What's the worst that can happen if you don't aspirate?
Hey bros,
I recall reading that it was important to aspirate and after searching around as to why I found this post by a dude who I assume is a doctor at Steroidology -he was responding to someone asking why he choked after injecting...
"You're describing what I just mentioned in my previous post: a pulmonary oil embolus. You had a generalized, reactive pulmonary vasoconstriction, with an acute increase in pulmonary vascular resistance, putting a huge (but temporary) strain on the right ventricle of the heart. In someone with heart disease or a congenital defect, this could result in an AMI (heart attack). Probably experienced some secondary pulmonary edema, too (fluid in the alveoli or air sacs, hence the shortness of breath).
I hope everyone sees your post; this is nothing to fuck around with when you're injecting oils!! Aspirate, and then don't move it around while injecting."
This kinda put the fear in me but now I'm hearing this is BS and nobody's ever gonna die from injecting into a vein, even with an existing condition.
The crazy thing is, when I've searched for "aspiration" or "aspirate" I have trouble even finding the term anywhere except on sites like AR. It's like the medical field doesn't even use it.
So the question again is, what's the worst that can happen if you inject, say, 2 ccs of oil directly into a vein? Why bother to aspirate at all?
Any medical people out there?