Cocaine Heart Palpatations ,like a chemical imbalance , dizzy spells , confusion

[breebreeCris]

I have been having heart palpitations every day for 3 1/2 months and extreme pain and confusion when trying to sleep or relaxed followed by more heart palpitations , after doing cocaine on April the 15th 2012, My chest feels weak all day , i can not do anything physical or my heart will start to palpitate and hurt. And i think i damaged a nerve in my brain that controls our relaxation system and chemicals, its like if im still under the influence of cocaine , but i have seized all drug use, not even a sip of alcohol.Has any one ever experienced this its been 3 1/2 months my doctors say its withdraw but its as if my body didnt metabolize the cocaine or if it was cut with something .My heart is fine whats causing it to beat faster is what ever chemical imbalance i caused myself. please can someone with more experience than mee help mee.

[breebreeCris]

Thnx , Yea ive done alot, my uncle smokes that , i, ve never had any issues , until this one time .. Right when im most experienced , but that also lead mee to do more , i felt it that night pushing a bit too far but i thought my body could handle it , what happened was on good friday my friend came to mee and said i finally got a coke connection , i would always be the one getting it for them , ( my uncles , good friends trust worthy connections ) so , i was like is it any good he said i dnt know i havnt tried it yet so we bought a gram.i was kinda buzzed i had about a 40 oz already i tried his new connections coke just a good key shot , and i dnt know it tasted yellow , it made my head head feel like it was gumming , i was just like whatever kinda felt a bit different , but i just said lets get ****** up.excited so we just started doing lines , idnt know by the end off the day i was too drunk and stoned to notice, next day i woke up bought a 20 off my guy and so on Easter i only did about 2 big lines , well threw out the week i only did about 5 lines until friday april 13th it was about 12 pm i had just woken up and my friend he come knocking on my window , saying lets get fuckd up , i said " of course " he said lets get some coke , i was like alright we had 90$ my connection was at work and didnt get out until 5pm ( gives us more 8 balls for 90$ ) i just said oh well we have to wait until 5 , he said no lets get it now , i just agreed he started to call his new connection we ended up only buying 2 grams we started snorting it was really windy that night we were trying to scare each other , he started to say my nose is clogged i said my nose isnt my nose is completely clear , we only did about a gram that Friday , we just drank alot of alcohol and smoke alot of pot , the next morning Saturday April 14th  it was my birthday , he and his girlfriend had spent the night in my garage we just past out , that morning i just said to my self i guess get wasted its my birthday we had the last gram we started to snort it , i guess they insisted that i keep snorting because it was my birthday , i just said hell yea thnx , we'll just buy more if we run out i was still **** up from the night before but i still drank about 6 40 oz april the 14 and did the rest of the cocaine i did most of it the last thing i remember is my friend complaining that his nose was clogged and we werent letting his girlfriend gett high , i did most of the sack  , then around 3:30 am i woke up everyone was gone and my heart was just beating really really fast , i just thought itll go away in a couple mins im still drunk the normal , but the mins turn into like an hour and still it woulndt go away , an hour turn into 5 hours still my heart was beating fast i just thought what the hell , i was completly calm but my heart was just beating so fast, later that night i went to Dennys with my family and i told them my hearts beating really fast its been like this all day and im fuckn dizzy as ****, they just said your probably hung over , i said i guess then about 11pm that night i startd to see all kinds of black spots and my heart wouldnt slow down i thought **** am i gonna need to wake up my family to take mee to the hospital , i just said i probably need a joint or drink , but i didnt have no alcohol , i just sat there, then a bit later my arms began to cramp a little , then my neck began to cramp a little bit , and i began to get shortness of breath extreme , and was dizzy light headed really bad and the cramping feeling started to get harsher , i was like **** what do i do sit it out or wake my family to take mee to the hospital , i began to seriously black out , i stumbled to my moms room and awoke her and said **** i need to go to the hospital she said why i just said im gonna **** pass out ( my heart was beating extremely fast )

[fattrobb]

Unfortunately, I've been hooked on quite a few drugs in my life.  Never tried meth or heroin, pretty much everything else though.  Cocaine was very tough to quit, even after I ended up in the ER via an overdose.  It was mild but it was still a terrible experience.  I didn't feel quite right for about 4 months and the night after I got out of the hospital, I nearly slipped after having a few beers.  I think it would have been much easier had I given up alcohol, the two went hand in hand with me.  Staying totally clean is the way to go, the only thing that kept me from slipping on coke was remembering how horrible my OD was.

If your cardiologist said you're ok, I'm sure your heart is fine.  Assuming you're young (under 50 where your heart is concerned) any damage that was done will heal, even more quickly if you're 20-30.

I had panic attacks for years after quitting, I still have them on occasion and I believe some of it is related to my cocaine use years ago.  It does get better though, no question.  Hang in there.

[hangetsu]

I had an IV cocaine habit in the 80's and sold everything I owned to support my habit. It took a long time to recover from it, knowing what a mess I'd made of myself but I did recover and have stayed away from it since. I knew more than one person who committed suicide during that time over being strung out.

A friend of mine had a drug induced psychosis while we were using and thought he heard voices of people talking about him, only the voices didn't go away when he came down. He ended up having to go inpatient at a rehab facility and they started him on anti-psychotic medication. He did eventually get better but that's what made me think you experienced something similar. You say that they've ruled out a heart condition and you may be exciting yourself into palpations or having some sort of anxiety attacks.

Stay way from coke so you don't make it any worse. Try to clean yourself up, you're still young and don't want to mess your whole life up. I used for 40 years before I stopped.

[breebreeCris]

Same for mee .. yea my cardiologist said my hearts fine , its just sore from like my brain releasing to much dopamine or adrenaline not sure thats why im asking for help ,ive been sober from cocaine for 3 1/2 months tonight, but its still making mee hallucinated , feel confused , disoriented ,dizzy at night when i dnt take my medication, i dnt know maybe another month ill see how i feel , i feel alot better from when it first happened , but still feel ill, im Just going to relax , not think about it until i sleep , and just have to sit around for another 2 months , and try to keep hearing other peoples advice / experiences who have gone through more or have had a similar situation as mee.

[breebreeCris]

i think i just strained my heart muscles from so much coke .Im Just going to completely rest fro the next month to let them heal , yea i had an EKG , He said everything fine . My heart looks fine its just my brain is still intoxicated
so its making mee feel sick .

[fattrobb]

The most important thing would be to rule out any kind of heart issue, if that's been done, the next step would be to see a psychiatrist.  I smoked crack for about a year about 20 years ago, did some nasty things to my body.  Fortunately, I had an overdose, otherwise I would never have quit.