My Syringes came in via mail today and so I did my first injection right away. Since Im doing Monotherapy I started with 5mg to see where it leads me. This was also the first time injecting myself with anything. It was kinda scary, but next time it will be way easier.
Awww I remember my first injection. Good job cow friend! :3
Thanks :3
Definitely gonna reward myself with some cake for lunch
Cake is a useful supplement for hip and ass growth.
Congrats on the first one! I wish you many more successful stabbings! Or slow pushing needle through skin if that’s more your style.
I did the slow way. To afraid to eventually break the needle of.
U won’t break the needle by inserting it into yourself, skin and fat are far too flexible to provide ample force to snap it! Take it from a girlie who has been on E since January (and has taken medications subcutaneously for over 4 years), it’s a lot less painful with a single, quick motion!
The pain was basically non existent, so it is fine the way I did it.
I do two subq injections a week. It’s honestly kind of a lottery. Sometimes it’s painless, other times it stings something awful. Way better than 2-3x daily pills tho.
This came into my feed and I’m unsure what this is about. I see insulin needles and a bottle that says essential oil? Are you injecting this under your skin OP? Please help me understand.
The bottle contains estrogen. Since its not from an official source the label says something different for stealth reasons
Thanks, that’s what was confusing me lol. Good luck.
Since its not from an official source the label says something different for stealth reasons
:( I wish It didn’t have to be like this. I hope you stay safe 🩷
Make sure you check your levels every so often. I started on 5mg and it turned out to be way too much so I had to half it
Yeah, I started on 4mg Estradiol Cypionate as monotherapy, and I’m down to 2mg and it still may be too much. It’s definitely different for everyone
I will check them again in about 5 weeks
Good, good. Here’s hoping everything goes well and you adjust to stuff fairly quickly :)
I was just about to say this! I’ve been doing 4mg Ev / 5 days for about a month, got my latest results back just hours ago and it would appear that my trough level is slightly above the recommended mean level of 1100 pmol/L. Definitely going to have to cut back a bit…
Congrats on your journey!💪🥳🎉
Thanks :3
Congratulations! You are basically using exactly the same supplies as me when I started about 5 months ago :3
Good luck on your journey, I wish you best success and happinesses
Congratulations! 💙
Thanks :3
Congratulations! I’m incredibly happy for you!
I’ve been on injections for over a year now, with an HRT prescription from planned parenthood rather than DIY (for now, anyway…) Blood tests show stellar results, last one was like 27 units (pg/mol or whatever?) of T and 280 units of E. Measured at the uh, whatever it’s called, the halfway point between injection days.
The first time I did it, I was surprised how little pain there was, following guidance on how to do it right. Pinching around where you’ll inject distracts your nerves so they don’t notice the jab, at least when doing it in the thigh like I do. It’s super easy, though I gotta be nice and calm and collected or I get too shaky or risk forgetting a step (I recently opened a new vial, but got distracted and drew from it without wiping the stopper with an alcohol wipe first, dumb mistake to make!)
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I’ve been self-administering medications subcutaneously for over 4 years, with a prescription. It’s genuinely really hard to fuck up a subcutaneous injection,and watching a single video on how to do it (or reading a nurse’s guide lime I did) is more than enough to understand it. Subcutaneous injection is an injection into the fat layer, so it does not involve hitting a vein or muscle. The most common points of administration are the abdomen and the thighs. Here are the steps, for reference:
- Wash hands thoroughly
- Gather all materials including an alcohol swap, the vial of medication, a sharps container, and a syringe (you can use a separate needle for drawing and injecting, but the insulin syringes OP has come with a needle attached, so you have to use the same one for both)
- Use alcohol swab to clean the seal of the vial and the injection site
- Uncap the needle and plunger, then pull the plunger to fill the syringe with air up to the volume of the dosage you will be administering (this is to offset the volume lost in the vial by drawing the medication)
- Hold the needle like a pencil in your hand, with the face of the bevel pointing upwards (so you can see the interior of the shaft)
- Hold the vial upright, and when the alcohol on the vial has fully evaporated, insert the tip of the needle into the core of the vial starting at a 45° angle with the tip of the bevel entering first, then smoothly turning as inserting to reach a 90° angle
- Once the needle is fully inserted, expel the air into the vial
- With one hand on the vial and one on the syringe, invert the vial so that it is upside down (so the needle is immersed in the fluid)
- Slowly draw medication past the dosage required
- Flick the syringe to loosen any bubbles so they float upwards towards the needle
- Expel the air bubble(s) at the top of the syringe so that there is no air left in the syringe (you may have to draw more medication and expel air multiple times with a thick fluid), then push the plunger until you’ve reached your desired dosage
- Remove the needle from the vial in a single motion; you are now ready to inject
- Grasp the needle like a pencil again, with the bevel facing upwards
- Pinch the area of the skin where you will be injecting, holding between 1-2 inches of skin
- In a single swift motion, insert the needle at a 45° angle into the skin, again with the tip of the bevel entering first (or if you aren’t as lean, you can use a 90° angle)
- Release the pinch from your skin
- Slowly inject the medication, and keep the syringe in until 4 seconds after the plunger bottoms out to prevent medication from leaking out upon extraction
- In a straight motion, remove the needle from the skin, and immediately dispose in a sharps container
- Clean up your supplies and you’re done!
