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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.
Hi and welcome, this is an old post. i too have a deviated septum, but it sounds like your damage may be worse. They can fix it somehow, im not sure exactly, some type of plate i have heard. How long have u been clean? if you want, you can go to top and go to "post question", there is a lot of great support here. good luck
I used and sold cocaine from the time I was 16 until I was 20. During this time I snorted everyday, like the other guy sometime it was fun just to be doing it at home by my self listening to music or if I was around a lot of people I just did it. I had such a love for the drug that I coulnd't turn away from it knowing that it was messing my nose up, but I never knew it would to this extent. During that 4 year period I did at least 1 bump a day. I would find away to get coc in my system, but most days it was a gram or more. Alot of times I would do an 8 ball a day, with the help of a couple friends we done a half ounce in one night. When I turned 21 I didn't sell it anymore from fear of getting set up, but I still done it like hell for a minute, I was buying 7 grams on the weekend and doing it mostly in one night. So eventually I quit all together and started getting my life straight, but for me now its hard to cope with others because my nose is deterierated on the inside. It affects my breathing, my facial expressions, my smile and the way I talk. So I'm in school and everything hoping that when I get out I can get a nose job. I've already went to a bone specialist about my nose because I've also been in fights and got it broke, so its damaged in more ways than one. The doctor kinda acted like a ***** and said the damage isn't done from someone hitting you, when in actuallity my bone is messed up from getting hit and my septum is deviated. He let me know I had a deviated septum and gave me some ******** spay, all those sprays do is make me sneaze, the best solution until I get a job to stop the pain is vicks to make it run right and neosporin to make it less painful, and sometimes I'll take a pain pill not because I like the feeling of them just because of my nose. Its harsh to live like this knowing I always loved my self now I think about things that drugs have done to me and I can't get those things back it's really depressing until the point when you consider suicide. Drugs have made think about suicide more than you could ever imagine, its really a wonder I've never done it, I guess i'm just a suvivor because even through all the ******** I'm gonna try to keep going and find ways to beat the problems, if I can beat the problem and keep living good then I've won and not the drugs. My solution to people on coke or thinking about it, your life will be so much better not ******* with it, it will drag u down so fast, so that's my message do what u want to with, if your smart then you should take the advice from a person who knows the affects me.
hi and welcome. i too have nose damage, from a heavy 5 year habbit, but it has healed quite a bit since i quit. although the hole never heals, the tissue should. im so happy to hear that you have been clean a year now. i just wanted to let you know if you have a question or would like to post anything go to top of this page and you will see "post a question". this is an older thread and sometimes gets overlooked. ty for sharing your comment, i can relate
So....I used coke very heavily over a 2 year period. It got to where I'd do an 8 ball 3-4 times a week. On average I'd get 5-10 hours per week. For some reason, during this period, I got to where I thought this was normal.
I had a great job. Then I stopped going. My employer tried to work with me because I told them I was clinicallly depressed. I'd performed well enough before I started using coke, that they tried to work with me.
Finally, I just stopped caring about my job, my life, or my friendships. Here is the result from that two year period:
1. My septum (the bone part) is still there, but there is no tissue around it. I've been off coke for a year now, and it's
way beyond coming back.
2. I still have large deposits of mucus, that never came out. It's just stuck there. And when I try to go to sleep at
night, I can feel it moving around and it makes pretty loud noises in my sinus.
3. I had a 700 credit score, now it's 580. I basically used 6 credit cards to support an $800 per week habit, with no
possible way of paying it back.
4. I moved from Ga. to Pa. during my prime usage for a job, I bought 10 8 balls from my guy, basically they were
gone in the 1st week.
5. When I was doing coke, I'd basically alienate myself from doing anything social. I became very estranged from my
friends, during this time. At the time, I'd rather be by myself doing lines, than socially interacting with people.
I sound like I'm the anti-coke poster boy. I'm not. If it were in front of me right now, I'd do tons of it and miss work tomorrow.
