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how to get everything out of old cottons

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TheDankaholic said:
I can't even describe the taste.
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That's what she said! =D (I had to do it lol)

Second time in desperation I tried this. I got cotton fever. Shaking uncontrollably and having a high fever for hours on end and still being in pain/dope sick is horrible and why I will never repeat shooting cottons again. The second the cottons done i toss it in the toilet. Run the remaining solution through a micron filter and shoot. Cottons are not to be saved.
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Even after micron filtering, you got cotton fever?
 
Captain.Heroin said:
That's what she said! =D (I had to do it lol)


Even after micron filtering, you got cotton fever?
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Yeah only because i did the dumbest thing ever, i ran it through a micron filter back into a spoon I was using and tossed in a new cotton to draw it up so I wouldn't hit the needle on the spoon. I just should of back loaded it from the micron filter into the syringe. That day I learned it doesn't have to be an old cotton to give you cotton fever. Just an un-sterile one.
 
TheDankaholic said:
Yeah only because i did the dumbest thing ever, i ran it through a micron filter back into a spoon I was using and tossed in a new cotton to draw it up so I wouldn't hit the needle on the spoon. I just should of back loaded it from the micron filter into the syringe. That day I learned it doesn't have to be an old cotton to give you cotton fever. Just an un-sterile one.
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I see.

I don't use cottons, and I don't hit the needle to the spoon. You can still get 99.9% of it too, but it's cool.

I'm glad you are OK from that though.

I still have cottons from the exchange but I don't use them.
 
Komatose said:
I have got very severe cotton fever before from trying to "rinse" cottons, but if i am sick i still rinse them. Being sick makes you do shit you normally would not do if you were feeling well that's for damn sure!
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Most of us have been there. Just a word to the wise; throw them away after use. Simple resolve to your problem. Right?
 
how bad can it really be, I've shot up piss, toilet water, gutter water, and a plethora of other liquid sources, used rigs that were so old they bent on the way into my skin, used old cigarrette filters I found on the ground in the street, pieces of my sock, old cans and bottle caps in garbages and smashed to hell on the street, and god only knows what other shit i've used to shoot dope into my viens and fast and fucking possible. never the less i've gotten cotton fever once and i'm still alive... I know sterile is best but for me and all the junkies i've met along my trips, who are as unconcerned about this shit as I am most of us are fine as far as I know... the only thing i've caught is Hep C but I knew when i plunged that needle in my arm that it was a dirty rig with Hep C all over it, as well as the next 50 shots i had before the next exhange and i got cleans. If your'e a real down and out junkie you don't care about sterility, and if you do care you haven't gotten as strung out as the rest of us.

Also I the shit i've found in my bags of dope, leaves from the gutter pieces of trash all sorts of shit, and while those were some of the worst bags i've bought for sure, I certainly shot that up too because there was a little dope in there and they guy already had my money.
 
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No, I just copped down in NOLA and hid behind this building when we got it all out there was no water, so instead of wandering the streets looking for some water (which would have taken 20-30 minutes to walk to the french quarter and an open bathroom becuase we didin't have any money) I just pissed on a cotton ball... When you are thouroghly strumg to the fucking gills there is no line you wont cross to get well. I can't say it was the best liquid to use, having the taste of urine in the back of your throat sucks.
 
Sorry but there is no excuse (in my mind at least) for shooting up piss... If you don't have access to water just snort the shit, don't piss in your syringe... =___=

Why was snorting not an option?
 
villian said:
One thing I've learned hanging out with IV heroin users, once the IV it for the first time, it is NEVER going up their nose again...alot of IV users consider snorting is a complete sacrilege.
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I don't.

Heroin has a great peak when snorted, it's more than twice as long as IV heroin's peak is (for me, personally speaking), meaning 50% of the BA is more than accounted for with the longer duration.

However, I don't use heroin any longer, so I don't really care one way or another. Heroin's nice for IV, but it's not "essential" like other drugs are. There are other drugs I probably wouldn't use if I couldn't use it IV, but heroin's not one of them.
 
GbizzleMcGrizzle said:
No, I just copped down in NOLA and hid behind this building when we got it all out there was no water, so instead of wandering the streets looking for some water (which would have taken 20-30 minutes to walk to the french quarter and an open bathroom becuase we didin't have any money) I just pissed on a cotton ball... When you are thouroghly strumg to the fucking gills there is no line you wont cross to get well. I can't say it was the best liquid to use, having the taste of urine in the back of your throat sucks.
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Wow!

That is one of the most insane H stories I have ever heard!

I'm STUNNED you didn't have EXTREME blood poisining.

As for the OP - are you in the us or europe?

If your in Europe, then make sure you add citric to the water that you are cooking your cottons with. That really seems to help.

