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Harm Reduction Injection Complications FAQ and Mega Thread

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If you're experiencing pain and swelling at the area you're injecting, it's likely you're hitting the subcutaneous area (aka missing a shot). If the end of your extremity (your hand & fingers) goes swollen & numb & painful, etc, then yes you likely hit an artery.

Any other questions?

Eventually I'll merge this into the IV Complications Mega Thread.
 
ouch, that doesnt sound too good at all. it indicates that you are hitting an artery - read the initial post in this thread for some more information. id further do your own research as well since by the sound of what youre saying you do it regularly? it sounds like you need to brush up on your technique as well.

have you ever noticed frothy blood entering when you register? has there been a pressure against the plunger when you have tried injecting these missed shots?

hitting an artery isnt a small deal, you really should seek some medical attention if it is as bad as you say.

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hey that was quick thanks!

Hey thanks for your quick responses! And for moving my query to the appropriate forum.

The blood I get is dark and flows in slowly, just like when I register normally. Two days ago I hit the vein parallel to what I believe is the cephalic (not the large one that runs between the thumb and forefinger). This one is inner - running up from the thumb. Anyway, I hit that vein fine and it was a great rush. A few hours later I hit that vein a little further up the arm. I let the injection sites heal a little and tried again today. I injected an inch up from the site I hit two days ago and registered dark red blood. When I hit the plunger (slowly as I always do) my arm started tingling. I immediately stopped. Since I know it's the same vein I thought it'd be ok. And that's why I thought I could have screwed up that vein somehow and collapsed it, and that's why I'm getting numb.

Sorry for the long post - one more point - with the big crook on my right arm - when I use a 29 guage most the time I'll hit the vein no problem. When I use my 31 guage, which I routinely use, that's when get the numb problem. Still though, dark blood!
 
nevermind

Okay I'm sorry to have wasted space. I found a post and responses identical to my problem. I found it/them buried in this thread. I like the idea of all problems merged into one thread and it makes sense since they're all injection complications; however, I probably could have found the answer if the question were its own post and prevented my duplicative query. Thanks again for the respondents for their well, um, responses.
 
Did I almost OD? Uncontrollable shaking/shivering and cold feeling then intense pain

I did some searching on cocaine overdoes and these symptoms and I can't come to a conclusion on what happened earlier this morning. I definitely did too much and I'm not sure if it was the prelude to a seizure or heart attack or if what I experienced in itself was an OD or something else.

I was snorting and IVing an 8 ball I got over the course of an hour or two and I would get intense bell-ringers from shooting it which I had never experienced before. I don't know how much I did but it must have been a gram or a little more which I know is a lot for not having used in a couple months. Experiencing those bellringers for the first time kept me going and was fascinating to me since I have IVed coke before and never got them.

So i did two IV shots in a span of 10 minutes or so that were about 2-3 average sized lines each worth of coke. About 10 minutes after the second shot after the ringing faded out I got intensely cold and started shivering/shaking uncontrollably. I turned up my heat to 80 and got under three blankets to try and ride out whatever the hell was going on and it felt like an eternity under the covers until the shaking stopped and I felt warm enough. Then I had an intense headache that fealt like my brain was being stabbed and I slept it off for a few hours. I considered calling 911 and going downstairs to the street at one point but the though of the consequences of people finding out about it stopped me. I was shaking so much I couldn't feel my pulse well but it felt high as expected but not through the roof, there was no sweating or chest pains that I can remember.

Reading up on some cocaine OD threads I didn't come across anyone talking about such intense feelings of cold and uncontrollable shivering so I'm trying to figure out what happened. I'm definitely laying off the stuff for a while in any case.
 
Did you have good water to use? Only reason i ask if because ive had those EXACT symptoms you said (insane shaking and really really cold) from 3 day old water from a water bottle. First and only time its ever happened.
 
DragTheDevil187 said:
Did you have good water to use? Only reason i ask if because ive had those EXACT symptoms you said (insane shaking and really really cold) from 3 day old water from a water bottle. First and only time its ever happened.
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Yes it was exactly a 3 day old bottle of water! I had been keeping it in the fridge but might have left it out for an extended period. That's really strange, can someone define what a dirty hit is and why it causes that reaction?
 
leftwing said:
yeah that does sound like a dirty hit from your description. how long have you been feeling like this?
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I passed out shortly after the headache came on and slept for 3-4 hours, I still have a slight headache and now I have some chest pains.
 
I still think it might have been an OD. And yet either way I want to do it again just more carefully.
 
Had a friend fuck himself up shooting Suboxone very recently... haven't talked to him since he went to the hospital but I hope he doesn't become a horror story...

