go unattended beyond second stage, which is not common at all, but if it does then during the last stage, liver failure advances and the patient is likely to become jaundiced. The common symptoms are yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes.
The patient may also experience kidney failure, bleeding disorders, and in extreme circumstances even swelling of the brain. Cases have come to light where teenage children have not felt the need to inform parents and have gone ahead and bought their own medicine from a nearby store and have taken the overdose of Tylenol. These children are hardly aware of what they are doing to themselves and what after all are they getting into.
One child took three times the dose generally prescribed and went to sleep and never regained consciousness. Meaning, Tylenol Overdose in extreme situation can even be fatal. We also need to be aware that Tylenol particularly proves to be toxic when combined with alcohol.
If teens or even adults are mixing the two to reduce pain or are trying to help themselves relax, they may be doing serious, potentially lethal, damage to their bodies. In majority of the cases victims of Tylenol overdose recover without long-term effects, there can be serious consequences.
Tylenol overdose can cause the failure of major organ like the liver, which may sometimes result into failure of whole systems like the respiratory or circulatory systems. In some cases patients who survive drug overdose may require to go through liver transplant, or continued care as a result of heart failure, stroke, or coma.
As discussed earlier overdose can also result in death, especially if treatment does not begin immediately. The best way to deal with Tylenol overdose is by taking the patient to the doctor right away. What you have to realize is that you cannot afford to go for self-medication or home remedy and complicate the situation further.
The doctor knows best what kind of treatment should the patient be given to get out of the situation unscratched. If the patient is feeling breathless or some such situation exists which needs immediate attention and care, the same should be informed to the doctor over the phone and arrangements should be made to either call the doc at home or reach the patient to the hospital. Tylenol overdose need not be taken lightly.
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good thing I rushed to the hospital not that long after i took the overdose. i coulda did some serious pain.
I took 250 500mg tylenol extra strength capsules and I’m still here today…I waited 14 hrs before I went into icu where I almost died…my blood pressure dropped to like 60/90 for 3 days…drs said its amazing I’m still here today and to basically come out the way I did virtually unharmed…still some compications cld arise in the future but that’s something I dealt myself and will have to deal w/….the question ur prob wondering was it worth it? My answer is no! It was horrible never try it…I had to drink detox stuff that might of wrkd cause I waited to long to get my stomach pumped…and I knew that. Eventually my body started rejecting the detox and it had to be put in ivs directly….again never do what I did…I still regret it.
It can also affect you if you are taking a slight bit of an overdose and taking it more than 10 days, but if you stop you might get lucky and the liver will heal itself.
It also depends on your size. A person who is under 100 pounds would be harmed more than a person at 150, 200, or 250 pounds taking 7-10gs. Much like alcohol, the more you weigh can also help you take a higher dose than a thin person.
From personal experience, I have taken 30-650mg (arthritis formula) of Tylenol for a period of 2 weeks. I weigh 260 pounds. Nothing has happened.
I would not recommend anyone try this dose. I have been in a lot of pain and it still doesn’t help.
