What is taking cocaine like?

I tried it many times and it didn't do a thing for me. But everybody's different; what feels good to you might make someone else freak out. Me, personally, I loved heroin.

I only did it once in college and it didn't do a thing to me. Never had the desire to do it again.

I did it 2-3 times. The post nasal drip was a deal breaker for me.

I did get the high, but it was too expensive, and just not worth the trouble.

It's like being Donald Trump Jr

Awesome

It’s alright for quiet night in the house, but if you REALLY want to paint the town and feel like an invincible rock star/king of the world, you have to shoot-up meth.

r6 Knows how to par-TAY 🤪

When I worked in restaurants a lot of the waiters used coke during their shift. Let's just say they got shit done.

Paranoia-ville. Imagining having cops chasing me, diarrhea, and coming off it, just anxiety to the max. Total waste

Actually I kind of liked it, but it was too expensive for regular use. Lots of the synthetics worked better, lasted longer and for a fraction of the cost

Makes you feel like, and, at least to yourself, SOUND like the smartest person in the room.

Daddy always warned me about men and liquor. He never said anything about women and cocaine.

Gives you energy, makes you talkative and more confident. A a fun feeling.

It makes your farts lethal.

It’s fabulous.

I never knew what to do with myself when I had all that energy. I preferred MDMA.

I had to do it a few times before I realized why people enjoy it. By the time you realize why people enjoy it, it's too late.

Here's my response to an old thread, which might give some insight:

They are both uppers, but in my experience the high is quite different. With coke, I felt like the smartest, best-looking, sexiest guy in the room. My confidence increased five-fold. It's like a feeling of narcissistic euphoria. It also allows you to drink endlessly without feeling or appearing drunk, and (in my case) also makes you want to chain smoke. But it also transforms you into someone fiendish and selfish and the high starts to wear off within thirty minutes. The night consists of many trips to the bathroom to do more lines.

I remember starting to feel anxiety even when I still had a little coke left because I was anticipating the comedown. The high wore off once mid-sentence. It was that abrupt. And the coke comedown is awful. The body high lasts longer than the head high and you just lay in bed awake and extremely depressed for hours. The depression is almost indescribable.

In the words of an eldergay trying to get me to stop that shit: "Coke will eat you alive."

I did MDMA alone. If coke induces euphoria, MDMA induces bliss. Everything in the world seems better, beautiful, sublime. I listened to music; each song was the most beautiful song I'd ever heard. I know a lot of people have sex on MDMA, but I had no interest: I could not fathom feeling any better than I already did just sitting on the couch. And it's hard to describe, but you do "roll" when you're on it. When I finally went to bed I couldn't sleep. But unlike coke, the MDMA head high lasted a long time. I laid in bed, awake, and felt the happiest insomnia I've ever felt in my life.

Regular coke use made me irritable and depressed when I wasn't using. In the end it wasn't worth it.

Can't speak for regular MDMA use, but if I had to choose one to do again (it's been 12 or so years since I did either), I would pick MDMA hands down.

I've never tried it. Ingesting street drugs bought from criminals holds no appeal to me.

r17's experience with coke was the same as mine. I only did it twice and the comedown is AWFUL. Just awful. The depression is hard to describe. I've never been a clinically depressed person and both times after I did coke the next day was hideous, I was so depressed it was scary. After the second time, I swore off coke and I've never touched it again.

It's such a bullshit drug.

It gives you a boost of energy and you get talkative and excited and feel powerful and then you start to tweak and grind your teeth as it wears off.

Listening to and watching Kimberly Guilfoyle speak at a Republican National Convention, OP.

2mg of Xanax for the comedown. You’ll fall asleep and wake up feeling amazing.

I did it at most 5 times. The initial feeling of euphoria was great but 8 minutes later I was hit by an intense feeling of anguish/depression that signaled I had to take more to feel good again. I could clearly see how people got hooked on it but that cycle wasn't for me.

r1 "Me, personally,"

Oh, dear!

R24? Poetic license.

I did it once with a friend. The friend said he felt it. It felt nothing.

