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Hi all......new here 👋 this is a really good site, so glad I found it 🙏

Long story short. 45 year old male, 3.4g weekly coke habit. Largely snorted. Drink 3 to 4 beers daily and do coke every day from about 3pm. Have used every day this year so far. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm an addict. I just need this shit to keep me awake and doing life. Thing is, my resting heart rate used to be 65. Now its 90 -110. When I exercise i get a headache, short of breath and the heart feels heavy. You read alot about the cardiovascular effects but I've always liked to kid myself its all propaganda 🤣 I don't wanna die yet. Anyone got any real life experience on whether I'm close to a heart attack or stroke?
 
Welcome to BL..

So what your dealing with is an addiction to

Cocaethylene: When Cocaine and Alcohol Are Taken Together - PMC

Cocaine is taken frequently together with ethanol and this combination produces a psychoactive metabolite called cocaethylene which has similar properties to the parent drug and may be more cardiotoxic. Cocaethylene has a longer half-life than ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Some basic insights are whenever you drink you will likely crave coke and whenever you do coke you will likely crave alcohol. It’s not a co addiction as your body combines the two chemicals.

It’s quite the addiction as it combines two powerfully addictive drugs, one of which is legal, readily available almost everywhere and curtails logic and will power. There is information out there about the cardio toxicity and other potential negative health effects you should be able to track down easily.

An issue you may eventually face is all drugs eventually turn on the user. What this really is is our systems are altered or adjust to the regular presence of the drugs. With cocaine this can have an “interesting” consequence of forming hypo tolerance, its instead of needing more and more to reach the same effects you end up needing less and less. This often combines with an increased tendency to develop paranoia and psychosis from intake. Because of the addiction many people are driven to use long past the time it stops being enjoyable and turns to a negative or even hellish experience.

At some point if it starts to turn on you, you will need to develop and implement a strong treatment and recovery plan.
 
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your going to need to both tackle the alcohol and the coke, but just dropping one of the two will already add a couple years back to your lifespan
 
snuffles said:
Thanks both. Is it sensible to taper off or just stop?
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depends on how well you can controle yourself while on the drugs, cocaine you probably should just cold turkey (if not possible, great reductions will be necessery, its alot of coke your doing) as for the beer a fast reduction might be advisable, though 3-4 is (while alcoholism) on the lighter end still luckily

if you cant handle being sober well, the age old advise stands: a fuck ton of weed
 
in my opinion is probably better to stop a stimulant cold turkey when there is enough time off work and away from responsibilities to be able to take it slow for around 2 weeks. relapses are a normal part of the process of quitting and typically brought on by some sort of trigger

as for the cardiovascular symptoms, what you describe does sound very risky. it may be a good idea to measure your blood pressure and I typically avoid stimulants when working out because working out already spikes blood pressure rather significantly and that can be very dangerous when combined with stims
 
snuffles said:
Hi all......new here 👋 this is a really good site, so glad I found it 🙏

Long story short. 45 year old male, 3.4g weekly coke habit. Largely snorted. Drink 3 to 4 beers daily and do coke every day from about 3pm. Have used every day this year so far. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm an addict. I just need this shit to keep me awake and doing life. Thing is, my resting heart rate used to be 65. Now its 90 -110. When I exercise i get a headache, short of breath and the heart feels heavy. You read alot about the cardiovascular effects but I've always liked to kid myself its all propaganda 🤣 I don't wanna die yet. Anyone got any real life experience on whether I'm close to a heart attack or stroke?
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That's not an overly huge habbit ,about half a gram a day ,half a gram dosnt last long ? I'd say you got some will power in that respect
Are you not tempted to get more after you've finished the half
If you've been doing it for a year your tolerance will be through the roof
Is it just the first line that really brings relief ?
I blamed alcohol for lowering my inhibitions but not so sure now
The stuff is full of toxic shit and stinks of petrol so ain't good for you
 
snuffles said:
Hi all......new here 👋 this is a really good site, so glad I found it 🙏

Long story short. 45 year old male, 3.4g weekly coke habit. Largely snorted. Drink 3 to 4 beers daily and do coke every day from about 3pm. Have used every day this year so far. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm an addict. I just need this shit to keep me awake and doing life. Thing is, my resting heart rate used to be 65. Now its 90 -110. When I exercise i get a headache, short of breath and the heart feels heavy. You read alot about the cardiovascular effects but I've always liked to kid myself its all propaganda 🤣 I don't wanna die yet. Anyone got any real life experience on whether I'm close to a heart attack or stroke?
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3 to 4 beers is no big deal
If you want to live to a ripe old age then you know yourself what you have to .
 
