Can it alter your sense of smell? rupture small viens or arteries? What are the worse effects of cocaine on the physical side?
A lot of questions different from the thread title.
Snorting cocaine can collapse the septum, which is irreversible.
Even occasional use has been associated with septal infarct. I see dozens of patients who tell me they only used cocaine “a few times” and have one honking big hole in the septum. Of course, I work in a prison.
QtM, MD
Yes.
I’ve never known anyone who started using cocaine and had their life *improve.[/]
test : improve
Death, wishing you were dead, and every gradation of misery/ill health. If it can happen if you crash your car into a bridge abutment (etc.), cocaine can do it to you, because on cocaine, you’re more likely to do stuff that will crash you into a bridge abutment (etc.). Verba sat.
I have a deviated septum from cocaine use. My doctor had never actually seen one. It’s a big honkin’ hole, and I am scared to death that I will get hit in the face someday and my nose will just collapse.
Another lovely bit of wreckage from my past. The sores on my body that wouldn’t heal, the hair loss and extreme gauntness were taken care of with abstinence and time, but your septum does not grow back.
Oh, perhaps I should elaborate- I don’t have a visible hole in my face or anything. Your septum is the bit of flesh between your nostrils. From the outside, mine looks totally normal, but it only goes back about 1/2 inch or less. Then there is a hole.
TMI perhaps- it makes for insane boogers and my nose runs pretty much all the time. I have had the sniffles for over 12 years (and I’ve been sober).
A slight hijack, but congratulations.
GEEZUS! I don’t think I’ll have anything up my nose for a LONG time. I’ve only done it a handful of times, but this last time it bled for a little while; I think I snorted an uncrushed pebble. I’ve decided not to do it anymore.
EJsGirl, you should do ads for the ONDCP.
Hell, they’d be a hell of an improvement over what they run now. Plus, your stories actually seem to work! 
Daniella Westbrook, the British soap star, is quite a famous case of what can happen to your septum when you do too much charlie.
One friend of mine would blow pieces of her nose out, when she blew her nose. You literally could see pieces of whatever’s supposed to be IN there, IN the Kleenex. When she stopped, her nose was always runny. So she started using Dristan alot. Now she’s addicted to that.
I did coke once. I felt like such shit the next day, and didn’t even realize that I was high when I was, that I never had the urge to do it again. How people can get hooked on those feelings, I’ll never know.
In my experience the main harm that it does is to do with the situation in which one takes it. If you take it in a drinking situation you wil drink too much. Much too much. And that can be destructive.
Other than that I have always found it fairly harmless, if rather overrated.
EJsGirl has probably done enough to put anyone off anyhow, but it’s short-term damage to your personality you should be worried about.
Dianiella Westbrook was doing 10g a day for 4or 5 years.
What if someone does a grand total of, say, 1g, over the course of 6 or 7 years? Is there seriously danger of nasal damage from such intermittent and “mild” usage?
jjimm, 1g. About a $100 worth in six or seven years??
If spread out over time there would be no damage. Like one line a month for a year.
If you did it all in ten minutes, then yes, you may damage tissue.
Jeezus is that creepy. Perhaps she is part Nibblonian.
