I personally prefer the 1 piece syringes since they don’t waste any. Since you are using such small syringes you won’t waste much but figured I’d throw that out there. I use easy touch insulin syringes.
28g-30g 1/2 inch needle 1CC insulin syringes
is 29ga large enough to draw the test with?
You can draw with any size. Smaller takes longer but we are talking seconds.
did first injection, felt like it took forever to actually inject and was psyching myself out, felt like i was going to faint lol
You have basically the exact same levels as I did while on Finasteride. It’s never going to be the same.
Once you stop they’ll go back up but likely won’t recover fully as you are likely damaged from it. TRT will be the only way to bounce back, but it will almost certainly be effective. Keep on adjusting your dosage and you will be fine.
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is it normal to have to press/pull really hard with an insulin needle? I had to use a surprising amount of preassure to inject myself
Yes it is normal if you are using a smaller gauge needle. The test is suspended in an oil and takes some force to press/pull through with a smaller passage way.
yeah i noticed if i draw too fast i get a ton of bubbles through cavitation. is there a technique to drawing with a small gauge to avoid bubbles? I eventually got rid of them but took lots of draws and reinjecting into the bottle
I’ve found that I do best with 25 gauge needles for test. On smaller gauges everything else takes forever and you’re cranking so hard down on the plunger you feel like you could slip.
When I was on HCG I used 27s. You could try back loading but I never did. Your best bet might be to just sit down and preload a bunch once you have time.
I have struggled with that also. Pulling really slow is the only way I minimized it. I watched a video on youtube on drawing the test and he was pulling air into the syringe before inserting into the vial, pressing that air in to pressurize the vial after turning it upside down. He would then pull the syringe back to where he needed or a little past, not worrying about the air. Then he would place the syringe down in a empty bottle that had small enough neck that would hold the vial upside down get in the shower and the test would have flowed into the syringe when he got out. I have been doing that the last few days and seems to work well. You just have to pull far enough that the vacuum created doesn’t pull the plunger back up. Get out, the syringe is full, press the excess back into the vial to your correct dosage and inject.
I get the bubbles but by the time the syringe fills up they go away. If you are only partially filling, I can see that you probably get more bubbles while there is still a lot of open space
You don’t need to crank it. Light pressure will move the plunger, it takes a bit longer but the difference is only a few seconds.
hmm ill try that next time, sounds promising.
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This method may already have been mentioned and is pretty standard but I take .13ml daily. I turn the bottle upside down and insert the syringe, fill the syringe to around .20ml and once filled I push the excess out until I get back to .13ml. That way there’s no bubbles and I don’t waste much time
I just bought luer lock syringes at the start of the week with 23g needles. I inject 100mg divided into 2 shots, how much do you think you loose in that space?
.1ml which adds up to after tens injections one full 100 or 200mg injection. That’s .2ml loss weekly.
Some brands of cypionate come with 1ml overfilled to account for loss, you’ll burn through that in 5 weeks.
2-84 microliters depending on what type you get.
I swapped out the 3ml for a 1 ml so hopefully this will minimise the loss
Don’t use replaceable needle syringes and you’ll have no waste. I did the same thing starting out though.
does walmart/cvs etc carry syringes usually? I only found 30ga on amazon and want to try 27ga for the test to speed things up a bit
Walmart will definitely have 28g which of you dropped both on the ground, picked them up and told you had to say which is which you wouldn’t be able to. The 27g may shave 1 sec of time off a 28g. Walmart will definitely 27g in a 1 inch needle though. Usually the 1/2 inch needle 1CC insulin syringes go up to 28g in cvs/Walmart. In the heroin game they are called short needle. They stay stocked on short needles.