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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.
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.