Cocaine Septum Damage

[Dirk Diggler]

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.

[TruthHurtsHun]

You people all comment on your cocaine use like your proud of it. whats wrong with you people? roo42 you need help loser real help. You think it was ok and wasn't causing you harm when you were doing drugs simply because you only did high quality drugs? Real smart!! You just paid a little more money than everyone else did to all aid in killing yourselves. Yes cocaine is cut with alot of bad things these days but if your doing coke thats cut or not your still doing the same harms to yourself. And theirs alot of selfish people on here that all can talk of the bad things that they have done to their selves. What about your families? One thing that I've realized is that we did not only do this to ourselves but we did it to our families as well. And just because all the kids you grew up with roo were crackheads who didn't care about themselves or anyone else doesn't mean that all people expiriment with drugs for a short time at some point of their lives. And dirk can you answer one question  for me? How long did your wake up call last for? I've been in your shoes and what you were doing was trying to assure yourself that your hole will close up so that you can keep on sniffing your junk. The only person that your fooling is yourself Dirk!!! IF you were on a COKE binge and you do coke everyday a little hole in your nose isn't gonna keep you from getting your daily fix. IF you really wanted to quit you would be in rehab right now. Dont wait for that hole to get to big like the size of a silver dollar which I heard some other idiot branging about or till your overdose and die cause then you won't be needing that nose too much when your dead!!!!! People you can't quit alone. You need support from family or friends  Good luck to all of you

[snowshield]

ok so this is what you do if you have a hole in your septum but this will only work if it is a small hole take a aloe plant liquid vitamin e and make some oatmeal take the mucus looking part of the oatmeal separate it from the oats take the cotton ball fist dip it in the liquid e then the aloe finally coat the hole cotton ball in the mucus part of the oatmeal put one in each side of the septum push it in with a q tip push it nice and easy as to form a matrix then follow up with some more cotton to keep it pushed in there leave it in as long as possible then repeat until it is healed also eat a lot of jello in 3 to 4 weeks you will have your septum back to normal

[Gwalsh97]

Sorry mate i dont have a complete hole from one side to the other,but it does feel like there is a dent in the middle/back part of my nostril,will this repair on its own?or should i try what you are saying and is it legit or a joke because i found it hard to understand,thanks..

[snowshield]

hi

[jacko973]

whats d story me names jamie from ireland ive been doin coke since i was 14.. im now 19... id say ive done it d odd weekend when i was i4 -i5 but d past 3 years ive been selling coke and doin it most days and every weekend!! sumtimes id do up 2 an once on a weekend with d help of a couple a friends!! now nearly every day i hav a blocked nose or i hav nose bleeds!!  but it still hasnt stopped me!! ive even been in hospital wit a slite heart attack. and hav panick attacks every couple a days!! i dont feel rught atall, i wish id never start doin coke and t telll ya d truth its extreamly hard t get off it!! i say it to meself every week dat im goin t stay away from it but d second i get a few drinks into me im lashin it out of it straight away for about 2 days solid!! and im seriuosly ****** ip over it!! i need to blow my nose every 5 minutes durin d week.. and suffer very heavy nose bleeds!! should i go see d doctor cause i do get pulpataions in my heart??

[badDan]

I did a line of coke 6 months ago and didn't do it again till a monh ago when I did a fat line. But in the past week (over 4 days) I've done maybe 2 grams but I've decided well and truely to quit and never do it again.

Although I'm not getting nose bleeds everytime I blow my noise the snot/mucus that comes out is slightly blooded.

I done the finger up the nose test and feel no evident damage.

Is this blooded mucus/snot a sign I have dome pernament damage or do you think this is just a side effect of having done it?

Obviously this isn't proffessional medical advice but if you guys say this is a side effect from a minor useage I will probably have no need to worry.

Regards

bD

[will_MD]

Dear All,

The bad news is that perforation of the nasal septum does not repair. Most of the times it does not need surgical procedures, but your nose will keep making scabs requiring daily cleaning.

I had it too, and several others problems from using as well, but I always had a rationale to even snorting it again. I only started to recover my life after initiating a long term treatment. Accepting that an addiction is a disease you are not guilty of, and keeping away from the drug is the first step. Living a better life by receiving adequate care from family and doctors/groups is what provides a true chance to keep our addiction from coming back. It is an unfortunate thing that will stick for a lifetime.

With deep regards,

MD Will