Hey so I have had a lump on a vein for maybe 5-8 days from I.V. heroin use that does not match any picture or descriptions that I see. It WAS pretty red today it has lightened up, but it is hard to the touch and extremely itchy at times, and I know I am not suppose to scratch, but I had to ~30min ago for a good hard ~7 seconds all down my forearm and pretty much scratch it at least once a day.
It was a red big circle not to hard, from I guess a missed shot, and, like a dumbass I put a couple of insulin syringes into that area to see if it would draw back any liquid or puss and all I got was about 1/20th of a cc of blood.
NOW it is not a circle of red, but it is a small ~2 cm in all directions of hardness, and this gets hardness increases right over a vein that I was shooting in before this happened a it has two injection marks inside the 2cm area of hardness are right above the vein- this is the "center" of the very slightly raised, slightly harder than the other parts in the 2cm circle of hardness - directly on top of the vein 's injection marks
I've been taking keflex for a few days and it looks much better, did I just hit the vein to close to my other hit or maybe at a vien wall, or vein valve. Or just overused it too close? I thought it would go away by now but its still itchy at times and a bit hard.
P.S. pic is of forearm white circle on it is overall hard-are and black inner-circle is the actuall hardest area right above vein with two hits just about 1cm apart. For perspective, White line is about the sixe of a silver dollar/ half-dollar/ a lil bigger tan a quarter and at it's hardestpit about as thick as a quarte
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tl;dr Is the hard-circle on my forearm in the pic an infection, 5-7 days and hasnt gone away yet but is musch smaller, White circle in pic is about silver dollar and black is the harder bump, thickness of a quarter, directly over vein that had 2 i.v. shots like 1cm apart.
Pic is included please view PIC first thanks
Thank You and well wishes to all!!
It was a red big circle not to hard, from I guess a missed shot, and, like a dumbass I put a couple of insulin syringes into that area to see if it would draw back any liquid or puss and all I got was about 1/20th of a cc of blood.
NOW it is not a circle of red, but it is a small ~2 cm in all directions of hardness, and this gets hardness increases right over a vein that I was shooting in before this happened a it has two injection marks inside the 2cm area of hardness are right above the vein- this is the "center" of the very slightly raised, slightly harder than the other parts in the 2cm circle of hardness - directly on top of the vein 's injection marks
I've been taking keflex for a few days and it looks much better, did I just hit the vein to close to my other hit or maybe at a vien wall, or vein valve. Or just overused it too close? I thought it would go away by now but its still itchy at times and a bit hard.
P.S. pic is of forearm white circle on it is overall hard-are and black inner-circle is the actuall hardest area right above vein with two hits just about 1cm apart. For perspective, White line is about the sixe of a silver dollar/ half-dollar/ a lil bigger tan a quarter and at it's hardestpit about as thick as a quarte
r
tl;dr Is the hard-circle on my forearm in the pic an infection, 5-7 days and hasnt gone away yet but is musch smaller, White circle in pic is about silver dollar and black is the harder bump, thickness of a quarter, directly over vein that had 2 i.v. shots like 1cm apart.
Pic is included please view PIC first thanks
Thank You and well wishes to all!!
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