I recently went through an odd manic patch, where I shot up EPH basically around for the clock for a week. First and foremost, no, that is not a safe thing to do, and no, it also was not sane. I really was mentally just 'gone'. I paid no attention to taking care of myself, whether related to drug use or otherwise.
As this wore off, I went to see my GP, confessed my sins, was consolidated, referred to mental health help, and given prophylactic antibiotics. I was told that if I had any symptoms such as numbness, vomiting or abscesses, to come straight back.
Fast-forward a few hours and I hd a terrible case of the runs, and my arm had gone numb and ballooned just above the crook of my elbow, and a large dip had formed at the point of the vein. I decided to head back to the doctor in the morning. However, within a few hours I was in excrutiating pain, and it being the middle of the night, I headed off to A+E.
Everyone there was lovely. Seems worth mentioning, just for those encountering injection-related problems in the UK - literally everyone I met was polite and professional. Yes, over the course of the evening a few of the nurses I met were subtly disapproving, but they were also obviously trying to focus purely on getting me well and out of the hospital. Blood tests showed the start of some kind of mild blood infection, but nothing serious, and they couldn't work out perfectly what the swelling was, but said it may be the very start of an abcess. They said it was too close to major arteries and vessels to be able to treat without admitting me fully, but that it had been caught early enough that I should fine with just antibiotics. They pumped me full of IV flucloxacillin and sent me home with 6 days more of the same to take by mouth. The numbness and pain, they said, was probably due to nerve compression. Either the swelling was sitting on it, or I had directly injured a nerve (sounds like me. As I say, I was totally manic).
It's now been 3 days, and my arm is still numb. The numbness goes from the joint of my thumb, down my wrist and up to my elbow, covering around half of my forearm, only on one side but including both half the under and half the top side. Pain is also pretty extraordinarily severe. I can make it a few hours in the morning without painkillers, but eventually I have to take some Solpadeine to function. I have also now noticed some numbness in the areas I shot up in the other arm (though I haven't shot any more). I haven't lost any functionality, just feeling.
I know that you cannot really 'know' how long a nerve will take to heal, but thinking back on it, no-one at the hospital actually said I could expect it to. They were just treating the possible infections. In the last 3 days, there has been absolutely no improvement in the numbness whatsoever. If anything, it's a little worse. The pain is lessening slowly, I think, but not much.
Should I be 'waiting' for feeling to come back, or if I've got no improvement at 3 days, just kind of putting it out of my mind?
Many thanks
As this wore off, I went to see my GP, confessed my sins, was consolidated, referred to mental health help, and given prophylactic antibiotics. I was told that if I had any symptoms such as numbness, vomiting or abscesses, to come straight back.
Fast-forward a few hours and I hd a terrible case of the runs, and my arm had gone numb and ballooned just above the crook of my elbow, and a large dip had formed at the point of the vein. I decided to head back to the doctor in the morning. However, within a few hours I was in excrutiating pain, and it being the middle of the night, I headed off to A+E.
Everyone there was lovely. Seems worth mentioning, just for those encountering injection-related problems in the UK - literally everyone I met was polite and professional. Yes, over the course of the evening a few of the nurses I met were subtly disapproving, but they were also obviously trying to focus purely on getting me well and out of the hospital. Blood tests showed the start of some kind of mild blood infection, but nothing serious, and they couldn't work out perfectly what the swelling was, but said it may be the very start of an abcess. They said it was too close to major arteries and vessels to be able to treat without admitting me fully, but that it had been caught early enough that I should fine with just antibiotics. They pumped me full of IV flucloxacillin and sent me home with 6 days more of the same to take by mouth. The numbness and pain, they said, was probably due to nerve compression. Either the swelling was sitting on it, or I had directly injured a nerve (sounds like me. As I say, I was totally manic).
It's now been 3 days, and my arm is still numb. The numbness goes from the joint of my thumb, down my wrist and up to my elbow, covering around half of my forearm, only on one side but including both half the under and half the top side. Pain is also pretty extraordinarily severe. I can make it a few hours in the morning without painkillers, but eventually I have to take some Solpadeine to function. I have also now noticed some numbness in the areas I shot up in the other arm (though I haven't shot any more). I haven't lost any functionality, just feeling.
I know that you cannot really 'know' how long a nerve will take to heal, but thinking back on it, no-one at the hospital actually said I could expect it to. They were just treating the possible infections. In the last 3 days, there has been absolutely no improvement in the numbness whatsoever. If anything, it's a little worse. The pain is lessening slowly, I think, but not much.
Should I be 'waiting' for feeling to come back, or if I've got no improvement at 3 days, just kind of putting it out of my mind?
Many thanks
