Safety of multi-day needle reuse for peptide injections

More like the jury is still out, but close. You make me laugh and we could use more of that around here. Keep going.

Still smarter than reusing one syringe across multiple vials. Do what you want, but pause before labeling others foolish.

I have sensitive thin skin, kidding. Those cheap ones really were poor quality and arrived with foreign labeling. Very blunt.

My mistake, chalk it up to a brief lapse. For peptides I use one needle for both drawing and injecting. For the other protocol I switch sizes.

The sample size over decades is still small. Saw one infection that needed treatment despite clean habits. Years ago supplies were limited so reuse happened more often. Infections seem somewhat random and uncommon. Reusing the draw needle doesn't change the odds much, though a dull tip is annoying when it misses the stopper.

Nothing new to add about how bad the idea is. Just annoyed you brought this old thread back to life.

Lower quality ones will bend for sure. My area makes it hard to get better ones so I end up with plenty of those.

The stopper can definitely blunt the tip, which is why I moved to pens. Regular needles get noticeably dull from the stopper but not from skin. Is this the same long running thread still active?

I bend them often, even just against skin. Never had one break though. Also happens when recapping pens. The shorter ones stick out past the cover on certain pens.

Looks like a ban went through.

Really? I had started to respect that poster too.

Interesting. Wonder which comment triggered it.

That was some solid moderating.

Choose one. There's another person in here who got argumentative. Looks like his take was the correct one and the rest of us had it wrong.

Is it really though? Not trying to argue, but I've never reused needles myself as a diabetic and none of my family or friends do either, so seeing this was surprising. We joke about how long since changing a lancet but not needles. Sure we inject at inconvenient unsterile moments sometimes, but the needle itself was always fresh.

Yes. Yes it was.

Playing us, fine. I fell for it. Still, there's no place for pushing obviously unsafe habits on a public forum like this. I do unsafe stuff too but I don't talk about it here where anyone can read it and think we know what we're doing. Repeated pokes through a hard stopper just means ouchie.

I reckon the point stays sharp. What really happens is the slick coating on it disappears, and that coating used to allow easy insertion.

Can't tell but the poke hurts and nothing is clean either. 🤷‍♀️

Wow, an ancient conversation resurfacing like this? I think those two have their strategy sorted! 😯

This whole thing wasn't started by me. Also your signature is lovely.

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It's funny how some folks freak out over using the same syringe again, yet they still put sketchy unregulated stuff straight into their bodies. I skip reusing syringes myself, though all the talks on handling dangers feel overdone. Anyone messing with unregulated materials is already taking on various hazards anyway. What stands out is how they zero in on that tiny concern while ignoring the far bigger question marks around what they're actually using.

Back in the nineties coated tips stood out as a major feature when promoting those needles. I kept promotional packets that included microscopic images revealing how tissue got ripped by the point. Pharmacists found that quite convincing at the time.