Misc A potentially v. stupid question RE: Smokers Cough

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I’ve been sick for a month with a minor cough and recurring viruses.

Smoked a lot of weed and fentanyl and it cause it I think.

We need to stop all forms of smoking we are killing our selvez. Snorting drugs is very bad too for the lungs and sinuses. Out the drugs in your butt or mouth and that’s it! Why’s it so hard tho.

I’m at the doctor now

Hope things are okay at doctors!

Yeah, tbh I usually either plug (doubles the BA of morphine) or thoroughly chew my pills.

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I think you really need to see a doctor mate, that doesn't sound right.

But morphine is an excellent cough suppressant...

For some reason no amount of Codeine or Morphine has helped.
Gonna make a doctors' appointment tomorrow (if I can...are doctors' open on New Years Day?)

 

[LucidSDreamr]

For some reason no amount of Codeine or Morphine has helped.
Gonna make a doctors' appointment tomorrow (if I can...are doctors' open on New Years Day?)

What happened to your condition enhanced?

I have taken a turn for the worse….after the previous described issues I smoked weed for 3 days; then came down with a horrible fever.

Two weeks later I have stabbing pains in my
Lungs (especially in one spot) coughing at night with a bit of nasty tasting phlegm.

I feel like the decades of weed smoking have permanently destroyed me. I could have pneumonia, RSV, lung scarring or something worse. Just had a chest x ray yesterday so well
See how bad it looks. Doctor seed my lungs sounded bad, you can hear the wheezing.

I feel like I broke myself for real this time. It’s causing a slide back into benzos after one month clean and opioids will follow
And I worry I ll lose my clean time progress and also that I’ll just be too sick and strung out to work.

I lost my job 3 months ago and I’ve had some promising interviews finally this week and now I feel like I will lose it all. I can’t start a new job this sick; I can’t sleep at all at night because it hurts my lungs so much. The cough is mild but there.

Lots
Of panic and worry that I went too far and won’t recover physically and addiction wise

Any success stories coming back from such a thing? Is 15 years of heavy weed use plug 5 years of maybe two joints every other weekend after enough to really destroy my lungs? I did some black tar like 3 months ago for 4 days and I feel like the acetic acid might have burned a hole in my lung

I’m spiraling bad in an anxiety spiral

 

[sHR00m]

What happened to your condition enhanced?

I have taken a turn for the worse….after the previous described issues I smoked weed for 3 days; then came down with a horrible fever.

Two weeks later I have stabbing pains in my
Lungs (especially in one spot) coughing at night with a bit of nasty tasting phlegm.

I feel like the decades of weed smoking have permanently destroyed me. I could have pneumonia, RSV, lung scarring or something worse. Just had a chest x ray yesterday so well
See how bad it looks. Doctor seed my lungs sounded bad, you can hear the wheezing.

I feel like I broke myself for real this time. It’s causing a slide back into benzos after one month clean and opioids will follow
And I worry I ll lose my clean time progress and also that I’ll just be too sick and strung out to work.

I lost my job 3 months ago and I’ve had some promising interviews finally this week and now I feel like I will lose it all. I can’t start a new job this sick; I can’t sleep at all at night because it hurts my lungs so much. The cough is mild but there.

Lots
Of panic and worry that I went too far and won’t recover physically and addiction wise

Any success stories coming back from such a thing? Is 15 years of heavy weed use plug 5 years of maybe two joints every other weekend after enough to really destroy my lungs? I did some black tar like 3 months ago for 4 days and I feel like the acetic acid might have burned a hole in my lung

I’m spiraling bad in an anxiety spiral

Did you get thoroughly checked by your doc? After weeks of coughing one should get checked for that to exclude more serious diagnoses.

 

[jasperkent]

FWIW, I smoked cigarettes (30+ daily) and various other things for 50+ years. My lungs were in terrible shape. I had a persistent smoker's hack and walking up one flight of stairs had me panting.

About a year ago I quit smoking everything. I grow my own weed and cook my own edibles-- I don't miss smoking at all. I still vape a little nicotine now & then but mostly I use nic gum & lozenges. My cough is gone. I still get winded fairly easily, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was.

What I'm getting at is that it's never too late to give your lungs a break. I'm sure I have a certain amount of permanent lung damage, but nevertheless I've felt some improvement. At least I'm no longer making it worse.

 

[LucidSDreamr]

FWIW, I smoked cigarettes (30+ daily) and various other things for 50+ years. My lungs were in terrible shape. I had a persistent smoker's hack and walking up one flight of stairs had me panting.

About a year ago I quit smoking everything. I grow my own weed and cook my own edibles-- I don't miss smoking at all. I still vape a little nicotine now & then but mostly I use nic gum & lozenges. My cough is gone. I still get winded fairly easily, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was.

What I'm getting at is that it's never too late to give your lungs a break. I'm sure I have a certain amount of permanent lung damage, but nevertheless I've felt some improvement. At least I'm no longer making it worse.

I am definitely freaking out about the worst possible things like copd or emphysema….cancer I don’t really care as much about because it will kill me fast and I won’t suffer for a lifetime. It could be RSV combined with early onset of these things. I can’t deny all the smoking I’ve done and seem to accept this is just RSV or pneumonia, but we are trying to figure that out.

I’m early 40s I smoked weed daily and sometimes heavily for about 15 years then smoked let’s just say only weekends for the last 5 years.