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Heroin First time shooting up, tragically underwhelming.

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class-a-team

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Injected a very small quality of average quality gear I got in Dublin today, nothing like the "billion orgasms" that the drug is so famous for. Absolutely sickened and a tiny bit worried that I might have done something wrong. I wasn't totally precise about what I was putting into my body, pretty stupid actually but I think it's the risk I like the most. I just put about 5mg of heroin on a spoon, mixed it around in a bit of water, drew the clear stuff out using a glucagon syringe (I have Type 1 Diabetes) and shot it into a vein. I'm certain it was a vein, because I drew a bit of blood beforehand and couldn't feel a pulse there.

My experience: I was mostly scared and regretful, thinking I was going to die. I was very shaky and sweaty and while I did experience some euphoria it wasn't this overwhelmingly comforting experience that I was expecting. Bear in mind, I had already smoked a little a few hours earlier and I plugged a small dose only a few minutes before. I also think I've developed some mild form of tolerance; I've been smoking small quantities around twice a day for the past two weeks. Whenever I wake up I feel nauseous and usually have mild diarrhoea, and accelerated heart rate. Would these be withdrawal symptoms?

Anyway, shooting was a waste of time, energy and effort for me. My arm is slightly sore now, is this normal? No bruising or anything, just a slight achy pain, a bit like the one I had when I got the HPV vaccine.
 
I dont wanna tell you to do more and you kill yourself or something But yeah you need to do more like first thing in the morning when you havent done any yet that day. Oh yeah and welcome to the wonderful world of withdrawals thats def what you are going thru.
 
SUB SHOOTER 2010 said:
I dont wanna tell you to do more and you kill yourself or something But yeah you need to do more like first thing in the morning when you havent done any yet that day. Oh yeah and welcome to the wonderful world of withdrawals thats def what you are going thru.
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I certainly won't. Only after shooting up did I realise that it would be a terribly selfish thing to die on Christmas Day and ruin Christmas for my family. I'll wait another while and let my tolerance go down again. I was in denial about having withdrawals because I'm taking so little every time but I guess you're right.
 
That's what I thought my first couple of times. However, that shit sneaks up on you. After my first experiences with shooting up, I thought, "How could someone get so addicted to that? It wasn't all that great." But after a few more times, I started to love it more and more, to where the more I did it, the better I liked it. By the end I was hopelessly addicted to it, and there wasn't anything in the world I would have wanted more. I know a lot of other people who had similar experiences--said it wasn't all that the first time they did it, and a month later they're pawning their computer.
 
"Class A Team/OP" just be careful man. I know what it's like to be inquisitive and to search for a method for a good high, but heroin will sneak up on you, it's inevitable. It's nothing like a hundred orgasms or whatever you were told, but it can and probably will end up causing a life changing addiction for you, especially if your shooting. Personally for me, after a couple years of shooting H, I resorted back to what worked for my pain and pleasure. In other words man, you don't have to shoot heroin to get a feeling you're looking for or need. Sometimes prescription opiates can do the trick, and with them come a much safer and mostly healthier life. Just be careful.
 
5mg of heroin is nothing. Even if you had 100% pure heroin and you shot up 5mg you wouldn't feel much from it unless you had no tolerance.
 
yeah i bet he did a half a tenth 50mg. Still not much considering its cut to shit, unless it was pharmaceutical grade which they do have in the UK and maybe Ireland
 
You know that the gear in Ireland needs citric acid added to the water to make it dissolve, right? If you didn't, then do some research.
 
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I've never IV'd before but I'm pretty sure you have to filter the solution with a cotton (at least) before you draw it up. IVing tiny chunks of binder could easily be fatal.
 
this was my experience when i started IV H.

id just get floored and sick, sweaty and puke.
then i started developing a tolerance, you see im very stubborn. but after a couple of weeks getting high, it basically stopped!
and just started getting me well.


sure ive had runs where it wasnt so damn "good" that i wasnt just passed out, but, IDK know you've done it, maybe dont spend the next so many years trying to get that right.
 
