Opioids Injecting Demerol - not sure this is safe

[Ianto]

Hi. First off, I'm new here in terms of posting, so if I need to ask differently, please let me know. I have been reading the forums for a while and haven't found a thread where this question is answered, but maybe it is...

Anyway, a friend of mine is prescribed demerol for pain. Recently, he has begun injecting it into his muscles so that he can get faster pain relief. My concern is with the level of pain he is experiencing in the aftermath.

He is just using hot tap water in the syringe to mix crushed demerol and then doing an IM injection. Is this improper technique? He is trying to avoid infections, but I think his technique may be wrong. He does use needles more than once, but he cleans them with alcohol between uses and uses alcohol to clean his skin before injection.

Any help would be appreciated as again, he doesn't want to get an infection or cause serious harm to his body.

 

[Kenaz]

Hi. First off, I'm new here in terms of posting, so if I need to ask differently, please let me know. I have been reading the forums for a while and haven't found a thread where this question is answered, but maybe it is...

Anyway, I am prescribed demerol for pain. Recently, I have begun injecting it into my muscles so that I can get faster pain relief. My concern is with the level of pain I am experiencing in the aftermath.

I am just using hot tap water in the syringe to mix crushed demerol and then doing an IM injection. Is this improper technique? I'm trying to avoid infections. I do use needles more than once, but I clean them with alcohol between uses and use alcohol to clean my skin before injection.

Any help would be appreciated as again, I don't want to get an infection or cause serious harm to my body.

Dude, no, just no. Seriously. Don't do this, at least not the way you are doing it. Your technique is up there with the Russian addicts shooting up Coaxil and DIY desomorphine.

Go to the link I posted. Once you are there go to all the starred links - the ones which warn about graphic imagery. They all feature images of Russian addicts who were shooting up pills the way you are using your Demerol. This should give you some idea of what you can look forward to if you keep on with your cold-shaken unfiltered Demerol IM regimen. I am completely serious: what you are doing is a serious and immediate danger to your continued well-being. If you don't want to wind up looking like Skeletor Girl (hit the Coaxil link and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about a couple minutes into the video), stop doing this right now.

I should add a disclaimer that I am not a needle-user: there are many posters here who can give you better advice on how to safer injecting. What I can tell you is:

- you absolutely, positively NEED to filter your crushed pills before injecting. I'm surprised you can even get that slop through your needle. Micron filters would be your best bet (Captain Heroin has a superb guide on micron filtering that you should read). Barring that, at the very least draw that stuff up through cotton. You'll still be injecting a lot of microscopic non-soluble particles, but at least you'll be getting some of the biggest stuff out.

- you do NOT want to do intramuscular injections of crushed pills. Not only do you need to stop doing IM Demerol, you need to keep a close eye on the injection sites for a few days. You said you were feeling pain: if you start feeling redness, swelling and pain you should get to the ER and quickly. IMing an unfiltered solution of crushed pills is a major abscess in the making.

- Let's not even get into sterile water and sterile surfaces for crushing your pills. (Do Demerols have a coating on them which needs to be removed? If so, how are you getting it off? If you are licking them or using saliva to wet them, you are taking bacteria from your mouth and injecting them inside your body).

If you feel you are not getting sufficient pain relief from your current prescriptions, you may do better speaking to your doctor than shooting them. Whatever condition you have now can't be nearly so painful as MRSA or necrotizing fasciitis.

 

[slowpoke1967]

dunno when i got my demeral pills i just ate them like candy .
Little white tictacs.......

 

[Oxymorphone]

What the fuck, DO NOT EVER INJECT INTO YOUR MUSCLE, especially pills you probably filtered poorly. You are already probably going to get abscesses, gangegrene, and thrombosis from that shit. Just stop.

Using fresh needles and sterilizing them doesn't mean shit when you are injecting tons of particles into you muscle. Where do you think it all goes? Nowhere, it stays in your muscle causing all sorts of infections and havoc, you could very easily lose an arm or leg not to mention looking disgusting. This may not happen immediately but can happen from doing what you are just once. The reason IM injections work in normal settings is the solutions is 100% pure and travels to the bloodstream. When you shoot a pill your muscle acts like a sponge and just absorbs all of that gunk where it stays there, even if you filter it well there is still tons of stuff that you can't see that will cause harm.

Aside from the fact that abusing pain medication is going to fuck you over later when you need pain relief, this is one of the worst things you can do to your body.
Use your brain, you are why there is such stigma around injecting drug users and you are going to look like those horrible pictures they put on anti-drug posters to scare people if you keep this up.

 

[Ianto]

Thanks for all of the feedback... I didn't realize how dangerous it was which is why I asked. I told my friend to keep an eye on the injection sites and not add to them. I also told him to be seen by a doctor if they didn't improve or got worse. Thanks again.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

As everyone else has said, please do not inject Demorol, especially into your muscle.