Hey guys I'm new to this site. I just wanted to let you guys know that I have been shooting suboxone for 7 years and let me tell you. My body is falling apart. I can't belive that I have gone this far and not died yet. First let me start by saying I was never addicted to any drugs. I only got addicted when I found subs. Then I started with the needle. Then the rest was history. So far I have blown out every vein in my body I couldn't hit myself if I tried. So I started going in my neck. Bad idea. Somehow suboxone made all of my veins shrink to nothing. I have had cellulitis 12 times. And it got worse when they came out with the strips. None of my symptoms started until the strips came out. Never had a problem with the pills. Never. Never with any other drug I was shooting. And I always used my own gear new or properly sterilized. But always my own. Then the rapid heart beat started, then the chest pains, then more cellulitis. I finally was looking at my son today playing football, man he is a beast on defence. I threw out all my shit and started taking them by mouth today. Who am I fooling if I keep this up I'm going to die. The problem is is that for you guys who are shooting subs like me and thousands of others. Subs have only been around for a short period compared to other drugs. This is when we will start seeing what the overall consequences are from main lining subs. I have cellulitis on my right knee right now so bad that I have to be on antibiotics. I'm so fucking scared this time because my chest has been hurting something awful and my heart has been pounding so hard it keeps me up at night. I really don't want to see what's happening to me happen to someone who has people who love and even though you might not think so need them too. Thanks for reading. Please be careful with these strips guys. And gals ?They have destroyed me. From the inside out P.S. I have noticed a really bad loss in short term memory. Shooting those things long term is bad for business. People that are shooting these things for 7+ years you know what I'm talking about. That red sore spot you get when you miss that's the cellulitis. Those of you that can't hit yourself there is a reason and it took me until today for my stupid ass to figure it out. My body and my brain had a meeting and they figured out that my body is shutting down and can't take it anymore. I'm done with doing my subs that way. Can't belive I let it go this far. I saw the signs, and I ignored them. If you are only shooting once in a while this is not for you. Or maybe it is so you don't do anymore than what you are right now. This is more for the guys who are hard core and take it to the max. I can shoot my whole daily amount 16 mg. And still do more. I was poking myself at least 4 times a day. I'm sorry for the super long P.S. later guys. And gals. And I just got my disability from the military and will get a huge retro check and 3200 dollars a month for the rest of my life for serving in the army. If that's not something to live for then maybe I should die. Lol. Thanks again.
Yeah I have never slammed the strips, just the generic suboxone pills, usually they were the white actavis pills with the half moon on them if they were suboxone, and as of lately I have been slamming my subutex. But I have friends who shoot the strips and they have fucked their veins up beyond badly, I still have most of my veins and have been slamming bupe everyday for the past 2-3 years now, and the only time I have fucked my veins up it has been with iv coke/crack or dope, not subs(knock on wood). I know those strips though, there is something in those that isn't in the pills that makes them very bad for IVing. Not saying the pills are good to shoot, because they aren't, even with a micron filter. As soon as I was put on sub strips, when I still took them sublingually I switched over to pills after the first script. I hated those damn things even taking them the right way, they always got stuck to the roof of my mouth and if you tried to reposition them they would disenegrate on your finger, not long after being on subs did I switch to sniffing them because I just hated taking shit under my tongue. Then I moved on to IV for the 100% BA, and it is very hard for me to want to go back to another ROA now that I have done this for so long. I wish I never started, but I am glad that I don't have the strips at least after reading your story and seeing first hand how bad those motherfuckers are for IV from friends who do it.
Also the previous posts on this thread just bothered me from dopesmoke420 and how you weren't injecting in your veins but in your skin, I know that was like 5 years ago and you probably wont even see this but wow I hope you figured out how to iv properly or just put the needle down. Sounds like you are/were very inexperienced with injecting IV or your veins weren't meant to be played with that way. If I had that much trouble with IVing I would switch to another ROA because skin popping or subcutaneous heroin or anything really that is not meant to be done that way is just stupid, especially if you continue to do it. Just wanted anyone who does that to know, it wont work correctly and will cause serious health problems. That goes to anyone who doesn't know the proper way to iv drugs, either have someone show you and figure out how to do it right or don't do it at all! Please be safe, and don't shoot heroin(or anything) into anywhere on your body it doesn't belong, its just careless.
People who have done the strips this way for a while know what I mean. Before the subs I dabbled quite a bit with molly and I shot it everytime. Seven years of shooting your pretty much a pro when it comes to hitting yourself. The fact is is that my veins were perfect until the strips came out. They are the only ones allowed in my state. They actually scan them here. The pregnant girls here get subutex and those are not scanned in any way. So it started like a year, year and a half before I started noticing the effects. The first thing was the veins disappearing. Very odd never had this happen before in my whole time shooting. My mom worked in phlebotomy. She told me if I was going to be doing shit like that she wanted me to be doing right. So things could have been worse without the lessons. She hated me for doing it but, come on. Mom's little boy. Even she was impressed with what they were doing and said that shouldn't be happening. I do appreciate the advice thanks for writing back and throwing me some info. Glad to see people care. People like you guys that I wish others were more like. Later on guys and gals.
What state do you live in that only prescribes strips? that's stupid, they wont even let you get a generic pill form of suboxone? Those fuckin strips are expensive without insurance! and even generic suboxone tabs are almost double the price of subutex at the pharmacies. I mean some sub docs around here wont prescribe subutex unless you are a pregnant women for whatever reason, I guess because they buy into that horseshit that the naloxone will make you sick if you try and do them anyway but sublingually and don't want there patients to abuse them, and think they wont do the same shit with suboxone(strips or pills) that they do with subutex. But even the sub docs here that wont prescribe subutex, will at least let you get the generic tablets! All of them can be abused, the strips a little less easily than the pills and with more health issues than the pills, at least in the short term, but I don't think shooting any kind of pill even with micron filters can ever be good for you either.