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The 1st pic is the missed shot under the skin which has swollen and the 2nd pic is citric burn form the missed shot. Your in the UK right and you used citric acid to cook the gear up with?
Injection; IV Complications and Information MEGATHREAD and FAQ II - show me the blood
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Strapped420
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Yeah so Im pretty sure i missed a shot a couple of days ago.. I have a huge swollen lump. I tried hitting the vien in it a few nights ago, and puss and blood drained into my rig. I think its an abcess... Im scared to go to the doctors. It was a shot of sub that i missed to. I cant even straighten my arm. Ill get pics if u guys want me to.
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Nope stilll there still the same size. but i won't go anywhere
thanks!No it can't be a citric burn because i don't cook my stuff with anything. I'm in southern cali i get the purest shit in the state so there really is no need to cook, i just use a cotton ball. shooting up 0.05 of a gram of this stuff will get me nodding off whereas at least 0.10 - 0.20 of normal tar will get me high. but i pay a very high amount for this stuff.
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La Bruna
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Ok so i IVed my suboxone for the first time today (2mg) and I was wondering why i should do it in small mg doses...? I'm supposed to take 8mg 2x a day and I had taken my one today already so I was just wondering if there was eve a point in doing this..? and if i were to go into withdrawal from the naloxone how fast would that happen? I know, I know, it wont happen, but i'm just wondering...
Why you wondering if it wont happen?^
Anyway, IVing subs gives you 100% of it, under the tongue is around 30%..so you're gettingmore of the drug into you when you iv it, thus you can take less and feel it more. Also atlow dose, like .5mg bupes agonist properties are felt more rather than at larger doses.
Anyway, IVing subs gives you 100% of it, under the tongue is around 30%..so you're gettingmore of the drug into you when you iv it, thus you can take less and feel it more. Also atlow dose, like .5mg bupes agonist properties are felt more rather than at larger doses.
Puss = infection. It's def. an abcess. If it's big and swolen you need to get it drained..posting a picture would help though.
Although drawing back puss into a rig got me thinking if that would be a way to get the puss out? But i am sure that would lead it to a bigger infection, not to mention it would be gross as shit.
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If you get a bump from a missed shot (which basically forms immediately) run hot water over the area from the faucet and gently but firmly massage the bump. A few minutes of this will greatly reduce it.
La Bruna
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Well I'm saying it "won't" happen because what I've read on here. Saying that to appease the answerer of replying so strongly to what I've asked. I'm wondering because I've read different things on other sites. I did however IV it and didn't get any of the "said" precipitated withdrawals. Idk, I'm just mainly curious.
Detrevni
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^^Seems like that could help distribute the missed shot quicker. I'll have to try that although out of a few years i've only missed once or twice and it was just a few cc's. Hopefully I won't have to worry about that though as i'm gonna try and put it down again. I went 11 months without a rig and slipped up a month or so ago. It sucks balls.
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La Bruna
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The second one is a missed shot. Did it itch at all?
La Bruna
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I need help... I had taken about 4mg of Suboxone this morning and then got a half g of dope a couple hours ago and shot like a point.... I think I feel something, I mean I definitely feel different than i did before I shot the dope but what I almost feel like I missed my shot... I did draw back blood in the syringe and it didn't hurt but then when I finished my shot and drew that small amount of blood back to check and see if i missed no blood went in... I don't see how I could have missed since it didnt hurt when I shot and there is no sign of it ( a bump, redness, or hurting) unless I poked al the way through the vein and missed the shot under my vein rather than above... my question is wouldn't it still hurt? it was about 40 or 50 au of fluid so I dont see how that wouldn't have hurt... Please help me in an explaination or advice on what this sounds like.... ugh... I shoot dope after a couple days of being on suboxone and this shit happens, I'm already sick of it again...
If there's no bump or anything u didn't miss. Suboxone blocks the effects of other opiates. You need to wait atleast 24 hours before you will be able to feel effects from dope and even longer (i mean days depending on how much suboxone u take) before you will feel the full effect. Suposedly if u do enough dope u can break through the suboxone, but i've never tried it. Be careful if u try to do that cuz it seems like an easy way to OD.
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Yeah, it would have hurt. Injecting Suboxone, even with a cotton filter, will typically hurt if you miss a part/all of your shot.
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Post your favorite injection tips & tricks
So let's start making this megathread generally useful, ok? I want to make sure anyone reading all 23 pages gets their money's worth
Post your favorite injection tip or trick here - anything you might have learned or any tricks you may have come up with that others may not be aware of. I'll start with one I came up with:
I keep a separate spoon to mix the goodies in and I put a small piece of rubberized adhesive on the bottom so it doesn't slide all over the place when I mix and draw up.
You can find them pretty easily, they're meant to stick to the back of cell phones so they don't slide all over the dashboard.