It can be like 1000 orgasms if you're physically dependant, in withdrawals, pick up and then slam a nice fat shot into you. I don't think there's a better feeling in the world. Don't get to that point though, it's not worth it.
 
The first time you IV dope probably isn't going to seem "all that", until you have an addiction/habit, then you're coming down hard one day, hit a vein just right, and slam some, and get to that shit-to-totally-perfect feeling heroin delivers. Then it's a bit more "rewarding" all in all. :)

Even then it's not worth being addicted to IME. Heroin potency varies way too wildly from the street sources
 
Thanks for all of your help. Needless to say, I did it again and this time I was a little less worried, so the whole experience was a bit more pleasurable. Kenny8722, I only did around 5mg because I was petrified that something bad was going to happen, especially as I was already stoned. Bnghit3, as far as I know there's no pharmaceutical heroin in Ireland. The 5mg was a rough estimate, maybe it was more, it was the remains of a 150mg bag. Chances of addiction are highly slim for me given my difficulty in obtaining the drug but thanks for the advice everyone!
 
opi8 said:
It can be like 1000 orgasms if you're physically dependant, in withdrawals, pick up and then slam a nice fat shot into you. I don't think there's a better feeling in the world. Don't get to that point though, it's not worth it.
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yeah the relief from withdrawal feels incredible, especially when you IV. But that's not something you get to do very often, unless you are willing to wait until you are in severe WD each time before you shoot and if you did that, your body would eventually adjust and the withdrawal would not be so severe anymore.

ALso, does anyone else notice it takes about half an hour to get over withdrawal? Like if youre withdraing bad, then have a shot of H you will feel 90% relief immediately but some withdrawal sytmtoms (like leg pain for me and runny nose) don't fully clear up for about a half hour.
 
IV'd again today, small improvement but I doubt I'll do it again until I see someone else do it.

Bit worried about my veins in the arm I used though, they look a lot darker than usual.
 
Stop IVing street gear without a micron filter. You're not even filtering using cotton?

Stick to plugging/snorting heroin if you don't have the equipment or reason to do so... and get a fucking milligram scale too if you want to have some relaibility in your experiences. IVing for no other reason than to IV is a bad bad path to go down.
 
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NEVER IV without some sort of filter, I am a IV user and when i was new to it and didnt know what i was doing It turned out bad for me in the long hall, when i finally realised all the things i was doing wrong big differance and much"healthier" way to do it,
Use a cotton ball or the end of a q tip and pull off a small amount and roll it into a little ball, drop it into the mixture and pull up through the cotton with a syringe
then friend, empty what was in that syringe into another, because the cotton can sometimes get caught into it and also the cotton make the needle barbed and this does not feel to good.
Word of advice, When I first shot up I wasnt planning on making it an every day habit, but it turns into one if your not careful (:
And there darker Probably because of the filter situation and especially if its black tar heroin you never know what they put in that, sometimes even shoe polish.
So again Filter (: It can be frustrating using a cotton when your not use to it but its worth it in the end.
 
class-a-team said:
IV'd again today, small improvement but I doubt I'll do it again until I see someone else do it.

Bit worried about my veins in the arm I used though, they look a lot darker than usual.
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I encourage you to stop IVing, although I am wondering if you added citric acid to the water to allow the heroin to dissolve. The heroin base you get in the UK doesn't dissolve in a neutral or basic solution, so you need to add something like citric acid to alter the pH in order for the heroin to dissolve properly.

I'm wondering if anybody actually enjoys the rush from IVing, or the experience as a whole, if they aren't already strung out. I feel like the rush is just a reminder of the instant gratification to come, therefore the feeling isn't what is enjoyed as much as the association with getting high. I would say that most people that IV heroin are already strung out on another opiate, or have a tolerance to sniffing or smoking heroin, so I'm wondering if somebody with no real tolerance to opiates enjoys the IV rush before the association is made in their brain.
 
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