iv meth pain up left arm

[Micropenislittle]

ok so sometimes when i shoot up in my left arm i get slight stinging up my left arm into my shoulder and redness on the skin that slowly gose away..... im pretty sure its not in an artery and also it dosnt always happen but only ever in my left arm. never on my right side.... . also is it possible that arterierel blood could sometimes come threw my veins or dose light red blood just always mean im in an artery even though tthe same spot at the same angle n depth was dark red just a few hours before ... any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[RustyCrackleford]

Its entirely possible that you're injecting in a spot that has a artery running alongside or close to a regular vein. Ive found it doesn't always really hurt when you hit an artery but you always get bright red blood, stinging and generally the skin around the area gets inflamed and red and often bruised.

If you feel a pulse around there its entirely possible. Follow the general rules of injection.

Always use clean gear
Always rotate injection sites
Never hit a artery
Choose veins in order of danger and severity, start with arms and forearms, before hands and before feet or other places. NEVER NECK and NEVER Groin
Try to transition to smoking, in this drug landscape its much safer than injection.

 

[Micropenislittle]

have you sent it in bright red blood before or am i the only fool whos done that

 

[neversickanymore]

Did you clean the injection site with alcohol? Most of the dangerous microbes live harmlessly on our skins. They are introduced into a much less harmless situation when a needle punctures the bio shields of our skin.

I really doubt if you are accidentally hitting an artery in your arm. An oxygenated arterial flash would be difficult to recognize.

To try and figure how hard it would be to actually accidentally hit an artery. All we need to look at is the many medical professionals utter incompetence of hitting a vein.. well they can’t hit a vein.. but certainly don’t seem to be accidentally hitting arteries.?

If we doubt this hypothetically, try and hit an artery.. IV use can almost destroy the ability to access IV routs of administration, but we see or hear nothing of accidentally inject destroying or even accessing their arteries.

Hitting an artery can hurt like someone hit you with a hammer .. but commonly also no bruising or swelling.. often can’t walk or move without very substantial acute localized pain.

my hypothesis as to what happened in your case was you delivered a partial miss on the injection and the fluid you injected that missed your vein caused all those symptoms or a volatile substance injected in the vein itself inflamed it.

 

[Rabbit]

I'm not expert on IV use. But something you may want to keep in mind. Pain down the left arm can be indicative of strain on the heart. Meth is pretty taxing on the heart. In the past when I've been playing with uppers+downers or multiple downers at the same time combined with too much caffeine I've sometimes gotten that flash of pain down the inside of my left arm. Even when totally sober if I've been pushing myself to hard and not taking care of my body I've gotten flashes of pain down that arm. I also once stupidly took to much loperamide and got heart palpitations combined with pain down the left arm.

It might not be a case of simply missing or improper injection. It could simply be your heart giving you fair warning that you're putting to much strain on it by mainlining meth to often.

I know once you cross into IV use that it's hard to go back. But it's doable and I've seen at least once person kick it over the years while still maintaining a heavy habit through other routes (mainly, snorting, smoking and rectal). Ironically, they'd done way too much damage to organs by the time they stopped playing with the needle and died within a couple of years from heavy alcohol abuse combined with what I suspect is damage done by mainlining research chemicals, opioids, cocaine and meth for so many years. But they did manage to quit the needle and they took a lot of pride in that. They were certainly able to control their use much more afterwards and while they carried the scars from heavy IV use for the rest of their life their health did massively improve for about 6-8 months until their liver finally gave up the ghost.

 

[neversickanymore]

^ why do they experience this only when shooting in the left arm? @Rabbit

if it was likely to be due to stimulant/meth induced heart strain then why is it happening only when the substance is injected in the left arm?

Here is a related broad study..

The needle and the damage done: musculoskeletal and vascular complications associated with injected drug use - PMC

Injected drug use is associated with a wide range of medical complications which are predominantly musculoskeletal and vascular in nature. Illicit drug use is increasing worldwide. Patients with complications of injected drug use often present in a ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

To bad many of us are so hard to study.. giggles.. try and study a medical professional… boring and very difficult.. dead languages and severe legal protections.. and a US lobby that’s disturbingly powerful.. not to mention the arrogance.. must come from being grossly overpaid independent off actual results

 

[Rabbit]

^ why do they experience this only when shooting in the left arm? @Rabbit

if it was likely to be due to stimulant/meth induced heart strain then why is it happening only when the substance is injected in the left arm?

I missed that part about it only happening when attempting to register in the left arm. But it could just be dumb luck and they haven't noticed it going on when injecting into other parts of the body. For all we know they do not attempt registering in the right arm because they're right handed.

My friend that shot up all of the time was like that. He was scarred badly all along his left side from foot to neck because he was right handed. He eventually learned how to register on his right side using his left hand once he'd ruin the veins on the left side to the point where he could barely hit them. But he always said he hated using his left hand to work the needle and that it was much harder for him to register anywhere on his right side because he just wasn't as accurate.

I was mainly just trying to point out the possibility that it could be more than simply missing or hitting in a bad spot in that particular arm. I have experienced a similar shot of pain during drug use down the inside of my left arm multiple times and my only use of the needle over the years has been stuff like IM injection of things like B12. Which I can not do on my own because the needle terrifies me. I have to have someone else do it even if I'm just needing to inject something into a muscle. There is no way I could ever hit myself with something like insulin.

 

[BorbOrB]

I get these kinds of symptoms with badly damaged veins. Meth is quite corrosive and you could have a failed and damaged part of a vein allowing meth to come out and irritate places other than the injection site. I haven't ivd in years but when I did, id get meth coming out higher up where veins are damaged.