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Shooting Cottons

Ketamike

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So you're in a pinch. Not enough energy to go out and steal a lady's purse. The pawn shop is closed so you can't sell any of your mother's jewelry. Or maybe Pootie got popped and you're without a connection. And you have a bunch of dirty cottons full of smack.

How does one go about 'safely' preparing these?

How many cottons do you usually use?

Has anybody ever gotten cotton fever from doing this?
 
I've done it. I use about 5 cottons or so with 45-50 units of liquid. Put the cottons in the liquid and squeeze the shit out of them multiple times until you've gotten all that you think you can sqeeze out. Then put them off to the side and put a fresh cotton in and suck it up as usual.

Some people I know don't use a fresh cotton afterwards. They just suck the water up straight from the spoon.

I've never had any problem with cotton fever *knock on wood*. Others may do it a different way, but that's how I go about it. It's usually not a very big hit or anything, buzz wise, but as you've described.....it works in a pinch.
 
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this sounds completely NUTZ, id hope the cottons were sterile OMG! sorry i dont IV but if i did, i'd hope to never do this.
 
40-50cc's of solution? How are you supposed to inject this?

This can work if the cottons are from heroin, it doesnt work as well with pill cottons.

This process is inherently risky, but ive done it without any cotton fever issues or any type of embolism. Doesnt mean it wont happen to you. So take all your cottons, and douse them in just enough warm-hot sterile water (or whatever you use) to get them all damp but not soaking wet. Stuff all these into a big syringe (you can go buy one of those big 10cc baby feeding syringes with the plastic curved needle like thing), and stuff all your cotton into this syringe. If you have too many cottons to fit into a big syringe or baby syringe, then you can put the wet cottons into a small french press coffee maker. So put the cottons in the barrel of the syringe, and depress the plunger, and pour the solution in a metal or glass container that is large enough to hold the amount of solution you use (premeasure the hot water you use to wet the cottons so you know the amount your dealing with). Ok, so now you have a large spoon or beaker full of this old cotton juice. It really depends on how many cottons you have, but its likely your going to have at least 2-3ml (more like 5-10ml) of solution in the large spoon or glass beaker or test tube. Now using a torch or bunsen burner quickly boil the solution. Wait a while, a do this again. You only want it to bubble for a couple seconds, and you want the whole solution to exhibit some bubbling. Now apply less heat, so that solution does not boil, but the water is evaporating. This will take a while, be patient. The reason for boiling the solution is to kill whatever micro-organisms that is in the solution, and also to REDUCE the volume of the solution, untill it decreases in volume to 1cc so you can inject it in a normal syringe. The solution should become darker and more potent the longer you slowly heat it, but again, not boiling (aside from the initial anti-microbial boiling). Depending on how you do it, you can get a relatively decent hit out of it. The quick boiling you do at first will not kill everything, and could still pose bacterial issues, but its relatively effective. If you have a .2 micron filter you dont need to boil it, because this small of a filter will remove the bacteria. But im assuming you dont have a micron filter. Doing this is definately a last ditch (and potentially dangerous) effort to get a hit, but im am sure you are aware of this. Point is, if you do it right, it should work......

Becarefull. If a cotton looks moldy or strange, do not use it...
 
I've reused old cottons literally dozens upon dozens of times. Never had a problem. My veins still look great.

Just use a clean rig and bottled water.
 
desperate junkie... no way

I should probably change the title of this thread to 'Confessions of a cotton shooter' ;)
 
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I used to have a pile of hundreds of cottons that I usually would break down and use when I was having a bad morning.. i.e. no dope. 10 nice rock hard cottons would flip my stomache and hold me untill I could score heroin immediately. I also have shot cottons hundreds upon hundreds of times, with only 2 bad occurences. Once I just got the typical achey, cotton fever, the second time I am not sure what happened but the cottons was contaminated, thats for sure. Soon as I hit I knew there was trouble, I started itching real bad than the itching spread behind my eyeballs (which was fuct-up) than my face started to swell up big. My face was so swollen I couldnt open my eyes, and my lips were well (no discrimination meant) like a black persons. I started having a panic attack and freaking out I couldnt breath, and I was just about to go to the hospital when my mother stopped over and I took some Benadry, and layed down with a hot wash cloth on my face, and than BOOM I instantly fell asleep for 2 hours even though I was dope sick as hell, woke up slightly swollen, got my heroin and refused to shoot cottons ever again, but yea right...
 
