Heroin Burning feeling

[TheManWithNoName]

I know this belongs in the IV megathread but I couldn't find it for some reason. I took a week long break from dope using suboxone to keep from going into withdrawal. I have been shooting it (the strips) because I hate the taste. Unfortunately, I had to use the underside of my wrist because all my veins are worn out. Today, I got some dope and went to reuse that vein and I registered and the blood came and I pushed the plunger down and all of a sudden got this intensely hot feeling in my hand and it swelled up and turned red. I was lucky that it went down after an hour or so, even without a hot compress, and aside from the injection spot slightly swollen. That had never happened to me before, the symptoms of a histamine reaction I have experienced like turning red, and puffiness. Did I hit a nerve? It was just a really hot sensation.

 

[Ayrios]

I know nothing of shooting the strips, but a burning sensation, to me, suggests a partial miss. Perhaps you went too deep and pierced the underside of the vein wall? You can register even if you pierce the underside, but some of the payload is going to leave through the exit wound, an amount varying based on how deep you go through the bottom wall.

If you hit a nerve, out of instinct you'll jump as a surge flashes out from ground zero and yell "Holy fuck, I just hit a fucking nerve!" It'll radiate and pulse for some time, longer if you didn't merely graze it. Nerve pain is very sharp and piercing, and when you graze one, your instincts will tell you exactly what happened. One time I grazed a nerve injecting ketamine into my deltoid. It hurt enough that I felt it in a k-hole, but was only a dull soreness a couple hours later. I can't imagine a direct hit... In any case, you didn't hit a nerve.