“Nose infection?”

I am so glad you reached out. Please dont feel nervous at all about sharing your medical information with a doctor about this. Please seek medical care for this. I really urge you to go seek care of a physician. You need to have a doctor treat this to make sure you get the correct medication and care. This is why its important to tell him or her all of this information. Please go before this turns into something more serious. Best of luck to you. Elizabeth

First, let me congratulate you for putting that shot down. Remember, its a day at a time. It sounds like you have a rip roaring sinus infection. The treatment is antibiotics. The sooner your able to start the mess, only then will you feel better. And even if you WANT to use, you dont have to. Its as easy as the nose on your face. If you dont pick it up, you wont get high. Narcotics Anonymous meetings regularly will go along way on your recovery journey. What are you recovering? Yourself! Sharon Cantrell

First, good job quitting the nose candy. It was actually used in the medical setting to stopslow the bleeding for severe facial injuries. That is because of how it works. Cocaine causes vasoconstriction makes the blood vessels constrict. By inhaling it, it causes the larger blood vessels to constrict which makes you have a rapid heart rate and gives you that high feeling. Prolonged use causes a number of issues in your sinus cavity and can damage your heart. The yellowgreen discharge from your nose are symptoms of a sinus infection. The pain could be part of the infection, but it might also be from the damage to your nostrils and sinuses. As far as putting stuff in your nose dont do it. Nose sprays are going to burn, Mupiricin is a topical antibiotic ointment for the skin, not internal Nasal Wash are generally salt and should only be used with distilled water not tap water. Tap water can cause infections. The salt is going to burn. As medical professionals we do not judge. We are more focused on your health. You can just tell them that you realize it is dangerous, especially now with people adding fentynal and a higher chance of overdosing. And that is why you quit. But now you are worried that you might have damaged your body. So go see your regular Dr. If you cant wait, then go to an urgent care so you can be seen and get an antibiotic until you can. Then please consider going to NA Narcotics Anonymous just like AA, but for drugs. It is part of the long term healing process and will show your Dr tht you are serious about quitting. Good luck.

Cocaine use will increase your risk for nasal infections and can also cause vasoconstriction of the mucosa inside your nose.
This will lead to necrosis parentheses (death of the tissue) And long-term complications. You should seek efficient addiction treatment for stimulant abuse ASAP

Great job staying sober for the past 5 days. There are lots of resources out there to help.

https://www.google.com/search?q=addiction+hotline&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#

You really do need to talk with your doctor about the infection. You shouldn’t be scared to tell her what’s actually going on. It’s your doctors role to treat you and to be caring and accepting. Most importantly an infection in your nose can become very serious and deadly because it can rapidly spread to other parts of head. This is especially risky because you damaged your mucous membranes by using the cocaine. If your primary care can see you same day start with that, otherwise go to the emergency room bc this can rapidly become serious and it’s not worth the risk. Your records are private and no one needs to know what happened unless you want them too so don’t let fear get in the way of you seeking care and be honest with the doctor about what happened so they know what to do to help.