Heroin in open wounds

[reptile]

Hi. I've never done heroin before but always wanted to. Just once.

I finally found out where to get it and started readin up about it so I don't inject wrong and everything.
I do want to inject since the feeling is stronger and last like 4 hours [according to erowid]

But all the info I read is kinda scary; blood clotting, arteries, abcesses, citric acid causing blindness, etc.

I did read about cutting your skin with a razorblade until it bleeds and rubbing the powder in the blood/wound. Anyone done this?
It kinda sounds safer if I sterilize the site and I guess cooking the powder and filtering with a cotton ball would help some too. So I'd squeeze the cotton ball into/over the wound?

I don't know. I really want it in my bloodstream.
I do have clean needles and citric acid and all the ingredients, I just really dont want an infection/abcess/collapsed vein and whatnot.

Also..I'm more worried about overdosing than underdosing.
I don't know how pure the heroin's gonna be but for the hell of it let's say it's really pure..
I'm only 110 pounds. I was thinkin 10mgs for my first time?
I do want to feel a strong high, but don't want to overdose if the heroin turns out to be really pure.

So which method would be safer?

[enquirewithin]

If you are so worried, my advice would be to smoke it or sniff it instead of injecting it. You get the same high. You will probably be quite disappointed anyway, unless you are suffering from pain or anxiety. If you sniff it it will last a similar length of time to an injection. Smoking lasts less time but you can easily smoke more. Don't worry, it will get into your blood stream.

Cutting yourself and pouring heroin into the wound sounds like a very stupid thing to do! Far worse than injecting yourself. That's self-mutilation.

If you don't know how to inject yourself, and have no one to help you, my advice is don't do it. If you miss the vein and inject into the muscle instead, you will get bruising, especially if the heroin is impure (brown or off-white), which is rather embarassing. You could even get an abcess.

You only need citric acid if you have impure brown heroin, to help it dissolve. Otherwise heating should suffice.

If you go ahead and do this, you must assume that the heroin you have is pure. That is the only safe way.

[Alicia]

Snorting is ok, but the safest is too smoke on foil, if u feel you've done to much u can stop straight away, where as u can easily snort to much.

Injection I.V If performed right, and safely, shouldn't cause any problems, there are plenty of threads on here about that method and how it is achieved. But u know WHATS more safer? not doing it all. Never do anything if your worried about it, read about it to death first then decide

[CrookedEye]

Not all heroin need to be dissolved in citric acid, either.. In all of swim's years of heroin use, he never had to break any down with an acid, until he scored in Amsterdam.. Also, cutting yourself and rubbing it in the wound, would almost positively NOT give you any kinda buzz whatsoever.. It would not be going into your bloodstream, it would most likely be flowing down your arm with the blood... Swim would suggest smoking it, if one is scared to IV, as it will enter your bloodstream, nearly as fast as injection, through your lungs... Properly IVing heroin is relatively safe, provided you know the quality/dosage of your material, though. Learning how to do so properly and using fresh, clean needles only once, etc, is a good idea, if you plan on IVing it.. Good vein care is a must, as many IV users, begin longtime relationships with their new friend..

[BlackCook]

Smoke it!
You never took it before...so the chance that you will get an overdose with i.v./i.m./snorting is very high!!!!!

SMOKE IT!

[The Monoxide Child]

wow... swim just stumbled upon this topic and even though its 2 years old swim just has to say, this is some of the worst advice/ideas swim has ever read on this site... all these people especially the original poster are absolutley clueless

[MotherSuperior]

Actually, the practise of putting Heroin in razor blade cuts is practised is the middle east where Heroin can be found almost pure. SWIM would not dream of doing that anywhere else and actually not even there even pure SWIM would need a load! SWIM would suggest you smoke it for your first time. Injecting it is to dangerous for a first timer, the risk of OD is too high, especially as your not even sure what your looking for.

Make sure swiyou do this with friends. NOT ON YOUR swiyourOWN. Smoking H is not like smoking tabacoo in any respect. Put a piece the of the H the size of a matchead on the aluminium foil, pass a lighter underneath till it conjeals to a dark ball, use a piece of rolled foil(not paper) maybe rolled around a pencil about maybe 3inches long, this is called a 'tooter' here, it's what you will be inhaling the H up through. Now wait as I said with foil silver side down(preburn your foil BTW where you'll be smoking your H this gets rif od some of the aluminium crap from going into swiyour lungs. Now when swiyou passes a lighter under the H on the aluminuim foil it will first solidify, then go into a dark brown/reddish maybe liquid mass then it will give of smoke, you want to use your tooter to inhale(the tooter is in your mouth like a cig) the fumes, now you want to keep that ball rolling(this is not easy) by slightly turning the foil at an angle, and keeping the lighter under it. Too near(too hot) and you inscinirate swiyour H, too far away and you won't get the fumes or low amounts of them(better low amounts then incinrating) after practise you will be able to move the foil so that the black ball leaves a trail only slightly visible.

Doing it this way it is almost impossible to screw up.... though a thought in the UK we only get smoking H, if you inject like me you need to add a acid to the H base(most commonly citric is used as it is available). In the US you get injecting H, SWIM is not sure if this method of smoking works but I am sure it does(someone corret SWIM on this please). If you've got that black tar this should work fine SWIM believes(again please correct me). One last thing.... enjoy it SAFELY and RESPONSIBLY.... don't be like a lot of us idiots and get a fucking habit man, it is not worth it. Also there are WAY better guides for smoking H. You smoke it, for your first time you'll be happy. I hope it is your last time to. Stick to club drugs(E's for instance), they give you a pretty good hit without worrying about addiction(at least not physcial and mental is touger to get apparently). Again before doing whatever MAKE SURE YOU HAVE FRIENDS WITH YOU WHO ARE GONNA BE 'STRAIGHT' AND KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING, it is ever so easy to fuck up with H, especially as a first timer and especially one that has not much research on this drug.

SWIM just saw the date, lol 2 years out.... the advice was the 'worst' you've ever seen here? Well, if he was gonna do it then smoking it(if the H was able to be smoked) seemed pretty safe, the injecting thing definely not and SWIM is not so happy about people snorting H(if it can be snorted) for their first time either and assures people it is possible to OD. Wonder if he got on ok or got ripped of with £xx/$xx of 'brick dust H' as is often what happens to 'H newbies' who are not familiar with their shit.

[The Monoxide Child]

swiMotherSuperior must not have noticed the part about this thread being 2 years old....

[MotherSuperior]

Originally Posted by The Monoxide Child

swiMotherSuperior must not have noticed the part about this thread being 2 years old....

He did but too late, SWIM had already typed it in... did'nt you see at the bottom SWIM said SWIM realised it was two years old.

Oh well maybe be an interesting read for someone.

The thing with the using razors to cut incisions in the skin was pretty interesting to me when SWIM found out anyway.

SWIM will say a hundred time he should read more before he sticks his size 12's in!

[Solinari]

Since it has been bumped and i didn't notice the date myself, i would say to anyone that sees this, that doing it in this manner is more likely to cause an infection than subcutaneous and intramuscular injection which is more likely to cause infection than intravenous. If rubbing the heroin itself in a wound isn't bad enough, leaving that wound open would increase the likelihood of an infection taking hold.

[RaverHippie]

Just to add on to the above, having an open wound while being high on heroin doesn't really seem like a good plan. Would the user have the strength/will power to properly take care of the wound after the fact? Especially on the first time...