Pinning Pain

[tech]

Curious if anyone else is extremely sensitive to pinning pain. I use 33G, rotate sites, and let alcohol dry to help mitigate but my subject has around a 50% rate of very sharp pain when the needle breaks skin.

[jackie]

Not from the needle, sometimes from the peptide (GHK-cu or MOTS-c)

[Randy]

Have you lost a lot of weight fast? Anecdotal reports of tummy shots hurting more once you've leaned out are common

[MyB]

Are you pushing into taught skin?
If I don’t pinch, or pull the skin tight, it hurts and I bruise.

[brithus]

@tech You might want to check out antiseptic numbing wipes. I use a brand called Numstat that has benzocaine for numbing along with isopropyl alcohol for sanitizing the pin area with my more sensitive research subjects. Rub it on the area you are going to pin for about 45-60sec and then let it dry completely and it should cut down the pain significantly. In my experience it eliminates pinning pain completely.

[Randy]

@brithus have a link?

[jackie]

When I was going thru chemo and they had to access my port, I used a Lidocaine Cream that they gave me about an hour before I went. It numbs the nerve endings.

[brithus]

@Randy I get mine at Amazon. Here's the link - https://www.amazon.com/NUMSTAT-Antiseptic-Numbing-Benzocaine-Isopropyl/dp/B0CMB5VFGY/ref=sr_1_1_pp

[tech]

Thanks everyone. I did lose a lot of weight pretty quickly so that might be part of the problem. I’ll give the numbing wipes a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.

[sunny16]

@brithus sounds like a great product, thanks for the link! I just ordered!

[brithus]

@sunny16 Hope it helps you too!

[tech]

I tried the numbing wipes but didnt seem to help in my case. Maybe its the MC1R gene. Need a peptide to suppress it

[quicksilver80]

tested above the hip love handle area yesterday. yall weren't kidding. i could have forgot it there and not have noticed lol

[Sable Darqness]

My experience was injecting GHK-Ck in the love handle was plumb brutal. Hurt for a week

[jackie]

@Sable-Darqness said in Pinning Pain:

My experience was injecting GHK-Ck in the love handle was plumb brutal. Hurt for a week

I have to pin GHK-cu in my glutes