air during injection

**garythompson** · 03-17-2009, 12:46 AM

what happens to the air that gets into your system while injecting? i know some gets into there sometimes but not enough to kill you. what happens to it?

**lovbyts** · 03-17-2009, 12:51 AM

Ohhh yes, air is bad for you..... Air will kill you..... Lock yourself in a zip lock back and take all the air out or paint your body so air cant get in. LOL

No, that little bit of air wont hurt you in any way. Only if you pump a bunch of air directly into your vein will it cause problems with your heart.

I use to be paranoid about that also.

**Phate** · 03-17-2009, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by garythompson

what happens to the air that gets into your system while injecting? i know some gets into there sometimes but not enough to kill you. what happens to it?

your body will just excrete it, probably through diffusion(not certain but that would be my guess)

**garythompson** · 03-17-2009, 02:55 AM

i wasn't worried about dying but just wandering what happened to it. i didn't know if it accumilated or not...

**Dizz28** · 03-17-2009, 04:51 AM

doesn' accumulate. In the blood it gets diffused through the lungs. IM or SubQ gets diffused through the skin.

**rhino1** · 03-17-2009, 05:09 AM

It will simply dissipate...now air intraveniously is another story....BAD

**garythompson** · 03-17-2009, 11:47 AM

what's IM or SubQ mean?

**skeldno** · 03-17-2009, 11:55 AM

im into muscle and subq is into fat i cant spell them theo lol

**johnnybigguns** · 03-17-2009, 11:57 AM

IM-intramuscular. how we inject AS
SubQ- subcutaneous. Where you inject just under the skin things like HCG are usually injected this way.
Your fine to get abit of air in your muscles.
It would take 3ccs of air directly into a vein to kill you.

**Dizz28** · 03-17-2009, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by rhino1

It will simply dissipate...now air intraveniously is another story....BAD

10cc - 20 cc is generally the accepted amount of air injected directly into the blood stream before problems occur. I've heard of stories of 200cc and the patient surviving. Small amounts of air the lungs can dissapate very easily

**Big** · 03-17-2009, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by johnnybigguns

IM-intramuscular. how we inject AS
SubQ- subcutaneous. Where you inject just under the skin things like HCG are usually injected this way.
Your fine to get abit of air in your muscles.
It would take 3ccs of air directly into a vein to kill you.

it would take considerably more than that.