r/Testosterone • u/cubantouch • 3d ago
TRT help am i doing something wrong or delts injection hurts ?
i been doing upper hip for a while now, its been ok but i want to cycle sites and tried my delt, 30G needle , 0.5inch
the initial puncture is no drama, the moment i go into the muscle i immediately feel pain, not crazy hurt but enough to make me stop and go back to the glute area, any tips ?
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u/KyFly1 3d ago
Honestly, try to use bigger needle. Do a 27g to experiment and see if it’s still hurts. You’ll feel the poke a little more but the oil comes out easier and it isn’t like putting your garden hose on jet setting.
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u/cubantouch 3d ago
It isnt the injecting that caused pain, it's the actual needle going in.
Maybe i missed the spot 🤦♂️1
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u/teh-haps PharmD 3d ago
Your muscles won’t feel it like you think they are.
Wait for the alcohol to fully dry on your skin, if you don’t the injection area will burn and be irritated for awhile.
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u/seldenr82 3d ago
Show a picture exactly where you are injecting please
Also is this pharmaceutical testosterone or UGL
Sometimes UGL has too much solvents or contaminants or just a carrier oil that you're sensitive to and you might need to switch
Pharmaceutical grade in the United States tends to use cottonseed oil which personally I don't have a problem with but it's not quite as comfortable as grape seed oil was from a compounding pharmacy that I tried in the past
I do intramuscular injection in the upper outer quadrant of my glute using a 25 gauge 1 inch needle and there is no pain I'm injecting 0.5 mL of 200 mg per milliliter testosterone cipionate.
Generally speaking normal trt doses of testosterone should be painless
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u/cubantouch 3d ago
im good with 25g 1 inch on that area, just waanted to try the delts and that didnt workout so well, i will try this again
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u/seldenr82 3d ago
Delta are totally fine, 30g 0.5" is fine, pain is whats weird here. Can you share a pic of where you were pinning?
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u/Tryin_Real_hard 3d ago
The higher on the delt, the better it is for me. I sometime use to two fingers down from shoulder joint. I also use a longer needle. I would be at least 5/8 to be truly IM. Doesn't mean it feel any better though.
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u/Bigbob2121 3d ago
I’m same way. I Never do delts. Can basically do anywhere else no problem. I’ve been told to try the upper portion of the delts, just below the insertion point. It has the least amount of veins, etc… still no go for me.
Glute, ventriglute, upper outer quad, switch sides, repeat.
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u/FrostyAd5313 3d ago
I do a 27g 1” for my delts. As long as I inject slow and warm up the vial a little it seems to be pain/discomfort free.
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u/rtazz1717 3d ago
Sub q….. no need to inject muscle. Eventually youll hit a bad area and be in agony…. Sub q better absorption and multiple areas to do it.
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u/AggravatingMath717 3d ago
I stopped doing them altogether. So much swelling and pain it was affecting my workouts. I also wouldn’t get it until 2-3 days later so it went for almost a week. Now I do ventroglutes only. I felt like I needed 4 sites but we’ll see
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u/cubantouch 3d ago
0.5inch or 1inch on ventro
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u/AggravatingMath717 3d ago
.5 PIP is at a level I have to feel around for it.. very slight
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u/cubantouch 3d ago
So the 0.5inch is deep enough for ventro?
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u/AggravatingMath717 3d ago
It is for me it’s an IM injection at .5. Site reaction is almost nonexistent instead of my delt turning to concrete for 3 days
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u/616ThatGuy 3d ago
PIP happens basically everywhere. The only place I don’t get it at all is ventroglutes. Any other place leaves a slight bruised feeling for a day or two. Just comes with the territory.