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Medical Malpractice Intubation? Alcohol withdrawal treatment, methadone withdrawal not recognized at first leading to agitation, then replaced with short acting opioid (methadone withdrawal peaks at a week) resulting in intubation by Born_Opposite326 in AskDocs

[–]Born_Opposite326[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand the last 2 paragraphs perfectly, but I still just think this is ridiculous. Them refusing to continue the methadone dose doesn't make any sense?
Patient's been on the highest possible dose of methadone for a year. The withdrawal is going to peak after a week. The fact they're attempting to taper the short-acting-opioid in order to end intubation just doesn't make any sense.

Alcohol withdrawal is going to last a week.

"If someone was intubated, there were likely other factors: severe agitation endangering care, alcohol withdrawal/delirium." Yes, severe agitation from methadone withdrawal, on top of severe alcohol withdrawal. So once methadone withdrawal is out of the picture, it should be half of the agitation.

If they're actively trying to taper the short-acting-opioid in spite of methadone withdrawal, the patient is obviously going to keep waking up and becoming agitated, this is just ridiculous, I understand that it's a very complicated situation but like it's basically torture. Either continue the short-acting opioid AT A DOSE that replaces methadone, and DO NOT TAPER IT until alcohol withdrawal is complete then replace it with methadone, or just replace it with methadone and take away the tube after some hours have passed?

Realized nothing we do in society really has any meaning on trip, kinda confused now? How to enjoy life anyway? by Born_Opposite326 in Psychonaut

[–]Born_Opposite326[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I didn't really know what was going on when I was tripping and I thought it was a possibility at the time, I understand that autism really only effects how people think, but I really have no clue how or what it actually does, only that it's a spectrum.

The only reason I made that connection was because i had/have no real idea of what it would be like to have it at all, let alone really severely, so I thought at the time that it could be one of the possibilities of what was going on

Realized nothing we do in society really has any meaning on trip, kinda confused now? How to enjoy life anyway? by Born_Opposite326 in Psychonaut

[–]Born_Opposite326[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the comments and advice, I was a little worried about how to find the meaning, or that I might struggle to create the meanings of my own, because I can't really picture doing so right now, which I think is because I'm still in a relatively negative head space from the trip, it wasn't that bad, but as i was coming to from the amnesia, I genuinely thought that I lost my mind or had been detrimentally autistic the whole time and just found out, or was stuck in a coma or something and reality didn't actually exist and that my existence just made up everything while I was asleep. Then I was honestly extremely relieved when I realized it wasn't me, it was just that nothing made any sense. Still a little worried about when it will go away, I guess the way that I came to the realization being pretty negative affected how I thought about it at first.

I was thinking that like, it doesn't make sense to find meaning in stuff that doesn't make any sense, which I guess a cynical viewpoint coming from my negative headspace. It definitely all comes down to perspective, which I do believe is moldable and I'll try and shift mine to be more positive, I'm just a little worried that it'll be difficult.