Jaysus. For $500 a month “choice” is right. You could be eating choice steaks every night for that kind of bread.
Getting back to your question… NO! You cannot give yourself an IV on a whim. Aside from the fact that you don’t know what is even contained in that drip bag, you don’t know how long to administer it, what the contra-indications are, or how to resolve them at home if they appear. Furthermore, I doubt very much that you have an autoclave to sterilize your equipment or the discipline to fully sterilize your skin at the injection site.
I understand that some people take a sort of perverse pride in their ability to self-suture wounds that most would have medical help for, and there is a certain risk in that, too. When the skin is broken, especially for wide, deep or wide-and-deep wounds, there are huge risks of infection, and I doubt if antibiotics are sold over the counter even in Canada. (If they are, that’s one thing that I would think probably should not be, because misuse of antibiotics by the unknowing are limiting the effectiveness of all these drugs.) However, suturing a wound is a different issue than IV administration. With a wound, the damage has already been done and the only issues now are prevention of infection, closing of the wound and stopping the bleeding; remediation of an existing problem. You could do the same things that a doctor does in this case of “it must be done, so I can do it if I have to”. With an IV, assuming that you’d be doing this on some more-or-less regular basis, you’d be taking on a considerable risk on a casual basis from time to time when there was no immediate threat. In other words, instead of mitigating risk, you’d be introducing whole new classes of risk.
That’s just absurd.