I know and I’ve got friends that are on TRT and the doctors never told them to aspirate. It is very rare but I have heard of people accidentally injecting into veins. My friend did it once and he couldn’t breath he thought he was going to die and almost called 911. A big reason why people don’t aspirate and if you look it up IM injections don’t require aspiration is because 99% of the stuff you would inject it doesn’t really matter if a little gets into a vein but since test is oil based it can cause a huge problem if it gets into the veins.
Like I said it is very rare I have friends that have been on for years and never aspirate and have never had a problem but then I have heard of some unlucky people hitting a vein and it’s not good.
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I’ve had a pulmonary oil micro embolism before, incredibly unpleasant. However like all anxiety attacks and/or experiences where I think I’m going to die… my reactions appear to be acceptance rather than attempting to find help… it’s rather strange, so I just lie down and wait for it to end (as is what happened during my POME episode where I though I was dying)
Yup exactly thats pretty much the same thing my friend went through. He also passed out said he went for the phone to call 911 but couldnt even make it. Thought he was gonna die but luckily woke up like 20 minutes later and felt fine. Even still went to work that day.
Very scary though and if all it takes is to aspirate to avoid that, then ill be aspirating lol. I’m glad your ok also I know that had to be scary as hell.
I’m a CYP2D6 ultra rapid metaboliser (multiple copies of the gene are expressed, rather rare), after breaking my ankle I was given codeine (Was OTC here, however this was a prescription only formulation), 90mg (three tablets), not much… However with extensive CYP2D6 normal dosages of codeine can induce morphine overdose (Codiene is converted via cyp2d6 to morphine)… Interesting I has a sphincter of oddi spasm as well as symptoms of overdose, this was far scarier, I’ll tell you how it went
- So I’m in the doctors office with the nurse is telling me I’ll require extensive surgery with a long recovery time, at which point I start RAPIDLY feeling off, lightheaded and dizzy, pain within my abdominal region starts and I say “guys, I’m starting to feel really bad” at which point my father thinks I’m acting and my aunt tries calm me down, my father rolling his eyes and my aunt telling me I’m just anxious due to the revelation of the extent of my injury (I’m 16 at the time)
- Pain increases to the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life, much worse than actually breaking the my ankle, splitting the back of my head open etc and I say “no, seriously something is wrong”, doctor gets agitated/impatient, I start sweating and curling up in a ball, my aunt is trying to calm me down and my dad is like “get up, stop acting and wasting this guys time”. I wouldn’t have been anxious if I wasn’t being doubted, I knew something was wrong
- I start to accept the revelation, and aside from the horrific pain I’m fine, so I’m curled up in a ball thinking “well, I guess this is it, it’s fucking painful though”
- My father says something along the lines of “we will get him to sit down, he’s fine” and tells me to stop lying down and take a seat, at this point I feel disorientated, can’t move at all, so he manouvers my rather unresponsive body onto a chair, at which point my eyes roll into the back of my head and I pass out, both due to pain and likely excess levels of morphine being dumped into my system (wasn’t aware codiene was metabolised via cyp2d6 at the time, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken it) I believe this was my fathers “oh shit, something is actually wrong moment”… Que consciousness a few seconds later and I throw up everywhere, expelling literally everything I had in my system, at which point my abdominal pain starts to subside and I leave the doctors office all nauseated and spacey… terrible experience 0/10 wouldn’t do again, that was the scariest experience I’ve ever had wherein I thought I was going to die