I’ve been IVing off and on for almost ten years, mostly H and Hydromorphine.

I had been off it the bulk of 2022, and into this year - but after my dad died in feb I started shooting crank. It was around and it made me feel numb.

No problems at all, but then I stopped cold shaking and started filtering out of a spoon.

I was using cigarette filters, dumb, I know. I was in a bad way and had been out of points for a while, and like an idiot I had been sterilizing the one I had with boiling water.

So after a couple days of that I hit in my forearm and it flares up red and blotchy about three inches around the site and a few further up. It goes away but I get cotton fever a few hours later. Lasts the usual time, I try again in 24 hrs.

Same thing. But just the general symptoms. Irritation at the site, mild nausea, some muscle cramps. No headache or difficulty breathing.

I get new points, same thing. New points back to cold shaking, same thing.

Anyone have a similar experience?

TLDR; no matter what I do every time I do a hit I get burning and red blotches at the site, swelling in my throat, nausea and muscle cramps.