Cocaine How long is an acceptable timing interval for the next iv coke shot?

[deficiT]

Safe use can still prevent the pitfalls, but it's just harder w/ stims.

 

[Deru]

And IV use causes nasty infections like endocritis where you latterly have to stay in the hospital for a month or longer you can’t go outside cause you have a damn pick line in your arm ewww it makes me cringe thinking about it

Yup, I spent close to 8 months in the hospital in 2017 because of it (18 weeks combined, on 3 separate ocassions, in an LTAC for 6 weeks of IV antibiotics prior to open heart surgery and as an IV addict with a PICC line I wasn’t even allowed to leave my room without a nurse or an escort or they’d immediately call security. It was my own form of prison. The STACs weren’t as strict, though, but there is really nothing available to do there to begin with.)

Absolute insanity, seems like memories from another lifetime at this point.

 

[deficiT]

Yup, I spent close to 8 months in the hospital in 2017 because of it (18 weeks combined, on 3 separate ocassions, in an LTAC for 6 weeks of IV antibiotics prior to open heart surgery and as an IV addict with a PICC line I wasn’t even allowed to leave my room without a nurse or an escort or they’d immediately call security. It was my own form of prison. The STACs weren’t as strict, though, but there is really nothing available to do there to begin with.)

Absolute insanity, seems like memories from another lifetime at this point.

It really can cause so much pain, I can't believe I'm letting myself do it again. It had been so many good years. If you have decent quality shit, you can usually get almost as high using other ROA's. It's almost not worth it w/ a lot of substances. If i had been using IV during my 2 year dope period, I don't think I'd be alive.

 

[Agurl]

Yup, I spent close to 8 months in the hospital in 2017 because of it (18 weeks combined, on 3 separate ocassions, in an LTAC for 6 weeks of IV antibiotics prior to open heart surgery and as an IV addict with a PICC line I wasn’t even allowed to leave my room without a nurse or an escort or they’d immediately call security. It was my own form of prison. The STACs weren’t as strict, though, but there is really nothing available to do there to begin with.)

Absolute insanity, seems like memories from another lifetime at this point.

The only time I was allowed to leave my room was to walk the hall of the floor I was on with a nurse. I couldn’t go outside it was depressing being in there and embarrassing. I learned my lesson.

 

[LavalampBarrels]

Hell yeah. OP don't forget, you only get one set of veins. Might as well savor them, and if you do happen to IV once in a blue moon, you might actually succeed and it'll be better than any hit you get whilst furiously jamming yourself.

I still cringe hard and can really feel it when I think about the days when I was bad on it. I have recently picked up the filthy habit again, but am only quickly successful when I use one spot, so I generally only do one (it's ice so the high lasts longer and is less compulsive). Tried to use the main vein in my left arm earlier today in an attempt to rotate spots, and even that guy is a weak little bitch from overuse and destruction from years past. I twitched and pushed through after registration and it still fuckin hurts, although I finagled most of the shot into myself successfully, it still just wasn't really worth all the hype. Might as well have just eaten that tweak for all the good it did.

And I'm a fucking novice when it comes to IV with fuckall for technique, definitely don't wanna graduate to hitting your hands or feet, you'll be out of spots real quickly likely, making it difficult to ever again really achieve that mega rush you so desperately desire.

Sorry if this comes across as a lecture, but I can't stress enough that IV stims will put you on your knees faster than anything (me currently being high on IV stims, loathsome hypocrite that I am). Do as I say, not quite exactly as I do applies.

Oh trust me, i feel ya. I dont even like speed but ive slammed prolly over 100 times. I used to live in chico, ca, so when in Rome i guess... i found it helpful for dope withdrawls, oddly enough, tho. Other than that it just lasts to damn long... im a junkie by nature, i wanna be underground eating ice cream listening to portishead instead of flying for days, sweaty and paranoid, playing guitar to my fingers bleed, to the delight of the whole trailor park lol. What a dickhead... I wish the coke didnt have that ferocious re-up mentality to it. Its fuckin baffling. I really dont even like it. It makes me so on edge and not myself. Just pure discomfort. I havent done any today and slept in till like 2 (not particularly proud of that one but me and a chef homie were up late cocktailin last night and made this killer pasta dish but we only had weed oil for a fat sooooo yeah do the math on that one) and anyways, i feel fuckin great. I feel like myself. I def could go back to bed rtf now too haha. Yeah man fuck this needle shit, what an odd obsession. I swear its just seeing the robust plume of a perfect hit mushroom into the barrel of a rig with a clear solution in it.... it does something major to my brain man. Maybe thats why i used to rinse the same cottons like 4 times, knowing damn well theyre not gonna do me any good. Haha. What a joke.

