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Damage of a two-week cocaine binge
Ok now I am sure that this post will get a lot of responses simply stating how stupid I am but I need some information.
I am 18 and I have no clue how but about three weeks ago I got the opportunity to snort cocaine. I did so and was introduced to the dealer. Over the past three weeks I befriended this kid and I have probably spent over $450 dollars on cocaine since. My consumption rate was/is about a gram a day or a little more.
For the first four days I had no problems and felt great. After that when I would use, the high was very short-lived and lasted around 10 minutes followed by an intense craving for more of the drug.
It was nearing the end of week 1 on Saturday night where I was continuing to use cocaine. I keep snorting more through the entire night to keep my high going and to avoid the horrible comedown. I took my last line around 6 A.M. About and hour or two later my heart began to beat hard and I felt a small pain/pressure in the heart area. This was followed by a pain in my left arm which soon began to feel numb. The back of my neck, my toes, and my right calf muscle also became numb. I knew there were heart attack risks and I became very frightened and had my cell phone clutched in my hand in case I had to dial 911. Well fortuneatley my heartbeat returned to normal in about two and a half hours and the other strange symptoms left. I honestly think I was close to a heart attack/cardiac arrest. Opinions?? Through that whole night I probably snorted between 1 and 2 grams of cocaine.
Nevertheless I used cocaine later that day! I continued this daily use for another week.
Let me assert really quick that no one that knows be would ever suspect me of drug use. I am an honor roll student and a pleasure to be around in general. I am about six feet tall and underweight weighing about 145 lbs. I took my shirt off the other day and looked at myself in the mirror and almost threw up. Since beginning to use cocaine, y ribs and exposed(more than they were before) along with the bony area between my pecks. Also I have been blowing blood every time I blow my nose.
Through this ordeal I have continued to tell myself: "I'll quit" or "Just one more day" etc....
People at my work have become suspicious. I have had very little sleep over the past couple weeks and I look very terrible. I normally have a fairly good complexion but through last night (my last night of using cocaine) I broke out with red zits all over my face. I have lost my sense of smell and can only smell something if I stick my nose in it.
Ok, first of all thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this far as I have no one else to go to for medical advice.
To wrap it up: last night I purchased another gram of cocaine. I snorted about 7/8 of the bag between 7pm and 2:30 am. It was at that time that my heart began to race to a point where I was uncomfortabel with so I cut myself off for the rest of the night. I have been awake since. Around five a.m. this morning I got of the couch downstairs to go lay in my bed upstairs. As soon as I got off the couch I got chills over my entire body. I was freezing cold. I walked up to my room and put long pants and a hooded sweatshirt on. I then went in my bathroom and began checking my nose (which had been runny all night). It was then that I discovered a small slit in the skin on the side of the septum in my right nostril. To be quite honest I about **** my pants. I had about 1/8 gram of cocaine left under my bed and upon discovering this slit in my nose I grabbed the cd case with the cocaine and dumped it straight in the toilet. there was still a considerable amount left mind you, but discoving a slit in my nose was just a little too much. Will this slit heal?
This has been a horrible ordeal for me bouncing between happiness and depression for the past two weeks. Right now I feel pretty shitty. I will probably lay down to sleep in the next hour or so and I will sleep until around 3pm or so. My body is exhausted and I look horrible. My face is covered in red acne that was not there yesterday and I have dark bags unber my eyes. I just look horrible. I mean it when I say I am done with cocaine it is such a horrible drug and through this experience I can see how so many people lose there lives (figuratively and literally) over this drug. I never saw myself speing five hunred dollars on something so pointless. I basically bought the damage I have to done to my body.
AFter reading this story I have a few questions. Thank you so much to anyone who is reading this.
1. What should I do in the next few weeks to recover my health? Or will it just come back to me over time?
2. Will I get my sense of smell back?; Will the slit in my nose heal? It is not a complete hole and the cartilidge is not exposed. This is in my right nostril.
3. Have I permanently damaged my heart? Anything else?
4. My teeth also hurt badly. My gums are red. Why is this?
5. When I pull my bottom eyelid down (like a doctor would) the inside of my eyelid instead of being red, is white! Why is this and what does it mean?
Thank you so much for your help. Please post any other advice you may have for me.
Please spare me the comments saying how stupid I am because I am a smart person I and I know what I have done is anything but smart.
I am 18 and I have no clue how but about three weeks ago I got the opportunity to snort cocaine. I did so and was introduced to the dealer. Over the past three weeks I befriended this kid and I have probably spent over $450 dollars on cocaine since. My consumption rate was/is about a gram a day or a little more.
