I recently lost a son to a drug overdose and resultant anoxic brain injury. I'm finding it both painful but also enlightening to learn through this video that rescue breathing could have saved his life. Unfortunately for my boy he overdosed in a place where he either wasn't found by anyone or those who found him didn't care or just didn't know what to do. By the time paramedics had arrived and administered Narcan his brain had been w/o oxygen for too long. He died in the hospital just days later. Since he had previously overdosed several times before, this video helped me understand why he likely couldn't stop relapsing even though it seemed he had turned a corner before through rehab and incarceration. Thank you for producing this information and for the kind hearted people who are working on the front lines with addicts. Their lives matter and you are making a difference.
More people working in Addictions Counseling need to educated on this - because we aren't. And these brain injuries are affecting a significant portion of our patients in long term treatment and/or medication management, we cannot help the person if we don't understand the brain that we are working with
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In cases of severe brain injury is it really smart to reanimate the patient,both in terms of cost to society and the family but most importantly the patient who must live life in such a reduced state.
My brother has also experienced global hypoxic brain injuury.... Its been a month now Only he can open his eyes but limited look around movement.. He can move his lips a little.. And he also yawns Its been a week he is breathing on his own initially was put on a ventilator I want to know about his future
At that point of a month like that is what my son did. He was in the hospital for 2 months and doesn’t remember. Couldn’t life foot or arms. Feeding tube for 7 months. He’s still in a wheelchair but can lift his legs and move his arms. His brain is back and can think. Speech is hard to understand some words and will spell it out. He’s in therapy of pT, OT and speech. He’s a happy funny 27 year old.
It's sad because it's kinda like suicide, you'd better know what you're doing, because if you don't die, it's even a bigger catastrophe for the whole family
@@Cheese44456 what are your symptoms? It’s hard for me to tell bc I have inner ear dizziness already and for over a week I have have had cognitive issues like rereading the same sentence over again, foggy brain, feeling disconnected almost, weakness, restlessness etc..I’m so scared. But since I live with 24/7 dizziness I can’t tell how extreme it is. I just know it’s different from my normal dizziness. It hasn’t gotten any better or worse. Can drs even help with these symptoms so late after? Are you feeling better?
Now do a report on the intractable chronic pain patients who have been lumped in with the addicts and now have no pain control and no quality of life. People who previously were able to work, sleep, shower, socialize and have some quality of life, were not just cutoff, but finding a doctor who will treat you is practically impossible!
Yes, you are right and something needs to be done about this issue. Chronic pain is very real and it's bad enough living with it, and then you have to fight just to get some relief. I have had a dramatic drop in pain meds, and quality of life is drastically reduced. I feel like my life is over at 50yrs old. My family has basically fell apart due to my severe depression. I just want to give up.
So true! Nearly 1/3 of my body is titanium. from my right foot, ankle, shin, knee. hip, 14 vertabrae & right jaw. My asshole dr fights me every month for 30 5=325 oxycodone. I hope that dr gets hurt some day (God forgive me), so he can feel the pain I deal with every freakin day
I would rather live with pain than be on opiates again that’s why I quit them all and then tapered from methadone then suboxone. Pain was so exaggerated on opiates ironically.
This has happened to my youngest brother! Last year, he overdosed on heroin, and now, he's got an anoxic brain injury, and he can't walk, see, and his short-term memory is gone.
@@SmilingBlackKitten-lj5ku the best advice I can give is for you to be patient. If he repeats himself a lot, just remind him of what he said, if he forgets what he asked a couple of minutes later, same thing applies.
I find this video interesting, not only to help with my own understanding of those addicted to drugs, where I try to stay close to lines of patience and understanding without being too judgmental with those suffering from substance abuse, my low level of tolerance and lack of patience mostly resides with those who hold themselves out as professionals who are clearly lacking in knowledge and empathy for others. It is difficult to watch your own children suffer from substance abuse. It is hard accepting where this country stands, in recognizing that there is no real help out there, people in communities idlely standby and allow things to transpire, manifest into situations that involve death. I strongly believe if the government reversed their robe and gave more finding to communities with proven track records shown in low occurrences in various forms of death and related crimes instead of funding based on increased numbering, positive changes who occur rapidly. The government funding model is all wrong.
I'm in the state of my life where I can't tell if I'm having trouble because of a possible brain damage from companies lying about their products, or if life is just THAT stressful and I'm reaching my limit in a way that I can't control. I keep thinking a pure oxygen (medical grade) breathing treatment can help teach my brain to accept more oxygen and therefore think better. When you smoke, yoy may be teaching your brain bad habits like "hey you don't need this much oxygen" when you do. So an oxygen treatment sounds like therapy for the brain where you tell it "Hey. You DO need oxygen.".
