another cocaine ? (you were all so helpful last time)

[beantown33]

Hi Everyone:

You were all very helpful the last time i posted a question...thank you very much.  I have a doctors appointment tomorrow and i'm planning on getting some blood tests done.  At this point, I just want to know but I still am unsure of the risks of contracting HCV through snorting cocaine...I've only used a couple of times but am still extremely nervous.  My questions are:

1) Did any of you ever have prolonged headaches for a whole week after using (it was a decent amount and i am relatively inexperienced)?

2) Can HIV be transmitted through snorting (if so I may get checked for that as well)?

3)Is there a good chance I contracted HCV from snorting and that is why i'm experiencing headaches, sleeplessness, some itching, some tingling etc.?

Thanks so much...I'd be going (even more) crazy if it wasn't for all of your help

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[jmjm530]

Just to play devil's advocate here -- and please correct me if my failing memory is failing me again -- but didn't you post several months ago that your ex-husband/boyfriend was HCV positive and you only found out after you two broke up? If I were you, I'd put this at least as high -- if not higher -- on my list of transmission possiblities as non-IV drug use such as cocaine. I understand sexual transmission is low between monagamous couples but it still exists. The number one transmission route in the United States today is still IV drug use, followed by transfusions prior to blood screening. I believe unprotected sex probably follows but not sure.

Gosh. Between this thread and Mnk's (also about sex) -- better go take a cold shower now :)

-- Jim

[jmjm530]

Oh, there's also inter-household transmissions -- toothbrush, nail clippers, etc.

[NYgirl]

My exhusband not boyfriend... ;-)  but it's not a long enough time period for the figure.  I want to blame it on him more than ANYTHING in the world but no matter what I do...i can't stretch the darn years out that far no matter what I try LOL.

Heck I still blame it on him as far as anybody knows it's HIS fault. ;-)

[NYgirl]

It's much more likely that I got it the one way and not via a razor - have you ever REALLY heard of anybody who HONESTLY got it that way?  Nah. That blood would more than likely dry out - although the HCV can live outside the body it's a short time...


Face it I bet you can get it any countless ways they haven't thought up yet - but that one is too logical and it doesn't bother me to admit that I got it that way to you guys...to my parents heck I got it being married - end of story :)

[jmjm530]

Well, my ex's blame me for absolutely EVERYTHING including the thinning of the ozone layer. Think about it more -- and I'm sure you'll come up with a scenario where he could have given it to you :)

-- Jim

[jmjm530]

NY said: have you ever REALLY heard of anybody who HONESTLY got it that way?
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Which way. Hmmm. I think I'd be encroaching on Can-Do's or Goofy's territory if I commented further.

-- Jim