Its an odd place to be mentally when shooting meth makes the most sense. Thankfully i hate amphetamines, save for good ol mdma... anyways thanks for the input, i totally feel ya

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

It lasts ~1hr so if I'm doing it and trying to be safe I try and ignore the compulsion to keep doing and wait at least 45 mins as a minimum. I'd recommend 60, though.

 

[Deru]

The only time I was allowed to leave my room was to walk the hall of the floor I was on with a nurse. I couldn’t go outside it was depressing being in there and embarrassing. I learned my lesson.

Were IV antibiotics enough or did you require valve replacement, too? Tricuspid valve ?

 

[Agurl]

Were IV antibiotics enough or did you require valve replacement, too? Tricuspid valve ?

At first when I got in there i was in ICU I had IV’s in both arms pumping antibiotics Then after two days they moved to PCU where I spent a week then I got moved to a regular room I don’t remember the first week and half I was in there. At first they thought I was going to be in there for 10 weeks and I ended up spending a month a few days but they had to give me the antibiotics through IV.

 

[LavalampBarrels]

It lasts ~1hr so if I'm doing it and trying to be safe I try and ignore the compulsion to keep doing and wait at least 45 mins as a minimum. I'd recommend 60, though.

Man i stretch it to 2 hours and still its not quite the same. I laid off today. Feel great, eating good, seing friends. The addict life is so useless for me. These chems already ran their course and took most of my 20s from me. Its no longer cool and risque and whatever other half baked means of justifying the use it once had. Heroin makes sense. Gotta have it. I gotta tell ya, SLEEP.... HEAVY SLEEP after a coke bender is volumes more euphoric than dope, coke, speed or speedballin. Im equally parts fortunate to hate coke and unfortunate to be fully obsessed. But today, as ive done none. Theres no fiend thing happenimg. I just feel comfortable and tired and i fuckin love it man. Anyone strugglin, please reach out. I dont have the answers but ill chop it up w whomever about whatever cuz just to speak with someone about anything that gets u off that unilateral addict thought process is a major thought shift away from those disastrous habits we hold so dearly. Anyways... fuckin up indian food on a little black market fakout xanax thats hittin harder than tyson in the 80s.. feelin comfortable and the shits not even on my mind.

Dont get me wrong tho, i know it takes more than a day off and a zan bar to beat an iv addiction but todays been good man and idk if it woulda been without all of ur input, so again, thanks.

And please be safe

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I should add that coke is something I've used recreationally, but I've never been addicted to it or been a daily user. I'll have like a mini-binge over like an evening/night with some friends occasionally is all. It's too expensive and too short-acting for me to be worth it. I prefer amphetamines when it comes to stimulants.

 

[LavalampBarrels]

I should add that coke is something I've used recreationally, but I've never been addicted to it or been a daily user. I'll have like a mini-binge over like an evening/night with some friends occasionally is all. It's too expensive and too short-acting for me to be worth it. I prefer amphetamines when it comes to stimulants.

Definitely more practical, but that's the same reason i hate shooting meth. Just lasts so fuckin long and that taste.... yarps! At least its so cheap to produce its practically useless to cut... whaddya think gang, time to start up the ol iv meth habit? Haha jkjk. I actually went to my first NA meeting today in damn near a year. Definitely a different vibe than slamming drugs but equally, if not more enjoyable and with almost no come down/withdrawl. Idk if im goin sober but these rigs gotta evaporate before i do.