I know that’s a lot of steps, but I promise the process is really simple and intuitive after you’ve done it once. I went into an extreme amount of detail.
Do you write SOPs for work or something?
No, I just have a natural tendency to be incredibly verbose and specific, and this is a process I’ve been doing for years now, so I’m hyperaware of how to do it
Its just subcutaneous so theres not to much that can go wrong. Also im doing DIY, so whos gonna stop me.
Well you are braver than me by far. I would be terrified to fuck up
That’s why I recommend getting Insulin Syringes. They aren’t that painful and you barely feel it at all.
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How so? Seems less dangerous than auto injectors people use for other medicines. Autoinjectors are less pleasant for self-use (but more pleasant when using on others - granted I never tried using a syringe on someone else, but I don’t know if I even could outside a serious emergency).
I would be terrified if breaking the needle
Seems like that would be pretty hard to do? Guess I could try doing that next week though? Not in my skin of course. I’m terrified of the needle, but that’s not a concern that seems realistic without some extreme circumstance, like a car suddenly busting though the wall and hitting you mid-injection.
I completely acknowledge that this could be an irrational fear
The needles are made of stainless steel which is very strong. Worst case it may bend, but it should remain functional so it’s not catastrophic if it does. You can still finish what you’re doing before disposing of it.
I’ll admit that my only experience with using them myself was clearing out sample vials that needed to be shipped internationally. So I had to use a needle to drain everything out of the vials, which involves poking the needle into the vial several times. I’ve done it many times, and only bent the needle once, and the seal on the vial is much tougher than skin.
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Im doing DIY, so no one who can stop me
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That’s just how it is? Someone else mentioned DIY, but that’s how it works via prescription as well.
Also, as someone whose done injections of an unrelated medication (not insulin either) in a hardware store bathroom without alcohol wipes, there are far shadier places to be doing injections.
That is true but there is far better places to be doing too
I mean, people inject insulin daily, so how is this any different? Spoiler alert: it’s not. These are insulin syringes they’re using, and based on the needle length, they’re definitely doing it subcutaneously, just like insulin. Diabetics can’t pay for a nurse to inject them every day, nor should they. Subcutaneous injections are incredibly easy to administer; you just inject the medication into the fat layer (not a vein).
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Gender dysphoria is actually life threatening, though. Kinda hard to explain, but please have some empathy for us, it’s incredibly difficult to be forced to life someone else’s life. Nothing is your own.
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Lack of gender affirming care for gender dysphoria has been shown to lead to significantly increased risk of suicide. If you’re unaware, suicide is deadly, so yes, it is life threatening. Over 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide in their life. Transitioning, and specifically implementing gender affirming care like hormone replacement therapy, has been shown to significantly decrease the risk of suicide. So yes, HRT is a life saving treatment.
As someone with chronic health issues that I’ve been hospitalized for multiple times that would also certainly qualify as “life threatening”, I am in no way “insulted” by gender dysphoria being called life threatening. In fact, now that I am properly medicated for my health issues, I’d say gender dysphoria is the second most deadly thing in my life. It’s only usurped by Borderline Personality Disorder (which cannot be treated with medication), which has a completed suicide rate of 10%, and up to 85% of people with BPD are estimated to attempt at some point in their life.
Please stop attempting to minimize and illegitimize our problems. The only thing “insulting” happening in these comments is your fear mongering and blatant dismissal of trans issues.
EDIT: This released a few minutes after I commented, and I found it to be incredibly topical to this comment: Hormone replacement therapy lowers suicidality by nearly 70% among transgender youth
It’s not a thing that you find out you have and then you’re dead in two days, certainly not. But before I started taking hormones, I had suicidal ideation every day. When I got the right hormones in me, the thoughts just weren’t there any more. Just like that. And quite frankly it’s a miracle that I didn’t act on those thoughts. In that sense it is life threatening, very actively. And I don’t know why the thoughts went away or why they were there to begin with, but it’s a common experience.
Type 1 diabetic here. Seems legit to me. Carry on.
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DIY estrogen itradermal/subcutaneous injection is actually safer than it looks especially if the person doing the injection knows the process and has already practiced on an injection dummy first.
It might look shady at first glance but it’s actually pretty straightforward.
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My professional training for subcutaneous injection when I started them over 4 years ago was done through a phone call. It’s not rocket science, it’s genuinely hard to fuck them up. You aren’t finding a vein, as it isn’t an intravenous injection, you aren’t even at risk of hitting a vein (like with intramuscular). You’re just injecting into the fat layer. The injection leaves a depot of medication in the fat that is absorbed by fat cells very slowly, usually over the course of multiple weeks in oil-based suspensions.
I have never once messed up a subcutaneous injection, and I’ve done them while blackout drunk before. It is significantly riskier to use an EpiPen on someone, and those are commonplace (and I’m not talking about the effects of epinephrine, I’m talking purely about the safety of injection). I cannot get it across just how incredibly hard it is to fuck up a subcutaneous injection. OP is not at any risk here; you’re manufacturing fear in a place that should be celebrating OP. Please stop; it does nothing to help anyone.
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