16 days after my last use where i experience SEVER pain from my nose like nothing before. update.
i have not taken anything since that experience, i noticed i lost sense of smell, i couldnt smell perfume, the only smell i could detect was like raw bacon, things that smelt, smelt like raw bacon, strong or weak, but the same. completely lost sense of smell. the nostral i used was extremely painful, and still is, outside breathing cold air its like breathing crushed glass. saying that, i have only had one tiny nose bleed in the last two weeks abstinence.
my nose has over the years put up with a lot, but this was the straw that broke the camels back. as they say. my cartilage in my nose i think is deviated, but not dead, its hollowed out but no holes (on coke years ago i had a hole that i could whistle through. i was young and stupid. now im old and stupid). i cant tell if there are scabs on the nose or what, i darnt mess with it atm. the right nostral is still painful.
only now after 16 days am i begining to get my sense of smell back. i can smell my douvet, cooking etc JUST faintly. and wow, i didnt know how much i would miss that sense. at one stage i was told i was wearing a top that stank of body odour, i was mortified as im not skank, the top looked clean, but i could not smell it!!!
i still have pain on the right nostral breathing in, pain in my cheek that might actually be unrelated tooth ache, but i have yet to see a dentist. i have avoided seeing a dr as i dont want this on my medical notes if i can recover by myself. it would ruin my life. im sure the septum is alive as its not rotting, and is healing.
my use of this substance was very light, ive not binged for days, ive used the odd gram well spaced and usually only a few bumps once a week at most. and yet it has done this much damage.
in my youth i abused speed, coke etc and i never had damage like this, and the damage i got from coke was after many years of a ~HEAVY daily habit for many years in my youth that i am several years clean off. even that didnt lose my sense of smell. ...only one experience comes close to the pain i felt using ETH ...was when a friend who dealt coke badly (useless at it) had dropped his stash on his floor and it got mixed with bleach powder and i was given a line of bleach. his main dealer walked in and saw it and he got his karma. so yes. i think this substance is very bad for the nose. advise not snorting it.
i have noticed since the stories of nose damage and pain, that its now being sold crushed. this might help, but its still corrosive. i dont know the chemistry, but one thing i learnt when i hurt my nose is to clean my nose after. the easiest method i came up with is to use a water bottle lid, fill it with water, snort it. repeat. easy. easier then putting your head in a sink or whatever. there are probably better methods, but i recommend if you MUST sniff this, use small doses, use one nostral per session, then use the other to let the first recover. and CLEAN the NOSE AFTER USE.
oh and ^^ i agree, low doses are much better. its suprising how a small tickle of EPH is nice, but a lil more and it becomes sketchy, agitated and nasty.