IV shot no regestering correctly...

[opiaterock]

...should you always see blood when you register a shot? I took one with a needle that I used myself a few days ago - but when pulled back on the plunger no blood came into the barrel? I pushed down ever so slightly regardless and didn't feel any pain like a missed shot would it actually felt exaclty like it would going into the vein... is this possible? It felt like a IV hit and I am absolutely f***d nicely - like really really stoned, this post has taken over 15 minutes to write and coorect spelling

 

[opiaterock]

* I know what I did was stupid and I should have used a fresh needle but it was my last one...also the tip is at a little bit of an angle, I mean it shoot slightly to one side, could this be why it doesn't register blood?

 

[Shambles]

I can't tell you why it still worked as well as an IV shot shy of calling on the "skin popping" thing which I've never consciously done but would perhaps explain your experience. It's a risky ol' bizniz with 'street' drugs though and best avoided if at all possible. If IV shots are what you want then you need to see that blood orchid each and every time you shoot. If not you simply are not in a vein and are risking infection far more so than you ever will shooting in an actual vein.

Glad ya got the Goods and don't appear to be risking life and limb or owt, but do please ensure you are actually in a vein when shooting drugs IV in future. The risks multiply a gazillionfold when you shoot anywhere other than directly into a vein proper.

 

[opiaterock]

Ya Shambles I know this is the strange thing, I've missed before and I usually have a stinging feelin immediately so I withdraw the needle but this time it was different,...

 

[Shambles]

... Which is precisely why I called skinpop. Virtually nobody does such a thing deliberately with street drugs but I have heard it's less immediately ouchy than yer standard missed shot, yet still provides a better rush than IM. As mentioned, I have no experience of such things so am going simply on "stuff I heard" but it does sound kinda like your situation to me.

Either way, in the vein, each and every time

 

[blondin]

Sounds to me like the needle may have been blocked in such a way as to allow you to pull up the shot but it may have had congeeled blood in there from before so the warm hit dissolved the blood in the needle that then set again so not registering but a bit of force on the plunger forced it in ....if you missed you would have got a lump....or it could be something else entirely fuck knows, ; )

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

I too was thinking 'blocked needle'. When you pulled back and got no blood, did you feel some suction? Did the plunger then go back to where it was without pushing down? If the needle had been slightly blocked from a previous use then pulling back may not have caused enough suction to clear it, but when pushing down it then cleared and you got the goods where they were meant to go. This is quite a common issue with reusing syringes and is a good example of why you shouldn't! Just think if that old bacteria laden clot had found its way deep into a muscle where the blood flow couldn't wash it away. This is how abcesses begin...

 

[Kronos]

Aye eithera blocked pin which i have no exp with, or you went through/missed the vein and 'skinpopped' which still provides a pretty good rush

 

[Shambles]

I too was thinking 'blocked needle'. When you pulled back and got no blood, did you feel some suction? Did the plunger then go back to where it was without pushing down?

The lack of mention of this (it's hardly summat you wouldn't notice) is why I went with skinpop. But yeah, if what you describe did happen then definitely a blocked pin. And yes, another good reason to add to the teetering stack of good reasons to always use fresh pins.

 

[opiaterock]

Ya it was definitely a blocked pin like Blondin said, had to be...anyway leaving that behind me now hopefully touch wood