And I would never, ever do it again with all the fentanyl shit happening nowadays. No way.

r26 that's another thing. I would never touch coke today (not that I would want to, mind you) because so much of it is cut with Fentanyl now. It's much different than coke was in the past.

R17 NAILS IT

Instant arsehole powder. I hate what it does to people.

We used it til the money got scarce, then switched to crack.

It made me insatiably horny

I’m bipolar. I imagine my highs were similar to coke highs. I had that whole “this is the best song ever” feeling.

I had it up my ass, just like Stevie.

Turn it off. You are too impressionable to watch stuff like that, obviously.

It's hit and miss... I miss hitting it. Alas, I haven't done it in many years, and there's too much fentanyl being mixed into drugs these days.

The best drug ever.

r10 Synthetics... like meth?

Wow. R17 still on coke?

That's some.........essay....

r38 no, but I do write for a living.

r32 I'm r17 and also bipolar. I think the high I got from amphetamines like Ritalin or Adderall was closer to hypomania/mania than the coke high. The coke comedown depression is worse than any bipolar depression I've experienced, and I've been seriously depressed most of my life.

OP don’t end up like Whitney.

I've tried it and it's energizing with euphoria but the high doesn't last long. Probably why people get addicted.

It’s all fun and games till the sun starts coming up and the goddam birds start singing all you want to do is get off this fucking ride and go home and die.

My college suite-mate used a wax postage stamp envelope to transport some coke, and then replaced the stamps and put it back on my desk in our dorm. I went to mail something and licked a stamp from that same envelope, and my entire tongue and jaw went numb. It felt exactly like Novocaine used by the dentist. It really scared me because I was afraid I might accidentally chew off the tip of my tongue in my sleep, so I stayed awake all night.

To me doing coke for the first time was suddenly realizing that I had always been tired, all my life (except for short periods of hypomania because I'm team BIPOLAR too!). That may sound great and it is great for like half an hour but you also have to realize that from that moment there's a choice that needs to be done: to either leave it forever with the constant reminder that something is missing (the effortlessness) and that you are now incomplete, or keep living with the cocaine and the effortlessness that comes with it knowing that the habit will consume and destroy you, sooner or later.

Doing coke for the first time and then shortly afterwards deciding to stop using because you feel the pull and you get a sense that it's best to have a head start in those matters, felt like getting to know my best friend and my soulmate and then ghosting him because you only ever feel complete and happy when he's around despite the knowledge of the fact that... he has already...

been...

spoken...

for...

I only really enjoyed it when I freebased it with a friend who was dating a dealer. I loved it so much I knew I could never do it again, and I haven’t.

I never got that amazing coke high that people, including some of the posters here, talk about. The one where you feel so sexy and intelligent and wonderful. All coke did for me was make me want more coke and I couldn't stop talking. I just rambled on and on all night. And then there was the next day where I felt like total shit and horribly depressed. I didn't like it at all.

Different people have different reactions to the same drugs, I guess.

Depends on how good the coke is and what it's mixed with.

It makes you super horny, sometimes.you get a raging erection. Sometimes you can't get hard. Helps to be versatile.

I did it a bunch at college in the 80s. We were close enough to NYC and kids were rich enough and connected enough that you could use a dorm phone to find a supply. Great highs, wonderful parties. But, like a few others on this thread, I realized that when I was waking up from a wonderful party the night before and my first thought was “I need a line,” it was time to stop. I feel lucky that a) I got to do that in the 80s before fentanyl and b) it was that easy to quit.

It seems I had a more adventuresome youth than most. I couldn't even hazard a guess how much blow I've done: that was an off-and-on thing for close to 20 years, though I've never used it regularly. For some reason I never got a hangover from it, but OTOH it usually fucked up my sleep patterns for a couple days afterwards. Yep, the euphoria as described above is accurate, but I cringe to think at all the times I had "diarrhea of the mouth" from chatting nonstop. On the down side, I always suffered from coke dick, and if I was planning to hook up, I had to plan in advance & bring along a Viagra just in case.

