IV Suboxone- Wtf Happened??
I've looked everywhere for info on this and haven't been able to find it, so if this is a duplicate I apologize... I've been IVing for years and I've never seen this happen. It didn't make any sense to me. I know suboxone can act a little weird when injecting sometimes, but I have no idea what to think about this.. I hit the vein on very the outside of the crook of my arm. I got a beautiful register, one of the best I've seen in a while but when I pushed the plunger in it burned like hell just like a miss. So I checked it again and it was still registering great so I said screw it and went with it. I got a nice little rush and I tasted it like when you taste a good shot of coke, so I know I got it. But my arm still swelled up and was a little sore like a miss. At first I thought maybe it was a partial miss, but I felt way too good to have only gotten part of it. Suboxone isn't like a lot of other stuff, it doesn't work it's way into your system with an IM hit like most other stuff, so I'm pretty sure that if I had missed any of it I wouldn't have felt that good. I thought maybe I tied off too tight and it was pushing some back out of the vein, but still, I wouldn't feel as good as I did. So I tried hitting the same vein today, and I didn't tie off nearly as tight and today it burned worse than yesterday so I stopped after 5-10 units and decided to try somewhere else. 30 minutes later my arm swelled up really big and was really tender to the touch. Missing 5-10 units normally wouldn't do that.. at least it never has with me before. It's been 4-5 hours since then and most of the swelling has gone down but it's still pretty tender. It seems like suboxone is a lot harder on the veins than other stuff, but this just seems a little odd to me. Has this happened to anybody else? I guess my main question is, what the hell happened?! And how can I prevent it from happening again?