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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.
Just because you don't smoke it, doesn't mean it's not an addiction. I was able to be a functioning cokehead ( I also just snorted) for 15 years. Until I got to the point where I didn't want it in my life, and I burned a nice hole in my septum.
FYI, I never had a full on nosebleed either. I had the same thing you did, occasional bloody snot. And I did end up with a hole in my septum. It will happen to you if you don't stop. It's the nature of the drug and what it does to you physically. It will do a lot worse than that too. It messes with your heart, your brain, everything.
Like Gizzy said, it doesn't sound like you want to quit yet. But the day will come that you do, because even though you just snort it and don't smoke it, it will still take your life away from you.
You have to ask yourself, why do you keep going back to it? You obviously miss it when it's not around, and that's a problem.
I hope you decide to take care of yourself and quit. Cocaine is a bloodsucking monster and it will slowly, but surely, bleed you dry.
FYI, I never had a full on nosebleed either. I had the same thing you did, occasional bloody snot. And I did end up with a hole in my septum. It will happen to you if you don't stop. It's the nature of the drug and what it does to you physically. It will do a lot worse than that too. It messes with your heart, your brain, everything.
Like Gizzy said, it doesn't sound like you want to quit yet. But the day will come that you do, because even though you just snort it and don't smoke it, it will still take your life away from you.
You have to ask yourself, why do you keep going back to it? You obviously miss it when it's not around, and that's a problem.
I hope you decide to take care of yourself and quit. Cocaine is a bloodsucking monster and it will slowly, but surely, bleed you dry.
Dude, this is an old post so feel free to start your own if you come back on. I am not sure what to tell you, since it's obvious your not ready to quit, but to answer your question, YES it is dangerous to binge on coke like that. Ive been down that road man and you dont' want this. I told myself too that it was under control, at first it seemed like a miracle drug, but that changes. Your sinus problem is the least of your worries with coke.
This drug will take you down and addiction is progressive. If you actually want help, send me a message or post. Best of luck.
This drug will take you down and addiction is progressive. If you actually want help, send me a message or post. Best of luck.
I think it is probably important to add that I have never allowed myself to smoke cocaine in any way, only snort it. I think that would be really dangerous to my habits but I do not do cocaine solely for the high that smoking would provide and intensify. So all you crack heads out there i bet you wish you never smoked it and stayed strictly sinus, i'm glad i did.
do you think its that dangerous to binge on cocaine for about a week out of 6 months? At first I used coke about once in 6 months for 2 years. Then about 6 months ago I had made some extra money and binged for about 2 weeks, when I started that I was doing about 1/4th a gram a day, which gradually increased to about 3/4ths by the end of those 2 weeks. Then i was off coke for another 5 months, and snorted 2 grams in one night, and put it down for another 6 months, and for the last week I've blown between a half gram and three-halves grams of really good **** i've been getting on the discount, i know i need to take another 6 months off but i really think i can regulate myself to about a gram every 2 or 3 weeks since its probably going to be available I don't know if i can avoid it for another 6 months... well the good thing is i'm going away (not to jail just traveling) for a month so I'm pretty sure i'll be okay.
I won't lie, i love doing coke. But usually I become rather disappointed in myself at the end of these sporadic binges. Some of you binge for 4 months and I have to ask, is it really that easy to lose control? I know I care too much to not let it go overboard and stop after a week binge, but hell, four months? I used to say I would quit cocaine forever if i ever got nosebleeds, and i've blown out bloody snot and don't consider that a full on dripping nosebleed at all or in any way. so I guess i have my ways to justify my own problems... i'm just saying I don't think its that bad if I just binge on coke for a week when you all hit rock bottom and I stay on top of my life. but right now my sinuses are quite swollen and I have finished off what I had left. That's pissing me off because they were swollen before I took my last 4 lines and I would have been much better off going to sleep 3 hours earlier and waking up to a less stuffy nose and a pretty mirror, but then again I probably would have grabbed just one more gram to hold me over until i got to the airport, and make it at least another month without coke.
I won't lie, i love doing coke. But usually I become rather disappointed in myself at the end of these sporadic binges. Some of you binge for 4 months and I have to ask, is it really that easy to lose control? I know I care too much to not let it go overboard and stop after a week binge, but hell, four months? I used to say I would quit cocaine forever if i ever got nosebleeds, and i've blown out bloody snot and don't consider that a full on dripping nosebleed at all or in any way. so I guess i have my ways to justify my own problems... i'm just saying I don't think its that bad if I just binge on coke for a week when you all hit rock bottom and I stay on top of my life. but right now my sinuses are quite swollen and I have finished off what I had left. That's pissing me off because they were swollen before I took my last 4 lines and I would have been much better off going to sleep 3 hours earlier and waking up to a less stuffy nose and a pretty mirror, but then again I probably would have grabbed just one more gram to hold me over until i got to the airport, and make it at least another month without coke.
do you think its that dangerous to binge on cocaine for about a week out of 6 months? At first I used coke about once in 6 months for 2 years. Then about 6 months ago I had made some extra money and binged for about 2 weeks, when I started that I was doing about 1/4th a gram a day, which gradually increased to about 3/4ths by the end of those 2 weeks. Then i was off coke for another 5 months, and snorted 2 grams in one night, and put it down for another 6 months, and for the last week I've blown between a half gram and three-halves grams of really good **** i've been getting on the discount, i know i need to take another 6 months off but i really think i can regulate myself to about a gram every 2 or 3 weeks since its probably going to be available I don't know if i can avoid it for another 6 months... well the good thing is i'm going away (not to jail just traveling) for a month so I'm pretty sure i'll be okay.
I won't lie, i love doing coke. But usually I become rather disappointed in myself at the end of these sporadic binges. Some of you binge for 4 months and I have to ask, is it really that easy to lose control? I know I care too much to not let it go overboard and stop after a week binge, but hell, four months? I used to say I would quit cocaine forever if i ever got nosebleeds, and i've blown out bloody snot and don't consider that a full on dripping nosebleed at all or in any way. so I guess i have my ways to justify my own problems... i'm just saying I don't think its that bad if I just binge on coke for a week when you all hit rock bottom and I stay on top of my life. but right now my sinuses are quite swollen and I have finished off what I had left. That's pissing me off because they were swollen before I took my last 4 lines and I would have been much better off going to sleep 3 hours earlier and waking up to a less stuffy nose and a pretty mirror, but then again I probably would have grabbed just one more gram to hold me over until i got to the airport, and make it at least another month without coke.
I won't lie, i love doing coke. But usually I become rather disappointed in myself at the end of these sporadic binges. Some of you binge for 4 months and I have to ask, is it really that easy to lose control? I know I care too much to not let it go overboard and stop after a week binge, but hell, four months? I used to say I would quit cocaine forever if i ever got nosebleeds, and i've blown out bloody snot and don't consider that a full on dripping nosebleed at all or in any way. so I guess i have my ways to justify my own problems... i'm just saying I don't think its that bad if I just binge on coke for a week when you all hit rock bottom and I stay on top of my life. but right now my sinuses are quite swollen and I have finished off what I had left. That's pissing me off because they were swollen before I took my last 4 lines and I would have been much better off going to sleep 3 hours earlier and waking up to a less stuffy nose and a pretty mirror, but then again I probably would have grabbed just one more gram to hold me over until i got to the airport, and make it at least another month without coke.
Thanks so much for sharing your story and more important for admitting you have a big problem and determining to do something about it. If you will copy what you wrote, click on the "Post Comment" button and paste it in the new box, more people will see it - and they need to see it! :-)
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