tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post7535969178342061842..comments2024-03-28T11:19:25.795+01:00Comments on - Memoires of a Heroinhead -: A Modern History of Rotten TeethMemoirs of a Heroinheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17401281805284793756noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-1609781500616944042020-08-07T12:31:58.267+02:002020-08-07T12:31:58.267+02:00If once your teeth affected with germs and other c...If once your teeth affected with germs and other cavities problem then it will become so hard for all of us to get rid of that problem. That's why my suggestion is for you people you should regularly visit a dental clinic for regular check-up purposes. Again <a href="https://nhparkdental.com/" rel="nofollow">lake success dental care</a> you can also visit this place as recently I have also visited there for my regular check-up.Dominickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892760646468170505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-42490396305170694652019-09-13T09:04:15.027+02:002019-09-13T09:04:15.027+02:00Great Post.
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It's unfortunate how we are brought...Oh, teeth! It's unfortunate how we are brought up by society to be so judgemental about them! Especially in the US, home of "refrigerator white teeth" held up as the ideal. Used to judge people myself. Now just feel so bad for them & feel like repayment is being given to me for judging. There are definitely some cavities. But my issue is mostly derived from receding gums, and the consequences of teeth exposed in places not designed for it. "Long smokers teeth" in your text about Katie describe quite a few. Then there are the "gaps" only recently discovered that those are *not* "painless base cavities" but gum disease effects. Some decay from there, especially what grew from a small chip. Suppose at least some of that can be hidden by careful speaking, but sure sucks that most of the worst is on top, in front. One front molar is a bit loose! Fun discovery after about 2 months of pain, occasional blood clots of mysterious origin in the morning, then 3 days of no pain. A lifetime of hard brushing, rare periods in my whole life of flossing - hated the gum bleeding & discomfort as a child/teenager, ten years of heavy smoking, and about 9.5 of full time addiction & resultant sweet tooth, interspersed with periods of depression & neglect has led me to this. What seems unfair is the more diligent, the more problems, it seems! Noticed the "gaps" last May. The chip was December 2014. Wisdom tooth issues and roving gum pain from February to May, and then noticing more & more "cosmetic issues" since. A little spot of infection on my gum near the loose one, resulting stinky breath. Sigh, bought the special mouthwash for gums, then the toothpaste and it's taken a few weeks & one entire tube to get it to where that goes away completely for any length of time. Methadone juice would doom me! Only ever considered it during a few brief periods, now that's just going to be "no," forever! Plan to quit heroin fall/winter 2019. Not out of not liking it, or any personal qualms with myself being on it, just wanting to stop before it gets too hard to support & before it makes it too difficult to do other things with my life. The "age out," option, but a pre-made choice vs a truly getting tired of it. Unless that does happen by then. Timing it with moving away as to lack a source. Only have one dealer here & only know a few people. Never made some big (or any real) effort to find contacts. So won't. 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That makes sense. (about my childr...Morning Shane. <br />That makes sense. (about my children)- thanks. <br />Teeth. I love them! Over the counter in the UK you can buy lidocaine gel. Brand name of one is oragel. If you get a mouthful of spit combined with a drop of gel and swoosh it around your entire head seems to numb. I must have gone through at least a tube a day when I was in pain. I've fallen asleep with the tube in my mouth, or my finger inside a cut open old tube. They're only 5mls when full. One time I was refused to be sold any... The jobsworth of a person frowned and just said "N. Not for you, Kate"...Cheeky bitch. I could have argued and got myself thrown out. I don't know what she was thinking. I know that she's not my greatest fan as I got her daughter incredibly stoned as a teenager. I walked her home, white as a ghosts and covered in puke. At least I helped her home! I think she was imagining me in a meth lab type place, going all Breaking Bad with my toothache gel and making coke...somehow! I wish I was. Arghhhh. I'm imagining it now. It's horrible. <br />One bonus about the UK is the wonderful NHS. As I'm sure you only know too well. Can't you get basic treatment done as a European in France, or am have you been there for too long to get this? <br />Kate xxx<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-26573667717205992082015-08-01T21:44:45.815+02:002015-08-01T21:44:45.815+02:00Hey