I have no where else to turn to until I’ve confirmed it’s an emergency.
I was injecting about 15 minutes ago into my left vastus lateralus. As usual, I stuck it in, aspirated, then started hitting the plunger. However, I am quite a safety nitpick and I aspirate every 0.3 mL. Well, on my second aspiration I drew blood. I am concerned that I shot a straight 0.3 mL into my blood, or maybe it was just that when I was aspirating I moved the syringe slightly into a vessel, I don’t know for sure.
I know that it takes about a minute at rest to pump the entire volume of blood in your body. For this fact I feel a little safer, but I am worried that it may just take longer for the viscous oil to be pumped into the heart. I’m a bit worried about oil embolism at this point in time.
If anyone can give me some advice here on the early warning signs that oil is in your blood (I know a coughing fit is one, I am free of that for now).
Well, I went to the doctor. I have no ominous symptoms and I feel alright. The doctor told me I should be safe but to watch out for any pain or any other symptoms over the next 24 hours.
[quote]chillain wrote:
I’ve never heard of anyone aspirating so much. Do yourself a favor and stop doing that.
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Agreed. I think there is such a thing as being OVER safety-cautious.
I think that what you might have done, with that repeated aspirating, is shifted the needle slightly and hit a blood vessel. Whenever you aspirate, especially on an oil-filled syringe with a tight plunger, it does move around a bit.
It’s better to insert the needle in a good spot, aspirate once, and keep it steady in the same position while plunging down.
There is no need to keep aspirating, and it does make it more unsafe instead of more safe, because you’ll keep shifting the needle and risk hitting things, like you did in this case.
If I move the needle while injecting I’ll aspirate gain, but for the most part it doesn’t matter. It takes a decent amount of oil directly injected into a vein to cause a significant problem.
Besides, if you were able to make it to the doc then you didn’t have a problem. If something were going to happen, you’d know pretty quickly. I’ll say from experience that if this happens you’ll probably have trouble breathing or feeling like you can’t catch your breath.
Good call on being safe though. Definitely don’t want to debate going to the doctor because you might be wrong about it, or don’t want to admit AAS use, when it comes to life or death situations.
Thanks for the responses guys. I’ll only aspirate once from now on. The reason I did it like that is that I am just of the paranoid nature, and I’ll try to cut back on that paranoia.
[quote]InTheZone wrote:
JoeyD20 wrote:
Thanks for the responses guys. I’ll only aspirate once from now on. The reason I did it like that is that I am just of the paranoid nature, and I’ll try to cut back on that paranoia.
Curious Joey, what did the doc say about all this?
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Not much really. All she said was that she couldn’t condone what I was doing, but she would never deny me medical help if I have an altercation with what I am doing. She just stated that and then we delved into the subject at hand.