Missed Vein Shooting - Stop shooting up and seek medical attention asap. If a severe local infection developes you could potentially lose an arm. Best of luck to you. I missed or blew my vein shooting meth. My arm is strikey red a little pain some swelling. Keeping a heating pad firmly around my arm all day. I cant go to the hospital and my family cannot. ‘missed hits’ a ‘missed hit’ describes the swelling which appears around an injection site during, or immediately after injecting. It may be caused by fluid entering the tissue surrounding the vein. You need to see a doctor asap, probably in an emergency room so that you can receive the antibiotics you need, likely iv antibiotics. Intentional subcutaneous and intramuscular injections are rare. 56% of those aiming to inject intravenously reported ever missing a vein. When you first miss it can help to apply warm compresses but here is the important point: If it gets inflamed, red, swollen and hot to the touch it is extremely important that you. Abscesses come about when you shoot irritating or insoluble material into a vein, or if you miss the vein and it goes in the top layer of skin where it remains without being properly absorbed. Hi, a few days ago while injecting meth, i clearly missed the vein in my arm. (slightly above the elbow). Over the next day, it became red and severely swollen. Worse than i recall. What should i do if, while injecting meth, i miss the vein and it goes under the skin? Then next day the area was red, swollen and very painful. I would prefer to treat this at home. Phlebotomist missed vein is hit a nerve. Now have shooting/shock type pain down forearm, back of hand when moving certain ways/lifting objects. Does this heal on its own? If so, how long. It sounds like you may have hit a nerve, or went through the vein and the resulting swelling from the injected fluid could have affected a vein. Injection site injuries are serious. Of those that aimed to inject intravenously, 56% (181) reported ever missing a vein (for 51 this occurred more than four times month on average).
Stop shooting up and seek medical attention asap. If a severe local infection developes you could potentially lose an arm. Best of luck to you. I missed or blew my vein shooting meth. My arm is strikey red a little pain some swelling. Keeping a heating pad firmly around my arm all day. I cant go to the hospital and my family cannot. ‘missed hits’ a ‘missed hit’ describes the swelling which appears around an injection site during, or immediately after injecting. It may be caused by fluid entering the tissue surrounding the vein. You need to see a doctor asap, probably in an emergency room so that you can receive the antibiotics you need, likely iv antibiotics. Intentional subcutaneous and intramuscular injections are rare. 56% of those aiming to inject intravenously reported ever missing a vein. When you first miss it can help to apply warm compresses but here is the important point: If it gets inflamed, red, swollen and hot to the touch it is extremely important that you.