again Kate... no, as you've already figure...Hey again Kate... no, as you've already figured, the site hasn't changed. It is always being slightly modified and added to but the overall look has been like so since its very beginning. <br /><br />I don't think it's important what life throws your kids way, it's more important how they leave their childhood and enter adulthood... how they'll be prepared to face the challenges that life poses them. We're all gonna face our equal share of good and bad events - they'll arise regardless of anything - it's how we deal with them events which is important and which will shape our lives. All you can do as a parent is try your damnedest to spare them any severe emotional or physical abuse and have them enter adulthood with the least amount of trauma possible. I think that's the best start they can have. <br /><br />The teeth... well junkies don't mention it because it doesn't have any cool stakes attached to it. And for all the moaning about the myths and stereotyping of addicts, it's often the addicts who are the worst perpetrators of them all. As with you the heroin didn't affect my teeth, it was the methadone which rotted them away and very quickly too. There was a time when i was on 30 ibuprofens every day for months... my mouth constantly felt like a hole of pain.<br /><br /> No, I've not made it back to the UK yet. I should be there before the end of the year... I hope so at any rate. This country I've come to detest and most the people who I've met too. It's a nice novelty for a while but people are people wherever you go and none are better or worse than any others.At least in the UK I'm on an even and fair footing with everyone.<br /><br />All My Thoughts, Shane.. X <br /><br />Memoirs of a Heroinheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401281805284793756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-42362682267788157392015-08-01T10:56:56.792+02:002015-08-01T10:56:56.792+02:00Morning Shane (or whatever time you read this)
It&...Morning Shane (or whatever time you read this)<br />It's Kate in AGAIN sunny Swansea. How exciting eh? Two days in a row! <br />Well. I figured out the 'new website'. Oh how silly I am.<br />I thought I may start the day off by finding something to read on the 'new website, as I found loads of links to other stuff on there, only to be sent to another site. A site I recognised! There, I saw a link, reading 'web version'. I have seen this link before but have always ignored it. Today however, I was devilish and pressed it and hey presto! The 'new website'. Hmm...dozy twat! <br />Anyway, that's enough of that and I'm off for a read. Thanks for replying and hope to hear from you soon. Wishing that your day is a good one, at least half decent? Hope so. <br />Kate xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-64317355804370663692015-08-01T07:32:01.276+02:002015-08-01T07:32:01.276+02:00Hey Kate... just a very quick reply for now to let...Hey Kate... just a very quick reply for now to let you know i've seen your comment and will reply properly just as soon as i'm at my computer (probably this evening).<br /><br />Until then...<br /><br />All My Best, Shane... XMemoirs of a Heroinheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401281805284793756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-74912609846360010282015-07-31T13:52:07.470+02:002015-07-31T13:52:07.470+02:00Morning! It's sunny in Sunny old Swansea today...Morning! It's sunny in Sunny old Swansea today. Has your page layout changed recently - or have I accidentally stumbled upon a different version? Anyway.... I like it. My memory for stuff like that is awful. I'm sure it has changed. If it has, let me say something nice about it.. I can't think of the word im looking for - all I know is that 'congratulations' isn't the one. "Congratulations on your new website" just seems so wrong. I read this story following the one about a brother and sister (Shelley?) alongside yourself as kids. I was sat in the waiting room of the dentist, uncannily, and found myself looking at my kids play in the corner, wondering what life is going to throw their way.<br />We weren't at the dentist for myself. I luckily will never have to endure dental pain ever again, but a simple check up for my daughters. I terrify them both into good oral hygiene. I too, suffered the delightful tooth decay and disease that methadone brings. Within eight years, I went from not having a single filling (due to sheer luck) to a mouth of a geriatric. I have no teeth whatsoever. I have a full set of false teeth - that get pulled out and flashed at the kids whenever they try to avoid brushing their teeth. I loved reading this. It's such a taboo subject, nobody wants to talk about it, so reading your words has filled a space in my brain where a memory of a conversation should be. I thank you for this! Really! People will happily speak about their constipated shit or their runny shit, their abscessed groin but teeth? Never! <br />I ended up having