I have been suffering from frequent bouts of illness throughout the spring and summer. For a while I thought it was cotton fever or some other bacterial infection contracted through my abysmal injection practices (injecting drugs using the same cotton and spoon and same needle for a week or longer often being too lazy to even get a clean glass of water to use as injection water, instead using the same glass which has dust and dirt floating in it as well as old blood dissolved in it from dipping a bloody needle into it over the course of several day and doing all of this in my absolutely filthy room).
The symptoms of the illness are extreme sleepiness and high fever lasting anywhere from 8 hours to 10 days, with the symptoms fluctuating. Like I said, I believed it to be cotton fever or something of that nature and I began trying to wash my spoon and get a fresh cotton and fresh water at least twice a week to combat this.
However, after several months I noticed a pattern. I was never ill during the periods where I was using heroin, or suboxone. It did not matter how filthy my equipment was, I've even injected shots that have spilled on the floor and turned gray from absorbing so much dust and dirt and felt fit as a fiddle afterward. The sickness only happened when I was injecting hydromorphone pills and then it did not seem to matter whether or not I had cleans cottons, Id get sick regardless and then get well again as soon as I got some heroin even if I continued using the same needle I used with the hydromorphine without washing it.
To me this suggests there is something in those pills that is making me sick. THey are the yellow 4 mg ones that say P on one side and 4 on the other. Has anyone experienced a similar illness from these pills or does anyone have any idea what this is? I know the simple answer is just stop using hydromorphone and for the most part I have done that. However, I would still like to know what was happening to me.
The symptoms of the illness are extreme sleepiness and high fever lasting anywhere from 8 hours to 10 days, with the symptoms fluctuating. Like I said, I believed it to be cotton fever or something of that nature and I began trying to wash my spoon and get a fresh cotton and fresh water at least twice a week to combat this.
However, after several months I noticed a pattern. I was never ill during the periods where I was using heroin, or suboxone. It did not matter how filthy my equipment was, I've even injected shots that have spilled on the floor and turned gray from absorbing so much dust and dirt and felt fit as a fiddle afterward. The sickness only happened when I was injecting hydromorphone pills and then it did not seem to matter whether or not I had cleans cottons, Id get sick regardless and then get well again as soon as I got some heroin even if I continued using the same needle I used with the hydromorphine without washing it.
To me this suggests there is something in those pills that is making me sick. THey are the yellow 4 mg ones that say P on one side and 4 on the other. Has anyone experienced a similar illness from these pills or does anyone have any idea what this is? I know the simple answer is just stop using hydromorphone and for the most part I have done that. However, I would still like to know what was happening to me.