A very close family member died last year from long term coke use. He was in his 30s, never overweight, moderately fit for most of his life. Had a heart attack. You often get no warning and no second chance.

If you are overweight, sedentary, a drinker, a smoker, and of a poor diet, your chances arent good throwing blow on top. Coke is uniquely cardiovascularly dangerous/cardiotoxic like most -caines. They directly chemically degrade heart muscle, in addition to the stimulant effect on CNS/PNS and the slew if issues that come with that. Coke is really, really bad for your heart.

No one but a doctor with some recent imaging and EKGs, maybe a calcium plaque analysis, could tell you anything real. Start there.
 
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RedRum OG said:
A very close family member died last year from long term coke use. He was in his 30s, never overweight, moderately fit for most of his life. Had a heart attack. You often get no warning and no second chance.

If you are overweight, sedentary, a drinker, a smoker, and of a poor diet, your chances arent good throwing blow on top. Coke is uniquely cardiovascularly dangerous/cardiotoxic like most -caines. They directly chemically degrade heart muscle, in addition to the stimulant effect on CNS/PNS and the slew if issues that come with that. Coke is really, really bad for your heart.

No one but a doctor with some recent imaging and EKGs, maybe a calcium plaque analysis, could tell you anything real. Start there.
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Was at a funeral recently of a friend of the family ,dropped down dead of a heart attack at 56
Was tea total but had smoked all his life and was overweight but not what you would call fat
Had never been to doctors previously about any issues
Everyone knows the lifestyle required for a chance at long life ,it's a choice we all have ,but it's no guarantee
 
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more the daily aspect thats worrysome than the amount, though a light amount for people on here
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I think if that included the weekend it wouldn't be far off what some people drink on an all day Saturday session ,they might not drink all week ,go to the gym etc
I really don't know what's more harmful
I guess drinking every night effects your health in the long term
 
The thing is I never felt like alcohol had me. And it didn't me give me worrying health signs. The coke has me by the balls. I don't sleep till 5am. And I feel like its making me ill. Just don't know how to stop cause i love it 😐
 
lost weekend said:
I think if that included the weekend it wouldn't be far off what some people drink on an all day Saturday session ,they might not drink all week ,go to the gym etc
I really don't know what's more harmful
I guess drinking every night effects your health in the long term
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theres 2 types of alcoholism for a reason, both incredibly harmful still. Though alcohol generally is the worst in terms of toxicity, blow uniquely so as well.

Its some form of demiurge joke that the 2 most popular drugs in the world are also by far the 2 most toxic haha.
 
snuffles said:
The thing is I never felt like alcohol had me. And it didn't me give me worrying health signs. The coke has me by the balls. I don't sleep till 5am. And I feel like its making me ill. Just don't know how to stop cause i love it 😐
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In your case its mainly the cocaethylene thats worrysome then. If you can cut out the beer first that will be a really good and relativly simple start to getting better. Though your future plan depends on what you want here, replacement or sobriety for one is a good question to ask. The drugs your doing are (as i said earlier) uniquely unhealthy, esp together, so replacing these 2 habits with something else, thats less harmful might be the play if you cant quit outright.
 
Cocaine can damage your arteries and heart, I think its related to artereosclerosis, hardening of the arteries and vascular damage. So if your body is telling you slow down cocaine use you probably should. From what I gathered on google, some damage from cocaine is reversible and but things like prematurely hardened arteries or serious vascular damage can't be reversed.
 
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