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Heroin How hard is to shoot yourself up the first time?

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Emily29707

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This might seem like a stupid question to some of you but hopefully someone out there can help me. I'm not very knowledgeable about drugs. Until a few days ago I had only smoked pot occasionally. Anyway, a couple of days ago I was having a crisis in my life and this guy I hang with offered me something to help me forget. I was scared to death when he pulled out a needle. I can't believe I didn't run away right then. But I was really hurting and when he injected me it was the most wonderful experience in my life. When he offered me the stuff it was only going to be a one time thing but it was so incredible that I asked him for some more the next day. Anyway, I've been doing it everyday now for a week but he's been injecting me because I don't know how to do it myself.

I've googled this and there are instructions and videos.....got to love the internet. But my problem is that I'm not sure I'll be able to do it myself. Is it hard to do inject yourself the first time? Will the sight of my own blood make me sick? I know, stupid questions but so far I don't even look when he's sticking me.
 
For the love of god please quit right now, I don't mean to be offensive but what the fuck are you thinking jumping from weed to IV heroin? And then binging lol at least slow the fuck down, maybe snort it instead? Do you not realize you are now going to go through physical withdrawals if you can't get your daily dose.

At least try to slow down, and use twice a week maximum, because if you think heroin is all good and solving your problems wait until a few months down the road when you're flat broke and everything in your life is 100x worse.

I don't think it would be a good idea to even give you advice so that you start IVing yourself but I'm sure you are gonna do it anyways so all I can say is use a belt to make your veins more prominent, Go at a shallow angle and don't keep pressing the plunger if it is burning...
Oh and if you think you are in a vein u can draw back slightly and see if some blood draws in, this should mean you are in.

Good luck, you'll need it.
 
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It's not hard but read up on it and be clean. Oh and you might want to take a break for a few days or withdrawals will sneak up on you.
 
Stop banging up heroin!

if you hit an artery you'll get gangrene and whatever limb you injected into amputated.
 
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For the love of god please quit right now, I don't mean to be offensive but what the fuck are you thinking jumping from weed to IV heroin? And then binging lol at least slow the fuck down, maybe snort it instead? Do you not realize you are now going to go through physical withdrawals if
can't get your daily dose.

At least try to slow down, and use twice a week maximum, because if you think heroin is all good and solving your problems wait until a few months down the road when you're flat broke and everything in your life is 100x worse.

I don't think it would be a good idea to even give you advice so that you start IVing yourself but I'm sure you are gonna do it anyways so all I can say is use a belt to make your veins more prominent, Go at a shallow angle and don't keep pressing the plunger if it is burning...

Good luck, you'll need it.
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I'm sorry. I didn't realize that there was a an order I had to follow before I was allowed to try heroin. As for binging, I don't think using it once a day qualifies as binging.

I do intend to slow down. I just need to get through a rough time in my life and this is helping. But the guy who is giving me the stuff won't show me how to do it and if he's not around one time when I want to do it I'll need to know how.
 
Emily29707 said:
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that there was a an order I had to follow before I was allowed to try heroin. As for binging, I don't think using it once a day qualifies as binging.

I do intend to slow down. I just need to get through a rough time in my life and this is helping. But the guy who is giving me the stuff won't show me how to do it and if he's not around one time when I want to do it I'll need to know how.
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Everything he just said was to help you, and all of it was true. Taking it every day for a week is binging, and there isn't an order it's just stupid to jump into injecting heroin. Most people at least get drawn into addiction, they don't dive in as hard and fast as they can. Sure it's helping you cope for a few hours but all it's gonna do is suppress it and make it worse when you have to deal with it latter; so instead of dealing with it latter you'll just keep injecting. That's not what you want. Honestly no matter how bad things are, like the above poster I really recommend not IV'ing one of the most addictive drugs in the world to deal with it, just get drunk or smoke some weed if you want to alleviate problems somewhat.

If you decide to go for it anyway, the B&D threads on here (either the heroin one, or I think there's one dedicated to IV) would also be a good place to start, and if you want to talk 'The Dark Side' forum area has some great people always willing to listen. Stay safe :)
 
Good luck using IV heroin one time a day.

You really should not be IVing, if you aren't getting desired effects than you need to get better heroin or learn better smoking/snorting technique, or learn to plug.

Plugging is a much safer alternative to IV with many of the same perks.
 
of course it's helping, it's heroin, everything's alright on heroin. but if you continue using everyday, you'll wind up physically addicted, which is a total bummer because you then are compelled to use to avoid shitting and puking and not sleeping and feeling like every bone in your body has been broken. yeah, it'll be a while before withdrawals get that bad, but it's inevitable if you continue using once a day, and once you start, it's really hard to stop, because it makes everything ok. also, you're havent really got an opiate tolerance, so you're much more likely to overdose, which is one reason why IV is so dangerous, it's a lot more easy to overdose than other methods of injestion (smoking, sniffing). don't combine it with any other depressants such as alcohol or benzo's, even small amount have resulted in me passing out and falling off my chair and smashing my head, and not waking up until an hour later with a fucked up face. here is the megathread about injecting which has everything you need. always do a really small test shot so you know the strength.

just remember, it's not helping to solve your problems, it just makes it feel ok artificially. solve your problems then examine if this is a path you really want.
 
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OP is too smart to get addicted. So smart they let non-medical people inject them with unknown substances.

