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Heroin what's wrong with my veins??

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HollowDaDon`

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i've been shooting 3-6 a day for about a year and a half now and have reached a point where i literally have no veins to hit. i've never had prominent veins. when i started out i wasn't as knowledgeable, and i was terrible at registering (plus my shitty veins), so i didn't really rotate much because when i found a spot that worked i stuck with it. this has happened to my main line veins on my arms and the major veins on my hands. some of them started to leak, kinda like an inflammation that would spread around the injection site. that was maybe 6 months ago, and i havent touched them since, and now those veins have seemed to completely disappear. what gives? is it the scar tissue? are the permanently gone? i mean, yeah, i abused them hard for that amount of time but there are people still going strong with much more time under their belt.
so i started finding new veins, forearms, wrists, etc., but those only lasted a week or two, and now they're unhittable as well. what am i doing wrong? how can a vein just disappear that quickly? i've resorted to my feet and fingers but even those are now worthless.
pretty much every time i register, instead of blood shooting out like it should with a lot of pressure, it would kind of slowly tickle out and then stop. sometimes i'd take this as a sign that i registered and shoot up but more often then not it would just result in a painful miss. where is this blood coming from, if not my vein? is it synovial fluid or whatever? and it is coming from my vein, why is it dripping every so slowly? it seems a lot thinker than the blood that would squirt out of my original veins.
anyways, i know it's a lot of questions, but i need help. i've looked everywhere else, thighs, torso, legs, etc. and can't seem to hit any of them, even if i can see their outline. are they too deep? or do i just completely suck at needles?
thanks for your time if you actually read all this:)
 
Shooting up 3-6 times a day with poor injection technique like you described is no doubt what's wrong with your veins. It's not your veins that's causing the problem, they suffer as a result of your decision to stab yourself repeatedly and then push the plunger. If you manage to quit, the scars and damage might heal, the odds are in your favor vs. if you continue to IV. However, they say time heals all wounds.... tell that to someone with cancer, AIDS, etc.

I wouldn't expect blood to "shoot out" when hitting veins, that sounds more like an artery if you actually mean shooting out with a lot of pressure. By continuing to put your body through intravenous drug abuse you're just making things worse. I would suggest you take steps to improve your injection technique at the bare minimum, even better would be to find a better ROA, rectal administration has a fast onset and decent duration, you still get to use syringes but they don't have needles, which are the biggest problem especially since your injection technique is so poor and have trouble hitting, you're probably reusing needles.
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yes. IVing requires a few things, one being that you only use needles once, keep everything sterile, filter what you shoot through a micron. i sometimes use the syringes 2-3 times, which is not a big problem as long as they haven't been sitting around more than an hour or two, after a while there's a good chance that bacteria are growing in a used syringe. but needles are one time only. twice already stings a bit more, and everything after that is just masochism. dull needles ruin your veins and also leave track marks, which i could not care less about as my arms are completely scarred anyway, but the feeling of pushing a dull needle into my flesh incites a weird dread disproportionate to the actual pain. probably ever since i saw those close ups tricomb posted for the first time years ago. i don't know what needles cost where you live, but here they're ridiculously cheap.
 
Yeah, it sounds like a case of just very poor IV technique... With good technique, you should be able to use the same veins for many years without a single one collapsing. Are you using a fresh needle every time you pierce your flesh? That means if you are having trouble registering and you keep pulling the needle out and putting it in again, you need to get a new needle because it becomes dull very fast and destroys your veins. Are you using a tourniquet and loosening it before you push down on the plunger? Are you being just all around gentle and patient? Your veins are very small and very fragile... you need to be very careful and soothing to them or they will get fucked up bad.
 
yes i realize i've done far too much damage to my veins in the past. thank you for the responses but even when i first started it would some times take me several tries to register, meaning icould go through a whole pack of rigs just for one hit. but even new veins that i hit once or twice with fresh needles suddenly disappear after a use or two. so what do i do now? ive given my main veins months to recover and theres nothing but scar tissue. as for the blood pressure, you know when you pull a needle out so that it's barely in your skin at all, and you get some slow, thick blood kinda dropping into the syringe? as far as i know this isn't from a vein, because if you've ever tried shooting at this point you'll painfullly miss. anyways, that's what's the blood from my normal veins looks like, instead of a more healthy looking flow of blood. any one know what this is?
 
