rosegardengreen
Greenlighter
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Hello there. This is my first post. I have browsed a little bit, trying to find some advice but came up empty. I know this has been a topic before but I feel my situation is a little different. 2 nights ago I shot heroin into the artery on my wrist. It swelled up near the injection and hurt like hell. Then it appeared that about 2 inches of the artery that I shot up into had turned red under my skin. I waited about 5 hours and finally went to the ER. the doctor put my hand under water & used some weird machine to see if the blood was still flowing, he said it was. and he clarified that i had indeed shot into an artery. he told me to heat it, ice it, and hold it up for a few days, and come back if it started to look discolored, but he thought it would be ok. then he walked away and i ran like hell to avoid a medical bill. the vein is back to looking greenish blue under my skin but it still hurts, like a dull throbbing pain, and although i have feeling in my fingers, they feel weird, like.. strained. i am scared shitless that i am going to get gangrene and have to get my fingers cut off or that i did some kind of nerve damage or something. and i cant really go back to the hospital so i dont know, maybe this is just normal recovery but im worried that it still hurts 2 days later.. any knowledge that can be dropped?