I’ll be completing my advance directive that will include ending my life, there’s no way that I want to live tied to a machine nothing but a burden. 0 quality of life. #sorrynotsorry 🤞 best of luck to these families
Woah! That's heavy!! Life hurts , I hurt for you , I want you to live , I wish I could give you a second chance, I'm so sorry, you deserve better, draw near to Jesus please your not a burden your a blessing
Woah! That's heavy!! Life hurts , I hurt for you , I want you to live , I wish I could give you a second chance, I'm so sorry, you deserve better, draw near to Jesus please your not a burden your a blessing
These "experts " are not experts ! It's just "cognitive dissonance." No. No it's called addiction .I understand EMT's are not trained on addiction so they don't know what they're talking about , why don't you ask somebody in recovery how hard it is instead of asking the EMT's who reluctantly respond to every overdose call and and are dismissive. 0 compassion. That lady clearly isn't there to help those who are struggling she's there to get a paycheck.
With upmost respect, Narcan should not even be available for overdose patients. If Narcan was not available, I think the drug use in people would decrease.
I recently lost a son to a drug overdose and resultant anoxic brain injury. I'm finding it both painful but also enlightening to learn through this video that rescue breathing could have saved his life. Unfortunately for my boy he overdosed in a place where he either wasn't found by anyone or those who found him didn't care or just didn't know what to do. By the time paramedics had arrived and administered Narcan his brain had been w/o oxygen for too long. He died in the hospital just days later. Since he had previously overdosed several times before, this video helped me understand why he likely couldn't stop relapsing even though it seemed he had turned a corner before through rehab and incarceration. Thank you for producing this information and for the kind hearted people who are working on the front lines with addicts. Their lives matter and you are making a difference.
I am so immeasurably sorry.
😞💔😞
I am so sorry for your loss. My mom died this year in the hospital, about a day before my birthday, of an anoxic brain injury due to fentanyl.
Heartbreaking. My brother too. Such heartache
More people working in Addictions Counseling need to educated on this - because we aren't. And these brain injuries are affecting a significant portion of our patients in long term treatment and/or medication management, we cannot help the person if we don't understand the brain that we are working with
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@@SteakCutFries Agree. Even psyciatric drugs Benzo and SSRI. I went to ER with paradoxial reaction/seratonin syndrome.
In cases of severe brain injury is it really smart to reanimate the patient,both in terms of cost to society and the family but most importantly the patient who must live life in such a reduced state.
My brother has also experienced global hypoxic brain injuury....
Its been a month now
Only he can open his eyes but limited look around movement..
He can move his lips a little..
And he also yawns
Its been a week he is breathing on his own initially was put on a ventilator
I want to know about his future
He probably doesn't have one. I'm sorry...
how is ur brother now??
At that point of a month like that is what my son did. He was in the hospital for 2 months and doesn’t remember. Couldn’t life foot or arms. Feeding tube for 7 months. He’s still in a wheelchair but can lift his legs and move his arms. His brain is back and can think. Speech is hard to understand some words and will spell it out. He’s in therapy of pT, OT and speech. He’s a happy funny 27 year old.
@@1conservativegrl I wish my brother had fate like that atleast...we lost him...
Your son is one of a kind to make it...
They need to start caring what happens after !!! My bro is now suffering a brain injury and may never be the same again ..
It's sad because it's kinda like suicide, you'd better know what you're doing, because if you don't die, it's even a bigger catastrophe for the whole family
what are his symptoms? might have one myself
@erikgreeno6136 how are you now, I have one 2 months in lol
@@Cheese44456 what are your symptoms? It’s hard for me to tell bc I have inner ear dizziness already and for over a week I have have had cognitive issues like rereading the same sentence over again, foggy brain, feeling disconnected almost, weakness, restlessness etc..I’m so scared. But since I live with 24/7 dizziness I can’t tell how extreme it is. I just know it’s different from my normal dizziness. It hasn’t gotten any better or worse. Can drs even help with these symptoms so late after? Are you feeling better?
Now do a report on the intractable chronic pain patients who have been lumped in with the addicts and now have no pain control and no quality of life.
People who previously were able to work, sleep, shower, socialize and have some quality of life, were not just cutoff, but finding a doctor who will treat you is practically impossible!
