I had a meth addict tell me once that she injected tap water into her vein because she felt like crap and another meth addict told her it would cure her cotton fever.
Bad Intuition:
"What's cotton fever?" I asked. I honestly had no idea. "I have no f*ckin idea", she said."Really?" I said. "That tap water probably has bacteria in it.""Oh, really?" she said."Yeah, I would say it's probably not a good idea to do that again", I said.
Good Intution
"Do you have any interest in quitting meth?" I said"All meth addicts are f*cked in the head. Of course I want to quit", she said.
2 years ago when doing a quick med history:
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HIM; yup - last year
Me; for what?
HIM; Beaver Fever
Me; Huh? (trying to surpress smile)
HIM; you know, back-packers fever, giardiasis - knocked the hell out of me for a couple of months.
Should have paid more attention in micro class.
Wow. I transcribed a report the other day where a heroin addict injected lemon and orange juice to "break up the heroin." A colleague of mine told me it was because they were addicted to the needle. "Cotton fever," perhaps?
ReplyDeletecotton fever is no joke. i have had it about six times. the first time i did my thing and nodded off and woke up sick and thought i slept long and was in withdrawal mode, but i really nodded for twenty minutes and it was cotton fever. i laughed the first time i heard that term, but wont laugh again, it it a mightmare in hell. so over the time i have had it six time and it is bad. i was next to my fireplace under seven blnkets freezing, with high fever, teeth shattering so bad, one actually chipped, yes i got it fixed lol then i wa vomiting and had shallow breathing, this was the most severe time, i found that since i am a pill head as well, pop three vics or percs your fever will break and u wil n fine till next time ad life as a user, really is it worth it, tryin to quit b safe
ReplyDeletei had cotton fever last night. second time i have had it in my 6 years of heroin addiction. it is the worst feeling ever. freezing, teeth chatter, tons of blankets over me. winter pj's in the summer. nothing makes you warm, and at the same time i was sweating so bad my bed was sooking wet. that experience was enough to make me quit injecting drugs, i would rather go through the withdrawls than ever experience that again.
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