does slamming cottons work for meth too? (out of curiosity, not planning on doing it...well, not planning, but i guess i never planned to become a drug addict :\ ) and how many does it take for a decent shot. and how long before it would be recommended to throw out the too-old cottons (i realize that doing this in the first place is not recommended, but i guess i mean just when it's to the point that it's just disgusting)

blahblahblah, did you do that boiling thing when you got sick off them? just trying to assess the risk vs. reward of this whole thing
 
Cotton fever is an infection caused by bacteria that has grown in the cotton, which fucks up your pulmonary system. By IVing gear which was filtered with infected cotton you can introduce either a diluted amount of the bacteria into your bloodstrem or, if you get an entire cotton particle into your bloodstream, a much higher concentration of the bacteria.
It is uncomfortable, but not usually that serious, and the symptoms are: Chills
Headaches
Fever
Nausea
Vomiting
Shaking
Shortness of breath
It usually goes away on its own accord after a few hours, but if it doesn't head to a Dr, cos it can get more serious like pneumonia or just a chronic infection. A guy I knew ended up in hospital for a few days on IV antibiotics for a few days because it just got worse and worse, but I think that this if very unusual.
 
Its like a pulmonary embolism, i have had it a couple times from shooting ms contin (yes, very dumb), and its a terrible feeling. Once it was so bad i had to go to the emergency room and get some IV anti-biotics. But it wasnt from the cottons, it was from the sheer amount of waxy particulates that my body sort of went into shock from......
 
this sounds completely NUTZ, id hope the cottons were sterile OMG! sorry i dont IV but if i did, i'd hope to never do this.

The cottons aren't sterile in the first place...just "clean". Once you've touched it with your hand its "contaminated" by medical standards even if it was sterile to begin with. We can get those dental filters at the needle exchanges here in Toronto. I have never saved them before.
 
If I did heroin I'd probably soak the cottons in water, filter, and evaporate the water, then smoke it. I know that many IV heroin users think any way besides IV is a waste so most people with a lot of cottons lying around would probably want to IV it. But it seems less unhealthy to smoke stuff from old used cottons than to IV, and it's pretty much free.
 
But if you can only get off from IVing, especially a certain dose, smoking some scraps of heroin residue (which would be degenerated) is not going to do anything or stave off withdrawals. If you have enough cottons you can get a shot out of it, just make sure the solution is double or triple boiled, with a torch. At the very least you'll get a small taste. I still save my cottons out of habit, but i dont think i would re-use them like i used to when i couldnt score.....
 
negrogesic said:
But if you can only get off from IVing, especially a certain dose, smoking some scraps of heroin residue (which would be degenerated) is not going to do anything or stave off withdrawals. If you have enough cottons you can get a shot out of it, just make sure the solution is double or triple boiled, with a torch. At the very least you'll get a small taste. I still save my cottons out of habit, but i dont think i would re-use them like i used to when i couldnt score.....

There isn't any way you could get more than a small taste? How many would it take for a good shot?
 
I would use 10-15 cottons (2-3 10$ bags a cotton) per shot, more the better obviously. I wouls leave my cottons wet I wouldnt really suck them dry because I always thought in my mind it is easier to get fibers from the cotton in the rig if I suck um dry. Throw them in wash with 1 1/2 1cc barrel smash um and saok um than squeeze out the liquid and remove the cottons, heat and filter with a big filter. The remains in the spoon is usually nasty and dangerous to inject but hey wehn your strung out health hardly matters. I know that cottons have helped me avoid dry heaving and insanity just so I could crawl to my car and go score smack.

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