Moving fast and breaking things should not require sacrificing your health. Living a healthy lifestyle and putting it front and center in your plans, for whatever you're doing, will more than pay for themselves down the road.
To phrase it a bit more poetically, it's hard to type on a laptop with an IV line going into your arm :D
You must have had a better placement of the needle.
The one time I had an IV the nurse "missed" inserting it into my forearm, pinched a muscle or some such, and then had to fall back to attaching it to my wrist. I couldn't use my left hand the entire time it was attached and for a few days afterwards.
Also, doable aside, I'm guessing you'd agree it's not recommended.