For the first four days I had no problems and felt great. After that when I would use, the high was very short-lived and lasted around 10 minutes followed by an intense craving for more of the drug.
It was nearing the end of week 1 on Saturday night where I was continuing to use cocaine. I keep snorting more through the entire night to keep my high going and to avoid the horrible comedown. I took my last line around 6 A.M. About and hour or two later my heart began to beat hard and I felt a small pain/pressure in the heart area. This was followed by a pain in my left arm which soon began to feel numb. The back of my neck, my toes, and my right calf muscle also became numb. I knew there were heart attack risks and I became very frightened and had my cell phone clutched in my hand in case I had to dial 911. Well fortuneatley my heartbeat returned to normal in about two and a half hours and the other strange symptoms left. I honestly think I was close to a heart attack/cardiac arrest. Opinions?? Through that whole night I probably snorted between 1 and 2 grams of cocaine.
Nevertheless I used cocaine later that day! I continued this daily use for another week.
Let me assert really quick that no one that knows be would ever suspect me of drug use. I am an honor roll student and a pleasure to be around in general. I am about six feet tall and underweight weighing about 145 lbs. I took my shirt off the other day and looked at myself in the mirror and almost threw up. Since beginning to use cocaine, y ribs and exposed(more than they were before) along with the bony area between my pecks. Also I have been blowing blood every time I blow my nose.
Through this ordeal I have continued to tell myself: "I'll quit" or "Just one more day" etc....
People at my work have become suspicious. I have had very little sleep over the past couple weeks and I look very terrible. I normally have a fairly good complexion but through last night (my last night of using cocaine) I broke out with red zits all over my face. I have lost my sense of smell and can only smell something if I stick my nose in it.
Ok, first of all thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this far as I have no one else to go to for medical advice.
To wrap it up: last night I purchased another gram of cocaine. I snorted about 7/8 of the bag between 7pm and 2:30 am. It was at that time that my heart began to race to a point where I was uncomfortabel with so I cut myself off for the rest of the night. I have been awake since. Around five a.m. this morning I got of the couch downstairs to go lay in my bed upstairs. As soon as I got off the couch I got chills over my entire body. I was freezing cold. I walked up to my room and put long pants and a hooded sweatshirt on. I then went in my bathroom and began checking my nose (which had been runny all night). It was then that I discovered a small slit in the skin on the side of the septum in my right nostril. To be quite honest I about **** my pants. I had about 1/8 gram of cocaine left under my bed and upon discovering this slit in my nose I grabbed the cd case with the cocaine and dumped it straight in the toilet. there was still a considerable amount left mind you, but discoving a slit in my nose was just a little too much. Will this slit heal?
This has been a horrible ordeal for me bouncing between happiness and depression for the past two weeks. Right now I feel pretty shitty. I will probably lay down to sleep in the next hour or so and I will sleep until around 3pm or so. My body is exhausted and I look horrible. My face is covered in red acne that was not there yesterday and I have dark bags unber my eyes. I just look horrible. I mean it when I say I am done with cocaine it is such a horrible drug and through this experience I can see how so many people lose there lives (figuratively and literally) over this drug. I never saw myself speing five hunred dollars on something so pointless. I basically bought the damage I have to done to my body.
AFter reading this story I have a few questions. Thank you so much to anyone who is reading this.
1. What should I do in the next few weeks to recover my health? Or will it just come back to me over time?
2. Will I get my sense of smell back?; Will the slit in my nose heal? It is not a complete hole and the cartilidge is not exposed. This is in my right nostril.
3. Have I permanently damaged my heart? Anything else?
4. My teeth also hurt badly. My gums are red. Why is this?
5. When I pull my bottom eyelid down (like a doctor would) the inside of my eyelid instead of being red, is white! Why is this and what does it mean?
Thank you so much for your help. Please post any other advice you may have for me.
Please spare me the comments saying how stupid I am because I am a smart person I and I know what I have done is anything but smart.
