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Cocaine Septum Damage

I fell into a 4 month binge with cocaine and I just had an eye opener.  I basically lost control.  Yesterday I felt a little hole on the inside of my nostril against the septum.  It seemed like a layer of skin had deteriorated.  After that heart stopping find, I began to do some research into the connection of cocaine and my find and learned that cocaine can eventually cause serious damage to the septum and nasal cavity.  My question is...Is there a thin layer of skin that covers the cartlidge that is the septum?  I suppose I needed this discovery to open my eyes and I realize what I have done to myself.  Right now I am more scared that what I discovered is permanent and I may need surgery.  It must have appeared recently because I have never noticed it before.  I don't feel that it is a deep hole, but more like a skin had deteriorated and left the cartilidge bare.  This was enough of a scare for me to completely stop my use.  I had not known that this could occur until I did my research. Since I am stopping my use, is there a skin that will grow over the hole or is it bare cartlidge naturally there and I caused damage directly to my septum's cartlidge.  I feel that if a skin will grow back, I will have been lucky and need to use this as an opportunity to straighten my act.  I'm not looking for sympathy or lecture, just some help in understanding what is going to happen.  The thought of all of this is deeply concerning me and I need to know if I can let it heal itself. I know cartlidge does not grow back, but is there a skin that grow back over.  I don't believe that I caused damage to the cartlidge itself.  I keep repeating myself because this is a great concern of mine.  Does anybody know what I am talking about?  Please help.
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Try hyperbaric oxygen.   The extra oxygen to the nose helps healing
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it's incredible how you cokeheads or even other drugs addicts, just dont know how to use coke.

I'll tell you how, do it once in 4 months , if you just stop doing coke, you're obviously gonna do it again, and as you didnt even thought of doing it only less often, u have 2 options in your head: DO IT A LOT, or STOP IT.


The right way is always the midterm.... you can do it once each 4 months, 3 times a year, its ok ... you gonna have a great buzz, and  you dont get those long term effects
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hello i am a 35 year old women i have been snorting for 15 years i have no inside to my nose i can see the hole to my skull when i look in the mirror so please stop or dont ever start i am so scared that i might have a bad infection i dont know what to do so please stop i beg of you guys STOP..
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I found this interesting journal. http://www.entjournal.com/Media/PublicationsArticle/GREENE_08-05.pdf . I know the title is about snorting oxy-contin, but it thoroughly covers cocaine damage to the nose as well. I have the same problem. Snorted regularly for about 10 years the last 3 years of heavy usage were daily.  I am now done. It has been about 3 months and I have no desire to ever touch it again. I just grew out of it. The last three years I have only minimally "partied", but my nose seems to just keep getting worse. It's the left side as well. I turn 30 next month and am enrolled in college. I do get prescribed adderal for my adhd now that I am back in school and every time I take my adderal, my nose gets extremely dry and the sore gets severely inflamed. I do not have a hole, I had a doctor look at in in the E.R. last time I went and he said there is not a hole.  There is this insane mass of cartilage, though, and it just will not go away. Did anybody try the Aloe Vera and oatmeal remedy? I just don't understand how it is possible for a sore to NEVER heal. There has to be some relief.
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I haven't been doing cocaine for a long time but over the last month i noticed i was almost getting high everyday.i notice my nose hurting and turning red but of course kept ignoring it,than i made a path to quit lasted 4 days..then the fifth day did hardly any and i took a flashlight to see what was wrong my nose is red all over and i have a scab that go's farther back and turns yellow i also notice a little hole in the middle ware its eaten away at my nose. am under age and cant go to a Doctor, i wanted to know if this was permanent damage? this has made me feel more like a druggie more than i ever have and has put an end to my addiction! anyone know how bad this is? plz comment
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unfortunately, I will be honest with you. There is no way for it to heal. I have a hole in my nose and I have not used in just over three years, thank you Lord. I have been to all different Doctor's most recently a month ago. They used to have surgery where they could perform surgery on your septum or whole in your nose but they don't do it anymore. I am sorry to break the bad news to you. If you do not believe me, ask and Doctor you goto. They don't have any surgeries for a ruptured septum either. I Thank the Lord that you are alive.God saved us for a reason, find out what that reason is and share your testimony. God bless.
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