Okay it was a little bit over a year ago and it was before I started smoking pot or doing anything else (including alcohol). Well, I started getting sick and thought it would be fine. Well, it was until I ended up getting some weird case of mucus...something or other, and it put an EXTREME amount of pressure on my eardrums. In fact, it was enough to shatter my eardrums.
Not only was the pain unBEARABLE but I couldn't hear, to boot (because my eardrums were in pieces, literally).

Now, this was during a time in my life when I cut myself recreationally because I liked the pain. Keep that in mind. Well, the pain was so intense from my eardrums being shattered (and the pressure was still there, btw) so finally when I was taking a shower to try and ease the pain I got out and said, "Let's go to the hospital." We did, and I missed school for 6 days while they gave me shots at the hospital, and a steady supply of 1000mg Vicodin. ^_^

That's what originally got me into drugs, of any kind, for recreational use.