Autopsy: Cocaine Contributed To Mays' Death

Source: KMGH

TAMPA, Fla. -- An autopsy report says cocaine contributed to the death of TV pitchman Billy Mays.

The 50-year bearded TV personality died of a heart attack in his sleep. His wife found him unresponsive June 28 at their condo in Tampa, Fla

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Why are they digging up Willie Mays after all these years?

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OTOH, know we know were all the kinetic energy came from. :-(

He's alive and well and happier than he's been in years after Obama was elected.

or maybe not. :shrug:

Fame and fortune just has that effect on some people.

if he were on serious downers. :shrug:

He died of heart disease, but the cocaine "helped," is what they say.


http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/entertainment/celebrity_news/090807_Billy_Mays_Cocaine

But wait....there's MORE!!!!


Mays was also taking the prescription painkillers Tramadol and hydrocodone for hip pain.

Hell, a frigging Benadryl knocks me for a loop!

Martians could land in my living room and I wouldn't know it. I grew up in the 70's when being such a "lightweight" carried a huge stigma, so part of me still feels inferior considering a doofus like Billy Mays could've easily put me under the table.

And may he rest in peace.

Six Feet Under, to be precise.

Something to be said for being one of those lightweights, eh?

They could do major surgery on me with an iv of B.

It'd be better to ask how I'd function without them. :)

Over time, your body develops tolerance and those negative side-effects become less of an issue. I take two pills at bedtime that would put a normal person out, but at this point, I'm lucky to get a yawn from them. Unfortunately, tolerance can also diminish the favorable effects of your medication, so you have to titrate the dosage or rotate meds to avoid it. That's for dependents. In the case of addicts, who are after that mental pleasure/relief, their dosage just keeps going up.

As a side-note, I take all of these medications under the close supervision of a pain management specialist. Chronic pain problems. If you don't have that sort of attention, as Mays might not have (celebrities get away with things), then it's a recipe for trouble.

for a couple of months while he opened an office here. He was a big guy and got gout..he called his doctor in Texas for pain relief..and his doctor wired the prescription to a local walgreens here and had his pain pills in no time flat. Not sure what he got but it was an opiate of some kind. Poor people don't get the luxery of pain meds when they are in pain.

And chill out

If it weren't for my parents, who are walking the thin line themselves, I'd be screwed. Believe me, my sympathy is all there when it comes to the poor.

I've been trying to get SSI, but they're fighting me all the way. Two appeals from my attorney denied via form letters, one even admitting that I'm disabled, but "not enough" for them. We're waiting on a date to go to court over it.

doing that. What scares me is when the medicine will no longer kill the pain....................

The good news (sort of) is that pain medicine's big business, especially with pain management growing as a specialty. I'm sure they would have something else to rotate you to, should you develop tolerance. New meds are coming out all the time.

Frankly, I'm surprised they aren't taking more drastic measures for someone in your situation. Cancer patients usually have a much easier time of having their pain complaints taken seriously, comparatively speaking. Has your doctor ever talked to you about a fentanyl patch, or maybe a trial of an intrathecal pain pump?

sick to my stomach. They work well but I end up with my head in the john all day, so that doesn't work.

Right now dealing with constipation is the worst. And I mean worst.

cancer patient, it has spread to my bones. The pain is unbearable at times. I am taking 30 mg. of timed released oxycontin daily, 30 mg. instant release for breakthrough pain. Plus I go to the hospital infusion center and receive a 3 mg shot of dilaudid plus phenergan (25 mg) for my horrible stomach pains, twice to three times a week depending on how I feel.

This would probably kill someone not used to it. The only time I am completely out of pain, the ONLY time, is the few hours after my injections when I can actually breathe without pain and move without pain.

Looking forward to more of this doesn't make me happy. Should I get careless at some point, so what. It's not like there are any options left.

When people are in pain, I guess, if that pain is mental or physical they will try to stop it any way they can.

I have no doubt Michael Jackson was in horrible pain at some point. Cocaine however isn't your usual pain killer - it's a recreational drug.

Do you think that Billy Mays may have had a terminal disease, and that's why he was on all that stuff? They said he was on the oxycodone for hip pain....but like you say, cocaine is a 'play' drug.

I don't think he went to bed intending to never wake up. I think it was just a drug-cocktail/physical health "perfect storm."

I just lost a relative to cancer of the esophagus, lungs, and etc. It swept through him like a house on fire, though--he didn't have time to deal with pain for very long, poor dear. He was diagnosed and gone in two months. Still a shock, how fast it took him. Then, OTOH, I had another relative who lived for years with a not dissimilar diagnosis. Ya just never know.

I wish you a miracle, in any event.

who went in six months. I was talking to her on Sunday and she died on Thursday morning. Didn't have to suffer the indignity of diapers, and worse. I pray every night for God to take me sooner rather than later.

To answer your question, no I started out on two five's at night, and have gone up from that. So yes you do "adjust" and then you need more to kill the pain as the pain increases as well.

Today is my "shot" day and I cannot tell you how happy I am. I look forward to it like a kid looks forward to disneyland. A few hours to be painfree...................

Coca leaves were handy for climbing mountains in Peru. Not really necessary for enjoying life as a famous pitchman.

was shouting about.

RIP Billy Mays.

:)

She lies :nuke:

Lost my job
Lost my house
Lost my car

Cocaine

Fuck your couch.

Which is not so good news; if he had been done in in the arms of his mistress, then even a guy like me would have a chance at some strange.

Nobody can stay as pumped up as these guys can, without some assistance.

Retail is just not that damned exciting.

"Retail is just not that damned exciting"

seems so! This is sad.

Isn't that right Geroge W,

...'cause I'd really like that a lot.

who sells Legal Zoom from the grave....

Disgracefully bad taste. He was a pitchman, not an actor.

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rocktivity

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