Nope. And I ended up in what sounds a spookily similar circumstance - the palm smarts a tad, dontcha think?
As others have said, once things are getting that bad there's just not many shooting years left, in my experience. I ended up quitting heroin cos it was taking upwards of two hours to get a shot a lot of the time. That meant refiltering and recooking nasty coagulated shots and perpertually looking like I'd been in a knife fight. Wasn't pretty or practical but quitting daily IV use was the only option. I have two or three usable veins now and quit daily use around five years ago.
Inside of the knees, ankles and knuckles are the ones I have left. I really can't recommend the latter lowly enough. I went with Subutex and reluctantly switched to plugging as a regular IV "replacement". It's not the same, but it has similarities and is better than a boot in the backside if your veins are gone bye-bye. Some of us drew the short straw when they were dishing out veins
Just reading this interesting post and you'll probably all wanna laf but i think its coz im from England but whats "plugging" i have got crap veins too n used 2 really struggle injecting (i quit that and swaped back 2 smoking it).. but ive never heard of plugging. could u pls explain any1? x