Needles

[Strawberry_lovemuffin]

You can practice your injecting technique without sticking the needle in your arm. Just do everything in the same way (without the gear :D), but don't stick it in. The hand action can be tricky to learn at first. Hold the syringe at the correct angle alonside your vein, and try keeping it totally still as you jack back then press down on the plunger.

You need to learn to hold the syringe further up, because it sounds like your fumbling while trying to get to the plunger... Is that right?

Be careful getting other people to inject you. If you do get someone else to do you up, make sure they at least wash their hands immediately before touching you. Heaps of people get hep c from being injected by other people. You really should learn to do yourself if you plan on being a regular injector.

The bruising can be reduced if you apply pressure to the site immediately after injecting, even if you miss. When you keep sticking yourself with the same needle over and over, it gets blunt and increases bruising and vein damage. Have a look at this.

As already said, practice makes perfect. Great link there too

oooh, that's fuckin scary.

(your pics I mean)

I've never done it but I admit the fear of not hitting a vein first time is one of the main detterents. I'm so anti-pain it's not funny .

 

[ebeneezer_geeza]

^i dont find it painful..
but i cant say i am pleased with myself, although i have only ever iv'd what my doc prescribes (pure ampoules), so i havent used street drugs with all their impurities. Still most of my veins arent visible after 7 years of iv'ing upto 4/5 times a day - altough i have had monthly and year long breaks. I only use the insulin syringe and try and be as sterile as possible.

Back on topic. took me months to get the hang of it and can do it with either hand in seconds now. I never thought to ask anyone as i was embarrased, this is bad and i was lucky, i didnt know hitting arteries was so bad (although i knew it when i did it by mistake). You can make so many mistakes - either dont do it or get someone who really knows to show you. soi havent had any complications other than a few marks on my arms which only to the trained iv user would know what they are.

 

[blahblahblah]

What kinda anti-b's chyan...?

 

[Chyah]

i got cephalexin 4 times a day for 10 days

 

[negrogesic]

Yes cephalexin is the most commonly used, but others like amoxicillan and penicillan work, and can be obtained without going to a doctor. Im not saying where, but there are many places that sell it OTC (not pharmacies, and yes, designed for other uses)...........