Hello, I have a few questions, of appreciate an answer even though its just my second post.
first, my friend IV's heroin, he is a very "cooker", his shots are always perfectly translucent tea/yellow colored and that's not because of too much water(it doesn't matter how much water you add to a dirty shot, it will still be foggy in the srynge) anyways, he has only been shooting for three months now but rarely has any complications (misses etc). however, on his last attempt hitting midway up his Right arm between hand and elbow on top of arm where he has large visible veins, he experienced immense pain at the veins opposite side of the elbow. (those primary veins). the same vein that he shot, except he hit it lower as to avoid obvious track marks.
why would an area higher up the arm, presumably the same vein... hurt if he shot 6-8 inches lower? awhile ago he stuck the needle at the location of the pain( not exact location) and had immense pain also, so he didn't use that vein for a month since this most recent incident.
second, now his favored left arm has similar pain when hitting one of two large protruding veins. he gets emmediate redness, then sharp pain directly at needle location, then hives as if he's missing. but there's no way he's missing since he is paranoid about that and registers every fourth of emptying the sryinge. he could not handle the pain so he quickly pulled out and hit the other vein right next to it. I have pictures of the hives and redness this caused because he was so worried and made me take pics..
why is he feeling this sharp pain? its like there's a part of his vein thats just super thin?
I don't think they show much but you can see the painful vein(closer to his body), it seems enlarged and oddly shaped idk
here are the URLs(if that's allowed)
http://tinypic.com/r/2ylwrhs/5
http://tinypic.com/r/2ylwrhs/5