I am nervous my T-cypionate is losing potency based on how I am injecting.
I’ve been using insulin syringes to both draw and inject testosterone. Since it is hard to draw up the testosterone with the insulin syringe, I generally pull my plunger back much higher than my intended dose (to .4 rather than .2 for example), so as to create greater pressure pulling downward. I then push back a good deal of testosterone back into the vial when I push back up to .2. Could this disturb the testosterone and reduce its potency?
One of the main advantages of using an LDS fixed insulin syringe for trt is that there will be minimal waste of medication due to low-dead space let alone you draw/inject using the same needle (fixed).
Whether one is injecting strictly sub-q or shallow IM most are using LDS fixed insulin syringes 27-31G various needle lengths 1/4"(6MM), 5/16"(8MM), 1/2"(12.7MM).
Numerous benefits of using an LDS fixed insulin syringe as injections are virtually pain-free, minimal trauma to the tissue, minimizing any waste of medication, easier for many to measure accurate doses when injecting lower volumes and you can draw/inject using the same needle to boot.
“Fixed insulin type syringes have no void space at the point where the needle joins the syringe, and so are known as Low Dead Space Syringes, which is sometimes abbreviated in the literature to LDSS. They are made like this so that the full accurate dose is delivered, and there is no waste”
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Your injection technique has absolutely nothing to do with
reducing the potency of the esterified T.
Some even have a bad habit of shaking the oily solution before drawing up their dose as they seem to think that doing such is needed as if somehow it is going to have a positive impact on the dose you are injecting.....LOL!
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I have been on trt for 6 years injecting strictly sub-q using an LDS fixed insulin syringe (31G x 6MM).
150 mg TE/week (75 mg every 3.5 days).
Never once injected air into the vial before drawing and never had an issue with load times drawing .375 mL of the oily solution.
If anything even though drawing/injecting when using an LDS fixed insulin syringe 30-31G may be somewhat slower you can easily pull low volumes of the oily solution fairly quick.
Warming the vial before drawing will make the oily solution flow much easier.
Not sure why everyone is always complaining of the load times when drawing the esterified T using a fixed LDS insulin syringe!
