JUNKe Life

WATCHING MY BOYFRIEND ALMOST DIE FROM COTTONFEVER
I never shot up dope and never heard of cottonfever before. My boyfriend had just went to physical therapy for a work-realted injury and when he came home, he shot up 2 bags of this new kind of dope we recently scored. I snorted mine. I was talking on the phone to my dad, who doesn’t know I’m a junkie (I use to be an active alcoholic and as long as I am not drinking he thinks I’m doing great) when my boyfriend, Steve, started shaking uncontrollably. Then he turned all red, on his face, neck, back, shoulder. I thought they messed up in physical therapy and maybe hit a nerve. He was screaming in pain. He screamed “I’m freezing” and I shut off the fan and brought him a blanket. When I put it on him I felt he was really hot, burning up. I told him you must be allergic to the cut in the dope. All night he screamed in paid – his head, his shoulder, back and could hardly breath. He finally went to sleep.
the next day he slept and then finally went to the doctors who asked him if had hep c. He told him no. The doctor was baffled after hearing his symptoms of last night. He should have gone to the ER. Later Steve told me he though he had cotton fever and explained it to me. He didn’t use the next day but did the day after. Once again the syptoms started even though he used new cotton. Right now he’s resting. I want to take him to the hospital because I read cotton fever can be more serious than you think – it can be an infection in your body or a blod clot that can even kill you. He thinks if he doesn’t use, he’ll be better but I don’t think he should take the chance of not going to the hospital. I’ll write later and see what happens.

cotton fever, fun fucking shit. i’d heard of it before but this has been my first weekend in “the cotton zone”. my symptoms were a little different then i’ve seen described, but i’m pretty sure i’m this sick from the shot i did four days ago.

soon as i did it, my lungs felt searing hot and my veins were burning like i’ve never felt it before. my initial concern was that since i didn’t cook it myself, the person who did might have handed it to me boiling hot or had just cleaned the stuff with acetone and didn’t let it evaporate long enough before mixing it with water. a couple minutes after the burning, i felt my entire body temperature drop. my hands were so cold they were numb and i just sat there with my eyes closed trying not to let myself panic and make it worse. it was very painful and i was in the company of people i hardly knew and my car had quite literally broken down when i arrived at this house. all i could do was appear okay until i knew what to do.

my veins burned for the next day or two, but my real symptoms didn’t start until two days later, when i began to get high fever and uncontrollable spasms and lung and sinus mucus that made it hard for me to breathe normally. i also had strange fluctuations in heart activity, from low to erratic pulse and low and high blood pressure and pain in my chest and neck. i couldn’t even sleep it off because i was in so much pain all i could do was roll around in bed moaning and constantly moving my legs and back.

day 3 and 4 developed into a serious case of what i am pretty sure is strep, worse than i’ve ever had it. my throat and sinus tissue is almost entirely raw and bleeding as well as my gums.i can’t swallow, stand up, or do much of anything without taking a lot of aspirin to get past the pain. when i recognized it as strep i started taking antibiotics i had leftover from 6 months ago when i had a mild case of strep and its only been 12 hours, i am already seeing the signs of my body killing off bacteria.

i don’t really know how cotton fever could become strep or if i happen to develop strep as my body was in shock or what, but the idea of injecting the strep bacteria directly into my body grosses me the fuck out and i’m going to me way more careful in the future.

and here’s to more personal accounts on the net, cause some IVers out there have been really lucky in spite of their poor habits. cheers.

we just did a shot, mine went fine. ALL the anticipated/ normal reactions came & went. BUT then when we went to do his shot, he found the complete opposite side effects to take place for him…NOTHING, not even a burn suggesting a miss. But there is a somewhat small knot,that was noticable immediately after pullin out, suggesting a miss. It hasn’t gotten much bigger, if at all…but its pretty hard!!! I’ve only done it this way for this past year now off and on, some periods ALOT long or shorter than the next. We have missed twice on me, with the same arm and same vein. It would always roll. But neither times with my misses was the knot smaller like his and DEFINATELY not nearly as hard!!! Any suggestions or advice as what happened here and what may help?

