Posted on 12/22/2009 12:31:58 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
Brittany Murphy's husband and mother made a frantic attempt to revive her before paramedics arrived ... this according to notes written by an investigator from the L.A. County Coroner's office. And, there were a shocking number of strong prescription meds on Brittany's nightstand.
TMZ has reviewed the documents, written by Investigator Blacklock. According to his notes, Brittany Murphy "had been complaining of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain" for 7 to 10 days prior to her death. According to the notes, Murphy went into the bathroom at around 7:30 AM Sunday and shut the door.
A half hour later Brittany's mother, Sharon Murphy, went to check on her daughter, opened the bathroom door and "discovered the decedent lying on the floor unresponsive." According to the notes, Sharon yelled for help. Brittany's husband, Simon Monjack, who was in bed, heard the screams and ran to the bathroom.
According to the notes, Sharon called 911 and Simon "attempted to revive the decedent by placing her in the shower and running the water."
The notes continue -- "The decedent remained unresponsive and purged her stomach contents prior to the arrival of the paramedics."
Paramedics moved Brittany from the bathroom to the master bedroom, where they found a slew of prescription drugs -- "A check of the nightstands revealed large amounts of prescription medication in the decedent's name. Also noted were numerous empty prescription medication bottles in the decedent's husband's name, the decedent's mother's name and unidentified third party names."
According to the notes, the medications included Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (depression med), Klonopin (anxiety med), Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med), Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever), Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (antibiotic), Hydrocodone (pain med) and miscellaneous vitamins.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
HIPPA popcorn moment
yeah, but do you keep all your old pills that you don’t take anymore on your nightstand next to your bed?
Can you belive 2 future govs are in that movie?
Yeah, after 7 days of abdominal pain and shortness of breath, methinks I’d get my butt to a doctor. Sad, RIP.
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.
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).
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.
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?
Oops...was also the usual flood...
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.
Huh? Who? Ahnold and Ventura?
Yes a lot of people forget that
Is your username derived from what Murdoch told Hutchins in “TITANIC” right before the ship hit the iceberg?
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.
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.
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.
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