As for the suggestion that cotton-shots are a placebo? - well if you do enough (cottons) then certainly not. I've gotten myself properly fixed-up using them before (as in, from full blown WD - to nodding and itching). They really can be a life-saver when your sick, its just the risk off cotton fever is high which makes the practice quite unattractive.

Especially seeing as the only thing that seem to help when you do get a dirty hit is another shot of H. If you had the money, or the connection for this - then you probably wouldn't even be considering it!

Take it easy!

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villian said:
Oalot of IV users consider snorting is a complete sacrilege.
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A lot of IV users would consider shooting up piss as a greater "sacrilege" than snorting heroin IMHO :\

Seriously how hard is it to find some water in a city?
 
I'd rather just spit into the cooker than piss in it..

Anyway, back in the day when I used to IV drugs I reused a few cottons.

What happened? Didn't get high, but I got an awesome dose of cotton fever. Never did it again. Fucking sucked.
 
Really?

Really, you cant just buy some new ones. Dude a bag of like 300 cotton balls is like $5 at a store. if you can afford a daily junk habit you outta be able to come up with $5 to avoid cotton fever and getting sick every time you shoot.
 
I guess the point i'm trying to make, is probably very few users of this forum have fallen as far into the depths of a heroin addiction that many addicts have. I know countless street kids and junkies that have shot up their own piss I know some that have shot my piss. I've spent nights dope sick because I couldn't find a rig, I consciously contracted Hep C so I could shoot up and get well. So the idea of rinsing some old cottons out to me doesn't seem that bad when I look back at my life and the shit I've done to get well.
Also I would never snort shit, because it just doesn't work, i'd have to sniff like 5 or 6 bags of dope to feel SOMETHING and I could shoot 3 and be OK. I guess if you have the money for that to be an option great but when you're living in abandoned Katrina buildings and flying signs all day long to try and get $20 to get a shitty piece of diesel so you and your girl can split to be well enough to walk to a better fly spot, that makes more money but is hotter and you end up in jail over and over because what your doing is illegal but you're fucking strung out and can't not get well... When you've gotten to that point in your life, as an addict, when you look at the guys passed out in Tompkins Square Park and know them all by name, and don't mind sleeping near them even though they smell like piss and shit.... well then you're a full blown junkie, who would rather keep getting high than go back to your old 9-5 job in front of a computer designing web pages and editing video.

Anyway 3DayRun - There's a thought that your spit has more bacteria in it than urine so it's safer to shoot piss.
Fuzati- In a city that was so recently under so much water, it was very hard to find water, when you don't even have a dollar to your name, you gotta walk miles to the quarter and public bathrooms, most people don't care if a street kid junkie dies from thirst or shooting up piss.

Also the dope in NOLA is weak as hell, and for a couple junkies from NYC and SoCali with a $200-$300 a day habit ( I know it takes all day to beg people out of that much change) you're not going to waste that little bit of crappy dope on trying to sniff that rocked up shit, your'e going to shoot it.
I'm not trying to sound cool or anything i just think you should all know the lengths a junky will go to get well. you can talk to all kinds of people, you can read all sorts of books ad memoirs on the subject but it gets a lot lower than I've been. That's what's getting me kinda straight now, but while pissing in my shot to get well quicker, is not above me anymore it used to be.
So before you start putting that needle in your arm everyday, just know one day you'll come across a situation where you have to use piss to get well, and you might just do it. Since none of you are willing yet, you can hop off this train much easier than I.
 
^ I would have just been scared of a bad/dirty hit.

Which, ime, is a wasted hit.

Can't beleive shooting piss didn't make you super ill.
 
i do cotton slams all the time! they work great to stave off sickness. i always put them in a pill bottle after use and never use more than week old ones.

put like 4 or 6 in a spoon. 120ccs of water. i take the end of the plunger and smush them around really really really good (this is the trick). just get the water in and out of them. then heat them till they boil for a few seconds.

then tilt the spoon slightly and put like 2 to 3 cottons on the side. use the end of the plunger and squeeze all the water out, like take your time. then pick the 3 up and squeeze them together to get the rest of the liquid out. do this as many times as it takes to get all the liquid out.

then heat again till everything seperates. put a fresh cotton and and boom! :)

the squeezing works best i find, just sucking them up is just back where you started, right? definately squeeze them.

happy IV'ing! :)
 
You're right, spit might have more germs, absolutely correct.

Spit is not a bodily waste nor does it contain ammonia. Just a blurb from Wikipedia

Urea is toxic and can be irritating to skin and eyes. High concentrations in the blood can cause damage to organs of the body. However, after suitable processing (as is done, for example, on the International Space Station), it is possible to extract potable water for drinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine

I ain't judging you, bro, far from it. Just keeping things in the spirit of hard reduction.
 
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