Do you go through more than one syringe daily?

BNLFL said:

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Wouldn't the needles end up dull?

Mine adds up to 3 per week, and I never reuse them. Honestly, the moment a syringe has to pierce a stopper a second time, it's done — into the sharps bin it goes, and I take out a fresh one. A few of those stoppers feel tough and really mess up the syringe.
Correct?...The sterile vials I filter into (which happens with every recon I do) come with a solid stopper...not that 'V' shaped one like the original stopper found on the vials the peps arrive in....Now and then, the needle simply folds while trying to push it in....😳
 
Flash-BCR said:

6 at minimum each day...on GLP day it's 7, though since adding sema that's now x3 per week....Before that it was even higher, until I eventually gave in and started loading 2-3 different peps into a single syringe for one pep....

What's giving me the most trouble at the moment is getting through that 'thickened vinyl like skin' on my belly that a lot of people here link to the daily GHK-Cu doses (I'm at like 4+ months now).

Even when I try to 'dart' the syringe in, there's resistance and the needle has to 'pop' through...kinda disturbing.... 😳
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Flash-BCR said:

Correct?...The sterile vials I filter into (which happens with every recon I do) come with a solid stopper...not that 'V' shaped one like the original stopper found on the vials the peps arrive in....Now and then, the needle simply folds while trying to push it in....😳
With the ones I've got, there's never been a problem. I don't know whether you came across my post yesterday about injecting my wife's Tirz, but the needle went in rough and she told me it hurt. Either the syringe was a bad one, or the mistake was mine. I felt awful about it. It's happened to me too in the past.
 
ssmith said:


With multiple peptides that I was trying a day it was adding up to 3 or 4 syringes. I now only use one. I load the the first peptide and then inject. Before loading the second peptide I draw air in and then plung it out a couple times, wiping the needle with an alcohol pad in-between plunging the air out. I have been doing this for months with out any problems. Does anyone else do something like this? Thanks again for everyone opinions.💉

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For roughly 2 years I've been following the same routine (though I skip cleaning the needles and the air plunge step), and I've never run into a problem with sterility/infection or with harming the peptides.
 
ssmith said:

The thread's title asks: how many syringes does everyone use in a day?

The thread's heading may say that, but what you actually request in the post itself is people's thoughts about re-using one needle and syringe across a whole day for different peptides. You didn't simply ask how many syringes folks are using.
 
Every 5 days I go through 1 single 1ml syringe, and when I reconstitute I use a 5ml syringe for the BAC along with a 1ml syringe to vent.

Since I’m only juicing one sauce, that box of 100 syringes is going to end up an heirloom.
 
Reading this thread got me thinking about a diabetic I'm close to and have watched inject regularly for the last 40 years. Not once have I seen them use an alcohol wipe. That had never crossed my mind before this thread. I'm going to have to ask them the reason.
 
Seasonal1 said:

Reading this thread got me thinking about a diabetic I'm close to and have watched inject regularly for the last 40 years. Not once have I seen them use an alcohol wipe. That had never crossed my mind before this thread. I'm going to have to ask them the reason.
Yeah, plenty of folks here seem horrified by the OP reusing syringes and needles, but as far as I know those worries are purely theoretical. I doubt you could actually point to people who've been harmed by doing this.

I've brought this up in other threads, but my sister is an RN and has had type 1 diabetes for 35 years. Back in the days of insulin vials and syringes, she never wiped her vial with alcohol, and she'd inject right through her clothes - dirty jeans and everything. She reused syringes and needles too. Her take was 'the fat filters everything' lol.

So sure, on paper there might be some risk from reusing needles/syringes, but in real life the chance of any harm coming from it is extremely, extremely low in my experience.
 
tendency said:

Yeah, plenty of folks here seem horrified by the OP reusing syringes and needles, but as far as I know those worries are purely theoretical. I doubt you could actually point to people who've been harmed by doing this.

I've brought this up in other threads, but my sister is an RN and has had type 1 diabetes for 35 years. Back in the days of insulin vials and syringes, she never wiped her vial with alcohol, and she'd inject right through her clothes - dirty jeans and everything. She reused syringes and needles too. Her take was 'the fat filters everything' lol.

So sure, on paper there might be some risk from reusing needles/syringes, but in real life the chance of any harm coming from it is extremely, extremely low in my experience.

