Help Insulin overdose?

[Ameya]

I am not quite familiar with the insulin method and I can't find many resources for it either. I might be able to access insulin tho. What are the dangers and how effective is it? How much do I need?

 

[Jrmull1993]

@Ameya

The mean lethal dose of Insulin has many factors. Are you diabetic and do you know what type of Insulin you have access to?

The four most common types of insulin prescribed are:

• rapid-acting insulin
• short-acting insulin
• intermediate-acting insulin
• mixed insulin
• long-acting insulin.

Most documented successful Insulin overdoses by a non-diabetic were augmented with Beta Blockers.

 

[Ameya]

@Ameya

The mean lethal dose of Insulin has many factors. Are you diabetic and do you know what type of Insulin you have access to?

The four most common types of insulin prescribed are:

• rapid-acting insulin
• short-acting insulin
• intermediate-acting insulin
• mixed insulin
• long-acting insulin.

Most documented successful Insulin overdoses by a non-diabetic were augmented with Beta Blockers.

It would be insulin used to treat diabetes.

 

[Jrmull1993]

It would be insulin used to treat diabetes.

Yup, that is the purpose of insulin.

 

[Ameya]

Yup, that is the purpose of insulin.

Aah well like I said I am not quite familiar with it haha

 

[rainwillneverstop]

One of the risks is anoxic brain injury, scary stuff. An insulin overdose seems like one of the worse ways to catch a bus, if one was going to.
If you want to see the consequences, give "Louis Theroux - A different brain," a part from being an interesting documentary about the brain, one of the cases is an insulin OD attempt gone wrong (I don't know why it went wrong.)

Also it's difficult to get stats about this, because;
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2009; 11(5): 258–262.
doi: 10.4088/PCC.09r00802
"Large numbers of patients with diabetes present to emergency departments each year with hypoglycemic episodes of "unknown" etiology; it is likely that a significant proportion of these represent intentional overdoses. However, published data on this topic are rare, and they consist mostly of case reports or small case series. The difficulty in estimating the incidence of suicide attempts via intentional insulin overdose stems from the relatively narrow therapeutic index of insulin (ie, a very small therapeutic dose range above or below which could cause significant toxicity or lack of efficacy) and from patients who conceal the intent of their actions."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781038/

 

[Ameya]

@Ameya

The mean lethal dose of Insulin has many factors. Are you diabetic and do you know what type of Insulin you have access to?

The four most common types of insulin prescribed are:

• rapid-acting insulin
• short-acting insulin
• intermediate-acting insulin
• mixed insulin
• long-acting insulin.

Most documented successful Insulin overdoses by a non-diabetic were augmented with Beta Blockers.

with each factor I am not sure which type of insulin it is (I would need to look). For the factors it looks kind of more hard for me, bc I have no chronic illnesses and my body is good at resisting overdosing (ugh I had to learn that by my own experience).Considering that I am young. Only amplifying my resistance

One of the risks is anoxic brain injury, scary stuff. An insulin overdose seems like one of the worse ways to catch a bus, if one was going to.
If you want to see the consequences, give "Louis Theroux - A different brain," a part from being an interesting documentary about the brain, one of the cases is an insulin OD attempt gone wrong (I don't know why it went wrong.)

Also it's difficult to get stats about this, because;
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2009; 11(5): 258–262.
doi: 10.4088/PCC.09r00802
"Large numbers of patients with diabetes present to emergency departments each year with hypoglycemic episodes of "unknown" etiology; it is likely that a significant proportion of these represent intentional overdoses. However, published data on this topic are rare, and they consist mostly of case reports or small case series. The difficulty in estimating the incidence of suicide attempts via intentional insulin overdose stems from the relatively narrow therapeutic index of insulin (ie, a very small therapeutic dose range above or below which could cause significant toxicity or lack of efficacy) and from patients who conceal the intent of their actions."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781038/

I will have a look into this. Thank you for the resource