(I put this in OD over TR bcuz I figured it’d get more views here)
Ok, so my recent background of drug use and current is 8g’s kratom in the evening, xanax as prescribed, and the research chemical o-desmethyltramadol which I only use once a week now. (Financial reasons)
Thats it... until simultaneously the fates of being a past junky conspired against me.
Ive been having strong fatigue issues and spoke to my doc who put me on Wellbutrin to try to help. Around this time I came across some syringes in my own home (well, I live with my mom hehe). She breeds cattle and sometimes gives em vitamin shots. They were mostly unusable 16g, but alas, there was 1 single 25 I could manage with.
So I crushed a 150mg pill squirted hella water on it (luer lock held like 12cc) and double filtered through cotton. Lined the rig up to were I used to IV yeeears ago and drew blood. I injected all but a little of it to see if I was still in the vein, nothing. Complete painless miss. Tried again several times but for some reason the rig kept clogging.
Come to find out Wellbutrin itself is a coagulant! So as soon as you register it coagulates the blood in the barrel unless you’re quick draw McGraw.
Anyway the miss left me with a lump, a numb lump. I wait 3 days till this morning when I wake up with extreme pain in my arm. All over the top part and there’s minor swelling and pain in my wrist.
I said fuck this I am NOT losing an arm. I ran to the ER and told them everything. They did blood cultures, found minor for now traces of bacteria, and put me on IV antibiotics and sent me home with a script for oral ones.
The needle ritual is hard to break... even almost 4 years away from one and just the sight and possession of one caused all this grief. Moral is DONT IV WELLBUTRIN way too dangerous and so not worth the risk.
i was weak and foolish and won’t EVER touch that needle again, God help me. Just thought I’d share this to spread the word that this is riskier than shooting normal pills. Don’t do it if you value your veins and limbs. And life.