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Opioids Swelling when IVing BTH

I wasn't assuming your tar was bad quality, I was simply asking as it could explain the swelling you are experiencing.

Anyway, good luck on putting it down. Black Tar Heroin really broke the romantic association with IV opiate use for me. Doesn't mean Ive quit completely yet, but it's left an impression.
 
Could be a histamine reaction. Bth has morphine and codeine shit left in it, big on histamine. When I got pure morph my whole arm swelled in the hospital ... This reaction u get used to and ur body adapts so it gets less and less prevalent
 
Hey guys, sorry I didn't reply for a bit. The longer I use the more I slip into some sort of depression.. Unable to make myself clean my house, post on here, and even replying to texts or phone calls it somehow too exhausting. I'm sure it's mental as well as physical. I don't know if it's depression. I'm constantly exhausted, I feel "flat" like I have no emotions unless I'm on H in which case I can cry my eyes out, I can't leave my house unless I have to go do something. It was like this before the drug use too. It's why I use opiates to begin with... But good things never last I guess.

I shot a gram Monday. Wasn't exactly wowed by the effects, despite about 3 weeks of using pretty small amounts of heroin my tolerance is such a bitch. I think it's because I was on the Oxy 80s for 9 months while using the Morphine 200s off and off. Despite being clean a few months H just can't seem to get me high properly. What a waste, damaging my body for nothing. I do seem to be in love with the needle now, despite being terrified my entire life.

Being clean the last few days have been hell. 3 weeks of heroin use should have been nothing, even if it followed a week long bing of morphine 200s. Quitting Oxy was the worst kind of hell imaginable... throwing up, the runs, chills and sweats, body ache, extreme lethargy, depression, unable to get comfortable.. for 2 fucking weeks. Then PAWS for 3 months until I finally said fuck this.

H is a lot different.. I don't seem to get as physically hooked. I can do one shot in a day and be fine or do 6 shots. When I quit after monday mostly I just sweat a lot, it was foul. And of course extreme lethargy and feeling like shit.The part that was hell was I got EXTREME anxiety. After 14 hours lying in bed unable to sleep for even an hour I went to the ER said I used to be on klonopin for anxiety but I tapered off with my doc cause I was doing fine but I've been getting anxiety attacks again.. And if I didn't get some sleep i was going to kill myself. Half-truth, I used to be on Zoloft but it made my anxiety soo much worse. They said okay, handed me a script, and I happily slept through my 20th birthday. Hurrah.

And now after my dealer's phone being off for 2 days he calls me up and says he just re-upped, some shit from the Mexican border. Asshole.
 
tricomb said:
Music to my ears. It's worth it to go all-out for yourself. I mean, if you don't take care of your injection process, who will? :) Even if it's just once, your body deserves your respect to the best of your ability.

I would encourage you to try buprenorphine, anything to get you off that tar man, I know how it is out here in California and trust me, even if you get quality tar, you're doing a number on your body, even with a micron filter. I would highly recommend you checking out Opioid Replacement Therapy, absolutely try buprenorphine, just make sure that after induction, you start rapidly cutting your dose as low as possible, under 8mg if not 4mg.

Of course, Ideally, you'd want to get down to 2mg, it would make getting off of the drug exponentially easier in the future if you're reducing your dose from 2mg-->1.5mg-->1mg-->0.75mg-->0.5mg-->0.25mg--> Done, rather than something more difficult such as maintaining at 24mg and having to taper for a super long time, having to taper -->12-->6-->4-->3-->2mg, and then the same sub-milligram taper. The lower you get, the harder it is to taper, the more you're going to feel it when you decrease your dose.

YMMV, best of luck to you. Please try buprenorphine before methadone, methadone should be your very last line of treatment, that is seriously the last thing you want to do.
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Tricomb, thank you for your consistently excellent advice. I really appreciate it, and will try and utilize it. My dad suggested bupe as well. He's been on methadone for 6 years, I don't know if he will ever go off. And know that he's addicted to benzos again I'm concerned he'll live long enough to quit. I pretty much tell him everything.. and having your 20yr old daughter follow in your footsteps can't be easy. But if it weren't for him I think I'd be totally alone in this as far as people I know in real life.

And Znegative, it wasn't just directed at you and I'm sorry if it sounded like I was accusing you.
And yeah... BTH really leaves a lot to be desired as far as opiates go. It's an ugly thing.
 
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