I'm a bit worried about my nose. Or, more specific, my right nostril. I went through ca. 5g of ethylphenidate in ~3 weeks and propably 70-80% of that went in my nose. I really tried to prevent serious damage by clearing my nose with saline solution, using sea water nasal-spray (and sometimes the one with sea water + dexpanthenol) to keep it from drying out etc etc. So basically all you can do in terms of prevention when you're snorting stuff like this.
This seemed to help at least a little bit as i didn't have a nose bleed once or anything like that. But what worries me (and what also caused me to stop snorting) is that i have something in my right nostril, and i'm pretty sure that it's not been there before and i'm also pretty sure that it's not supposed to be there. It's almost like a little tumor and it's sitting quite deep inside the nostril, where the nose (or the "face-part" of the nose) ends. I can feel it with my little finger or touch it with a q-tip, but i can't see it because it's too deep inside. It hurts a little bit and feels strange when touched. It's pretty hard and i can't move it and i'm sure it isn't just mucus or something like that, it feels more like tissue, like a part of my body. Sometimes when i blow my nose there seems to be pressure on it and the whole thing also has some effect on my ear on that side, because the pressure is also felt there. I stopped snorting since this had become a problem and my nose is recovering from all the damage, but this thing doesn't seem to go away at all.
So, i know i should see and doctor etc but it takes a while until you get an appointment with a ENT-doctor and i thought maybe someone experienced something like this or has an idea what this might be. My best guesses would be:
- the vasoconstrictive effects of the drug caused this and it's some kind of problem where the blood couldn't circulate properly and now there's this thing, maybe cut off from the blood stream or something like that (and slowly dying?)
- it might have something to do with the sinuses (swelling etc)
If anyone has some input on this it would be great. Maybe i'm thinking too much about it and should just wait until it comes out (or not). But i never experienced anything like this before from snorting anything, so i thought maybe someone else did.