Trip3loki
This is exactly what my buddy told me when he introduced me to H about a year ago. So not thinking anything through and doing research like I should have, I just took his word for it and saved my cottons for about 4 days. When I ran out of H 52 cottons here I come, right ? WAY WRONG. This is only my second time getting cotton fever but OMG, I was driving about 3 mins after the shoot when it hit me.
1. Felt what I thought was w.d's coming on until about 5 seconds later then I knew I was screwed when my body broke into sweats, chills, shaking like I was seizing and fever broke. All this in a matter of seconds
2. Maybe a minute later I began the 8 hours of the worst pain I've ever been through. ( I've had a knee replacement and they missed with the spinal block so when I woke up I was screaming in pain and almost nothing helped ). This was much worse pain and I was on a cross country drive so no hot bath or anything.
3. A man at the rest area I was stopped at heard me screaming and thrashing back and forth in my car. He came to my car to help and informed me he was a M.D. A second later he was back at my car with ibuprofen,Tylenol and a thermometer. Gave me the OTC pills to help with fever and took my temp to have a base temp to see if it was going down in an hour. His next words won't be forgotten the next time I use! He said omg, Jesus Christ kid I gotta call the paramedics. I said no and he informed me my temperature was 106.2.
To finish a extremely long post for which I apologize. It was the worst 8 hours of my life and this is only 28 hours after I got cotton fever and I didn't share all my bad experiences from that nightmare but I'm still throwing up more violently then I've ever before, and I'm having a hard time doing anything because my body is still in the fight with the bacteria. Off and on I have to drop to the ground in pain and start praying. Thankfully no return fever. As the M.D explained to me your brain can become " cooked " at that temp,and u r left with irreversible brain damage.
I've always said I'd never quit but the thought of going to cop tomorrow actually makes me sick. Maybe this cotton fever saved my life... Idk yet, but that is this mans hell from saving and reusing cottons. Whatever u do plz be careful and good luck!!