Using Pens - is this normal?
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Yep, short needles and anything over 15 units will leave bumps on my poor rat subject. Longer 1/2" needles rarely leave a bump on him.
Being so new, I dont know any better but I thought 1/2" would become IM and not SubQ. Is the trick just to angle that baby in?
The angle and the pinch. I'll usually pull up a bit of my rats skin between my thumb and finger then inject in there. Like this:
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Those look like a histamine response to Mots-C possibly.
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Try 32g x 6mm. I recently switched from 4mm and I don’t get bumps or skin irritations. I don’t like using longer needles because I have a knack for hitting blood vessels and then getting huge bruises.
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Also switched from 4mm to 6mm. No issues now.
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@montemontemayor Are you pinching the skin? My guess is it's getting caught between skin layers. When that happens, you get a little bump, but it dissipates pretty quickly.
@montemontemayor Are you pinching the skin? My guess is it's getting caught between skin layers. When that happens, you get a little bump, but it dissipates pretty quickly.
I am pinching Except when I am doing Wolverine I just inject it directly into my shoulder and don't have any of these bumps
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Yep, short needles and anything over 15 units will leave bumps on my poor rat subject. Longer 1/2" needles rarely leave a bump on him.
Being so new, I dont know any better but I thought 1/2" would become IM and not SubQ. Is the trick just to angle that baby in?
The angle and the pinch. I'll usually pull up a bit of my rats skin between my thumb and finger then inject in there. Like this:
Yep, short needles and anything over 15 units will leave bumps on my poor rat subject. Longer 1/2" needles rarely leave a bump on him.
Being so new, I dont know any better but I thought 1/2" would become IM and not SubQ. Is the trick just to angle that baby in?
The angle and the pinch. I'll usually pull up a bit of my rats skin between my thumb and finger then inject in there. Like this:
Thank you, this is great!
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@jackiee said:
I like the 6mm length, too.
I think I may do this for my next batch of needles. Thanks!
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@CapmanCrunch-0 this is a really good question and I probably should have been paying closer attention to which peptides these bumps represent. I am taking all the normal stuff :0) Wolverine, KPV, NAD+, MOTS-c, and SS-31. even since I wrote this post they are mostly gone, and the and the pin was probably 3 or 4 hours ago. Yes, I am using a 32G 4 MM needle.
@montemontemayor "normal stuff"
MOTS-c and SS-31 are notorious for ISR. MOTS more so sending rats to the hospital but thats a different discussion.
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@montemontemayor "normal stuff"
MOTS-c and SS-31 are notorious for ISR. MOTS more so sending rats to the hospital but thats a different discussion.
@montemontemayor "normal stuff"
MOTS-c and SS-31 are notorious for ISR. MOTS more so sending rats to the hospital but thats a different discussion.
Yikes - thankfully Ive never had an issue that would send me to the hospital. That would scare the bleep outta me TBH.
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@montemontemayor "normal stuff"
MOTS-c and SS-31 are notorious for ISR. MOTS more so sending rats to the hospital but thats a different discussion.
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Definitely try a longer needle tip, inject slower let your peps warm up a bit if they’re fresh out the fridge.
@HockeyRat While I haven't had any ISR with either MOTS-c or SS-31, switching to a longer needle (8mm vs 5mm) made a world of difference with NAD+ and Glutathione.
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