I hit my artery full on with meth about 24 hours ago. Need some smart people's help!
I KNOW THIS IS LONG AS FUCK BUT PLEASE IF U ARE ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ABOUT ARTERIES AND IV'N ONE THAN PLEASEEEE READ AND HELP A BROTHER OUT
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I ask of whoever readen this to listen too all these details and facts and i ask that u put urself in my position. Drug history: im 19 ive fucked with drugs my whole life pretty much but never ever full on been addicted to nothin bud herb(i was on coke for like 4 months straight pretty much every day when i was 16) I got outta prison about 2 months ago and since then ive fucked with crystal 2 times (smoked both times) and iv'd for my first time 2 weeks ago with coke, so keep in mind im very enexperienced with needles and veins... very.
This is different from most of the artery shots ive read which is why im makin this and askin for u experts to really try to think about the facts im about to tell u and not just say GO TO THE EM. if thats all u gotta say than thats whats up. All i ask is that u really take every detail im about to tell u and think if it were u what would u honestly do. OK so my homie comes up on a grip of crystal yesterday and he gives me a half gram for nothin. all i gotta do is answer his calls and tell him bus times from my computer when im home. so im down for that we are kicken it smokin bowls. it is about 4 PM on day 1. we smoke a few bowls and i been wanten to try slammin dope cuz i never done it before and i had a brand new rig from 2 weeks back in my room so i say imma slam this shit and so he helps me out a lil bit and i get it eventually after like 3 trys i get a nice fuckin hit, but a lil bit went out of the vein cuz there was a small bump but it was gone in a minute so it wasnt no thang.
im liken it alot its alot different more clean id say than smokin and snorting it, besides the fact ur sticken a needle thru ur skin. so he bounces and i just kick it at my pad for the night. i was planning on sleepin that night but i was way to hungry and i wasnt about to fall asleep anytime soon i realised cuz of the skante, so i think i could spend 5 hours tossin and turnin and sweatin and starvin (no food in house) or i can slam and cure all of it and have a good time. so at 3 AM i start makin a shot and i think i wput to much water in there, like 90 cc's and like a quarter of a quarter of a gram, same as my first one. so i tie up.... way to tight i find out later... and start tryn to hit my biggest vein in my arm about an inch above the elbow on the top part of the fore arm. i hit the coke here last time but not the crystal. i think i know what im doin but i got no fuckin idea in reality, im pokin away and diggen and shit. i dint give a fuck that i was diggen so much, i was lookin at it as a one time thing so why learn to get good just fuckin handle it... im an idiot. well ill make this alot simpler than it really was, i end up in like a 80` angle and it aint goin thru than all of a sudden i feel a POP and a shit loada blood rushes in outta nowhere. it didnt hurt at all just kinda shocked me. so i end up in an 80 degree angle with needle balls deep in my vein, or so i think. i see all the blood and like a fuckin idiot i was thinkin jackpotttt.
so i guess i forgot to take the belt off, and this belt is tight as fuck too which is why i dont think i coulda hit the vein i was tryn to, i put to much pressure and went thru it alll the waythru and out the bottom where im pretty sure the artery was chillen. but listen to this fact i didnt feel no pain goin in, no stinging when i was shootin, and 0 swellin in my hand and fingers.
what i think and fuckin hope happened was i just over pushed the needle thru the surface vain, cuz that vain was bulgen out, and arteries are deep, i think i might of gone thru the artery and maybe hit a nerve so i jolted back into the other vein and didnt shoot in my artery. (i thought everything was going as planned at the time) i do notice tho that my arm hands and fingers are feelin tingly tho when i take off the belt and they start feelin numb randomly. by this time its like 3 30-4 00 and than this is way weird too like 2 or 3 minutes after my shot, i start feelin intenseeeeeee hunger. i was sufferin for 10 minutes for real. and than i start talkin to the a homegirl on the phone and that takes my mind off my arm and my hunger, not all teh way tho i was still feelin it for a minute.
anyways were on teh phone and i do notice that my injection spot is swollen and red but its closed and shit, not open, and not that swollen. its a lil bruised from teh needle but other than that it dont hurt that much. thats when i realise my vain was gone that i was tryn to hit, which went all the way down to my hand.. it was just gone. I think about thsi now and why would that vein be gone if i hit the artery, which makes me think of my theory again. SOOO.. so far we got an artery struck for sure, random numbness and tingling in arms and fingers, very little to no pain at all with everything, and a lil swelling in injection spot, but i was thinkin at the time it was just bruised.
