DaymasZ said:
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Thankyou very much for all your input and information - This is the kind of info and details I am looking for and you have helped alot I love learning and fine tuning my skills. Thanks for caring and I wish more people had the insight that you have. Its very appriciated and I hope god or karma gives you some boost for being kind and helpful. You must get praise because if it helps my life and my future then I will push out alot of thankyous even if they appear cheesey or over-stated. Yay!
So far I am switching vains and trying to avoid my hands but they are the easy ones. You know when you go and give blood and they always use the same vain your elbow big vain spot u know what im saying? I have missed in both arms twice to try and hit that, I was sure I drew blood but I think it was still a miss.
So I know you use a strap to make the vains thicker but I thought that would be the easy / no brainer when I started as I have had blood taken in those spots already. But nope I just cant do it (I dont try to because im stopping and I dont need to use them so far. Dunno the question but thats one situation.
Another is if I hit an artery - which someone told my pushes blood out - and vains carry blood into your heart - well if you register and shoot, how bad is that and you still get high right?
I have used vains in my feet and totally did a good hit as far as I thought but it still missed or I didt get high. I started on my feet so thats where I got red bumps and there not healed enough to even see where to hit yet.
Also if someone has Hep C , and there blood gets on a pill - and it drys and gets old, but then you eat that pill, will you get Hep C or must it enter your bloodstream? I dont have that but this older lady does and she sells pills and you can guess the situation so should I worry if I saw a red spot on a methadone waffer?
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Thanks all - info ?
Thanks for the kudos, I appreciate it.
You'll get better with IV with practice. I found that, back when I was a beginner, using brand new syringes made it more difficult because it was much easier to slip out of the other side of the vein since it was so sharp. While it's worse for your veins, you might try reusing a syringe (THAT HAS NOT BEEN SHARED) after CLEANING it thoroughly with water and, if possible, a water/bleach solution (though make sure you rinse it thoroughly afterwards, don't want to inject any bleach) -- syringes that are 2-3 injections old are a lot easier for beginners to register with, since you can sort of "feel" the syringe puncture the vein in that situation, even though it's worse for your veins. Once you get a feel for how it's done, go back to using new syringes every time, and let the vein you abused with the old syringe heal for a while.
I don't know what others' experiences are, but my biggest problem when I frst started out was not realizing how CLOSE to the surface of your skin veins really are. I was going in at like a 30 degree angle (from arm to syringe) when it really ought to be no more than 5-10 degrees -- especially if you tie off, the veins are literally right underneath the skin. That was my biggest problem -- once I solved that one, I could register every time (until I destroyed my bigger veins, so be sure to switch around). Make sure you're always pointing the syringe so that you're injecting TOWARDS your heart -- e.g., in your arm, towards your shoulder. But you seriously don't need any vertical component to the injection angle at all other than that which is implicitly provided by the diameter of the syringe. That's the pointer that helped me the most.
Injecting in your feet is not very safe; stick to using 3+ veins in your arms. Injecting such that the injection has to travel through your legs may dislodge a clot and cause a pulmonary embolism, cardiac arrest, or stroke.
You will know if you hit an artery -- A) The blood will be much lighter red (you know when you register a vein, the blood is very dark red, almost black; arterial blood is a much brighter red); B) The blood will be "frothy" since it has been oxygenated and since the pressure pushing it into the syringe will be very great; C) If you are using a new syringe, the pressure from the artery will push blood into the syringe even if you aren't pulling back on the plunger. Those are three ways to know you've hit an artery. If you do, PULL OUT IMMEDIATELY AND PUT PRESSURE ON THE PUNCTURE. If you inject, it will be an incredibly painful experience -- since the blood needs to travel through your body to reoxygenate your cells before it returns to the heart and the brain, where you're trying to get it. You will still get high, although less so, but you probably won't notice due to the intense pain. DO NOT INJECT INTO AN ARTERY.
RE: the pills -- I would be willing to bet that grandma's red splotch wasn't blood. However, it's NEVER a good idea to ingest another person's bodily fluids, period; it only approaches acceptability if you know EXPLICITLY (e.g. you have SEEN test results for all communicable diseases about which you could possibly be concerned -- people lie) what they have and what they do not have. Some diseases can survive boiling temperatures; some can live outside of the body for months; etc., etc. The safest thing would be to throw it away.
Anyway, hope I answered your questions. Be safe, good luck.