I experienced my first bout of “cotton fever” two days ago. After hearing about it for years, and shoot dope, on and off, for fifteen years, it finally caught up with me. I am not so concerned with the initial fever as I am with my persistent symptoms of sore throat, runny nose, and general malaise. I feel like some wicked invasive entity has entered my body. Should I go to the hospital, or will my immune system eventually fight off this evil bacterium?

i mostly use ms these days and get a bout of cotton fever or a reaction to large amounts of morph setting off my imune system or whatever it actually called or caused by… i have all the symptoms talked about, the convulsions, sweating, extreme pain, on and on. i have had it it maybe five times in the last 6 months. my question is the last two time i have gotten it i have awoken the next day to be more or less paralized and unable to move my legs arms etc. and have had to be taken to the hospital for two stays so far. about 24hrs later it seems to wear off with no intervention and has myself and about ten docs baffled. i have not read anything about this happening to others yet. does anyone or has anyone gone through this? they think maybe i have MS, lol, the other one-the disease, not the one i shoot 300 too 400 mgs of every day, and the drug use or reaction syndrome is severely worsening the disease. i am hoping i do not have this horrible nerve disease and this happening too people on occasion is not unheard of. if anyone has any info it would be great.

yea i heard about some friends who went paralized…sometimes an abcess or cellulitis near a nerve can cause paralysis down that side of the body…you must not be from the states i thought ms was too hard to come by around here and most people take it to the streets….i got tired of alll the bs about a year ago and am clean and have had 0 bouts with mystery illnesses since…so ms guy…tell me about how you use ms …is it in a pill like on that movie “drugstore cowboy” and you melt it down or what?

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I found the cure for “dirty hits” which most people call “cotton fever” is too take 800mg of Ibuprofen (Motrin) or 2000mg of APAP (tylenol), and most importantly, if you have some benzodiazapines, take a decent dose of those. For one the benzos really take the edge of that horribly uncomfortable feeling that is much worse than the flu if you ask me. Be careful, of course, if you are shooting opiates and combining them with benzos. But if you are not worried about an OD, they really help, and can lull you into a nice sleep so when you wake up 4 hours later, it is nearly gone. Cotton fever generally lasts longer than that. If it persists for a couple of days…go to the doc and tell him what you did. You can become septic depending on what bacteria you injected or endocarditis….both life threatening. If your temp reaches above 103F…and doesn’t break within 24 hours….go to the doctor. If our temp gets above 104F…go to the ER (105F and enzymes start to destroy your body). I am looking right now because I have just shot a “dirty hit”. And it was hell and 40 mins after the shot…and by 1 hour I was just begging for it to stop. That is when I took the benzos and Motrin (Tylenol might be better, but I don’t like how hepatoxic it is). Within a half hour it is very bearable and I feel safe to take a nap knowing it will be only be a mild annoyance in 4-6 hours.

One thing to think about as well is what solvent you are using. If it is not isotonic with your body’s normal NaCl levels (.9% NaCl) and you use too much water (usually done after trying to beat the tiny bit left in cottons into your rig, of course filtered again, still you are putting more pure H20 in there two, three, even four times. Despite this practice could be the possible cause of the bacteria, it could also just cause a water reaction that causes an imbalance in your blood resulting in similar symptoms. Do some research on it and you will find some good info on it. If you are gonna reuse cottons (which I don’t suggest)….wait for you body to stabilize before shooting mostly water immediately after (especially more than once). Take a smaller hit and after you ride that out…then use those cottons if you must and heat the solution to just bubbling to kill bacteria that may be looming from it staying wet for a few hours. Longer than that…throw em away. There really isn’t that much in there…and believe me once you get so called “cotton fever” from it….you will hate yourself for doing it.

Took the anagesics and benzos at 10am and it is 11:20…and symptoms have greatly reduced. It is my suggestion to combat a “dirty hit”. That and some Gatoraide, fruit juice, or water if you don’t have juice. Consider an antibiotic if you have some laying around. I know how bad it can get…but I know how to treat it fairly well now if I happen to get it.

Hope this was helpful…know it was long. Thanks for reading.