I feel like this thread has veered way off its original course, so sorry if anyone cares. I don't, personally, but someone mentioned a sobriety-themed section of blue light.... should I take my ramblings over there? Def tryina baby step back towards a healthy, balanced life and syringes just aren't part of it.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Definitely more practical, but that's the same reason i hate shooting meth. Just lasts so fuckin long and that taste.... yarps! At least its so cheap to produce its practically useless to cut... whaddya think gang, time to start up the ol iv meth habit? Haha jkjk. I actually went to my first NA meeting today in damn near a year. Definitely a different vibe than slamming drugs but equally, if not more enjoyable and with almost no come down/withdrawl. Idk if im goin sober but these rigs gotta evaporate before i do.

I feel like this thread has veered way off its original course, so sorry if anyone cares. I don't, personally, but someone mentioned a sobriety-themed section of blue light.... should I take my ramblings over there? Def tryina baby step back towards a healthy, balanced life and syringes just aren't part of it.

Good idea. There is a section called Recovery Support with a couple of sub-forums. There are a lot of members in active recovery. In the menu bar at the top of the page hit ‘Forums’ and a list of all the sub-forums will come up.

 

[LavalampBarrels]

Good idea. There is a section called Recovery Support with a couple of sub-forums. There are a lot of members in active recovery. In the menu bar at the top of the page hit ‘Forums’ and a list of all the sub-forums will come up.

Thanks dude

 

[Gaffy]

My coke was so acidic i needed to add caffeine base to make it shootable.. Five shots at most and you lose that vein.. Not worth it,, i used to so a shot then smoke some of the pipe, do a line then drink a beer, wait an hour or so then shoot again. Best way to go

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

Haha. Well I didn't quite mean shooting meth. I'm 5'6 and at one point was 178lbs and a friend sent to a - very, very shady - doctor who prescribed me 125mg amphetamine sulphate pills to take morning, afternoon and evening and 180mg Phenobarbital to take at night. I had depression too, and the amphet was a miracle cure for that as well as making me literally almost never eat. That started my addiction (he seemed happy with me even when I was 93lbs, taking 9 of those amphetamine pills a day (1175mg pure amphetamine a day) and when I was BLATANTLY psychotic he just rx'd me 2mg Alprazolam 4 x day).
Sad ending really, I ended up wandering the streets ~18 hours a day hallucinated golden coins on the ground - a la Super Mario - that disappeared the nanosecond before my fingers touched them - and these...creatures...stalking me. I pretty much morphed into Sara Goldfarb and got sectioned. When I was hospitalized I was 83lbs, so dehydrated I could barely walk and completely detached from reality ranting about how happy I was my teenage children attended my wedding to my husband last week and how they were coming to visit me and I was so happy and proud (I was a 21-year old single guy with no family) and asking if they could please stop the government having those demons follow me in case they scared the kids).
I was very lucky to recover.

^Bit of a tangent there. I just meant to show that I 100% WAS NOT glamourizing amphetamine use
Oh, and ya'll might be glad to know that doctor was then investigated and is currently incarcerated for gross, criminal negligence after the police found eight (Eight!) other people with the same story as mine.

 

[KubrixOrange]

I used to inject cocaine for quite a while. The only good shot of the day is the first one, after that it’s repetitive insanity. If you’re not injecting every 5 minutes yet, I’d say stop now before you get to that point and save yourself from the worst misery you can imagine.

my first go around with IV coke was ‘06. Days on end, minutes felt like hours. Horrible. Before I surrendered I was booting ever 4 minutes and telling myself “I’ll wait 15 minutes now”. Somehow 15 meant 4. I couldn’t stop. None of us could. I had enough after taking quite a few kpins to try to come down and I called my ex gf and told her and somehow I ended up in an airport, with a ticket back to where I was from. looking like death, bruised and pinned like hell. Kicking H at the same time. I wasn’t even of legal drinking age curled up at the gate of plane. That was my first rock bottom.