my beautiful broken brown stumps and root pulled out three years ago. I have never been so pleased. I cam smile 😊, I can laugh and talk to anyone I feel like. Ultimately, the best bit was the pain. Knowing that unless I got some kinda gum infection I would never have to go through that pain EVER. It's also a nice plaster which covers up the only (apart from ageing quickly) visible unwanted gift leftover from my affairs with heroin. I relapsed for a few months earlier on this year, but am back on the straight (apart from methadone) and narrow. <br />I think you've been sent via a cyber angel (or the World Wide Web's Big Brother is more likely). Your writing has helped me so much recently<br />I need to remember the pain, the daily grind, the empty promises and pockets. The hours waiting for 'twenty minutes', the death, the dirt, lighters broken and revived using multiple parts from each one... People who have 'sorted' (I'm nowhere near sorted..but) themselves out just won't talk about it. Strange...as they are all very good at telling people about how clean they are when they aren't. I need to talk about it. Or I forget<br />I need to remember. I need to be halfway through the door. I'm not sure why. Safety net? Do you know what I'm on about?<br />Thanks' to you again.<br />Lots of love...Kate from Sunny old Swansea. <br />P.S...have you made it back to the UK yet? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-3623235893097416122015-04-21T16:23:48.362+02:002015-04-21T16:23:48.362+02:00Be warned crying before me, My Girl... I kiss tear...Be warned crying before me, My Girl... I kiss tears away and drink them and become a living dying poet in such tender moments. In that embrace there exists no pain or ugliness, just darkness and warmth and dreamy passions. Many people don't know how to cry.... They look ugly and selfish through it. But real, wet and honest tears are beautiful and I'm a sucker for such passions. So cry, My Darling, and I'll drink and like that we'll become stronger together. XShane Levenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03863320007737754609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-37696608686938174572015-04-21T15:10:58.707+02:002015-04-21T15:10:58.707+02:00Beyond anything i can say.I cried. Im still crying...Beyond anything i can say.I cried. Im still crying. Fuck you. I mean thank you. Thank you. Reading your words i feel parts of my own pain and ugliness redeemed. Reading your words, i feel ok to sit with my brokenness without having to stuff it down with false feel good palliative phrases or vacuous activity. You are a true artist and though your body may be in shambles, you are a jewel.Tatiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-65987225971748672432013-08-19T05:03:59.263+02:002013-08-19T05:03:59.263+02:00This post has made me start brushing my teeth more...This post has made me start brushing my teeth more. For almost a year now, so your writing has power. That disgusting brush still makes me gag... tooth-past flavor makes no difference for me. For some reason I thought you would like to know. <br /><br />I don't think I can relate to that amount of tooth pain... the worst that I have experienced was a dentist drilling my tooth without anesthetic... Luckily I've only had contact with methadone in pill form.<br /><br />I will be in Paris in about a month... maybe I will see you... probably not.Kill the Sunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15124787147364653448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-56233241829622126812013-04-07T10:39:10.673+02:002013-04-07T10:39:10.673+02:00Hello man,
Just started reading your fascinating ...Hello man, <br />Just started reading your fascinating blog... I must say I can relate to a lot of the using (I mark sure-fire veins with pens too!). I've been using for 13 years now... Got battered hands and arms, scars, missing teeth... The pic I've got is of an old wound from shooting, it was about 2cm deep, there's a joint hanging out of it!<br />My health is just now starting to get a bit, well, iffy shall we say?!<br />Anyways, just sorta saying 'Hi' basically, and will be reading more of yer stuff. I'm gonna be posting up old stories of my escapades soon... at the mo there's just a half finished trip report (which is quite fun to read)...<br />All the best,<br />NickoNickTheLickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695847267342594629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-26372938200727826582013-02-21T14:07:59.053+01:002013-02-21T14:07:59.053+01:00The perils of a toothache... Lol.. However, taking...The perils of a toothache... Lol.. However, taking to my mouth with a knife?? I could never.. Just too many painkillers and an anxious wait at the dentist! <br />Love love... XxxxxMOniquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11296773864004612405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193316819499446317.post-41524906293290870312012-11-05T10:09:46.992+01:002012-11-05T10:09:46.992+01:00wow nice i like ur post.....
