Brittany Murphy - Frantic Rescue Effort (Long List of Meds Found in Home)

TMZ.com ^ | 12/22/09 | TMZ Staff

[cyborg]

HIPPA popcorn moment

[Karma Police]

yeah, but do you keep all your old pills that you don’t take anymore on your nightstand next to your bed?

[Perdogg]

Can you belive 2 future govs are in that movie?

[Amberdawn]

Yeah, after 7 days of abdominal pain and shortness of breath, methinks I’d get my butt to a doctor. Sad, RIP.

[Tainan]

Yes, I'll add my agreement to both of your posts.
I'm as anti-pill/medicine person as you're going to find and still I take 3 different meds for high BP. Plus I know I have some pain meds laying around somewhere that the dentist has given me on several occasions.
I think this is more 'sensationalism journalism' than any actual damming evidence....so far.

I think the money quote in this might be that she "purged the contents of her stomach" prior to the arrival of the EMTs.
She might well have been self-medicating and lost track. Just have to wait and see.

[GnuHere]

Would be ironic if she died by drowning, inside the house, but I guess we would have already heard that since TMZ knows everything.

The shower maneuver was probably about as effective as doing chest compressions on MJ in the bed, after he’d been dead for hours.

[steve86]

Few common meds change importantly other than to lose potency gradually. Tetracycline and minocycline are exceptions, actually becoming toxic to the kidneys (over 14 degradation compounds found, some benign, some not).

[Hardastarboard]

They starred together again in “Predator”. Until I saw “The Running Man” again I didn’t realize that they had been in another movie together.

[familyop]

Well, the truth comes out. She’d been really messed up for a long time before and in the usual ways. There were also the usual flood of automatic accusations, based on feelings, against the husband. Where are the manhaters now?

[familyop]

Oops...was also the usual flood...

[familyop]

"Any physical abnormality (shortness of breath and severe abdominal pains) of more than a few days is worthy of a trip to the hospital or at least her physician. I don’t get it."

The known meds and events may imply the way to a possible answer.

[familyop]

Overdosed addicts are sometimes put into cold showers in attempts to revive them. Friends tend to be afraid of calling ambulances very promptly because of circumstances. ...not saying that’s the case under the topic at hand, though.

[Ditter]

My husbands list of meds is longer than hers but he is diabetic, heart by pass 2 years ago, high cholesterol and low thyroid with several meds for some of those ailments. Of course he is 74 years old and when he was 32 he didn't take anything.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Can you belive 2 future govs are in that movie?

Huh? Who? Ahnold and Ventura?

[Perdogg]

Yes a lot of people forget that

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Is your username derived from what Murdoch told Hutchins in “TITANIC” right before the ship hit the iceberg?

[Hardastarboard]

LOL! No, but it’s a clever comment. The name just came to me one day. I’ve actually thought about registering over on DU as “Hardaport” and claiming to be a former Navy man who stole the idea for the name from some @$$hole on FR, but I can barely stand to go over there and read their bizarro stuff, much less be a poster there.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I agree about DU. I’ve got enough mental health issues of my own with this health care legislation disaster to worry about what they’re doing over there.

“TITANIC” is my son’s favorite movie. We know most of the dialogue from right before the ship hits the iceberg.

[muawiyah]

That's what I thought ~ they were doing something they'd found to work in the past.

In the meantime the use of Carbamazepine to treat Type II is kind of strange. It's used with a different sort of diabetes ~ and treats symptoms not typical of diabetes mellitus.

We can work backward from that fact and come to an understanding of what her heart and cardiovascular medications were about ~ and no doubt there's a pharmacologist somewhere doing exactly that.

Seems to me she was suffering from conditions that'd been deteriorating ~ and probably with lots of dosage changes, different mixes of drugs, and so forth.