Okay, So I injected last the night before last. Forgot to draw up water and squirt out of the rig after injecting. I may have to use this rig again if I can't get clean ones. Problem is this is an insulin needle, so I can't take the tip off to clean, there is a bunch of blood clotted and I can't draw or shoot anything with it. I tried rubbing alcohol but it didn't clean it right away. i am waiting for the alcohol to dissolve it. Any other way I can clean the blood out of it for potential use again?
try sucking up some boiling water, put the tip on the water when its hot.. but you will lose lubrication on your plunger.
Ugh man seriously? I can see gettin a clot trying to inject n takin outta syrine..mixin w water n using a new syringe..but really? Try what orison said but if it were me id go to pharmacy n just get new ones. Its not like they are hard to get or expensive. Dont mind me..re-using them is terrible for your veins anyways. Once or twice n done is best.
some people never buy new fits. thinking someone is going to tell on them or they will be followed after leaving the store. milk blood to keep from running out < this dont actually work as there isnt enough heroin in the blood stream to get you high or prevent withdraws.
don't use a contaminated needle! boiling water would sort of be some kind of option, but the diameter of the needle is so small that you can never be sure that you got all of the dirt out of there. it's not worth it risking an infection or injecting yourself with chunks of dried blood residue large enough to clot the smaller blood vessels in your body. use clean syringes.
Done, forget about it, I got some clean rigs. I'm all good. I hardly ever get high, maybe like once a month, but I definitely would like to use a rig only once or twice and then trash it.
Is it easy to get syringes without a prescription? I'm diabetic and get mine from the VA hundreds at a time, so I've never had to deal with a local pharmacy. I remember one time though at a Wal-Mart pharmacy some idiot working behind the counter giving me a hard time buying a lancet device, like I was a junkie or something. The moron apparently didn't know what a lancet device is even used for. But he was a Wal-Mart employee, so I should've expected as much.
wow .. okay u should probably go to the pharmacy and buy a 10-pack of new syringes, only a couple bucks after a while the tip of the syringe gets a barb on it, and its hard to register, and tears up ur veins even worse when you pull it out try taking the plunger out, and see if you can stick something down the barrel to clear it, like a peice of wire or somethin .. but really you should get a new rig
There was a time several years ago when I was running low on insulin syringes, so I was reusing them. I would draw up some alcohol in them and squirt it out, then do the same thing with water to get the traces of alcohol out. I screwed up one time and forgot to clean one. Within 45 min. of injecting insulin with it into my stomach I could feel the infection starting. Within 3 days I had a ring-shaped lesion (deep) with a plug of pus in the center that wouldn't drain, no matter how hard I squeezed, and it hurt like hell. The next day I was able to get in to see my VA doctor as a walk-in and he prescribed an antibiotic, Cephalexin I think, and luckily it worked. So you have to be careful with syringes. I had run low because I had neglected to get my refill on time. I've never made that mistake since.
depends on where you are located on the globe. i don't know about US but in EU it's not a problem. you can walk into a pharmacy and buy a number of syringes at once and nobody asks you any questions or looks at you twice. also, there are needle exchange programs. i haven't used them but from what i hear they provide pretty much everything you need for injecting (and some give them out for free). that includes syringes, cotton swabs, saline solution, alcohol pads, cookers, citric acid powder, etc. but in EU you can buy all that in a pharmacy.
prevention point is the name of the exchange place here. but the drug stores really dont ask question either.
Here in Texas it's a little more difficult. At the Wal-Mart pharmacy in the 'hood here, nobody even blinks an eye when I get a 10-pack and I am NOT diabetic. They probably sell to a lot of IV users, and probably understand that harm reduction is better than some dumb moral standoff. I have also gone to a Walgreens WITH my old syringe (the one that was clogged) I whipped it out and asked for the same kind. The lady probably knew what I was doing since she didn't ask for an insulin card. But, once you are at that point, the obvious logic is "I already have a rig and I'm going to use it anyway, so can I please get a clean one?" Otherwise, yes, if I walked into a CVS or Walgreens, and asked for syringes outright without a rig or insulin card, I would probably NOT get them. 8 times out of 10 I have not, been lucky once at a CVS though. Walmart in the 'hood is my regular place.
different stores i suppose have different policies but i do not believe there is any law that says you must have a prescription to buy them
However, if you've got some blood in a hit whilst using a small guage insulin-type needle, and it's starting to congeal, try squirting it out of the pin before it blocks, add a bit more water, a little more citric, warm it up a bit, not a lot, don't boil it or anything, and you should be good to go again.
In the us it depends on the state. It is now (and has been for years) state law in PA that you can walk into a pharmacy without a prescription and buy insulin syringes at the counter. Some pharmacies aren't aware of the law though.... some places they will look at you weird. BUT... most pharmacies...esp if you are near or in a more urban area (and by urban I just mean not a small town I'm not talking about only Philly, etc.) you just say "I need 10 insulin syringes"---and say size/gage and they give them to you no problem. I don't know anyone who's ever had a problem at various places including chains like cvs. And I mean, it IS the law in this state that they are not rx.... like I said some pharms know it and some don't. Each state in the us is different though. But for states where it is rx only there are exchanges.
"insulin card"? What the fuck? I believe it's outright illegal to not sell insulin or syringes. Some insulin requires prescriptions - all you can buy is basic vials of humalog or whatever - but an employee who caused anyone to come to any harm by refusing them supplies could really be in for it, I think. The basic vials you can buy require syringes, unlike pens and such, which use special tips. Just ask for insulin syringes - they're totally legal to buy, no prescription - can't endanger people like me to stop the people like you.