I am a bit currious, because 5 years ago, I took about 28 500mg extra strength tylenol pm’s, a few paxil, and then some benidryll. after taking them, my ex told me if I wanted an ambulance, I could call one myself, but I couldnt move by that time, I was way to tired… I remember laying on the couch and waking up to him slapping me on my face telling me to wake up.. then I remember waking up in my bed and my entire body was jerking hard and I couldnt stop. He was right next to me, and he just looked at me, while leaning up on his elbow watching me with a blank look on his face. then i remember trying to force myself to throw up, after I somehow mannaged to get to the bathroom by myself by crawling. (his yelling at me to throw up was how he was helping me he said) but it was to late, and I was to tired. I dont remember anything else until I woke up the next day. when I woke up, I started throwing up very hard, and couldnt catch my breath verry often, or easily but I did. he came in, saw what was happening and informed me he had some errands to do, so he left. After I stopped gagging and throwing up, i went to the hospital, where he called them to tell them that I was being dishonest. so they did nothing. and the next day, they let me go. about 48 hours later, emediatly following a basket ball game I played, I could feel that something was bad wrong. It felt like electricity was spiking from the back of my neck, up to the top of my brain in waves, lasting for about 5 minuets until my entire body collapsed. I couldnt move at all, except my eyes, and mouth. I arrived back at the same exact hospital, where I was wheeled in as someone held my neck up. I talked to the admitting nurse for a few, and was taken back in a room where they placed me on a bed. A dr came in, and all he asked me is if my hands and feet were like they were before I came in. I didnt know what he was talking about, but the way I was propped on the bed, I was able to look, and I seen what he ment. He told me that the admittance nurse noticed it, and thats how he knew. Both my hands and feet were curled like a parapalegic. a nother person came in and drew some blood, and I asked her if this was happening because of the overdose, and she said, “probably”
She monitored my pulse for a few, and then after a few more hours I began to be able to move. a few hours more, and I could walk around, but my right side was still curled, and that lasted for a week or two. they told me I could go, and they said that the blood work was fine. the next few nights while trying to sleep, I would be awakened by that same feeling before I collapsed, and the feeling of intense fear, and I would just try verry hard to go back to sleep, untill I was able. The days consisted of rememberring what I drempt the night I overdosed and flashbacks, of the night I overdosed. The recollection of the dreams were verry intense when I recalled them, and I had a hard time finding out if it had actually taken place too that night, or if it was just a dream. I had informed my neighbor that I was going to do it before I did, and I had a flash back, or memmory of a dream of her showing up when I was on the couch unconcious, asking my ex if I was ok. and he said yeah, shes fine.” and the neighbor left. What made it hard to figure out was that when I remembered this, I was not watching it happen laying on the couch, I was standing behind it, as my body layed asleep on the couch. I remembered this the day after I was released from the hospital the second time. When I remembered, I pannicked, right in the middle of the store, because it was that real as if it were happening right then and there. Thoughts spun in my head, and I did tell my neighbor, why wouldnt they come over and check? why did he tell her I was o.k? and even more, why was I standing behind my body?
My friend showed up to get me from the place I left my house from the hospital trip to the first time, and where I was the second trip, She showed up and wanted me to go with her to talk. This friend had advised me to pray about the issues with my ex, and trust God that things would work out. so I tried. When she showed up, and were talking about going for a walk to talk, she looked down at her hands, and there was what looked like blood on them. I seen it too. It scared her as she tried to wipe it off, but she couldnt. We went for a walk and talked for a few. and she couldnt get passed what was on her hands. She wasnt sure what it was, or if it was blood, or where it came from, and why it wouldnt come off. I witnessed this with my own eyes.. and it looked like dried blood.and she said it was. and she said she couldnt figure out where it came from. We went to her house where I stayed the night waking up over and over from the feelings of massive fear, and the electricity feeling.
The next evening I wanted her to take me home, and she didnt want to take me back to be around him, but she did. I got close to the house, and all of a sudden my head tilted to the side, and I was unable to move again. It didnt last verry long, and I didnt associate it with the prior experiences until later. This happened to me about 3 or 4 times in the next few months, and I didnt know why, but every time it happened I was feeling scared and worried when it did. I went upstairs, to find that he was next door with the same neighbor girl, and they were drinking together. He showed up and asked me how I was, and I asked him to leave, for the numerous time. I asked him why he was over there drinking with her, and asked if she had come over the night it happened, and he said no, she didnt. she said later that she didnt. Her husband also said that there were to be no men at the house while he was at work, and thats exactly where he was, at work. She later told me that she had talked to him while I was gone a few times, and he kept leaving saying that he was going to the hospital to visit me. He never did. I learned later that I took 2x the leathal dose that night…
It wasnt over yet. I began to experience over and over, being somewhere or doing something, and I would forget where I was, I didnt know why I was there, my name, and what was going on. and then within a few seconds, I remembered.