But they are also great at keeping your spoon from sliding all over the kitchen counter
So let's start making this megathread generally useful, ok? I want to make sure anyone reading all 23 pages gets their money's worth
Post your favorite injection tip or trick here - anything you might have learned or any tricks you may have come up with that others may not be aware of. I'll start with one I came up with:
I keep a separate spoon to mix the goodies in and I put a small piece of rubberized adhesive on the bottom so it doesn't slide all over the place when I mix and draw up.
You can find them pretty easily, they're meant to stick to the back of cell phones so they don't slide all over the dashboard.
But they are also great at keeping your spoon from sliding all over the kitchen counter
xxallgoodxx
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This might be a commonly known trick to get your veins to "come to the surface", but I will go ahead and mention it anyway.
Once you have a belt or whatever you use as a tourniquet around your upper arm (supposing you shooting into your forearm or in the crook of your elbow). You can flick the skin over the vein with your finger, and it will sometimes make stubborn veins easier to access.
Once you have a belt or whatever you use as a tourniquet around your upper arm (supposing you shooting into your forearm or in the crook of your elbow). You can flick the skin over the vein with your finger, and it will sometimes make stubborn veins easier to access.
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JB trick #2 - registering made easy
Another way to help take the guesswork out of vein location is to draw back THEN push the needle in...
My veins are NOT visible, so I have to feel for them; once I find it, great, I have the left-right location, but just how DEEP to push the needle in is always a guesstimate; all I can do is push it down what seems like the right amount, pull back (to register) and hope I see blood. If not, try again and again and again until my arm looks like a used Light Brite sheet.
But, I recently found a way that makes this MUCH easier..
When you pull back the plunger, it creates a vacuum inside the syringe - when liquid gets in the way (in this case, blood (I hope)), the vacuum pulls it in.
But if there is no liquid present when you create that vacuum, the vacuum stays active UNTIL it comes across something to suck up! In practical terms, it means I no longer have to guess how deep the vein is - I find the location of the vein, stick the needle in just a little bit then pull back the plunger to create the vacuum; chances are I'm still over the vein, so I don't see any blood yet, so now, with the plunger held in place, I slowly push the needle down until it hits a vein and blood comes rushing in to fill the vacuum!
No more guessing - when I hit the vein, I'll see the blood! This little trick (which I have never seen in any injection guide) has made registering correctly ten times easier. As long as you know the basic location of the vein, pushing in too far (or not far enough) is no longer a problem - just push in, pull the plunger back, push again and in a second or two bingo! You'll see that magic red swirl that lets you know everything is gonna be alright
Another way to help take the guesswork out of vein location is to draw back THEN push the needle in...
My veins are NOT visible, so I have to feel for them; once I find it, great, I have the left-right location, but just how DEEP to push the needle in is always a guesstimate; all I can do is push it down what seems like the right amount, pull back (to register) and hope I see blood. If not, try again and again and again until my arm looks like a used Light Brite sheet.
But, I recently found a way that makes this MUCH easier..
When you pull back the plunger, it creates a vacuum inside the syringe - when liquid gets in the way (in this case, blood (I hope)), the vacuum pulls it in.
But if there is no liquid present when you create that vacuum, the vacuum stays active UNTIL it comes across something to suck up! In practical terms, it means I no longer have to guess how deep the vein is - I find the location of the vein, stick the needle in just a little bit then pull back the plunger to create the vacuum; chances are I'm still over the vein, so I don't see any blood yet, so now, with the plunger held in place, I slowly push the needle down until it hits a vein and blood comes rushing in to fill the vacuum!
No more guessing - when I hit the vein, I'll see the blood! This little trick (which I have never seen in any injection guide) has made registering correctly ten times easier. As long as you know the basic location of the vein, pushing in too far (or not far enough) is no longer a problem - just push in, pull the plunger back, push again and in a second or two bingo! You'll see that magic red swirl that lets you know everything is gonna be alright
Captain.Heroin
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In the winter, I use a small space heater so as to keep warm. This helps your veins dilate.
I have a question but first I'll give you my tip. I inject methadone so I use winged infusion sets otherwise known as butterflies or wings. So after filtering the mix (anywhere from 5-10 x 10 ml syringes) thru a 0.2 micron filter, I attach a syringe of water to the butterfly and prime the line. (the water is tap water that I micron filter before the methadone so no methadone gets in the water.) Anyhow, I have the water syringe on the butterfly until I am 100% sure I'm in the vein. This means that if I get blood in the mix, I've only wasted water rather than the mix.
Also, because I only pierce the skin once with each needle, all the repriming of the line wastes a lot of liquid so this way I'm only wasting water. The butterfly also makes it so much easier to get the vein, jack back, change syringes etc.
Maybe I'll put my question in a new post, this is getting long...
Also, because I only pierce the skin once with each needle, all the repriming of the line wastes a lot of liquid so this way I'm only wasting water. The butterfly also makes it so much easier to get the vein, jack back, change syringes etc.
Maybe I'll put my question in a new post, this is getting long...
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