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I'm not sure, wasn't there when he did the shot, he said he registered (pulled blood back into the syringe), and then pushed it in. He said there within 30 seconds his arm started to throb and he was at my my house within 15 minutes and his arm was looking like that..swollen and discolored along the upper arm but the injection site itself looked fine?

I ran him to the hospital on my way to work and I haven't heard from him yet, but it didn't look good at all..

I was bitching at him about shooting pills but he swore to me he was using a micron filter..I hope he is alright..
 
Good to hear you're doing OK.

bang that shit said:
Well its gone, tried shooting into last week went fine, Though since there is more scar tissue there its harder to register the shot, and since I only use once a week Im just sticking to other veins
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Good to hear the update that you're OK. I'll merge this into the IV Complications Mega Thread, and leave a link for a week.

Take care and safe shooting

CH
 
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There is a large-ish vein that starts between the last 2 knuckles of my right hand, moves straight up past my wrist and disappears... I have hit this vein before, in the wrist/hand area, and not had any problems; in fact, it is a larger one, so the hit can be pushed in quickly as opposed to other wrist/hand veins.

Since a few months ago, the veins on my arms/hands no longer bulge out (even though I have never shot into the ones that used to bulge).

Well, the large hand-vein in question still has a profile, thus it's an easy target. So, I tried shooting into it...and the weirdest thing happened:
I could not register any blood, and the moment I pulled out the needle, my entire arm - along the length of that specific vein - felt tingly, the skin above it went tight, and had goose bumps. This all happened ONLY along the length of the vein itself, with a width of about an inch.

What the snarf-snarf is going on here? Some months later, I tried hitting that vein again. This time, I didn't register, but I had a feeling that I was in the vein.. So I pressed the plunger...and it all went in! Into the vein, that is.. and again there began that strange numbness tingly sensation along the entire length of the vein.. Goose bumps formed on the skin above the vein, all the way up to my mid-bicep.

There was never any pain - just weird tingly-ness.

Anyone ever had this before?
 
Ok, I did my first shot about 10 minutes ago. feeling really good. did just a little , didn't want to do to much. I registered then pulled back a little, saw some blood then proceeded to plunge slowly. when done I pulled the needle out but there was like only 1 very small blood spot. cleaned it up, I have no swelling or lumps around the site.
Does it sound like I did everything right. I'm just worried cause there was hardly no blood when I pulled the needle out. If its done right is this how it should be..
Also I sterilized everything including the water..
Feel like I could of done more but I wanted to start slow so I don't wake up in the hospital..%)
 
Oxyrisin2 said:
Ok, I did my first shot about 10 minutes ago. feeling really good. did just a little , didn't want to do to much. I registered then pulled back a little, saw some blood then proceeded to plunge slowly. when done I pulled the needle out but there was like only 1 very small blood spot. cleaned it up, I have no swelling or lumps around the site.
Does it sound like I did everything right. I'm just worried cause there was hardly no blood when I pulled the needle out. If its done right is this how it should be..
Also I sterilized everything including the water..
Feel like I could of done more but I wanted to start slow so I don't wake up in the hospital..%)
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If the injection site doesn't bleed much, or just has a tiny little droplet of blood,
it does not indicate something wrong, per se.. It could be that the vein in question is quite small, or narrowed from shooting into it, which would cause the blood flow through it to be very minimal, thereby bleeding very little.

But it's really not a problem - your technique was good.
 
Oxyrisin2 said:
Ok, I did my first shot about 10 minutes ago. feeling really good. did just a little , didn't want to do to much. I registered then pulled back a little, saw some blood then proceeded to plunge slowly. when done I pulled the needle out but there was like only 1 very small blood spot. cleaned it up, I have no swelling or lumps around the site.
Does it sound like I did everything right. I'm just worried cause there was hardly no blood when I pulled the needle out. If its done right is this how it should be..
Also I sterilized everything including the water..
Feel like I could of done more but I wanted to start slow so I don't wake up in the hospital..%)
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hardly any blood coming out at the injection site is a good thing! you want the blood to clot as soon as possible so the site can heal over as quick as possible. if you used a 31g tip then, ime, youll get next to no blood come out. maybe a few drops. its larger gauge tips that make you bleed more. i just used a 26g tip for an injection about 20-30mins ago and had drops(nothing huge obviously) of blood coming out as i got a compress over the site.

starting with small doses is the safest and smartest way to go about it. you can use that first test shot as a means to measure out your next bigger shot.

youve got no lumps or pain or any bad symptoms from the area?

it sounds like you did everything exactly right:)
 
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