How many syringes do you use a day?

Wow, the urge hit me to crack a joke about sticking with one needle for a year and a half, scrubbing it clean each time before tucking it into the sofa, yet that felt like it could land wrong. Chuckling aside, once the shot goes in, that needle and syringe lose all cleanliness. Forcing out air or swabbing with wipes won't bring it back. Since they're so affordable, I see no reason to gamble on problems. Pleased things have stayed fine for you up to this point, though it still strikes me as a dangerous game of chance.

Doing this kind of thing feels risky to me because the peptides could easily pick up contaminants and that might lead straight to an infection. Basic syringes cost very little and those pen-style devices with matching needles often end up even less expensive.

They're inexpensive enough that reusing them makes no sense to me. It might harm or ruin the peptides, and that depends on the particular kind involved.

These cost the least out of everything involved with peptides. The needles on insulin syringes lose their sharpness after just one shot. Wiping the tip won't cut down on any germs at all. That's why they're meant to be thrown away after using once. It's like taking a huge unnecessary risk.

It was like I felt a great disturbance in the force.

People, I want to hear about your everyday syringe consumption rate. That's why I titled the thread this way.

After multiple uses on the same vial and prior injections, I wonder about the difficulty of getting the needle through the skin. My former spouse dealt with type 2 diabetes over two decades. She swapped the insulin pen needle perhaps daily while doing several injections each day. Folks in similar situations often become accustomed to the repeated pricks over many years. She avoided any infections from contamination. The main risk I see involves mixing different substances that might not work well together. Every time I inject, I attach a fresh needle. I administer something nightly, though rarely exceeding two in that period, and typically stick to one compound daily.

I've come across info that this type of sterile water made for shots includes a small dose of benzyl alcohol to stop germs from growing. I'm curious how many weeks that alcohol stays useful once it's inside the container. Around a month, or closer to two?

At the moment I'm going through fifteen each week, and this will rise when I increase the amount in my collection before long. This fifteen combines both slip and lock varieties along with ones that have needles attached, resulting in fifteen per week along with twenty one needles weekly. I purchased far too many of the various syringe types and needles, leaving me with a huge pile, several hundred. I'd like to move to using pens instead, yet I have to deplete my current inventory beforehand.

Right now 5 pins in the morning and 2 pins at night. Also 1 extra per week. But in the next few days I will add daily some more.

Daily usage involves a couple devices plus one more every seven days. That total stays modest yet I feel pleased about changing over. The needles prove inexpensive while also feeling more agreeable when handling them.

Man right now I'm on a whole stack of peptides including the ghkcu version with ss31 kpv bpc and cartalax plus 5amino motc aod9604 epithalon dsip along with nad and reta on alternate days. That adds up to roughly a dozen shots most days or ten if I skip mixing one vial. Leaves me with plenty of used needles showing blood. I follow what you mean and I test my glucose levels every few days. What really stands out is adding up the yearly total spent on everything here maybe I'll open a fresh discussion about it soon. I'll reach out privately tomorrow. I get my injection tools from an online spot and the total grows fast when you count them all. You ought to see the stacks of containers I drop off for disposal. Thinking about tossing in a couple extras too this routine becomes hard to quit I gotta say. Probably ought to look for some support circle or one focused on the shots.

I wonder whether the points lose their edge after repeated use. Three fresh ones get swapped in every week. Whenever a second puncture into the rubber becomes necessary the whole thing gets tossed into the biohazard bin right away. A few of those seals are tough enough to ruin the tip fast.

These days I end up sticking myself at least six times every day, and seven when it's time for the GLP shot. Since adding sema that's dropped to three times each week. Before that I was doing even more until I began putting two or three different peptides together in one syringe. What bothers me most at the moment is forcing the needle through this dense, vinyl-style skin on my abdomen, which others connect to my ongoing daily GHK-Cu injections for over four months. A swift dart doesn't work anymore because it meets resistance and needs to burst through, and that's kind of alarming. 😳

For roughly two years I've followed this exact process without sterilizing syringes or performing that air injection step and I've encountered zero problems regarding contamination or harm to the compounds.

Anyone injecting those compounds each day would end up with that kind of appearance too. Time to grab some for myself.

A single small syringe every 5 days, and on recon I will use a larger syringe for BAC and a small syringe for venting. I'm only using one compound, so my 100 syringe box is going to be an heirloom.

Reading through this discussion reminded me of someone with diabetes I've known for a long time. Over four decades I've watched them give shots many times but never once did they use one of those swabs to clean the skin. It wasn't something I considered before now. Probably should find out the reason from them.

My dad was T2D and he would reuse a needle and inject right through his tshirt!

Even when switching containers I always grab a fresh needle instead of reusing the old one. That means sticking myself in nearly the same area twice over. Cutting expenses doesn't seem worth the possible downside from my perspective. I'm not criticizing others since I know many handle the situation differently. I went through an uncommon infection a while ago so I'm reluctant to count on my defenses every time 🙂

It's amazing how people go from sterilizing every single thing to just using the same needle over and over. Honestly, sticking yourself again with that for under the skin shots might be less dirty than most scrapes you get. Forget the danger part, that tip has to be so blunt after a while. There's really a big contrast between a fresh one from the pen and one that's already poked through the top of the bottle.

Our pet suffered from diabetes and needed insulin shots one or two times every day across eight years. Even with other problems he made it to sixteen. We always used a new needle each time. 😉 🙂

I wouldn't go ahead with that because my physical state and safety hold far greater importance than the low price of a needle.

At first I figured someone was kidding around with that idea, but apparently not. Reusing the same one by pumping air in repeatedly followed by an alcohol cleaning seems like it takes extra effort compared to just popping the seal on a fresh one. Is the goal here to cut down on expenses? Wow, that situation sounds tough. In my case I go through as many as 38 within seven days, which averages around 5.4 daily during periods when everything syncs up perfectly. Normally though it's two each day plus two on alternating days.

I think the discussion title needs changing to something like whether reusing filthy syringes is acceptable. That would describe the starter's actual idea much more precisely.

People who share your view might keep shooting dirty needles for ages without any real trouble, yet the moment someone ends up in the hospital from it the news outlets will exaggerate everything and treat shady peptides like an everyday lethal risk. That's my stance.

I always grab three separate needles for mixing, straining, and releasing air into a new vial for each type of peptide. I went so far as to purchase a sterilizer and proper pouches to keep the vials clean. However, after loading the pen, I stick with that same needle on it until it starts hurting or I switch to a fresh cartridge. This habit began during a long stay in an isolated spot where I ran out of equipment and had to improvise. It got confirmed after chatting with a long-time nurse who mentioned that diabetics rarely swap needles for each shot. Everyone should just stick to what feels right to them and laugh at others who seem incorrect.

Hey there. Every week I go through one syringe with my Tirz while my other stuff takes four fresh needle tips each day. That comes to twenty one needles total across seven days. They all stay clean and I toss them right after the first use. Reusing any of them feels wrong to me.

I go through roughly five or six needles daily plus one syringe weekly for the vial product while finishing my compounded batch. I'm replying without checking the other comments first so pardon any overlap but I'm curious about the reuse of syringes. Cutting down on discards and skipping extra syringes each day might make pens appealing since they take little time to pick up and speed things up with several injections. On the expense side a larger lock syringe with a fresh needle each time could limit germ transfer yet still risks the solutions especially when forcing air into the bottles. Health seems worth more than a couple dollars daily and keeping those compounds stable matters given the effort put into obtaining them.