Perhaps oddly, the only variety of a cocaine derivative that "did nothing" for me – as some early posters noted for cocaine – was crack! I only tried it once, and felt literally nothing from it.

Also did plenty of MDMA, now known as "molly." Did it once during Covid lockdowns, actually. (A friend had an extra, and we were bored.)

Others: basically every well-known benzo at some point. Adderall & Ritalin. (Not together.) Ambien & Lunesta. (Ditto.) Pot & shrooms. (Sometimes together.) Oxy, both -codone & -Contin. At least a dozen of opioids, all less strong than oxy.

The two that were always on my OH HELL NO list were heroin & LSD.

Youth isn't always wasted on the young. :-)

Interesting about LSD, r49. I think I would do it at least once. Mushrooms scare me more than LSD.

Several years ago, in Canada, I smoked some dank weed. That shit was STRONG. It was one of the most intense experiences I've ever had -- and I imagine close to what an LSD trip would be like.

When The Cocaine Was Pure, White People Had Rhythm

I'm more bothered that you're watching GIRLS than using drugs.

R50, I've done that as well, but the strongest shit I've ever encountered – stronger than even shrooms – was in Amsterdam.

It never amped me up. However, it did open me up socially. I'm an introvert and after a couple of bumps, I was talking to EVERYBODY. I felt relaxed almost euphoric. It helped me socially, so that was the out I gave myself. HOWEVER, the next morning... scratch that...the next TWO mornings, my ass was laid OUT. It was worse than any hangover. I called in sick a few times, but my days off were wasted on recovery.

I never let it get out of hand, but I just got tired of the aftereffects, so I quit.

I didn’t use it a lot and had good experiences mostly but I know it’s instant asshole powder. Made the decision five years ago to never use again.

A good friend is an addict. I’m pretty much over his crap as he acts like a raging bastard on it. My plan is to disengage next time I’m the target of his attacks.

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R55 My best friend--RIP--was a huge cokehead who I met later in life. The shit she and her cokehead boyfriend put us through was just like it is in a goddamned Lifetime movie. I remember actually thinking that at one point in the friendship

I'm glad I got all my illicit drug use out of my system by the time I was 30.

I would never take anything from the street today -- including pot -- because of Fentanyl.

it causes acute mania basically. you become a chatterbox who is easily excited by any idea and find yourself suddenly coming up with all these plans and goals that you have the utmost confidence in. you can't eat, food is like chewing sand. when it wears off you experience nightmarish despair and irritability for several hours.

I enjoy being sober, but I was at a party once where they ordered cocaine and nearly everyone else was having it. I don't know about them being depressed, but I was never so bored in my life. People who had been quite interesting before were suddenly tedious drones who obviously thought their every word was genius. So. Not.

In short, if you want to take coke, please do it with other coke-takers and don't inflict yourself on others.

Makes you think you and your fellow sniffer's inane statements are profound wisdom of the ages.

You can drink more alcohol when you're on coke. Coke is a good club drug. You can switch off between coke and alcohol and the party lasts longer.

Coke doesn't always cause chatterbox behavior.

I've done coke somewhere between 10 and 20 times. Long time ago.

It's probably a drug I would have enjoyed all by myself, but I was usually with others when I did it.

If you're depressed, it would probably make you feel better for a while.

Like any other drug, the first rush is always the best. Thereafter, diminishing returns, and it fucks up your sleep schedule.

The chirping birds in the morning (when you've had no sleep) is horrible.

I've never tried it. Was too afraid I'd become addicted. I tried ecstacy back in the day, once, and the comedown from that was downright scary. I thought I was going to die from the depressive state I was in.

never do coke just because, you need to have something to do and you need to be around other people who are also doing it.

Ecstasy*

I've done it several times, only once was it anything special. It really doesn't do anything for me.

Cocaine did nothing for me, I was partial to snorting crystal meth in the 70s. Outgrew it pretty fast, then the 70s went away too. I wouldn't do it now

I once read, "Cocaine will make you feel like the President of the United States for fifteen minutes. Crack cocaine will make you feel like God for five minutes."

I smoked crack a couple of times in my party days, and I am forever grateful I never experienced the high.