Then it got worse I would feel verry dizzy, like I was high or gonna pass out, and recall on one occasion feeling this and realizing I wasnt breathing. I had to tell myself to breath, because my brain wasnt doing it on its own and it lasted about 5 minuets. still to this day, I dont know why that happened. as the high feeling came and went, along with it came my right side being messed up for hours or days. I dont remember anymore what would happenbetween the high and the my arm and foot being messed up again, but I recall friends saying all the time, “Shes got that high look again.” and then waiting for my foot and hand to straighten out, it usually lasted a day or two. The it went from that to them telling me that I got that high look and went to sleep, and my body would twitch on the right side, and then again I would wait for it to not be messed up again. I went to the dr. about my right side, and they said I probably had a low potasium level, what ever that means. And then I began to notice a burnig feeling in my armpit off and on. Then started the tingeling feeling in both hands, on my pinky and ring fingers. It still happens alot, just not the burning in my armpits anymore. Then later came the tingeling feeling in my feet, that has progressed up my leg. the majority of the time it is mainly on the right side. I am used to it now. A couple of freinds drug me into the hospital a few times, and every time, they said I needed a neuoroligist. because everytime I had this high feeling, then going to sleep, then twitching, it was followed by this weakness on my right side, and then the tingeling now too, like its trying to go to sleep. I finally got one. and tests were ran after explaining my symptoms to a seizure person, wondering if thats what was happening. They ran an EEG, and they said the first time that the results came back that epilepsy was more than likely, but they wernt sure. These episodes got worse, and I began to have a hard time breathing when they would happen, I was told. and the shaking grew more intense. I recall a feeling that someone was putting an Ice cube on the top of my head, It was freezing cold feeling off and on for a few days. Then another eppisode happended and all I remember is people walking me to my front door in the winter, where I grabbed the hand rail, and realized, that I knew it should have been cold, It was winter, and it was freezing out, and there was about 6 inches of snow, But I felt nothing. Apparently we were in an outdoor jacuzzi when it happened. and I wasnt cold either when I grabbed the rail. everyone elses lips were blue, and they were shiverring. I felt nothing.
This doesnt happen all the time. and has only happened a few times since. Where I will get that freezing feeling on the top of my head, or cant feel cold. I dont think it registers in my brain sometimes, is what I think. Just like when I had to tell myself to breath. It all comes when it wants to, and the only sort of consistance I have noticed is a very shakey feeling when I wake up. usually without fail, I will fall unconcious, shake, wake up and listen to others tell me what happened later. With it all has been for quite a while in the beginning, every night my lower back on the right side ached deep inside and this went on for a few years, but seems ok now. Now there are the episodes, which have grown worse, and often there is alot of chest pain, with also times of feeling as if I am hardly breathing much. but this all comes and goes. I ended up doing more testing because it seemed as if things were getting worse, the Dr. wouldnt give me the results over the phone, and instead, had me go in. He told me that I had gone threw alot in my life, and that without further testing, they couldnt be sure, and without insurance, I couldnt get further testing. He didnt want to put me on medication for the seizures, without knowing. But that all of it was probably because of trauma, and that my brain just shuts off to deal with it all. He said that It should go away over time, as long as I am not going threw any more huge stresses. Since then, I have only been in the hospital once, after waking up there, because apparently I was found on the floor unconsious in a public building, and they called an ambulance. The contacted my Dr. and let him know, and I was supposed to go see him again, but there was no point in my eyes, because I didnt have medical insurance and I couldnt afford it.
I was a christian at the time that I overdosed, and the reason I did was because of the hurt I was going threw and had gone threw in my life. and I met my friend at church. I tried everything to get my relationship to work, and the hurt to stop, leaving him, staying, having him leave but he would come back, over and over and things just got worse.
