Just curious to know what other people use for their injection methods! I do subq and recently had to reduce my draw needle gauge to 21 since I kept coring vials accidentally.

  • NelDel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Nice! That’s awesome! I was struggling so hard to draw with 30G, not sure if I was just doing it wrong or what. Using standard pharmacy EV

    • Jorunn (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Put the vial in your armpit until your body heat warms it up. That helped me when I used a thicker oil and drawing was slow. The first time I didn’t warm it for long enough and I thought it didn’t work, but I later learned I just had to keep it there for a little while.

    • Sophienomenal@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My Estradiol is going to be a different viscosity than yours given that it’s homebrew and 40mg/ml, but I don’t really have trouble drawing mine; just takes a little patience