IVing meth.

[meandmysweetj]

My girlfriend and I started IVing meth about a month ago. She shot in the inside of her wrist. It instantl hurt and got swollen. And a day or two later her knuckles are red and achey.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

~~> OD, has a nice lil IV thread.

If you just started shooting meth (and I'm assuming IV use in general), the wrist is NOT the place to be. (nor is it ever rly, but that's another story for another day) Lots of nerves & shit. Sounds like a bad miss, but I'm not too familiar with wrist shots.

 

[meandmysweetj]

Well we have been iv users for about a year but only with opiates. But just since we started mainlining meth a month or so ago she has a hard time finding a vein. I'm sure its a sign that its terrible for ur vein.
t the pipe just wasn't doing it for us any more. That w our fist though to was she hit a nerve. but it got blood in the barrel and as soon as she started to push it, it began to swell up huge.

 

[Rob27shred]

What color was the blood? If it was bright red, not dark red she may have hit an artery. In that case you should get her to the ER ASAP. As many bad things can happen from this, even possibly amputation. The way you described her experience doesn't sound good to me & the best advice anyone here can give is to take her to the ER. Not many of us are medical professionals & even if someone is they can not tell you what has happened through a forum.

 

[kthxbi]

sorry to treat you like an idiot - i know you've shot dope before so i could be way off --- but i've gotten this before, and unless i've totally misdiagnosed my own problems, i always just figured they were bad misses - for me, it'd be swollen as fuuuuck for maybe a day and then slowly go down over a few days, how long's it been now? for me i think it tended to happen when using blunt rigs and maybe getting a vein but then going thru it and pumping a bunch of uppers out the other side. other than temporary discomfort it never caused me any problems - but it's been a while since it happened, 6 months at least.

EDIT: and just gunna second the opinion - don't go for the wrist. it's a real, real tricky spot.

 

[stormcharger]

threads like this making me sad, I can just see a lovely couple descending into the darkness of hardcore addiction
i hope you guys make it out ok one day

 

[kthxbi]

^ while maybe coming across as a little... well, maybe trite or something ... i don't think that message should be overlooked. if there's one thing i could say would be more dangerous than getting into a drug spiral on your own, it'd be getting into a codependent one. be very, very careful.

 

[meandmysweetj]

Thanks for all the help. And we are both verry careful. We have both been upside down in our own shit addicted to oxy. And we got out of that fine. Now we just use for a month or so every 6 months. It is scary being addicted with someone that makes it ok to be addicted. But it also makes it nice knowing that u always have someone that loves u no matter what that won't judge u no matter what happens. But most important when ur ready to get clean they are right there by your side hurting with u. My gf is all that and more if I didn't have her I would most defiantly still be addicted to oxy/heroin and or probably dead.


And where is a better place than the wrist? No arms just because she has such a hard time finding a vein

 

[kthxbi]

brother - i don't wanna preach to you about your relationship cuz that's a whole different topic. but what you've just described sounds very, very co dependent - great when it's going well, hugely problematic when it's not going well. drugs act as a multiplier.

personally i'd say if forearm and upper arm are out of the question, lower leg would be easier- is for me at least. calf area. i've got one or two fairly prominent veins there.

 

[meandmysweetj]

Ok we got the spot figured out. Now dose anyone have any idea why her knuckles would get swollen and ache? They hurt her bad and we have no clue why.