stay hydrated ,take a shower,HOT shower before hand ,always use new rigs ,tie off ,dont tie off... try all these things

but nothing will help your veins recover ,get new ones to pop out like pumping iron ...i think if u would want to continue iv use u would take the time to make sure ur able to continue ,by helping your veins
 
Yeah, I've experienced similar problems with my veins in the past, when I really didn't know much about technique or hygiene. Honestly the only thing that ever worked for me was to give IV a rest, or to find a patch of new veins, and use clean works for every shot, and learn how to IV without a tie. Usually when veins seem to give out on you, they will come back in a few weeks if you give them a break for a while. It really is imperative to use clean syringes for every injection-it not only decreases the likeliness of infection and scarring, but it can also make the difference between spending 10 seconds fixing, or one hour.
 
HollowDaDon` said:
yes i realize i've done far too much damage to my veins in the past. thank you for the responses but even when i first started it would some times take me several tries to register, meaning icould go through a whole pack of rigs just for one hit. but even new veins that i hit once or twice with fresh needles suddenly disappear after a use or two. so what do i do now? ive given my main veins months to recover and theres nothing but scar tissue. as for the blood pressure, you know when you pull a needle out so that it's barely in your skin at all, and you get some slow, thick blood kinda dropping into the syringe? as far as i know this isn't from a vein, because if you've ever tried shooting at this point you'll painfullly miss. anyways, that's what's the blood from my normal veins looks like, instead of a more healthy looking flow of blood. any one know what this is?
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I dont know what it is but I have had it happen to me and being desperate for a fix I went ahead n pushed the plunger always resulting in a miss. That was lonh ago n Im much safer n better with my technique now n it really pays off. If I had to guess I imagine its just regular blood as if you simply cut your arm except its happening under the skin and with the vaccuum created by pulling back on the syringe when the needles already in your arm its prob just sucking in the blood from the cut under your skin where youve prob just punctured muscle, ligament etc so careful careful if youre not sure ur in a vein. Youll also get nasty infections under the skin n you def have to see a doc for that
 
when i was IV'ing i could never hit the veins in my arms due to being really chubby and having no clue how to do it properlay yeah i cud ht my hands but cudent affoard scars i found it much better to hit my groin just be sure you kno how to tell if you have hit the artery or not and you will be fine. i found this really a very easy way to IV with nly ever hiting my artery once in a few years and that was when i was well wated and wasent thinking. yeah its more dangerouse but if you find the spot your vein is massive there and very easy to hit first time. iif you dont want to risk that then pluggin was allways great!
 
HollowDaDon` said:
pretty much every time i register, instead of blood shooting out like it should with a lot of pressure, it would kind of slowly tickle out and then stop. sometimes i'd take this as a sign that i registered and shoot up but more often then not it would just result in a painful miss. where is this blood coming from, if not my vein? is it synovial fluid or whatever? and it is coming from my vein, why is it dripping every so slowly? it seems a lot thinker than the blood that would squirt out of my original veins.
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I don't understand why the blood would usually squirt out with a lot of pressure unless you hit an artery (which you would know from the pain and bright pink blood). How do you usually register? If you are pulling back on the plunger once you are in the vein, then the blood is only going to flow in as fast as you pull it back, which is usually pretty slow. The only way it would squirt in fast is if you had created a vacuum with the syringe by pulling back on the plunger once the tip of the needle broke the skin, causing the blood to rush in to fill the air bubble once you hit the vein.
 
jesus people get off ur lazy asses and do heavy intense bicep tricep and forearm exercises ,THIS IS PROVEN TO MAKE VEINS HEALTHIER

especially if u are on a break of IV use

old veins will recover and new ones will show its face

really should be the first recomendation to ANYBODY with vein problems on here ,ask the guys over in steroid discussion if u need advice on what movements to do
 
Alternate veins. Every shot. Take a walk, work out, get the blood and veins pumping. But imo you should take a break.

Plug it for a while. IK the rush is almost non existant plugging but it DOES last longer.

I know the stigma with plugging drugs...but it's deffinedly healthier. Besides you don't need a trukey baster. A small syringe, cut off needle will work perfectly.
 
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