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Cocaine Clotting that causes needle clogging has me sketched out

Rotten Cotton

Rotten Cotton

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Hey, so anybody whos ever left coke or speed in the needle too long, with blood inside as well, knows that eventually said blood will clot and turn into a gnarly little booger and likely clog your rig, necessitating emptying and refiltering your shot. My concern is what happens to that clot in your bloodstream... obviously the same effect will take place, though presumably to a much smaller sized clot, but even still, this sketches me out as I dont want any sized thrombus/clot/booger floating around in my bloodstream.. what exactly happens to these clots as they move though your system? Are they eventually metabolized or somehow broken down over time, or...? Cuz how can people shoot speed/coke for years and years without stroking out due to these things? Any info on the topic is greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
You shouldn't shoot something with a clot in it so it shouldn't get into your bloodstream in the first place. I don't really understand what you're asking if you say you refilter your shot when blood gets in there.
 
No guys, Im sorry I must have been unclear.. check this out:

1. You have a rig w speed/coke or something else that causes the fast coagulation
2. You register/flag a vein, blood gets into the syringe
3. You begin to push, and say, notice ur missing
4. You pull out, and find somehwere else to hit
5. Over a pretty short period of time, the blood within the syringe will coagulate/clot, causing the needle to clog once the mass reaches the aperture to the needle
6. You (hopefully quickly, and with minimal frustration) realize the clogged rig is due to the blood coagulating inside the rig
7. You now have no choice but to pull the plunger out, empty the rig into spoon, maybe add water/maybe not, and redraw all the liquid through cotton/filter to ensure the rig contains no solid masses (at least none that could make it thru the filter and clog ur needle)

Now, what I'm asking is this: If the solution prepared for injection clearly causes this coagulation of blood, with some amount of time (and not particularly long), then it stands to reason that the solution once injected properly, or even done properly the first time (with no coagulation within the rig), will cause the same effect within your internal bloodstream... right? My question is how does this coagulated blood get metabolized/broken down/ eliminated from my circulatory system? Sure, the injected solution would be much more dilute, making me think the clots/whatever youd call em would be smaller, but still, the whole idea of it sketches me out...

Any help is much appreciated, but please, i have a massive curiosity for most things i learn, so just responding with "it eventually breaks down" makes me kinda feel better..? But I wanna know how, or what health risks this may pose, what organ/system enzyme breaks them down, etc... all info is appreciated. Thank you, and sorry if i was unclear before.
 
I think that coagulation occurs in syringes due to the exposure to oxygen from either the air or the water in the syringe, so the blood should not begin to coagulate after you inject it since veins carry deoxygenated blood.
 
^. Correct. Blood acting differently by clotting, coagulating, drying etc when outside of the body, for many number of reasons, should not act the same when inside your body, circulating and being effected by the multitude of internal processes.
 
i have still IVed the shot when i had that problem,goin thru 40mins of bullshit to find a vein, at the time i didnt know anything about clotting, just cause nothing happen, dont mean it cant be dangerous, im very unfamiliar with this
 
Tommyboy said:
I think that coagulation occurs in syringes due to the exposure to oxygen from either the air or the water in the syringe, so the blood should not begin to coagulate after you inject it since veins carry deoxygenated blood.
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Yeah. The substance in the rig isn't what is causing the blood to clot, it's being outside of the body and exposed to air etc. It won't do that inside of your body/circulatory system.
 
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