What kind of medication/pills can do that?
No I'm not trying to kill myself, I keep hearing about people randomly dying, from sleeping pills...?
So I'm just trying to look out for myself, because I do take medication! And if I look it up online it'll probably bring me to all these suicide links! Help?
Yes. All drugs have a level of toxicity that varies from individual to individual. Overdose is dependent upon numerous factors and doesn't always result in death. It can result in brain damage, nerve damage, organ damage.
Ellipsis is precisely right, an overdose more commonly actually does not result in death. Whether the medication you take was prescribed by a doctor, and you follow the directions of the pescription then you really shouldn't be at any risk of overdose. Whether you are taking more than recommended by the prescription, or more than recommended by the directions on the package of over-the-counter medication, then, for one, you should stop misusing the drugs, and two, discuss with your physician that has access to your medical records and condition to find out whether what you are taking is alright.
Of course you could overdose on any pills without consulting your doctor or following instructions carefully.
You could have told us the medication(s) you take for us to better help you.
Any object can kill you, prescription medication, over-the-counter medication, vitamins/minerals, supplements, and even water kills (water intoxication). Typically the way we determine which drugs are safer, at least in some respects, is by the drugs therapeutic margin, the difference between the optimal effective dose and the dose at which unacceptable adverse effects arise. If a drug has a Narrow therapeutic index it means that the dose required to produce an effect is close to a dose that could cause significant problems. Drugs with wide therapeutic index are effective at a dose that is much lower than a poisonous or lethal dose. For example, since you mentioned sleeping pills, lets compare the two hypnotics- temazepam (a benzodiazepine) and secobarbital (a barbiturate). In an a person in good health, without any tolerance to benzodiazepines or barbiturates, and with a weight of 68 kg (150 lbs) it would likely take at least 165,000 mg of temazepam to be lethal. The normal dose of temazepam prescribed is 7.5 mg to 40 mg/night, in some very infrequent cases up to 90 mg a night have been used. On average people are prescribed 10, 15, 20, or 30 mg/night. So temazepam has a very wide therapeutic index. Now suppose the same person (same weight and health) was prescribed secobarbital, it would almost certainly take no more than 4,000 mg to kill and even 1,000 mg has been know to kill. Secobarbital currently only comes in 100 mg capsules and 100 mg is the normal dose (rarely up to 200 mg per night may be prescribed) and if a doctor were to prescribe 1 capsule per night for a month it would be a complete of 3,000 mg (or 3 grams). If a person took the entire bottle of secobarbital they would very likely die, especially without emergency medical assistance. But a one month supply of temazepam, when taken alone, won't kill. The idea most people have approximately sleeping pills being very dangerous and being the drug of selection for suicide is a holdover from when drugs like secobarbital (brand name Seconal), pentobarbital (brand name Nembutal), and the barbiturate combination secobarbital/amobarbital (brand name Tuinal) were commonly used. These are barbiturates and they are among the most dangerous drugs. Then in 1957 Librium (chlordiazepoxide), the first benzodiazepine followed by Valium (diazepam) in 1963 started to displace barbiturates. Now barbiturates are rarely used and most have been taken off the market because benzodiazepines like temazepam are extremely safe and effective. Even more recently the z drugs zolpidem, zaleplon, and zopiclone/eszopiclone have become the topic picks notwithstanding temazepam and a few other benzodiazepine hypnotics still remain popular.
Whether you have concerns approximately the pills and or dosage you take then you need to talk to your physician. Don't go online and ask these questions to people who know nothing approximately you. Ask Your Doctor, its their job!