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City: Chester
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: I went out with six girlfriends in March 2003. It was close to midnight and we were all a bit drunk. My friend met a lad she knew from Leeds where she was in Uni. We got talking, all of us, and about an hour passed. I was feeling quite drunk at the next round so opted for a mineral water and then went to the toilet. When I got back, my drink was waiting for me, so were my friends, so I just got back into the 'swing of things'.

I was really thirsty due to the heat, amount I had drank and how long I had waited for a drink, so I picked up my water and took a big gulp of it. When pulling it away from my lips, I realised it had a foul taste to it, like sea water, like salt. But I said nothing (not being upon rugs, I didn't really think anything of it) and just left the rest of it, put it down to a dodgy bottle of water. So we left this bar and I remember, all of a sudden, going from being drunk, to absolutely incoherent, just like that , in the space of a couple of minutes. Then, I don't really remember much more of it. What happened after that was that I tried walking off with people who I didn't even know, which was totally out of character for me, I walked away form my friends and down an alley. Luckily, although they were drunk, one of my friends knew this was not usual behaviour for me and followed me and saw me fall flat on my face. My friends tried to wake me, but I wasn't responding, I started having, what they have described as a fit, shaking, my eyes were open but I just wasn't with it. They called an ambulance. When it arrived the paramedics were really concerned, they said my heart was beating about 6 times a minute, they cut through my top and bra to massage my chest, they said my pupils were tiny and I wasn't responding to the light being shone in them , which was a bad sign. They took me to hospital and my husband and mum turned up, and they told them I had a 50/50 chance of pulling through.

I was in intensive care, on a ventilator, I must have looked so bad for my family to see. Anyway, I pulled through, just, but I was so depressed afterwards, it really affected me, how close I came to dying, just from a night out. One of the policemen said to me I was lucky, at least I hadn't been raped, but to me, nearly losing my husband, family, my life, was not lucky. I only went on a night out with my friends, I can't believe people would even consider taking this drug recreationally, and I can't believe it has taken so many deaths and so much campaigning, to even get it classified to C (that is what it is in UK). I musty warn anyone thinking of trying this drug, not to, your life is worth so much more.

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