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Heroin Yellow bruising around injection site

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I noticed this morning two large greenish yellow bruises around two places on my arm where I injected heroin. One of the spots, I havent even injected into in days. The bruising only appeared overnight though, when I went to bed it wasnt there. What could this be? WIll it go away on its own or do i need to see a doctor?
 
Your fine, it will go away on its own.

Unless you have the bruises for weeks or they keep coming back id see a doctor. For now though you are probably OK and they will go away in a few days.
 
I've gotten those a few times. They are like that nasty colored black-and-blue you sometimes get, but it's that yellowish color.

Did you hit on your first time, or did you reuse a needle? It only happened with me when I had used the same needle twice, which is another reason to always use a new needle.
 
Tommyboy said:
I've gotten those a few times. They are like that nasty colored black-and-blue you sometimes get, but it's that yellowish color.

Did you hit on your first time, or did you reuse a needle? It only happened with me when I had used the same needle twice, which is another reason to always use a new needle.
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I reuse the needle if I don't get in the vein on the first try. I know it isn't good, but it is such a pain to use a new needle especially because you always lose some heroin in the process of switcing it to a new syringe (i dont have the syringes with detachable needles).
 
burn out said:
I reuse the needle if I don't get in the vein on the first try. I know it isn't good, but it is such a pain to use a new needle especially because you always lose some heroin in the process of switcing it to a new syringe (i dont have the syringes with detachable needles).
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That's probably why. A dull needle will always cause more bruising.

Luer locks are the shit if you have issues hitting your veins but, IMO, they suck. I prefer insulin syringes, hands down. I never have trouble hitting on the first go either.
 
^ Yup. I have only IVd about a dozen times over the years, and the only times that I have had those bruises was the 4 times that I reused my needle.
 
Tommyboy said:
^ Yup. I have only IVd about a dozen times over the years, and the only times that I have had those bruises was the 4 times that I reused my needle.
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Can you IV yourself with that little experience doing it? It took me several hundred attempts to get the technique of IVing on ones' self down perfectly. Sorry for the side track, just curious.
 
I just started IVing. I have the technique down now and I can get it mostly on the first try, sometimes second or third. However I would say it took me probably 50 - 100 attempts to get down and that is when i did the brusing I think but that bruse I posted about mysteriously dosappeared on its own. I like the insulin needles too.
 
I remember someone was shooting me up the first time i ever did it and i didnt quit trust them so i took the needle back and did it myself. Ive been good ever since then. Dont get me wrong ive probably missed about 10 shots in my life but ive probably exceeded 5,000 i would say.
 
^Yea, I don't get what's hard about it either. I had it down after about 5 times of doing it. No offense to anyone who had trouble I just don't get it. It's not like you have to do trigonometry to calculate the best angle to hit the vein, lol.
 
If people have really bad veins and a shaky hand or something thats when it is hard, I guess its like tying your shoes- your mom does it for a while then your just like fuck this I'm tired of waiting on her I'm doing it myself today. haha
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Can you IV yourself with that little experience doing it? It took me several hundred attempts to get the technique of IVing on ones' self down perfectly. Sorry for the side track, just curious.
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The only time I ever had any issues was the first few times when I was expecting blood to come into the barrel on it's own to confirm I was in a vein, so since I didn't know about registering I just gave up and squirt it in my nose. Ever since I learned about registering, I was always in a vein on my first try. I have nice veins in the crook of my arm, and I never used them enough to damage them, and I also never used a tourniquet since the veins are very visible. Sometimes pulling back the plunger to register is a bit confusing, but I've been using the vacuum method the last few times I did it. I think the last time was 3-4 weeks ago. I have never shot up in front of people, but I have been around people IVing for a long time, so have seen the process a lot.
 
Doing it one-handed took me a lot of time. I didn't like how I'd see someone else let the needle dangle out of them loosely w/o even holding onto it. I'm very careful w/ my technique by comparison. When I wasn't doing it myself I prefer to have 2 people do it (my girl helping plunge) this way there was almost never a chance I'd miss. Two people can hold it sturdier, esp. for a new IDU.
 
It'll go away, nothing to worry about. Caused by reusing of needle, by experience, but can happen too when you use a needle with larger gauge (or at least that happened to me)
 
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