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Can snorting 2c- drugs cause nose damage?

Yeah, in my experiment with sublingual 2c-e I mixed it with a decent amount of a strongly flavored beverage and let it sit in my mouth, no actually I think I swished it around most of the time, but whatevs you get the idea. It hit faster and harder than I expected, I'll have to try it again soon before I can make a real comparison with insufflated which I have more experience with.
 
2ci was the worst for me, e and b gave me a pretty bad burn, but it stayed local to the nosem ostly, when i sniffed 2ci it didn't hurt at all until 5-1o minutesl ater. Then my entire fucking face was on fire ;_;

Never snorted 2c's since, it ruins the start of the trip for me having all that shit in my nose/throat :()
 
Painwise,

2c-p (our eyeballed doses....i know....) > snorting glass + gravel + bleach + salt and tiny shreds of hell
 
So I read some reports that seem to point to sublingual 2c-e dosing to reduce the visual effects of the drug, is this true?
 
So I read some reports that seem to point to sublingual 2c-e dosing to reduce the visual effects of the drug, is this true?

i cant think of any reason why this would happen. its still the same substance getting into your bloodstream and then to your brain.... probably just subjective experiences
 
A good mate of mine once gave me a wrap of 'mephedrone' which turned out to be 2c-i. I lined up about 80mg and railed it all up one nostril.

Oh My FUCKING God.

Words cannot describe the 15 minutes of pain that followed.

I blew as much out as I could after about 5-10 minutes but I didn't notice any lingering problems after.

Fucking LOL :D
 
^ lol.

You know I still clearly remember the pain and the chunks of bloody shit coming out of my nose!

..and asda

..and snoopys everywhere!
 
I've been snorting a variety of 2C's over the past 8 months and recently I have developed what seems to be a painful swelling/irritation in the nostril I use for insufflation. I thought nothing of the temporary pain in the beginning, but now it's been hurting for a while. Probably best to avoid snorting large amounts of 2C's, although small amounts irregularly probably wont do that much damage. In terms of pain, I suggest 2C-P is the WORST, followed by 2C-I then 2C-E.
 
Pretty much any drug will damage your nose with continued nasal administration over time. Some are lighter irritants while some are highly caustic - how much a drug burns when it goes up can be a good telling sign of if it's doing a lot of damage, but it can also be misleading as some drugs like cocaine can be very easy to snort but do a lot of damage to the lining of the nasal passage.

I'd avoid snorting something like these too often, and clear your nose out with water/saline after the drug has had time to absorb to make sure none sits around eating away at your skin.
 
Sure feels like it. The high too, at least in my opinion, isn't as enjoyable as taking it orally.
OH THE BURNNNNN! Like snorting fire ants dusted with caustic soda, or getting hit in the face with a psychedelic baseball bat lolz
 
Yes, 2C's act as pretty caustic chemicals - the damage felt afterwards and the mucous/thick saliva abundantly produced in your mouth and stuff to dilute it after snorting plus the pain... yes I'd say all of that sums up that it is bad for your nose.

I have snorted 2C-B, 2C-C and 2C-D but would never snort the other less mild ones personally. I also think it is not worth it with any of these compounds and that plugging is far superior because it provides all the advantages without the negatives. If that idea isn't something you can live with, I'd say hold the complaints and just use them all orally which is quite fine as a ROA.

Also note that it matters which salt you snort. 2C-B HCl is significantly worse than the HBr due to water solubility.


im pre sure snorting anything causes some sort of damage...... wtf.....

The term significant would be important here... and for example snorting mannitol (a sweetener that does pretty much nothing in your nose) that serves as a carrier for a superpotent psychedelic, that cocktail would cause very minimal or better said 'insignificant' damage to the lining of the nose that should be repaired by the body quickly.

Things like mannitol are often snorted because they are present as cuts in street drugs such as speed or coke but it can be present in virtually every white powder, especially if not in crystalline form. But don't fool yourself, even crystalline compounds can be recrystallized with xylitol or if that is hard to do, melted mixed and solidified. Almost seems like a crystal. < true story.

So my point is: there are inert compounds, inert meaning: they do not react - they don't really do anything we should care about.

Conversely, frequent snorting of caustic phenethylamines in doses that seriously hurt and burn the mucous membrane, that would be significant because the damage can be irreversible. That makes it damn significant.
 
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Yes, 2C's act as pretty caustic chemicals - the damage felt afterwards and the mucous/thick saliva abundantly produced in your mouth and stuff to dilute it after snorting plus the pain... yes I'd say all of that sums up that it is bad for your nose.

I don't think you can really use any of those as indicators of damage. Just the same as comedown != neurotoxicty. Milk gives me thick saliva and capsaicin burns like f*ck but neither are damaging.

They may well be damaging, but at typical levels of use I don't think there is any cause for concern. Nasal administration in a spray or insufflated liquid will help evenly distribute the compound and make it easier for the body to deal with any damage which does occur.
 
Generally I'd say you're right because not a lot of people snort serious quantities of 2C's because of the sting but every now and then somebody comes along and tells tales of snorting frequently and a lot, especially with developing tolerance. Eventually numbing may occur from them, not sure if it's desensitization or damage to the nerves / noniceptors, but that could potentially encourage a 2C abuser to ingest even more of the material... causing increased damage.

Capsaicin is a special case because it doesn't really irritate mucous membranes as much as activate heat-sensitive nerve bodies so we cannot call all of this the same kind of burn. 2C's hurt like high purity amphetamine hurts, it may feel sort of hot in the process but we are talking about a class of compounds that overall seem to often be caustic to mucous membranes (I'm pretty sure of having been presented with anecdotal evidence as well as personal experience with blistering whether it be nose or under the tongue or around the gums). We can't dismiss that by mentioning an entirely different type of chemical with effects we can count as exceptions.

I grant you the salivation is not especially indicative on it's own so you can forget that as evidence standing on its own but I did mention it in a sentence together with the damage felt. Not like hot food, but as lingering pain - as in: lingering sometimes for quite a while after the phen stops being present.

I'm telling you: it's not the same thing. And the comedown equals neurotoxicity argument is a weak one other than a warning for logical fallacies.

On the other hand, I am basing all of this mostly on years of hearing about blisters, red holes, irritation and having had such things myself which is different than presenting you with a chemical dissociation equation showing a vile and known irritant being yielded by the dissolution of the 2C. Such as the acid (e.g. HCl) being formed on the spot like some people think. That's not really how it works fortunately... quite a lot (by far most) of pharmaceuticals come as the salt of some acid. It dissociates in water into the protonated form of the drug and the conjugated base like the chloride anion.
 
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