I’ve been IV’ing filtered Subutex for about few weeks after relapsing this year. I started iv’ing last year and managed to quit end of the year.
Anyways, i have very weird veins. At the start of my ”journey” when i learned myself how to iv i lost a vein in my left forearm. Then i started to use the right one, and many times tried to find different sites so i could rotate but i always came up to the same problem; even though i was 100% sure i am in vein, i registered it and the blood flows in nicely but when i push the syringe i feel sting and burn, just like when missing so i stop and register again and the blood still flows in syringe so i am in a vein. I tried this in many different places with many different needle sizes and always the same problem, and the symptoms are same like i missed, pain and swelling afterwards, bruising sometimes. Like now
And now i come up to my main problem; because that i have really only used the same iv spot at my right foreaem, at start i was always very cautious about hygiene and only used sterile natrium chloride, new rigs and plunges, wipes, sterifilters but now sometimes i havent had possibility to go needle exchange so i have used same needle few times over. The site ive been hitting have now huge lump underneath the skin, i cant register blood and as stupid i am, i have tried forcing myself to get the shot in my arm and make multiple pokes and if i find a vein it feels very hard to get the shot in. The vein is hard and scarred, it doesnt feel hot or painful. Now in few days i’ve been trying to find new iv site, and my veins are fresh everywhere else but everytime i come up same problem as i told above; i hit the vein, blood comes nicely in the syringe and when i push the plunger i feel stingy pain like i miss. Then i stop, i am still in vein and try again and i still feel this stinging sensation. Even if my hand is steady as possible. I use tourniquet also, i know i have slippy veins but how it can be that i in elbow area this problem doesnt happen but every other vein it does?
I put few photos here so if you could tell does that elbow site looks like abscess or some another infections bcs few time i used same needle again and photos of those other sites i have been hitting but apparentaly missed, or how the hell this could happen everytime? Are my veins just super slippery, because im not kidding that i know im in vein but still get that feeling and most likely i am missing the shot
(Sorry for my bad english, if you have something to ask i try to clarify.)
Thank you very much!
My right elbow, main site which is probably collapsed soon if doesnt already
Some photos of the sites i’ve tried to rotate that have bruising now all over them so that probably is sign about missing, and spots on my left elbow bcs i started to get frustrated and just tried to find a vein everywhere, i got registered one spot on the top but same thing happened, it was red few hours but now only feel slight pain when touched.
Could it be that my veins are just so slippery or some kind of inflammation? And how fast does symptoms for sepsis or other blood infections start, it has been few days since i did the dirty hit.
Thanks for the help!