Heroin hurting yourself nodding out

[Keif' Richards]

As a heroin addict/current MMT patient, this has always been a fear of mine. You hear stories about people cutting off circulation for extended periods of time, but I've never experienced it firsthand. I have, however, woken up with a severely "asleep" limb, to the point of causing pain. I always try to nod out in a medically safe position these days, but we all know how that goes...

You might want to go see a doctor if that pain does not start to subside, you never know.

 

[yteek]

Someone that I know had to wear this bad boy because they nodded out in a weird position. It took him about 3 months with that on along with physical therapy before it was back to normal.

As tricomb mentioned it's called radial neuropathy.

Lol, I had that shit, fucking sucked.

 

[The Doc.]

I know someone who got crushed to death under a forklift, and he wasn't even inebriated. He was a POS and kinda deserved it, forklift karma. You stay safe though, bud!

Oh yea jeez that sucks it happens though and I never nod while driving lol its when I'm stopped on the forklift usually taking a break after doing a hit of H then I would wake up and have energy to work. Its a weird drug with its ups and downs. I would be cutting with the chainsaw and driving with 60-80 foot long beams on my forks when the forms were only 5 feet wide. I never lost a load though I'm good at using it and have been careful around people ever since my accident, when I was 14 I crushed a guys leg with a pallet of bricks when the forklift flipped and he went in between the truck and the pallets right at that time(dumb place for him to be) and he got his leg crushed and got kind aoinned between the truck and pallets so I had to figure out how to drive a B-train when I didn't even drive a car yet. I wasn't high either I felt so bad they kept saying it wasn't my fault he shouldn't have been there but still when you hurt a person it makes you feel bad i couldn't stop picturing the scene in my head.

 

[fredPA]

had to get a few stitches above my right eye one time because I nodded out and hit the corner of a table.

 

[neurotic]

Just like some dudes said before, once i nodded with a lit cig on my hand and burnt a whole in my sleeve. I snapped out of it quick enough so i didnt really burn my arm

 

[floydUA]

Edit: lol just saw how fucking old this thread is

haha yeah i was bored and reminiscing and google brought me here.. already some great/interesting stories...good thread!!

 

[trip407]

I once droped on the plain floor from methadone and flunitrazepam intoxication, left me with two big black patches on my back and a wound on the back of the head. I also had a hard time walking for like a month because me foot was partialy numb. My voice was also very weak, and i had hard time with long conversations. In retrospect this might have been the beginning stage of rhabdomyolysis, because i felt so extremly weak for several days after this incident.

The other time i felt "asleep" an my arm. Also the circulation in my leg got interrupted, cause i was sitting on the edge of a chair. My arm developed a bad case of compartment syndrome with subsequent rhabdomyolysis leading to acute renal failure and dialysis for three weeks.
My foot is still numb from this incident but i can walk fine as it is (now). I was in a weelchair for 8 weeks.

 

[Whosajiggawaaa]

always snap back quickly enough. worst thats happens I spill wats in my hand usually a beverage. Spill isn't the right word lol, when I nod out I let go of whats in my hand!

 

[lolwhatzdrugs]

Just like some dudes said before, once i nodded with a lit cig on my hand and burnt a whole in my sleeve. I snapped out of it quick enough so i didnt really burn my arm

I think every cigarette smoker/opioid user has been here. I've got the clothing holes to prove it, and in some stuff that makes me sad to think about (cashmere sweaters, nice jeans, etc.).

Luckily I haven't been nodding out in a long time, and but even more importantly it's been three and half months (early May) since I smoked a cigarette! No cravings either! So no more worries about accidently lighting myself on fire, or burning something valuable (my balls, I have been close to getting em' but my boxers stopped the cherry and I felt the heat on them before I got an involuntary cigarette piercing in my scrotum - that would have sucked).

You guys be safe out there. Nod out, on your stomach, on your bed! No hitting yourself this way, no choking on vomit this way.

 

[~QuirKyNai~]

I tell u what.One time a long time ago when I was running the streets of downtown Baltimore city playing with deadly dice a.k.a. heroin..and I smoked amd/or shot crack or cocaine when I had enuff to splurg on enuff dope to come down from my intense cocaine high and.still have enuff to keep me well for at.least the rest if the night and a morninflg fix and a lil more just because..

Anyway I was ony way back from an early run in my then gfs car..well a then junkie being a junkie had to get my fix before I started the half hour drive.back.what happened next was me nodding uncontrollably after it hit,I suspected a newew better batch or it cuda.been from just.the right person,can't recall,anyway I was nodding out instop and go traffic on the beltway at.rush hour...Well I nodded out just intime for the stopand go traffic.to begin its umpredictive stopping,and WHAM!!!.I rearend a relatively new,seriously well kept all black Cadillac Escalade..Her only visible damage was her rear bumper was obviously hit good amd was hanging off the vehicle.... I ended up totalling my.hfs car
The engine was almost in my lap,I had a new type of bruised scar.that stayed for months. And what I think was my 'worse' injury was smashing my face off the steering wheel,and having the airbag not even deploy,let alone look like it attempted to deploy.
I managed.to take pictures with my brand new ~$400 Canon Powershot.(I really liked photography,but cudnt afford REAL camera.So I had gotten taxes and decided to actually buy somn to show for the money I.got and feed.my need to capture special,memorable,and most intriging,the imperfection we are born with that so many try to act isn't there,or doesn't affect them.I like to capture that posh uptight business woman trip whipe trying to look better than everyone. Or the rare or comical,whimsical encounter of two animals that wud normally never.cross paths.or maybe the simplicity yet artistic capture of a tagged up building which may or may not have once.been a place.of important or prestige, bit now has succomb to time,abandonment, the elements,vandalism and the imagination of a wannabe artist or just tagger or upcoming/aspiring graffiti artist,or the too-in-tune-for-some person,who doeant say straight up he/she is an artist,but explains themselves in the most out of this world way..or if they just try to hard to be different,they they and use the most difficult words in the most jumbled unnecessary shameful ,tryna-be-artistic way they can.!
Anyway,from the pics I took,I cusnt help but show all the nurses and doctors

 

[MikeySpikes]

I know a great guy, in recovery now actually, fell asleep while nodding on his knees with a ciggarette in is mouth. Poor guy ended up killing his dad in the fire and loosing half his leg due to cut off of the circulation. Be careful.