See you in TDS in 3 months

"Life spiraling out of control, help pls"
 
I know he was just trying to help me. I apologize to everyone who might be offended by my attitude. I don't mean to be bitchy. I'm just having a hard time in my life right now.

I know that what I'm doing is probably not the best thing I could be doing. And I do realize that there are risks. But I LOVE how this stuff makes me feel and I'm not going to stop right now. I don't want to. I was just looking for some information about how to do it myself. The guy I've been getting it from is not always around and I know that there might come a time when I'll have to actually buy it for myself. I'll need to know how to do it right.

I know I can find step by step instructions on here and on other sites. I was just asking people if it was hard or scary the first time they did it themselves.

I'm sorry if you're all angry about that
 
:/ I'm not gonna sit here and say don't do it, because you're gonna do it, if you want to. It is just sad because your tolerance to opiates is gonna skyrocket~ You should have given hydrocodone/codeine a chance. Heroin is a nasty habit. :'(
 
The person shooting you up must have an ulterior motive. I've never been feeling down and then someone pulled out a needle offering to shoot me up. For real, they don't want you to learn on your own because I'm sure that they are somehow benefiting from your arrangement.

Is IVing hard to do on your own? Well, don't you see what he is doing when he shoots you up? You don't need a tourniquet unless your veins are hard to see. Make sure to register before shooting, by pulling back on the back of the syringe once you think you are in a vein. Registering is probably the hardest part since you only have one hand to hold the syringe and pull back the plunger. One trick is to pull back on the plunger once the tip of the syringe is in you, creating a vacuum which will fill with blood once you are in the vein. Most importantly, filter properly, use a new syringe all the time, and try to have a supervisor of sorts in case you OD. Your tolerance is still very low, so the slightest dosage miscalculation or increase in purity of the batch of dope and you will be dead. Why not just sniff it? Your tolerance is still low. I don't know anybody that went straight to heroin, especially IV heroin.

Having said all of that, don't do it. It's not going to help you in the long run. It won't even help you get over whatever hard times you are going through now, and whenever you try to quit the combo of the withdrawals and the feeling you are trying to avoid now coming back up will keep you from getting better. And again, if you choose to still do it then when not sniff it?
 
If you must use at all, If it's tar heroin, please just try smoking it. If it's powder, snort it.

There is no need to inject heroin unless you're ready to take "out of control" to a whole new level for you. Your at a time in your life right now where you're faced with a major lifestyle choice that will have implications for the rest of your life, consider them.

Did you dive off the high diving board into a swimming pool before you could swim? That's what you're about to do. The actions you perform will have life lasting consequences, this is not a question of how do you inject heroin, injecting drugs is easy. The question here IMO, is this really what you want for yourself? Are you prepared for a lifetime of consequences? Like are you ready to wake up in withdrawals and require a shot just to get out of bed (if you still have a bed)?

Look, nobody here, when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, responded with " I want to be an intravenous heroin/cocaine/methamphetamine drug addict ".
You may not "plan" to use heroin that much, but pretty soon you're not doing the planning, the heroin is. You are only human, you are not invincible to addiction.
 
i was only really paranoid about keeping everything sterile the first time, and somehow fucked up and ended up with only like 0.2ml in the syringe. had a really small amount of h as well so didn't really get much from it. but for the first few times i was mega paranoid, washing hands really well, washing arms, switching to a new pin if i didn't hit first time, after a couple months i dropped my spoon before adding water, picked up the powder and shot it anyway, and poked around with the same needle countless times whilst already fucked. i've stopped injecting now. tbh, given how new you are, you're not getting much benefit from shooting except for instantly high, sniff it or smoke it, it lasts longer and is less dangerous. i think iv only is really good when you're having really really bad WD's and go from shit to amazing in 30 seconds.
 
Thank you Tricomb for not being judgemental and trying to be helpful. And I understand that most everyone else is just trying to help too, even if they come across as being nasty. I didn't come here looking for anyone to approve of what I'm doing. I just wanted some information. And from reading all the posts I think I got what I need.

Alot of posts asked me why I didn't try this or that before trying heroin. I tried what was given me. It's not like he said to me you want to try this stuff or this stuff, or heroin and I chose the heroin. I was offered something by someone I trust. I tried it, I loved it, I've used it again. As for why I don't snort it, I didn't know that was an option. I will ask him if I can try it that way when I see him later.
 
I'd definitely recommend you stop IV'ing for one...much less disease/overdose risks if you snort or smoke. Can't really help you about your specific question because I've never done heroin but I do feel obliged like a lot of other people here to tell you you are clearly oblivious to how addiction can sneak up on you (I don't mean this in a bad way or as a criticism or anything). I started taking benzos because I was having a really, really rough time in my life and they made me feel better too but trust me...not only will this not make your problems go away, it'll just make them bigger and you will regret it one day. Just get out of it before it's too bad. I'm not judging you or anything btw I just think you need to be more aware of what's really going on.
Also I think it's somewhat a shame to go directly to heroin...if you get tolerant to H you won't be able to enjoy less strong stuff that could be much nicer :)
Good luck
 
my first time was a bit like first the time i had sex... exiting, scary, shaky, orgasmic, unsure, breath taking, inspired by internet videos (LOL)... etc

i won't bang on what everyone has been saying, but they are right

are you on any psych meds? doo you see a psychiatrist?
 
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