When aspirating...

[bebop]

Just on my seconed injectable cycle and was wondering.

When aspirating, how common is it to actually hit a vein or artery? ever done it? and how hard/much should you pull back on the plunger when doing it? Thanks

 

[mikefear]

i've only done it once.. you dont have to pull back hard. if you're in a vein, the slightest amount of pull on the syringe will send blood shooting into the chamber.. the pressure gradient is off, so it'll fill easy if you're in a vein or artery.. i pull until i see a bubble, usually takes a little elbow grease cuz i bury the fucker.

 

[Sanel27]

Mike is right......dont pull too hard, i did that few times and all i did is stir needle into the flesh.....hard to hold it in one place if you trying to pull the plunger hard backwards.......if you hit the vein it will automatically fill it up with blood. Once in a while you might hit a nerve and muscle might start twitching, but its ok......you can still continue your shooting, but you might be sore later on. or just change the injection site.....

 

[20ss02]

In 6 years it hasn't happened to me.

 

[getbig67]

awesome info

 

[Selene]

I have found that if I've hit a vein I can feel it, more of a pronounced prick or pinching during inject, I'll either pull out slightly or go deeper if possible, do not fret, it is not something to worry about, it happens from time to time.

Good information you've been given

 

[mr.nitrofish]

happened only once

 

[gettnlarge01]

I can feel the needle pass thru a vein most of the time. Where you inject will have alot to do with hitting a vein.

 

[blut wump]

I get a little blood on aspirating maybe about one shot in six. My worst case took three stabs to draw bubbles rather than blood and I still had a huge gobbet dribble out when I withdrew the needle so I probably ran right through a vein on the final one.

Look at it this way: if it never happened then nobody would suggest aspirating. It happens.

 

[THE GOOD SUN]

always aspirate.
and i always aspirate gently first then a little more cuz if you aspirate too hard ...i.e you pull back on the plunger too hard you can actually collapse the vein if your in it ...giving you no blood draw and a false safe.

as far as it happening ...it's happened but very very rarely ...especially if you're going deep enough ...you're more likely to go through one and bleed upon removal of the needle ...in which case i've found that pulling on the surface skin with your finger, about an inch or so away from the hole, and basically dis-aligning the puncture route of the hole will stop it

 

[gettinripped]

happened to me 1x on my last injection of the cycle. you'll know cuz the syringe will be easy to pull on and it will fill up with blood. took me 3 injections spots to get it right but then realized there was still blood in the needle itself, so i just squirted the blood out of the needle into the sink until it ran clear and reinserted in another spot and finished it up from there.

 

[CO B-man]

I suppose it depends on what you know about what you are doing. So far I have not hit any but always aspirate because you never know!

 

[justinjones1963]

I pull nack slightly until I see one or two bubbles.

 

[NURSEPIMP]

I think this is all accurate.

I would say I have aspirated blood about 3 times since 97.

Now, as for going through one, thats a different story

I have had alot of bleeders. Its not fun, but its no biggy. You are gonna pass through a few ..

-NP

Oh, I can usually tell when I go through too. It just feels different. Then I pull it out and bammm, a bleeder.