Please Help the Doctors Are All Baffled!!!!?
Question by sh00tthatalready: Please help the doctors are all baffled!!!!?
I did cocaine with liquor 8 times and ever since Ive had shallow breathing but the hospitals say Im fine, that my oxygen levels are 100%. I’m only 18 and I dont want to live like this for the rest of my life. Please someone help me, i havent been to a cardiologist yet but I feel it has something to do with my heart. But even then, is there a way to correct this? Someone tell me if theyve had similar symptoms. It’s been a month and a half and I’m losing faith in everything.
I was taking avelox (an antibiotic/anti-inflammatory) cause I thought it was my tonsils that were too big, and the label said dont take if you had heart problems, it actually made my breathing a little better when I was on it, so it must do something to my heart to make me breathe better. I know cocaine does serious damage to your cardiovascular system, I’m scared I’ve messed it up for good. And I’m also taking Nexxium for gas but it doesn’t do anything, even if I burp the breathing is still shallow. Besides, the breathing problem started the last night I did coke (it was impure that time) and it was a good amount. People say it’s all in my head but I think I know the difference from breathing regularly and struggling to breathe. Someone pleaseeeeeeeeee help!!!
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Answer by lhee0726_gb
What treatments are effective for cocaine abusers?
There has been an enormous increase in the number of people seeking treatment for cocaine addiction during the 1980s and 1990s. Treatment providers in most areas of the country, except in the West and Southwest, report that cocaine is the most commonly cited drug of abuse among their clients. The majority of individuals seeking treatment smoke crack, and are likely to be poly-drug users, or users of more than one substance. The widespread abuse of cocaine has stimulated extensive efforts to develop treatment programs for this type of drug abuse. Cocaine abuse and addiction is a complex problem involving biological changes in the brain as well as a myriad of social, familial, and environmental factors. Therefore, treatment of cocaine addiction is complex, and must address a variety of problems. Like any good treatment plan, cocaine treatment strategies need to assess the psychobiological, social, and pharmacological aspects of the patient’s drug abuse.
Pharmacological Approaches
There are no medications currently available to treat cocaine addiction specifically. Consequently, NIDA is aggressively pursuing the identification and testing of new cocaine treatment medications. Several newly emerging compounds are being investigated to assess their safety and efficacy in treating cocaine addiction. For example, one of the most promising anti-cocaine drug medications to date, selegeline, is being taken into multi-site phase III clinical trials in 1999. These trials will evaluate two innovative routes of selegeline administration: a transdermal patch and a time-released pill, to determine which is most beneficial. Disulfiram, a medication that has been used to treat alcoholism, has also been shown, in clinical studies, to be effective in reducing cocaine abuse. Because of mood changes experienced during the early stages of cocaine abstinence, antidepressant drugs have been shown to be of some benefit. In addition to the problems of treating addiction, cocaine overdose results in many deaths every year, and medical treatments are being developed to deal with the acute emergencies resulting from excessive cocaine abuse.
Behavioral Interventions
Many behavioral treatments have been found to be effective for cocaine addiction, including both residential and outpatient approaches. Indeed, behavioral therapies are often the only available, effective treatment approaches to many drug problems, including cocaine addiction, for which there is, as yet, no viable medication. However, integration of both types of treatments is ultimately the most effective approach for treating addiction. It is important to match the best treatment regimen to the needs of the patient. This may include adding to or removing from an individual’s treatment regimen a number of different components or elements. For example, if an individual is prone to relapses, a relapse component should be added to the program. A behavioral therapy component that is showing positive results in many cocaine-addicted populations, is contingency management. Contingency management uses a voucher-based system to give positive rewards for staying in treatment and remaining cocaine free. Based on drug-free urine tests, the patients earn points, which can be exchanged for items that encourage healthy living, such as joining a gym, or going to a movie and dinner. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is another approach. Cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment, for example, is a short-term, focused approach to helping cocaine-addicted individuals become abstinent from cocaine and other substances. The underlying assumption is that learning processes play an important role in the development and continuation of cocaine abuse and dependence. The same learning processes can be employed to help individuals reduce drug use. This approach attempts to help patients to recognize, avoid, and cope; i.e., recognize the situations in which they are most likely to use cocaine, avoid these situations when appropriate, and cope more effectively with a range of problems and problematic behaviors associated with drug abuse. This therapy is also noteworthy because of its compatibility with a range of other treatments patients may receive, such as pharmacotherapy.
Therapeutic communities, or residential programs with planned lengths of stay of 6 to 12 months, offer another alternative to those in need of treatment for cocaine addiction. Therapeutic communities are often comprehensive, in that they focus on the resocialization of the individual to society, and can include on-site vocational rehabilitation and other supportive services. Therapeutic communities typically are used to treat patients with more severe problems, such as co-occurring mental health problems and criminal involvement.
Answer by New Shews
I finally figured out that my shallow breathing was due to reflux. I have also figured out my trigger foods. I happen to have some mold allergies. The citric acid used in sodas comes from a mold called aspergillis. I can drink bottled (pasteurized) sodas, but fountain drinks!!! OMG. The trick was that the symptoms didn’t happen til a day after, so it was hard to connect.
Try taking some zantac for a few days and see if your breathing eases. If so, getting a endoscope to see if your esophogus is ulcerated would be a good idea.
Since these meds lower the gastric acid, I try to use them only as needed. (lowering gastric acid doesn’t allow us to absorb all the needed nutrients and can allow for buggies that our belly would normally kill to infect us). Good luck, write me if this seems to help and I’ll blab on some more.
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