Health - Mephedrone hospitalization: Purple knees, extremities

[Synesthesiac]

Swim was visiting his mephedrone source the other day and saw the effects of far too much mephedrone first hand. Not a nice sight. Swims never touching the stuff again after this. I dont think that any responsible users have anything to worry, this guy was using it chronically and far too frequently.


Swim and his friends entered his dealers flat to pick up the intended substances and stayed for a while to have a brief smoke. Swims dealer said he had been "bang on" the mephedrone since yesterday and hadn't slept all night, and proceeded to honk down another line. Swim doesn't know exactly how much he had done, but it was probably over a gram of the stuff. And swim suspected that he'd probably done even more previously this week as he had got the mephedrone about five days ago. After a while swim noticed he became quite quiet and looked very pale, so swim and co asked if was feeling OK. He said he felt a bit lightheaded, and then swim noticed that his hands were an odd color, a light pinky redish color as if covered in a rash. He then checked his feet to see if they were the same, they were very pale white, but then everyone noticed that his knees has turned dark purple, as if they were covered in a massive bruise. At the edge of the purple swim could see that they were following his veigns, ie, there were purple lines coming off the main area where swim presumed his veigns were, which slowly faded out to normal color. At this sight swims dealer started to look very queesy and so he lay down on the sofa and was sweating loads and looked like was gonna black out. One of swims friends phoned an ambulance. Swim was scared shitless.

After a few minutes of lying down he seemed to get marginally better and he started walking around again, as he said this made him feel better than lying still. Next thing swim and co noticed was that his elbows had turned red like his hands had and were both slightly purple at the very tip, and they had a strange pimply red rash around them all the way up his shoulder. Swim was thinking WTF is going on here?!? These were symptoms swim had NEVER heard of before. He was also complaining about cramp in his hands too, which were slightly blue/purple aswell, but no where near a purple as his knees were. The ambulance arrived and asked a few questions and they walked out with him to their car and whisked him off to the hospital with one of his closer friends. At which point swim and his friends went home and got eventually some sleep.

Swim phoned the friend that went with him to the hospital the next day and he said that the doctors didn't know what was wrong with him, apart from the obvious signs like dilated pupils, purple knees, red elbows and odd rash, his blood pressure was apparently OK as was his heart and oxygen levels. All of which were measured two hours after he was admitted due to delays and queues. He seemed fine the next day and was discharged. Luckily the police did not get involved throughout the whole escapade, probably because the word mephedrone did not appear as a controlled substance on any list.


PURPLE KNEES?!? PURPLE ELBOWS? What on earth could cause that? swim wishes he had taken a picture, but that was the last thing from his mind that night.

Any ideas on what would cause these very odd symptoms?