I believed in love, and I believed that love wouldnt fail. the day before I overdosed, I was praying, and I was reading my bible about love, because I felt like everything in my life that had ever went wrong, including my relationship was always my fault, because thats what I was told. I came across a scripture that said, “There is no greater love than a man who would lay down his life for his friend.” I thought about it, and thought about it. I wanted this person to know that I did truelly love them, and I wasnt some horrible messed up person, like I was told and treated, and I thought that if I showed him the best way I knew how, that he would finally see I did, and then I would finally desurve to be loved in return, and the pain would stop. I also had my own requests in the relationship, and they were the many prayers that he would be clean and sober, and serve God again. Because I knew that if he lived his life serving God, and I was too, that everything would be ok. Because God would take care of the rest. He didnt want to do that. But I did. I layed on the floor the night I read that and cried myself to sleep. The next night, we fought, and I took the pills, remembering what the scripture said. After I took them, I started to pray, and I asked God to please forgive me for what I was doing, if it was wrong, and to please allow me to give up my life, as long as God saved my ex’s and helped him to be clean and sober, and serve him again. I wasnt worried about the love in return any more, because I figured I was going to hell. I just wanted Him to know I loved him and God to be with him always, and for my children and family to be happy, and that was all.
After that I gave up everything and I went threw hell batteling to get out of it. I told his mother that If me and him didnt go hand in hand together to heaven, then I didnt want to go. She thought what I ment was that I was gonna try to end my life again. But thats not what I ment.
There was a reason Jesus didnt let me die from everything that happened,
but then again, I did. Because the battle out of hell strengthened my belief and trust in God as I was deturmind to make it out. Most of making it out, depended on me holding onto Matthew,
Matthew 4;4 man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word of God.
Matthew 4;19 and then he said to them follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
Matthew 5, 3-12 which is very significant to me revealed in dream, and confirmed.
Matthew 5;19
Matthew 5;43-48
Matthew 6;19-21
Matthew 6;33
Matthew 7;7-12
Matthew 10;22 And you will be hated by all for my names sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 10;26-38
Matthew 10;39 He who finds his life will loose it, and he who looses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10;41 Who ever recieves a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall recieve a prophets reward.
Matthew 11;19 “The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, “look a glutton and a wine Bibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” But wisdom is justified by her children.
Matthew 13;57 “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
Matthew 18;19-20
Matthew 19;26 But Jesus looked at them and said “with man this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.”
Matthew 19;29 And everyone who has left houses, or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake, shall recieve a hundred fold, and inherit eternal life.
Matthew 18;22
Matthew 22;37-40
Matthew 44 “The Lord said to my Lord, “sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool”"
Matthew 23;11-12
Matthew 25;20
Matthew 28;19-20
His mother got ahold of me a while back ago, and told me he was doing great, but he wasnt. I talked to him about getting a divorce, and that I wanted one,, and all he could seem to say about it was that he didnt really think he wanted one, and also despised the paperwork, and that he wanted me to know that he was going to be getting a gun, and that he would shoot anyone who tried to take something of his, something that belonged to him, and something he worked hard for. He said this over and over. as he threw in, “I just want you to know, and Im not dirrecting it specifically at you.” I don’t know what he ment, or why it was such a big deal to him to let me know.. because if he recalled correctly, I gave up everything, and he got most of it. She claimed that she called me because she promised me that she would never keep me from my children that I gave her to follow Christ, because she loved me, and told me long ago that she would always be apart of my life. He claimed the only reason that his mom called me was because my youngest son cried every night for me. and my littlest boy, when I seen him, gave me some of the greatest memmories of a sons love, and a song to me called, “Angel” by shaggy that makes me cry and smile everytime someone plays it. My oldest son, cries for me still too, I hear it even though he tries so hard to hide it.