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I was speaking with a friend today who ...Hey Shane,<br />I was speaking with a friend today who was asked the same question and told "But you're killing yourself! Why, oh why do you do it to yourself?"<br />"BECAUSE I WANT TO: BECAUSE I LIKE IT!"<br />Do people go up to steel workers, coal miners:<br />"But you're killing yourself! Why do you do it to yourself?"<br />I worked in an advice centre once. People with illnesses from working in the above jobs needed help filling in DLA claims and suchlike. Six months to live. Eight weeks to live. Chronic pulmonary obstructive disease and suchlike. For what? <br /> I've been reading up on theories of heroin addiction.<br />They talk a lot about identity being somehow "vacated". <br />I don't see how heroin addiction necessarily cancels out identity or becomes a person's sole identity as many suggest. Adds to it if one wishes to identify as a heroin addict, but why should it cancel out the other qualities? <br />The chaos that can ensue with having to support and maintain a habit can sometimes leave little time for other things, but this isn't always the case. The majority of heroin addicts are the hidden ones eh? <br />Even the times I was totally fucked, I didn't suddely just disappear inside my own nothingness and forget "who I was" <br />I think non-addicts create their own supposed version of an addict's "identity". How THEY see US. External vs Internal identity. There was a time when I loved parading my junkiedom. Depending on the audience.<br />There's more often than not a shock, horror reaction. Parents disown children. Children disown parents.<br />There's that "tough love" nonsense.<br />I knew people who sold all their parents' things and were disowned; people who worked to fund their habits and were disowned; a mother who injected her daughter; a mother who went scoring for her son: she kept him home and paid for his heroin and crack. Every story's different.<br />It's always the same though. Heroin's an oxymoron.<br />When you say "lose yourself in your addiction" I remember being told by non-heroin using people:<br />"Do you never talk about anything else but heroin?" <br />There was one article about people who became abstinent without treatment. They did research on 101 addicts around identity before, after, during. Stigma stopped many from being accepted, so most kept their past secret.It's exactly this anonymity which feeds the stigma. <br />Here's an excerpt from cyn.com:<br /><br />"Life Addiction Has Great Personal Emptiness <br /><br />A person with drug addiction or alcoholism<br />has great emptiness in their life. That’s more than likely why they begin drinking<br />excessively in the first place. They may have felt the need to block some of their self understanding and emotions as a child or young adult. Sexual abuse, divorce, mentally ill parents, family chaos – any of these things may have disrupted their process of self understanding. When the emptiness becomes too much, drinking and drug use cover up the pain. This blocks even more self understanding and personal growth. Their identity has been fuzzy and disrupted for such a long time, their drug or alcohol use becomes the most obvious element of their identity"<br />There's something patronising about it somehow.<br />What do they mean by emptiness? By "fuzzy" and "disrupted" identity?<br />Obvious to the outsider or to themselves?<br />With me, there's a pride there.<br />Another common identity thing is the "recovering addict" identity, the "My name's * and I'm an addict" identity...<br />I'm not getting along so well with that one at the moment and to be honest I never have.<br />I got told in rehab that I'll always be fifteen if I don't heed their program because I "never grew from that point". Great! I like being forever fifteen. Shame about the body. Bloody liars! <br /><br />Love&Inspiration,<br />Vee X Gravediggin' Under the Mancy Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01535049480477577355noreply@blogger.com