Fear of Injection Annoying Me

ok, for one reason or another i have become very afraid of injecting. I’ve done about 5-6 injections already, and now i am so afraid that for the past 3hours or so i been trying to do it, wasted a shit load of alcohol swabs, and still haven’t done it. How can i overcome this fear i have today of poking myself ? . I know its all in my head but its really getting to me now.

any help appreciated thanks.

ihad something similar happen to me 3 cycles ago, I broke a needle in my delt, when i was rudely disturbed, fortunately i managed to get it out myself. After this i found myself nervous and not wanting to inject.
Unfortunately there are no tips i can give, other than think what means more to you, the body you bust your ass for, eat healthy food for while every one else eats ice cream and watches tv, and after you spent all that money, it would be a terrible waste not to finish the cycle properly.

Just relax, do it and think of you avatar!
hope all goes well.

god at last i did it, i think i have set a new world record, i been trying to inject since 5pm now its 11:15pm :smiley: what a pussy and got it was painless except for when i took the needle out, muscle was kinda tight so it hurt a little. Thanks testanabol, and expecially johnny for his support on msn :wink: helped alot.

It helps for me to be functional, which means to set the experience to optimum.

Warm up the syringe in a damp cloth of hot water. I do this to the vial but in your case you already have it inside a syringe.

Take a nice warm relaxing shower and make sure to rub or relax the muscle you want to inject. Make it loose. If that doesn’t help, stretch before you take a shower.

Nicely outline with a pen the spot you want to inject (after a shower).

Stretch regularly as the muscles you build up become bigger quicker and can impair your mobility to give you less freedom when injecting yourself.

When injecting, relax the muscle as much as possible. I don’t do z tracking as it hurts more than a normal injection.

I haven’t tried the cold spoon trick yet. Basically to numb the surface where you want to inject, you press a freezing or at least very cold metal spoon against your skin. I might have to do it since lately the only pain I have had is from surface level nerves.

What else?

I try not to be logical about it. Fear is not logical. It’s an emotion that can be tamed much like fear of anyhting. Shut of your emotions for a while and KNOW that logically eveything is set up for the best. You have your hygiene down, your relaxing done, no bubbles in the syringe and so on, so that you are 100 percent confident that you did your best.

Enough holding hands :slight_smile: Just do it!

funmetal

It kind of freaked me out the first few times I did it…couple of things helped …

…switched from 23ga needles to 25 - less pain at injection and less pain afterwards. You definitely have to warm up gear to get it through smaller needle though. Also smaller needle prevents you from injecting too fast.

Part of my fear was from fear of abscess or infection - just made me tense all over. In fact, when I shared with a doc friend of mine what I was into, the only thing he had to say about it was to learn and practice proper injection technique. I ALWAYS use a fresh needle, never draw from amp or stick through stopper w/ same needle I am going to inject with, wash hands & injection site w/ soap and water and then rinse everything w/ 95% alcohol.

Also, as per your experience, I make sure I won’t be disturbed at any time through process

great helps guys, really appreciate it.