• Select Your Topic Then Scroll Down
    Alcohol Bupe Benzos
    Cocaine Heroin Opioids
    RCs Stimulants Misc
    Harm Reduction All Topics Gabapentinoids
    Tired of your habit? Struggling to cope?
    Want to regain control or get sober?
    Visit our Recovery Support Forums

Cocaine Perhaps a little too much

Intrinsic man

Bluelighter
Joined
Sep 22, 2011
Messages
291
Location
Where suave presidents go to die
I don't know if this should be posted in the trip report section, but since my short story comes with a question, I suppose it should be posted here for now. Feel free to move it if it is in the wrong place.

This past Friday night, myself and 5 of my friends decided to purchase a gram and a half of cocaine, along with an adequate supply of beer. We got a little drunk, and then railed a decent sized line. We were all feeling pretty good at this point, however I was a little disappointed. I thought the coke would hit me harder since I never really do any. After drinking quite a number of beers, about an hour and a half later we finished off our supply of coke with another decent line. By now I was feeling considerably great.

After about another hour and a half - two hours, I ingested 3 mg of Etizolam to come down on. I got pretty messed up, but can remember mostly everything and it wasn't unpleasant. At this point, I should have gone to sleep. Etizolam has a way of making me want to stay up for the rest of my life as well as making me fiend for more drugs. My girlfriend had 50 mg of Adderal which we ended up snorting... I took at least another Etizolam as well. There are about 4-5 hours of the night/morning that I don't really remember. I know that I continued to drink but can't even tell you how I was feeling. I must have been pretty wired and sedated at the same time.

By noon the next day, I am still awake and decided to go get another gram of coke. I split the gram 4 ways with my gf and two of my friends who are just waking up. I basically snorted my whole portion of the gram in one line and about an hour or so later, I passed the fuck out. That Saturday of my life doesn't really exist to me. I woke up at like 9 pm feeling kinda shitty, but considering my situation, It could have been worse.

The past two days I have been semi worried about all the drugs I did this weekend. Part of me is saying it's no big deal and that it's okay to over indulge every once in a while. The other part of me is worried that I may have done some damage to myself... this doesn't seem viable, I mean, Charlie Sheen's still kickin, right? I really don't know much about amphetamines and the crazy combinations I did, but I know there has to be a lot of you who do. Any input on my situation would be appreciated. I swear I am having chest pains now, but this is probably just anxiety. Perhaps I'll just stick to opiates for the next few weeks at least.
 
Passing out from coke isn't exactly normal, and you're probably right to be concerned, although it sounds like stimulant-induced anxiety and paranoia is making things worse for you. Charlie Sheen is alive and kicking, but his career is in tatters and I certainly wouldn't want to be him (I bet his 'girlfriends' have left him too).

Just lay off the coke and stims for a week or two, you'll feel better for it. It's unlikely you've done any permanent damage, but if you keep at it at this rate it'll only be a matter of time.
 
Chest pains are largely anxiety related when it comes to drugs, but still nothing to take lightly.

You did quite a few GABAergics and mixed them with stimulants; unless you have super human genetics, this will take a toll on your brain and cause anxiety.

Thing to ask yourself about heart related issues is whether your symptoms are chronic or acute. I get chest pains all the time if I take a stimulant and many times my anxiety will lead me to believe I am having a heart attack, when in reality I'm in no real pain, it's merely heart burn from my stomach.
 
^ Yeah heart burn often feels like heart pain, especially when you've been at the stims and haven't eaten for hours on end. The stomach can be a bugger at times.
 
In what way would this be doing damage to my brain? Obviously these drugs, in particular coke and alcohol, are going to be neurotoxic in some way shape or form, but their level of toxicity is fairly low when you only use them every now and then. Is the combination I did particularly toxic? Is there some sort of synergy between these drugs that I should be worried about?

I'm sure the chest pains are anxiety related, I don't see how I could have fucked my heart up that bad with the amount of stimulants I did. I mean I know people who have done close to an eightball a day for extended periods of time due to a pretty nasty addiction, and they didn't drop dead.

By now i would imagine I am having retrospective anxiety (for lack of an official term) rather than stimulant anxiety. It's been over 2 days since I ingested any stimulants so they couldn't be affecting my mind in that way anymore, right? My anxiety is not debilitating by any means, i'm just a little worried.
 
I'd be more worried by potential cardiovascular damage than neurotoxicity with cocaine. From what I gather, it isn't particularly neurotoxic, specially compared to amphetamines, but it's really quite bad for your heart (particularly if you've been drinking with it).

As for the benzos, it's probably them that caused you to black out when you took the coke. Like I said, the damage won't likely be extensive at all at the moment, but we're talking if you carry on long-term though.

Btw I've heard of people having heart attacks after relatively little amounts of coke. It can cause freak blood clots that then get clogged in an artery.
 
Well I definitely won't be doing this again, at least not to this extent. I like to recreationaly use drugs but it is not like me to go this hard. That's probably why I'm worried about it.

Hopefully a blood clot is not the case, but an aneurysm doesn't have any tell tale signs such as chest pains (if I remember correctly).
 
Because using alcohol and benzos in an abusive manner will cause a loss of GABA in the brain ending in excitatory damage, thus neurotoxicity. This is why people have W/Ds off GABA drugs. Mixing it with stimulants causes the person to take more depressants thus causing more effects ending in more anxiety afterward.

Cardiovascular damage done by cocaine is usually long term unless an overdose occurs causing a collapse of a coronary artery.
 
Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it.

Not to get off topic, but I read an alarming article, written recently, about the danger of halogenic amphetamines like 4-fa. Of course I cannot say if any of it is true, but their is a lot of evidence and support to back up their claims. The reason I am bringing this up is because I know a lot of people have been using the drug 4-fa (including myself a couple of times) and if this person is correct they need to stop doing so immediately.

Here is the link to the article: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=175262

If you have time to read it, let me know what you think. Hopefully it's just fear mongering.
 
Never 'passed out' from coke use but IMO 'coke' and 'too much' do NOt go togehter when it comes to me. I had a 1/2 oz a week habit for a yr and a half and never thought it was 'too much' despite spending night after night with fat rails spread out next to a pile and taking my pulse every 10-15 min waiting for it to drop below a certain # of beats per min before I would snort another fat line. Never thought it was too much despite the paranoia and creeping around my dark house to peak out the windowns for the dea night after night, depsite realizing every monring I did it as a result of cocaine induced paranoia...I continued the dea creeps every night.... I did have coke seizures though, and they were scary, lights eveyhere, loose total balance and control of your body.. thought i as gonna die. I could have 100Kg of coke and it would not be 'too much' for me. I learned that the HARD way and am lucky I escaped with my life. took a ton of benzo's and a ton of willpowder to stay away, after dumping everything I had very quickly, I was obscessed 24/7 for what seemed like MONTHS. Dope wihtdrawls I can actually shake and take a break from. I needed a cold break from coke and had to cut all ties and all access while every fiber in my being was sreaming "What R U fin CRAZy!!!!" "That's the stupidest thing u could ever do" "coke is the answer to everythign, it's your life, your love, your world" "It owned me in a way dope never has and never will. Possibly b/c of the ammt's I had access to, but that could be the only reason and I" not even sure aobut that, just guessing on how i hear other addicts talka bout it.

Throw a kg of coke in my lap and my next thought is 'where do I get MORE!"?
 
Top