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Heroin IV Heroin. Little advice needed!

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GarageFlower

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I'm quite a seasoned IV drug user, mainly with Heroin, but also with coke and MDMA occasionally too.

I've been using this ROA for about 2 years now and I still go in my arms, rotating between the two.

I always practice safe IV methods, in fact I'm really OCD about it.

I see my friend once a week and we smoke a little crack and shoot some heroin together...She can't hit herself so I do it for her.

I always use new, clean needles and wash the site with isopropyl swabs.

I always tie off for her and register before injecting slowly whilst getting her to loosen the tourniquet, exactly how I hit myself.

It always seems though a couple of days later her arms bruise and swell for a couple of days then go down, but mine don't?

As I've said I'm practising good IV standards, could it just be the way her skin reacts to having a needle shoved in it?

Her skin is really soft and delicate.
 
It is a lot easier to hit yourself than someone else. Your veins may be bigger, hers may be tiny.

There are a lot of possibles, but if it happens every time, I would be concerned that she is either reacting negatively to the cut, or you may not have the tip of the needle 100% inside the vein. Aside from that, I really don't know.

I assume you are using very small guage needles?
 
We'll if the is no immediate lumps, bumps, or swelling it's probably just the way her skin reacts to injections. If you were missing on her she'd know immediately. I've known people who always bruised after IV drug use.
 
It is possible that when you are sticking her, you are pushing the needle all the way thru her vein when you first insert it. This used to happen to me sometimes with my ex, her veins were really tiny and mine are huge so it is a completely different ball game when fixing her up. Just be very careful when you are fixing her up. Before you stick her, rub the vein a little and gently push on it. This will plump it up and give you some idea of what you are working with. Also when you stick her, make sure you are going in at an angle, that will reduce the chance of going straight thru the other side. Just try to get her vein to show as much as possible before you inject and hopefully it won't be a problem.
There is also the possibility that, like Rob said, she just bruises easily. You are using a small guage and have experience, so it is likely that it's just how her body reacts. My sister bruises every single time she gives blood, or gets blood drawn, and that is done in a completely sterile professional setting by people who draw blood dozens of times a day.
 
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