Yes, you are right and something needs to be done about this issue. Chronic pain is very real and it's bad enough living with it, and then you have to fight just to get some relief. I have had a dramatic drop in pain meds, and quality of life is drastically reduced. I feel like my life is over at 50yrs old. My family has basically fell apart due to my severe depression. I just want to give up.
So true! Nearly 1/3 of my body is titanium. from my right foot, ankle, shin, knee. hip, 14 vertabrae & right jaw. My asshole dr fights me every month for 30 5=325 oxycodone. I hope that dr gets hurt some day (God forgive me), so he can feel the pain I deal with every freakin day
I would rather live with pain than be on opiates again that’s why I quit them all and then tapered from methadone then suboxone. Pain was so exaggerated on opiates ironically.
@@strnglhld so true
This has happened to my youngest brother! Last year, he overdosed on heroin, and now, he's got an anoxic brain injury, and he can't walk, see, and his short-term memory is gone.
@chantelcuddemi7646 what can I do to help my friend? His short term memory is gone.
@@SmilingBlackKitten-lj5ku the best advice I can give is for you to be patient. If he repeats himself a lot, just remind him of what he said, if he forgets what he asked a couple of minutes later, same thing applies.
Oxycontin for a headache that's insane
Thankyou very valuable information for everybody be they user , health professional, support worker or member of the public.
Overdose and brain injury can happen to anybody at any time. Audience wishes those grievously afflicted the very best. Cheers!
Well I'm glad this video to show over doses and if u make it this is what people have to look forward to of brain injuries absolutely so sad
I find this video interesting, not only to help with my own understanding of those addicted to drugs, where I try to stay close to lines of patience and understanding without being too judgmental with those suffering from substance abuse, my low level of tolerance and lack of patience mostly resides with those who hold themselves out as professionals who are clearly lacking in knowledge and empathy for others. It is difficult to watch your own children suffer from substance abuse. It is hard accepting where this country stands, in recognizing that there is no real help out there, people in communities idlely standby and allow things to transpire, manifest into situations that involve death. I strongly believe if the government reversed their robe and gave more finding to communities with proven track records shown in low occurrences in various forms of death and related crimes instead of funding based on increased numbering, positive changes who occur rapidly. The government funding model is all wrong.
good grief this is so horrific i feel like crying.
I'm in the state of my life where I can't tell if I'm having trouble because of a possible brain damage from companies lying about their products, or if life is just THAT stressful and I'm reaching my limit in a way that I can't control.
I keep thinking a pure oxygen (medical grade) breathing treatment can help teach my brain to accept more oxygen and therefore think better.
When you smoke, yoy may be teaching your brain bad habits like "hey you don't need this much oxygen" when you do.
So an oxygen treatment sounds like therapy for the brain where you tell it "Hey. You DO need oxygen.".
IM curious how much brain damage I have after 3 overdoes and being dead pissed myself eyes rolled back lips blue
I have had three overdoses where I was dead and brought back to life I wonder how much damage I have done
How was it being dead did you know you were dead or was it just nothingness?
@@TheYoli182 for me it was nothingness. That's how I always describe it actually
Two lives destroyed
Just wondering who pays for the cost of all this?!
I’ll be completing my advance directive that will include ending my life, there’s no way that I want to live tied to a machine nothing but a burden. 0 quality of life.
#sorrynotsorry
🤞 best of luck to these families
Woah! That's heavy!! Life hurts , I hurt for you , I want you to live , I wish I could give you a second chance, I'm so sorry, you deserve better, draw near to Jesus please your not a burden your a blessing
Woah! That's heavy!! Life hurts , I hurt for you , I want you to live , I wish I could give you a second chance, I'm so sorry, you deserve better, draw near to Jesus please your not a burden your a blessing
LAW ENFORCEMENT, NEEDS 2 STEP UP!! RESEARCH,ON THE DRUGIES= FRIEND=ANOTHER FRIEND=DRUG DEALER??? PLEASE, FIGHT 4 YOUR FAMILY !!!
These "experts " are not experts ! It's just "cognitive dissonance." No. No it's called addiction .I understand EMT's are not trained on addiction so they don't know what they're talking about , why don't you ask somebody in recovery how hard it is instead of asking the EMT's who reluctantly respond to every overdose call and and are dismissive. 0 compassion. That lady clearly isn't there to help those who are struggling she's there to get a paycheck.
Question, where was all this concern when black folk were caught up in The Crack Epidemic?
Black people weren't the only ones doing crack but thanks for the nonseqitur
If you know enough to ask that then you already know.
With upmost respect, Narcan should not even be available for overdose patients. If Narcan was not available, I think the drug use in people would decrease.
Id be dead lol