YES, everyone views these things through their own lense and personal risk profile. I am extremely conservative, and with most single-use items in my life, I use them just 1 time. Take paper plates, for instance. I use one, then throw it away. Paper plates (much like syringes) cost so little that I don't wipe them off and return them to the stack of clean paper plates. That's simply my choice. Would reusing paper plates kill someone? Probably not, but it's just gross.
 
Grogu said:

YES, everyone views these things through their own lense and personal risk profile. I am extremely conservative, and with most single-use items in my life, I use them just 1 time. Take paper plates, for instance. I use one, then throw it away. Paper plates (much like syringes) cost so little that I don't wipe them off and return them to the stack of clean paper plates. That's simply my choice. Would reusing paper plates kill someone? Probably not, but it's just gross.
I only found out today that this was even a thing people do.... 😳 😳
 
tendency said:

Yeah, plenty of folks here seem horrified by the OP reusing syringes and needles, but as far as I know those worries are purely theoretical. I doubt you could actually point to people who've been harmed by doing this.

I've brought this up in other threads, but my sister is an RN and has had type 1 diabetes for 35 years. Back in the days of insulin vials and syringes, she never wiped her vial with alcohol, and she'd inject right through her clothes - dirty jeans and everything. She reused syringes and needles too. Her take was 'the fat filters everything' lol.

So sure, on paper there might be some risk from reusing needles/syringes, but in real life the chance of any harm coming from it is extremely, extremely low in my experience.
Most of my 40 years behind the wheel were spent unbuckled.

That is not something I would tell others to do, and I am glad the younger generation treats buckling up as the norm.

Whether it is "safe" is an argument we could have endlessly; my single point is this: showing people the proper method and then leaving the choice about risking their own health up to them is probably the better route.
 
My father had T2D, and he would reuse a needle — no idea how many times — and, honestly, he would inject straight through his tshirt!
 
If I'm wrapping up one vial and moving on to a fresh one, I won't reuse the same needle — I'll just poke myself a second time in roughly the same area. When I weigh possible ways to save money, the risk side of the scale doesn't come out in my favor. No judgment here; I'm well aware lots of folks handle this differently than I do. On top of that, a few years ago I came down with an extremely rare fungal illness, so I've learned my immune system isn't something to take for granted 🙂.
 
It's wild how far apart people are — some filter every single thing, others reuse needles. Honestly though, if you're doing sub-q injections on yourself, a reused needle is likely still more sanitary than your typical cut.

Forget the risk angle for a second — how blunt does that needle actually get? I'm aware that a fresh pen needle and a syringe needle that already went through the vial are nowhere near the same.
 
Our dog had diabetes, and for 8 years he needed insulin shots either once or twice daily. Despite all his health conditions, he made it to age 16. Every injection was given with a new needle. 😉🙂
 
Something feels off to me here. Truthfully, I can't tell whether this is genuine or someone trolling.

Grogu said:

Really? 😳

I nearly made a sarcastic comment — something along the lines of how I've reused one needle ever since my first tirzepatide dose 20 months ago, giving it a wipe between injections and keeping it tucked in the couch cushions — but I thought better of it, since that could come across poorly. 😂

All joking aside: after you've put that needle into yourself, it isn't sterile anymore, and neither is the syringe. Pulling in air and pushing it back out, or swabbing the needle down with alcohol, won't make it sterile again. Syringes cost so little that I really can't justify rolling those dice.

It's good that no infection has hit you and that things have gone fine up to this point, but honestly it sounds a lot like Russian roulette.

Having spent more than 2 decades around people with diabetes, you'd pass out if you learned how many of them have reused syringes, and how seldom real problems actually show up.

I'm not endorsing it — only saying I've witnessed situations that left me wondering... how on earth does this not turn into a problem.
 
ssmith said:


With multiple peptides that I was trying a day it was adding up to 3 or 4 syringes. I now only use one. I load the the first peptide and then inject. Before loading the second peptide I draw air in and then plung it out a couple times, wiping the needle with an alcohol pad in-between plunging the air out. I have been doing this for months with out any problems. Does anyone else do something like this? Thanks again for everyone opinions.💉

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I'm asking you not to do that. A syringe runs you $0.23, or $0.92 for 4 — your health and well-being are worth far more than that.
 
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