Jbabe678201
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- Nov 5, 2021
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Hi! I am new here. Just trying to find a safe place to openly talk about my use. I have been clean since 2019, with the exception of three “slips”over that time period. Ive been pretty stable on suboxone and it really has saved my life. That being said, I am not perfect and have gone back to my drugs of choice( mainly heroin) and crack also one too many times. I am 30 years old and have been fighting this disease with opiates for 10 years so I am familiar with use, withdrawal, treatment and all that. But I am stumped on this one which is why I have come here to ask. The past three years while I have been clean( minus the three times I slipped) things have been kinda rough as I struggle with other mental health stuff like severe anxiety, depression, and OCD. Also on a physical level I have not been feeling as well as I know I should be. I have been seeking multiple doctors opinions and am on a long journey to figure out what the culprit is of my severe fatigue, headaches, stomach issues and other symptoms are coming from. Labwork recently flagged my Epstein Barr Virus(mono) test as being really high and looking more into that. The health part is important to what I am going to ask bc i dont know if what i experienced is related to
My health issues, heroin, or just a coincidence. But basically in the past three months I have used twice. The first time I got heroin and crack and what I got lasted me about three days( I smoke the crack and snort the dope, used to shoot but cannot do that to myself anymore I was horrible at it) Also I did not take my suboxone during the time of using for obvious reasons. The second slip I had was just this past monday. I picked up the same two things, my supply of crack lasted me just a night, and the dope lasted that whole Monday and Tuesday. I used them the same way as before.. smoking the crack and just snorting the dope. But both times the following happened and I am trying to figure out why?!!!
• I picked up from the same dude in the same area so I am only assuming the first stuff was the same or very similar to what I got just this week( atleast came from the same original supplier)
•So on both instances( these instances were almost three months apart) about 12 hours into my heroin and crack use I began to get really congested, which I figured was just bc I was snorting stuff)
•so I got extremely congested, really could barely breathe out of my nose, developed a really scratchy throat, these red bumps started to appear at the back of my tongue and also some scratchy bumps in the back of my throat. All of this happened about 12 hours after I started using( both times!)
•besides the onset of these symptoms pretty rapidly, I continued to get more congested and it is almost as if I had a viral infection which lasted four days. I still feel like I am recovering from this past Mon- Tues but getting better.
Either this is just a really odd coincidence
Or this is something more? It appears like the dope was making me sick, but not in the normal dope sick ways? Has this happened to anyone else? Im thinking maybe I caught a viral infection from the dealer, the drugs, or maybe covid? I literally have no idea.
Or maybe I just have mono and using is messing with my immune system and making me sicker? I am really wanting to know if anyone else has experienced this ever? I like in Atlanta and I know the dope varies drastically depending on the area. Ever since covid became a thing, I have been nervous to pick up bc there are already enough consequences that have come from my addiction.. and the possibility of getting covid from dope
Makes me a bit paranoid. Anyways sorry for the long post-I felt like a little background was necessary for what I am asking. If anyone can relate or has any insight into what is going on please reply to this thread or message me. Thanks for reading
My health issues, heroin, or just a coincidence. But basically in the past three months I have used twice. The first time I got heroin and crack and what I got lasted me about three days( I smoke the crack and snort the dope, used to shoot but cannot do that to myself anymore I was horrible at it) Also I did not take my suboxone during the time of using for obvious reasons. The second slip I had was just this past monday. I picked up the same two things, my supply of crack lasted me just a night, and the dope lasted that whole Monday and Tuesday. I used them the same way as before.. smoking the crack and just snorting the dope. But both times the following happened and I am trying to figure out why?!!!
• I picked up from the same dude in the same area so I am only assuming the first stuff was the same or very similar to what I got just this week( atleast came from the same original supplier)
•So on both instances( these instances were almost three months apart) about 12 hours into my heroin and crack use I began to get really congested, which I figured was just bc I was snorting stuff)
•so I got extremely congested, really could barely breathe out of my nose, developed a really scratchy throat, these red bumps started to appear at the back of my tongue and also some scratchy bumps in the back of my throat. All of this happened about 12 hours after I started using( both times!)
•besides the onset of these symptoms pretty rapidly, I continued to get more congested and it is almost as if I had a viral infection which lasted four days. I still feel like I am recovering from this past Mon- Tues but getting better.
Either this is just a really odd coincidence
Or this is something more? It appears like the dope was making me sick, but not in the normal dope sick ways? Has this happened to anyone else? Im thinking maybe I caught a viral infection from the dealer, the drugs, or maybe covid? I literally have no idea.
Or maybe I just have mono and using is messing with my immune system and making me sicker? I am really wanting to know if anyone else has experienced this ever? I like in Atlanta and I know the dope varies drastically depending on the area. Ever since covid became a thing, I have been nervous to pick up bc there are already enough consequences that have come from my addiction.. and the possibility of getting covid from dope
Makes me a bit paranoid. Anyways sorry for the long post-I felt like a little background was necessary for what I am asking. If anyone can relate or has any insight into what is going on please reply to this thread or message me. Thanks for reading