Alright ive decided to try for the IV. I just dont like the idea of injecting in a muscle. And since its my first experience with needles i would like it to be IV you know? And is this syringe good for a first time IV, 5/16" 27 guage 1cc? I want exactness so i can write it down and get the right rig from walmarts pharmacy since ive heard they ask less questions than say cvs or walgreens.
I'm going to begin and end by saying, please don't shoot, it adds another dimension to opioid addiction, psychologically, and physically (due to the higher bioavailability it's the same as just using more by a less efficient ROA). Also, if you get used to shooting pharmaceutical injectable morphine, realize that although your activities carry little risk of infection, when you end up being stuck with nothing to shoot except pills (terrible for you because of the particles of pill filler that accumulate in capillaries in your lungs unless you use micron filters aka wheel filters, or heroin, which can be full of bacteria and nasty crap (black tar) or just nasty crap (powder heroin) and should also be run through wheel filters so you don't end up with garbage stuck in your lungs, and even then may be of a pH that is no good for your veins or other soft tissue and is going to be likely to burn through your veins as well as cause irritation or infection if you purposely or accidentally do a SC injection, do an IM injection,
That's fine to use, but I would probably just ask for a 1cc 29 gauge 1/2" or 5/16" needle. Or 1cc 31 gauge 5/16" needle. Smaller needles mean smaller tracks (or none) and smaller bruises, less damage to veins, etc. The only downside is that they clog easier (from blood in them), but if you have enough coagulated blood to clog a 27 gauge but not a 31 gauge, I think you are already basically injecting a blood clot which is not a good idea! The only advantage that I've found to using a 27 gauge is that it's even easier to see when you've hit a vein as quite a bit of blood squirts back immediately, whereas with a 29 or 31 gauge needle the amount of blood is less -- but still more than enough to let you know you're in a vein.
The higher the gauge number, the smaller the needle bore.
If you are having trouble finding an easily visible vein, run your arm under hot water sitting on the edge of the bathtub, and then swing your arm back and forth in such a way that you are driving blood down the arm, toward your hands, then throw on the tourniquet, preferably not too tight, and stick the needle in.
When you draw the morphine up, draw up a little extra air. If you do this, insert the needle at maybe at 45 degree angle, when you hit a vein, a little bit of blood will shoot into the syringe even before you pull back on the plunger to "register" that you are in the vein. Then, do register by pressing the plunger back just a tiny little bit and a bit of blood will come squirting in. You should also be able to tell you're in a vein because the feeling of resistance when pushing the syringe in goes away as the needle slides into the vein. Once you know you're in, then hold your hand steady and proceed to push the plunger in. As you do this, now that you have registered the vein, you should ideally be releasing the tourniquet. (E.g., if you have a belt in your mouth, let it go once you have definitely registered in a vein and are beginning to push the shot in...sometimes, if the vein is actually relatively deep and is only able to be used because of the tourniquet, you can't do this... but your veins are untouched you shouldn't need a tourniquet beyond just sliding a needle into the vein, then you can let it out. You let the tourniquet go before you push much of the shot in because you have veins that are plumped up with a ton of blood when you put the tourniquet on there, and if you add a full 1cc syringe-full of liquid to a vein, you may just fill it to "bursting", basically the vein just sort of pops like a balloon. This is particularly likely with a small vein.)
Don't be shaky.
Remember, you have pharmaceutical morphine meant for injection (that's how I understood it) -- so, you have no reason to be nervous about "missing" the shot (i.e. missing the vein) -- so nothing to be shaky about.
Worst case scenario, you end up missing the vein and thus giving yourself a subcutaneous injection, which still beats the hell out of the bioavailability of oral morphine.
Also, if you start pushing the shot in and it burns, you're missing. Try to push the needle in/pull it out a bit and get it to re-register and the proceed to push the rest of the shot in.
Note that if you have already registered and thus gotten blood into the syringe, that blood will eventually coagulate and clog up the syringe. Therefore, if you keep on shooting into the vein and then getting a shaky hand and start missing the shot, every time you register, you are getting more blood in the syringe, and it is going to clog that much more quickly.
Eventually, you'll have to just say screw it, push the syringe in and give yourself a proper subcutaneous injection, just do it on your upper arm like by your shoulder, put the needle in relatively deep -- when you miss a vein near the surface, it makes a bubble you have to massage and run under hot water to make the morphine absorb and the bubble go away. On the other hand, if you have the needle in deep on your upper arm, there should not be a bubble.
So -- just don't get a ton of blood in the syringe and then find yourself with a clogged syringe. It's better to just give up on IV and push the remaining shot into the upper arm if its pharmaceutical morphine intended for injection, as it won't do any harm and you'll still get the high bioavailability, just not the rush.
However,
I highly suggest you do not start injecting, period. It greatly increases the psychological addiction factor, and, for a given level of finances and thus a given level of available opioids, the higher bioavailability means that your physical addiction will be that much worse. (E.g., snorting a gram of heroin per day versus shooting a gram per day is a much more minor habit.)
So, don't inject. If you do inject, just push the needle all the way in on your upper arm, like when you get a flu shot. This will be a subcutaneous injection if you are using a 1/2" or 5/16" needle. It is quite safe if you are using pharmaceutical morphine meant for injection. (Dirty tar heroin, on the other hand, is likely to give you an abscess if used this way. East coast powder is safer for SC injection, but not totally.)
Doing a SC injection will not give you the instantaneous rush, but it will give you the full benefit of the morphine, and most importantly, it will not add another dimension to the pull that opioids have on you and thus lead you to become more addicted.
Good luck, and stay healthy!
PS Make sure you wash your hands, and use plenty of rubbing alcohol on the area you are going to inject in. And the advice about running the arm under hot water and swinging the arm back and forth rapidly to drive blood into it can make almost anyone who hasn't used absolutely every vein unto death able to find a vein very easily
well sort of anyway... If you plan on shooting other drugs, street drugs, might as well learn now. If you're experimenting and that's all, my advice could go either way. Learning now will mean you can hit yourself when the situation arises: good that you aren't fucking around with learning on dirty street drugs, but bad that the situation may arise more than it actually should(like deciding on shooting coke or pills vs snorting/eating them). If you're going to learn now, at least beware that she's(probably) going to be willing and able to teach you down the road. No need to rush. Also, if you are goin to eventually turn to pills/street powders/tar heroin, you should look into investing in micron filters. Usually they can refine the solution enough to make for a miss to be safe. It at least makes it safER. I'm not certain, but you may be able to just IM most of them after micron filtering anyway. If that's the case, I don't suggest learning to IV at all. Rush is small to none, but its a common sense procedure with virtually no training required. Trade offs, I guess.
so im just going to save them for the next oppurtunity. Definately will post back wen i do. Thanks again guys.