 

[MLynn171]

I know no one's posted on this thread in 4 years; PLEASE don't tear into me for bumping it back up. But I do feel this is a topic worth bringing back up, especially with the kind of stuff that's on the streets these days & what it is/could be cut with.
I used to IV coke hard, mostly in '07 when that fish scale was prevalent in my town. And the price. . . . I remember people complaining about paying what they were back then; if they knew what they'd be paying 15 years later. . . . Fucking A. Lol. Anyway. It started one day late '06 - early '07 when I was WDing like a mf from blues ("roxies" back then). 4 of us looking to get even just a buzz, came up with 1/2g coke & 1/2g work. The 2 older, more experienced people with us said the best way for us all to likely get the most out of it was IV. I was in such bad shape I said fuck it, do it. Maaaan. . . . I swore I could hear colors for about 30 minutes after I had that cough hit me. Didn't feel sick anymore. After that, we started getting into IV more; when I had my 1st dilaudid, I was DONE. I thought I'd liked opies before, but didn't know it could be like that.
Every time I ran out, couldn't get any or afford enough, I'd get coke. Never made sense though, because I've always been an anxious person so coming down I was fucking miserable. Completely stiff, could barely move, jaw clenched like it was wired shut, & don't talk to me, look at me, make me move, even think about me. But still went back to it.
Anyway, I wanted to share here when I came across this thread just scrolling along. I never did mine too close together, but the guy I was with at the time did. And it was enough to make me completely uninterested in doing it any way but snorting after. We were in TX, moved there to get straight. Lasted 3 months. 6 months later we're hanging out 1 night with his brother, brothers gf, & 2 balls. Up to that point we had only been snorting it, agreed to put the rigs down when we moved to TX. But that night his brother brought it up & he wouldn't stop asking me after that. I got so sick of hearing him beg that I said fuck it, you're grown, you'll end up doing what you want anyway (history had taught me as much with him). So they went to the pharmacy, got a bag & came back. Eventually I caved because damn it, I missed that train! But I was careful, I wouldn't do more than one an hour. That drove them nuts; blowing through theirs while mine hardly seemed to move. But I was doing fat shots.
My guy had just done a shot when he came in the living room & saw me prepping mine. So he decided he wanted to do one with me. I told him no, he really needed to wait because he just did a fucking massive one not 5 minutes ago. But he was stubborn & had a temper & I wasn't ending my night beat to shit. So he made his, we tied off & BAM. Right as the train hits me I looked over, saw his face change & before he had the plunger all the way down he pulled out the rig & tossed it on the table, slapped his hand over his mouth as he raced for the bathroom. But he couldn't make it/stop it. I watched as he got sick & couldn't contain it, it shot out from the side of his mouth/hand all over the fucking walls/floor. I almost got sick. This went on for a few, then he bitched, & of course not 15 minutes later made another shot. Smh. I was fucking done. I threw out my rig, snorted the rest of mine, then didn't touch it for years.
Wish I'd stuck to that. Started using it again a few months ago; not hooked & not daily or even weekly, but since that 1st time in years that I felt that familiar feeling hit, I've wanted to feel it again. It was easy to avoid the longer I was off & after years it was nothing. But one shit day & a big paycheck & meeting a new person all in the same day, that was over. I'll say this, it's not like it was. Costs soooo much more & not as good. But I don't come down like a homicidal statue anymore, so there's that. But when I do pick up a rig to bang some & I start to fiend for another too soon after, I just replay that day with my ex from 16 years ago & the fiending stops. But I will say there have been a few times I've been close, due to the batch being stronger than I anticipated/the last one was. So I've learned to start much smaller; that's preferable anyway these days when they're cutting every damn thing with fent. OD'd once on that, on accident, didn't know I had taken it. Woke up in the hospital a day later with just dreams as memories of what happened, 4 shots of narcan, IV in my neck, still slept for 2 days after.
Sorry, got off topic. If you can't tell, I got some coke last night. But for real, space your shots! My ex got lucky; throwing up is the least of what could've happened to him & it was violent enough as it was.

TL;DR: SPACE YOUR SHOTS OR RISK PUKING ALL OVER YOUR HOUSE, & THAT'S IF YOU'RE EXTREMELY SUPER LUCKY!

 

[MLynn171]

Oh yeah, & with not knowing what's cut with what these days, another good reason to space your shots is fucking fent! Do one & get some in it, you might be ok if it's a real small amount. But do another too soon, especially if you don't know it's got fent, & it could end up being your last. It only takes a little bit of that shit to be too fucking much.