IV loud and proud, but after a good 3 year run of shooting coke,after a 10 year off and on with H and anything i could break down and get into a set of works, i started to have really really bad neck pain, after 3 months of emergency room visits , one doctor says i have 3 broken vertebrae . turns out i had aquired osteomylitis, look that up. it is basically a bone infection , where the bone starts to die and dissolve , it is usually caused by an unknown and untreated abscess under the skin , or an infection that has settled in the bone. i had an epidural abscess. that is an abscess on the lining of my spinal cord, no wonder i couldnt feel my legs!! well, emergency surgery removed the abscess and broken bone and the doc put some bone from the bone bank and these metal plates and rods in my neck. almost good as new. oh yeah , the stupid nurse left the key to the dilaudid machine and i emptied that bitch into five 5cc big barrell syringes and i would hook them up to my sub-clavian(3 tubes for injection or withdrawal directly into the sub-clavien vein in my chest) and wham , that was the best hospital stay ever. anyway, time has taken its toll and i can very rarely hit any vein , anywhere! so i resort to IM of H. i still try to IV coke and ice every once in a while but it is frustrating and difficult. lately ,if I know i am gonna be shooting coke , i use a butterfly , once it flags , i tape it in place and use that. i wouldnt leave it in longer than about 6-8 hours though. i hate them people with all them veins stickin out all over the place