Very odd sickness after dope help plz!

[Iamthetruth]

Ok so im asking this for a friend hes 37 and he has mercer and diabetes. Personally I think he has blot clots which are creating a delayed effect. But for about a week now hes been getting some dope which at first all he did was rave about it. Now he gets a bad headache and lately been getting something very simular to cotton fever. But lately when he does the dope he doesnt get high until about a hour later and it all hits him at once. To me sounding like blot clots but once and awhile hell get real sick now. And all the gears new and everything hes a diabetic so hes got needles and the whole nine plenty of em. But the way hes discribing his sickness is almost exactly the same as cotton fever. shakes jaw chatter muscle spasms headache and it lasts around a hour maybe a bit more. but it only happens four hours after his last shot and i dont get it. He went to the doctor last time this happened when he felt sick longer than a hour and said his mercer is kicking in. so any insight will be extremly helpful thank you and sorry about the wall im on a virgin mobile pre paid typing this.

 

[DavisK4high247]

Man I dunno what mercer is but sounds like cotton fever, and maybe dudes veins are in bad shape? He should rotate injection sites,and use a piece off a cotton swab for a filter and not a cigarette filter also, if you happen to be using cig filters, and dude should just watch what hes doing when drawing up his dope, so he does not have a cotton fiber in the rig, or something...if it's good powder dope, you do not need to cook it for one thing so,you can see what you are pulling up into the syringe better versus tar, you did not say which one it was, but it should not take anyone an hour for an IV injection to kick in, if dudes got blood clots like that, he needs to lay low on injections, or switch to a new spot each time, and don't shoot up when hes so high he's drawing up cotton fibers or something!!! Dunno, sounds like a bad scene all the way though..

 

[Allein]

I Think Mercer is another name for MRSA:-

http://bacteria.emedtv.com/mrsa/merca-infection.html

 

[Iamthetruth]

I Think Mercer is another name for MRSA:-

http://bacteria.emedtv.com/mrsa/merca-infection.html

This looks like exactly what it is "MRSA" is in your blood. But yes it is powdered dope and you should always cook it to kill bacteria and melt away the cut. And yes he does use cotton swabs and not cigeratte filters. I just hope my friend is ok because just the the other guy said it looks bad all around...

 

[verso]

Uh... I could be wrong, but isn't cooking your dope actually a bad idea?

I'm sure someone will chime in soon with an explanation for exactly why it's a bad idea...

 

[BrokedownPalace]

Cooking dope is indeed a bad idea.. Anyone who tells you otherwise is grossly misinformed. In order to kill bacteria, you would have to boil water for AT LEAST 20 minutes. Also, heroin is perfectly soluble in water at room temperature, so by 'melting away the cut' all you are doing is allowing more insoluble shit to get into your shot, which will precipitate back out once the solution is cooled. Doing this for an extended basis can cause particles to clog your veins, arteries, lungs, etc.

Please, DON'T cook your heroin. If it doesn't dissolve in room temperature water, it ain't heroin.

 

[verso]

^ There we go! BP dropping some knowledge on you bitches!

No, but seriously, I've never seen anyone cook their dope before.

 

[muvolution]

If there is some type of bacteria in the dope itself that is making him sick and he truly is using a new cotton, cooker/spoon, needle, etc EVERY SINGLE TIME, the only way to remedy that would be to start using a Micron Filter which has the ability to filter out bacteria. You can find information about them in my signature.

First, though, I would change everything, all the things that the solution or powder comes into contact with should be NEW every time, or at least cleaned with/ soaked in alcohol right after use and right before the nest use (except needles. Don't re-use them. Ever.)

Micron Filtering also removes everything except the active Heroin, leaving you with a much cleaner shot than you could ever get with cotton.

Also, don't heat your dope. It will dissolve cold.

 

[effie]

^ this this this.

It doesn't sound like "blood clots" to me, blood clots either stay put in the vein (DVT) or break off and usually get stuck in the lungs (pulmonary embolism) which would cause shortness of breath, possible chest pain and potential collapse and death. Unlikely it happens every time your friend shoots up and even more unlikely that he would still be walking about now.. if it were recurrent small emboli he would be becoming progressively short of breath.

It does sound like possible transient bacteraemia, which is a shower of bacteria in your blood, gives temporary effects until your body mops them up. The risk is that one day it won't be transient and could develop into septicaemia/blood poisoning, so I'd echo everything muvolution says about being sterile and micron filtering!

The other possibility is that your friend has bacterial endocarditis, where bacteria settle on the valves in the heart. Being diabetic is a risk factor for this and it is caused by introducing bacteria into the blood which lodge onto one of the heart valves and cause damage. This condition is more common in IV drug users and can cause spells of bacteraemia, with fever/chills/shvering/headache etc. It is potentially life threatening so I'd advise your friend to go back to the doctors. I'm pretty surprised the doc thought it was his MRSA "kicking in" (which implies getting into the blood stream to me) and didn't admit him to hospital..

Good luck!

 

[muvolution]

Yeah man, if he has MSRA and didn't get immediately admitted to the hospital and treated with strong IV antibiotics until infection free, he must have had to refuse treatment. They take antibiotic resistant bacterial infections very seriously, especially *staph* which will kill you if it gets into the bloodstream.

They also don't really care about the patient so much, either, as it becomes a matter of public health to ensure that people with confirmed MSRA aren't just walking around transmitting the virus to other people, because that would cause many, many people to be carriers of MSRA and possibly not even get sick until something exacerbated it. Once in a large population of people, a bacteria like that will run into its more benign ancestors, regular staph, and they can then combine to produce regular staph that is essentially antibiotic resistant and more aggressive.

 

[effie]

^ yeah, it's crazy, staph septicaemia would be a clinical emergency!

The more I think about it the more worried I am for your friend, Iamthetruth. He clearly doesn't have septicaemia right now seeing as he's still walking around after doing to the doctors but he is certainly at risk if he is getting transient bacteraemia, and I would really like a doctor to examine him specifically looking for infective endocarditis. Has he has a fever at all?

Over here they try to decontaminate any patients they discover harbouring MRSA bacteria with a body wash and nasal cream (staph love the nasal cavity.. haha) but some people it just isn't possible, especially diabetics.. MRSA itself doesn't concern me as much (still plenty abx that do work on it, albeit strong and nasty ones) but the danger of it mutating even further.. eep.