Today it is as it says in the bible,, I am hidden with Christ in God ~ Colossians 3:1-4 I am a citizen of Heaven ~ Philippians 3:20
I am seated with Jesus Christ in the heavenly realm ~ Ephesians 2:6
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me ~ Philippians 4:13
and as of today,
I have been justified ~ Romans 5:1
As I said in the beginning, I am a bit currious, If God isnt real, then can you explaine this all,
and why that it is that finnally today this man is clean and sober and serving God according to his mother? If it is true, then It has nothing to do with anything I have done, but what God did, has done, still does for those HE loves, and those who believe in love. For he is love, and like I read that same day and a million times since, love never fails!
God says delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart, well he did. and his name is Jesus, and the other’s named Matthew.
I just took 3 tylenol and im 13 i weigh 105 lbs i feel sick. what now?
Heyy if i were I’d just chill… whatever happens, happens… I just took hmmm 4 of the 500g tylenol, one at 11:00, one at 3:00 and one at 7:27… but yet I still fell kinda okayy with slight headache wich is fading…
uhhh, i took 25,, i mean i got all the first symtoms,, but i just took those like yesterday,,, hmmm,,
so is 10 pills of extra strenght and overdose? Im Just wondering…
extra strength is 500mg, so 10 is 5000mg. it is especially dangerous to take over 4000mg in 24 hours, and i believe the lethal dose is considered to be 7000mg.
in spite of all these numbers, everybody’s body is different. read the comments above – some people managed to take above and beyond what’s considered lethal and live, but acetaminophen overdose is still the leading cause of death from acute liver failure.
if you or whoever has overdosed has any symptoms of a serious reaction, get to an emergency room asap. even if you only feel queasy, it’s better to be safe than sorry. don’t wait, either – the longer you wait to get treatment, the harder it is to recover.
No according to a website I saw it says you have to take 26 pills at 500mg-13,000mg total to overdose and that is for a man weighing 200lbs so it would be less for a woman.
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OMFG! i took 4 every one hour.. Liver hurts..
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I was really upset one day with my mom and I took 14pills of strength 500mg I was about to take the rest when the love of my life came and took it away that there is love and hope n not to gove up cause without me he can’t be him and it actually gave me hope I felt extremly sick and ended up throwing up the next day and stomach hurting after a few days no symptoms but now my head been hurting i don’t know if I’m stressing it and over thinking it that my brain might be swelling up I don’t know can someone plz tell me the headaches started almost a week ago ………regret with my whole heart I Hurt the people Ilove I wish I never did I was stupid I don’t know what I was thinking ifni never did that I wouldn’t even be worrying bot this if your even thinking bout it don’t your awesome your beautiful don’t make the same mistake I did …
If two or three max 500mg tylenol pill does not get rid of your pain in an hour, and it lingers for more than a day or two, then you need to see a doctor, or take a different medicine.
If you take more than the amount shown in the instructions, you open yourself up for liver failure or other problems. Even if you’ve taken more the recommended amount in the past, and everything seemed fine, you still may have done liver damage, and continued overuse may eventually cause liver failure.
You also have to be careful about taking tylenol (or acetaminophen) with other cold medications. Often cold medications have Tylenol, also listed as acetaminophen, in there active ingredients, so if your cold medicine has 500 mg of acetaminophen, and you take two 500 mg tablets of tylenol, then you’ve gone over the recommened amount.
Just read the lables and follow the directions.
im just wondering because i took 35 tylenol extra strong (500mg) im just wondering how much do i need to actually kill myself cuz the last guy took 250 and he said that he didn’t die….so how much more do u need to die…..pls reply fast cuz i really wanna die.
u can reply here or send me a msg to my e-mail (solarpoint_30@hotmail.com)
you’re an idiot for “wanting to die” especially writing this on the internet. God doesn’t want you to create your own death, life is beautiful, and we all go through extreme hardships.. trust me.. i know.. Hopefully you’re still around in time to give yourself a good smack on the noggin!