Hang in there Robert. I will have to tell you to stop that **** as soon as possible. I know first hand the devastating physical and mental damage that
drug can do to one's life. Coke and Alcohol has destroyed my future. I went to
rehab,forced from my employer about 5 years ago. I got clean,but after only 2
months off the drugs,I was diagnosed with Avascular Necrosis. It destroyed
my both hips.At only 30 years of age at that time,being in excellent physical
shape and having a well paying mechanic job,it all went down the gutter.I had to have 2 total hip replacements and well now am dealing with yet another
opiate addiction from the pains of the replacements,Methadone and Oxy.Let
me tell you that the 10 year Coke habit cost me much more than a few hundred thousand dollars,it cost me my health,self asteme,and worst of all
my future, a mechanic.I have sinus and nose issues for life also.I did coke and
drank alcohol almost every night for ten years straight.I still kept a well paying
job though,but after calling in sick from being strung out and or hung over so
many times,my boss knew something was going on and well,if he didn't force
me to go to rehab or I'd lose my job,I'd have to say that I probably would not be
here today,trying to help people like yourself.I was unable to kick the Coke habit alone,I was far too gone,so please get professional help ASAP. The longer one is in denial and continues to use,the worse it gets.Never be ashamed to ask for help.By the way Robert,your nose will heal,so long as it
doesn't come in contact with any more nose candy. Don't get me wrong,I'm not
trying to scare you or anyone else for that matter,but I wish someone scared
me straight before the drug took me under.Just trying to help.
drug can do to one's life. Coke and Alcohol has destroyed my future. I went to
rehab,forced from my employer about 5 years ago. I got clean,but after only 2
months off the drugs,I was diagnosed with Avascular Necrosis. It destroyed
my both hips.At only 30 years of age at that time,being in excellent physical
shape and having a well paying mechanic job,it all went down the gutter.I had to have 2 total hip replacements and well now am dealing with yet another
opiate addiction from the pains of the replacements,Methadone and Oxy.Let
me tell you that the 10 year Coke habit cost me much more than a few hundred thousand dollars,it cost me my health,self asteme,and worst of all
my future, a mechanic.I have sinus and nose issues for life also.I did coke and
drank alcohol almost every night for ten years straight.I still kept a well paying
job though,but after calling in sick from being strung out and or hung over so
many times,my boss knew something was going on and well,if he didn't force
me to go to rehab or I'd lose my job,I'd have to say that I probably would not be
here today,trying to help people like yourself.I was unable to kick the Coke habit alone,I was far too gone,so please get professional help ASAP. The longer one is in denial and continues to use,the worse it gets.Never be ashamed to ask for help.By the way Robert,your nose will heal,so long as it
doesn't come in contact with any more nose candy. Don't get me wrong,I'm not
trying to scare you or anyone else for that matter,but I wish someone scared
me straight before the drug took me under.Just trying to help.
your comment couldnt have been more correct.
Wow, what a story...as well as a life changing experience....
We all have some story...
xo, Lisa
We all have some story...
xo, Lisa
Classic instant cocaine addiction. It's a bad monkey and will get worse if you continue... course you've already seen that. Your body will be fine. If you end up doing it again, you are going to have to get into a program to save you life. The definition of insanity, (12 Step program's), is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Go with the conclusions of your recent research, (the stupid part) and stay far away from that dealer and any "friends" that are into that... there are plenty of people that will have you as a pleasure to be around that don't destroy their lives with drugs. You were definitely on a quick collision with death in a fast way if not a slow destruction of a normal life. Maybe go to a cocaine anonymous meeting and ask them if you should continue the research? They have done it, and have hard impiracle data on why you should run from it like your life depends on it.... BECAUSE IT DOES.
DO NOT DO COCAINE!......i remember once i did a whole 8 ball with a buddy in one night and had to go to the hospital that's the only thing it ever did for me was make me go to the freakin hospital. Now why do a drug that makes you wonder if you need to go to the hospital everytime you do it right? lol jeez man the coc is a very pleasurable drug for 15 minutes but after that your wondering "should i go to the hospital"? for the rest of the night so my suggestion to you would be to leave it alone . I may be addicted to pain meds and have a hard time quitting them but even when i'm detoxing off them i don't think i need to go to the hospital.....lol......take care man and don't do cocaine.
Wow thanks for the fast responses. I appreciate the emotional support but I only really experience depression when I am coming off the the drug. Right now I am very sleep deprived but I feel a hundred times better than I did a few hours ago. This is the point of the cycle where I would pass out, wake up and feel great. I'd say to myself "I feel good now no cocaine" But then, I would end up with my dealer friend and would say "**** it" and the night would be fun and awesome. it is when I finally come home and have to stop myself when I start to feel bad. In all the times I have been----OMG THIS IS SO WEIRD MY ******* DEALER FREIND JUST CALLED ME AND WAS LIKE "hey is it cool if me and racheal (his gf) come over and I couldnt say no but I know he will bring coke with him. He asked me if I had any left and I remembered dumping the stuff in the toilet. omg i dont know what to do the cycle is going to repeat itself already AS i am typing this. this is so weird
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