so i get off the phone with her around 5'sh and that vain was trippen me out how it dissapeared so i think it collapsed or somethin wrong happened which might explain the weird tingling and numbness so i start researchin any info i could get that might be usefull. This is when i realise that i probably hit an artery. i had the blood rush, the randon numbness, the shock when i enterd the artery, and the tingling. BUT i dont have no swelling, no pain in arm, and no pain when i shot up, and i dont recall resistance either i think it went in pretty smooth but it aint for sure so fuck it.
i spend a couple hours lookin up everything i can on iv'n and artery. i read about how the fingertips will turn a diff color if u let the blood stay in there and it will turn to gangreen and ill lose limbs and fingers. i learn that if u raise ur hand elevated and rub the injection point to get the toxins spread out so i start doin both those like every 2 minutes... i find out that this is some serious shit according to alot of people and this is when i start getting scared.
at 8 i go take my blood pressure cuz they said high bp is a symptom and its at like 220/something. so i know somethings really up. i go do some serious ass research now. now its fuckin no joke lol. so im thinkin its a clogged artery at this point, so i came up with an idea that if i flex hard enough maybe the blood will get thru, cuz i dont think there was none goin thru, my arm and hand and fingers would get all dark randomly and change colors until i got my arm elevated. i keep flexin and rubbing to elevating.... i do them for like 10 or so minutes and i see that my hand vain is comin back. i also go get something to eat andwhile im eating im doin the flexing and elevating if i feel theres bad circulation. by the time im done, i can now feel a pulse in the artery i hit (very faint) and my hand vein is back to regular, or way close to it.
so at this time i go back on the computer and i stay on there for like 10 hours straight twaked the fuck out rubbin my arm and keepin it elevated every couple of minutes. i learn pretty much all tehres to know about arteries being iv'd, and about half the people said dont trip and the other half pissin there pants sayin get the fuck to the EM. 2 reasons i aint go to EM yet if anyones wonderin.. the first is i aint for sure what it is yet and i dont want to have to waste the money and shit if theres a grip of people sayin it heals by itself (saw someone payed 5 g's) and i know its a chance they will get amputated if i wait tho. the second is i aint tryn to go to my grandparents to tell em "hey i know i just got outta prison 2 months ago and i know u guys said i could stay with u if i get my act together and i know i got a cool job right now, but i just shot up some meth, and can u take me to the EM?" i aint tryn to do that till i fuckin really believe theres no other way.
so with my mini therapy to my arm its gettin better actually. i can actually make out the vain that went hiding and the swellin went down, and the only thing changin colors now are my finger tips, but still thats all bad.. so after about 10 hours of getin every piece of info i could i go get a bump for me cuz im starten to burn out and that bump made me stop stressin on my arm and shit for the moment. i go do other shit for like 2 hours and than randomly i notice the numbness which brings me right back into it. i wasnt raisen my hand to much but i was rubbin and flexin durin those 2 hours and it was helpin i think.
well i go back on the computer now its like 11 or so and i start tryn to get more info. and a poste on this site sayin shit dont happen till 12 hours than after 12 hours i gathered from a few diff sites the conclusion that once u fall asleep and let all ur blood fester in the fingertips, thats when the tissue starts dieing, so im not sleepin tonight and i gonna have my answer of what imma do tomorrow morning, and i really need some experts and experienced peoples help i really am sad about this whole situation its such a huge life-changing-for-the-worse thing to come from something so small and fucking stupid. i dont wanna be looked at as that was down ass white boy who pulled a junky move and lost his fingers. its fuckin all bad. so as of 3 20 AM my fingers are still fuckin with me and have been as ive been typen this, and i can see my artery is pretty pumped up down by my wrist, and it wasnt there earlier so some bloods comin thru my artery (ya i no theres 2 arterys per arm, it is the right one). i dont no if thats cuz theres blood trapped in the forearm tho. i gonna add pics of my injection spot on here. all my injection spot looks like is irritated skin like 1 inch in diameter its not even noticably swollen but it is still a little bigger and tighter than id like. in the long run my symptoms have been getting better since i iv'd 24 hours ago, but still the fingers scare the fuck outta me. when i forget about them for like 5 minutes they get dark and i can feel alot of blood pressure in my hand. if i go to sleep idfk what theyd even be in the mornin, and i dont really wanna no cuz i aint about to find out.
if u guys no ANYTHING to help me out cuz i really am stressin out over this, please let me no. i appreciate u all takin the time to read this and pls i no u guys like to flame people for bein ignorant with needles, dont even waste ur breath pls, its just gonna fuck with my head and i aint tryn to stress out on explainin myself to anybody i did what i did and im aware of how fuckin stupid it was. and i know i shoulddd go to the EM. im gonna go tomorrow if my fingers dont get better so u dont gotta say that either. just please give me some info that might shed some light on this gay ass situation. thank you. here are some pics of my injection spot 24 hours later. And the pics kinda make it look more red than it really is. AIGHT TY PEACE