It comes to a point where you just have to tell yourself not to put yourself in that situation. I'm 33. I feel like a survivor of something. Coke makes you feel good, yes. But how do you feel when the coke is all gone? How do you feel when you wake up after not sleeping for 2 days? It's just plain not freaking worth it.
Anyway, I started looking at this site hoping that there was good news about my septum. There isn't any good news.
If your using just stop. Can't stress this enough. It will ruin you.
I had a great job. Then I stopped going. My employer tried to work with me because I told them I was clinicallly depressed. I'd performed well enough before I started using coke, that they tried to work with me.
Finally, I just stopped caring about my job, my life, or my friendships. Here is the result from that two year period:
1. My septum (the bone part) is still there, but there is no tissue around it. I've been off coke for a year now, and it's
way beyond coming back.
2. I still have large deposits of mucus, that never came out. It's just stuck there. And when I try to go to sleep at
night, I can feel it moving around and it makes pretty loud noises in my sinus.
3. I had a 700 credit score, now it's 580. I basically used 6 credit cards to support an $800 per week habit, with no
possible way of paying it back.
4. I moved from Ga. to Pa. during my prime usage for a job, I bought 10 8 balls from my guy, basically they were
gone in the 1st week.
5. When I was doing coke, I'd basically alienate myself from doing anything social. I became very estranged from my
friends, during this time. At the time, I'd rather be by myself doing lines, than socially interacting with people.
I sound like I'm the anti-coke poster boy. I'm not. If it were in front of me right now, I'd do tons of it and miss work tomorrow.
It comes to a point where you just have to tell yourself not to put yourself in that situation. I'm 33. I feel like a survivor of something. Coke makes you feel good, yes. But how do you feel when the coke is all gone? How do you feel when you wake up after not sleeping for 2 days? It's just plain not freaking worth it.
Anyway, I started looking at this site hoping that there was good news about my septum. There isn't any good news.
If your using just stop. Can't stress this enough. It will ruin you.
Wow, you're only 16, and doing coke. Gee, times have changed. I feel so old and I'm only 29. So kids are no longer smoking pot behind the shelter sheds, they're doing coke?
It really isn't worth it. My best friend (she's like a sister to me, since we were 12 yo) is currently in jail serving 2.5 years for importing coke. She and I dabbled a lot, but only really did coke in social settings (say every couple of months). The 8 ball thing, that sounds like a lot - do you do this in one night??
Anyway, as soon as my BF got done, I stopped (all drugs). After reading all about the nose issues and further problems, it reitertates the fact that white stuff just isn't worth it. At least we know that alcohol doesn't kill you or stuff up your nose. As long as you don't drink to the point of needing your stomach pumped, you can have a pretty fun night out. Talk to your friends, and make the right choice - if you have to get "high" or happy, just get drunk!
Good luck, and don't succumb to pressure - you should share the nose info with your friends and tell them they'd be dickheads to let their face get f*d up over a good time.
Reformeddabbler
It really isn't worth it. My best friend (she's like a sister to me, since we were 12 yo) is currently in jail serving 2.5 years for importing coke. She and I dabbled a lot, but only really did coke in social settings (say every couple of months). The 8 ball thing, that sounds like a lot - do you do this in one night??
Anyway, as soon as my BF got done, I stopped (all drugs). After reading all about the nose issues and further problems, it reitertates the fact that white stuff just isn't worth it. At least we know that alcohol doesn't kill you or stuff up your nose. As long as you don't drink to the point of needing your stomach pumped, you can have a pretty fun night out. Talk to your friends, and make the right choice - if you have to get "high" or happy, just get drunk!
Good luck, and don't succumb to pressure - you should share the nose info with your friends and tell them they'd be dickheads to let their face get f*d up over a good time.
Reformeddabbler
This is a really old post....you will get more responses and help if you will click back to forum and then post a new question....save time by cutting and pasting your question. Welcome to the forum...lots of support and info here! I don't know much about coke...but I do know you should stop now while you are young!
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