Heroin Becoming difficult to IV.

[jdmallin81]

I've been using IV for a month now and am is bruising, and getting lumps, and it's getting harder to find spots. What can I do to make the bumps, marks and bruises go away faster?

I am using clean rig every time. I do about 3gs a day of pure (or what would be considered pure) I have been smoking for about 6 months again of the good stuff and that was 3-4gs/day. Before I was on methadone for 5 years but I felt like I lost 5 years of my life to the program. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad I was just nothing I was a zombie. Time moved by really fast the last 5 years while on methadone and now that I am on H its killing me financially but time moves slow I can concentrate and I take part in social gatherings. I was a heavy Oxy Contin Smoker for 3 years before I got on the methadone about 10 80s/day and before that I was snorting only 2 80s/day.

My problem is that I started IV use because my lungs couldn't get the smoke in any more, and I have read that smoking is 50% effective and IV use is 97% effective. But I just see my tolerance going up and needing more to get that high feeling, and it's happening so quickly. When I was snorting 2 oxy's/day one I started smoking them i was up to 10 within a month or two. I'm afraid of the same thing happening.

Suboxone does not work on me I have tried the ceiling dose 4 8mg strips and pills. Methadone makes me a zombie and I get nothing out of life. Am I destined to be a a dope fiend forever. I'm sorry I'm new to all this and I know I have like 20 subjects going on at once, but its getting to that point where I'm running out of money and I only have 6 months left of school which I'm completely lucid right now. Since Fall quarter when I started doing H and stopped methadone my interest in things that I used to love came back. I get my homework early and I enjoy it.

These marks, lumps, and bruises are going to be a problem. I'm doing everything right I believe I am just doing alot. These lumps what makes these go down faster. The bruises what makes these fade. These marks neosporin will that work. As for my babbling on about everything else what the heck can I do. I function great when I'm not high when I'm just at the mark that I won't be sick. How long is a shot supposed to keep me well. I needed to smoke every six hours I have found that if I do over 2gs through IV i can last almost 24hrs without needing another shot?

Im a newbie and I'm scatterbrain all over the place right now but this is what I'm talking about for the last six months I have just taken a task like finding out more about this stuff and just went all in.

Thanks
JD

 

[Tripman]

I created a thread for you and moved this post from the old thread you posted in.

Please remember not to refer to yourself as SWIM, my dog, cat, rat, etc. We dont allow this on bluelight.

 

[OxycoDrone]

Rotate injecting sites as often as you can, try not to miss veins and end up skinning your shot as this can cause abscesses to form (I've only had one, but it was awful. Hospital said it was the worst they'd ever seen, 3 tablespoons of puss out of my hand) and use clean injecting equipment and a micron filter when possible.

I use a warm flannel cloth and put in on the bumps and it seems to help, but the only real "cure all" is not to IV. It's the nature of the beast.

Where on your body do you inject?

 

[jdmallin81]

I have been using my arms, I haven't ever done it myself I have had my friend do it but they have trouble finding veins because they blend in with my skin. I'm doing between 2 and 3 gs a day of what most would call pure so it takes about 10 100cc points each day. I recently got these 300cc points that I have just been switching the points off the end because they come with super long ones. I don't reuse points I have a friend that works for the needle exchange but I have only been doing this for a month. Granted I was smoking between 3-4g's/day before my lungs couldn't take it anymore.

I don't really have bumps on my arms, but right under the skin at the intersection of my elbow you can feel these lumps under the skin which I'm told is scar tissue, and there are bruises right above the hard areas.There are not really any marks from the points however even though the people that hit me have had to pull it out and put it back in a number of times.

The bumps and bruises are what I would like to avoid, if possible since im doing that much. And if there is anything that I can do to get the hard spots to go away and the bruising to go away or at least fade.

Thanks
JD

Sorry I'm a total newbie: but since i quit the methadone program when I put my mind to something I have been able to get it done.

 

[Tommyboy]

Neosporin should help, but maybe someone knows of something better. 3 grams a day is a hefty IV habit, so I suggest you limit your use by tapering down your doses. You might want to give the Suboxone another try, but you should taper down first. Most people find the lower doses to be more effective, and doses above 8mg make the side effects more pronounced.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

Using IV for only one month isn't near enough time to start running out of good injection sites... your technique or friends technique must be really bad if your arms are that bad so early. With decent-good technique, your veins should last a pretty long while. It took me years and years of every day usage before my veins started to go. But one month? You're doing something wrong..or perhaps a lot wrong. Check out this thread about IV technique and safety. http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/579079-Missed-IV-shot

If you aren't missing your veins or just using an overall poor technique, you shouldn't be getting all of the lumps and shit you are describing.. not in one month.

 

[Tripman]

Hirudoid cream works wonders.

 

[BiggDirty01]

Smoking 10 80's a day! Jesus christ no wonder your lungs are fucked up. For your own good man you need to see a doctor and have your lungs checked out because you might have done permanent damage to them. Its ashame you didnt just eat those 80's considering oxycodone's very high oral bioavailability. As others have said please check out the IV safety thread and don't let your friend keep using his fucked up techniques on you. Better you should fuck up a little bit and learn the right way than have this dumbass keep hurting you.

Good luck OP

 

[tricomb]

Smoking pills designed for oral administration with chemicals added for just about everything, time release, abuse deterrent, binders, wax, talc, colored dye's.

Man you're headed for emphysema or cancer. IMO one hit of smoked pills = a carton of cigarettes in one hit.

 

[mrflowers00]

the scar tissue will never go away

 

[Swimmingdancer]

Well it's hard to do much about veins you have already destroyed and scar tissue that has already formed, but I can give you some tips on preventing these things in the future and helping to heal any bruises or lumps you currently have:

- Use an alcohol swab on your skin before injecting
- Use filters when drawing up your dope
- Use the biggest best veins you can find, inject slowly and flag multiple times as you inject to make sure the needle is still in the vein
- Rotate which vein you use (you can look at a vein chart to get ideas about veins you may not have thought of trying and which ones are safest to use)
- Put a cool wet washcloth on your injection site after you've injected if the site looks at all inflamed
- A bit later put a warm wet washcloth on the area
- Have hot showers and scrub any areas which are bruised (I find using a bath brush helpful on bruises)
- Apply Arnica gel to the bruises (it's made from a plant which speeds up healing)

Also I doubt your dope is "pure", no heroin available on the street is anywhere close to being pure.

As for your issues with not feeling well/happy/normal unless you are using, join the club. That is why most people use opioids in the first place, because we are self-medicating for depression or pain or other problems. Then using heroin makes it worse and exacerbates these symptoms whenever we have not taken any/enough heroin. If you don't want to be a dope fiend for the rest of your life you will have to work on the reasons you are using in the first place and find healthier ways to treat them. It's just going to get harder the longer you use opioids, as your brain stops producing any of it's own natural mood-lifters and pain-killers.

As for how long injected heroin should last, it really depends on the person and the quantity used and it usually lasts for a shorter and shorter amount of time the longer you use it. I am really surprised that you say you can use once every 24 hours without going into withdrawals - that probably won't last long.