He gets every step wrong

Enjoy that sense of moral superiority — don't stop. Maybe someone with decades of use behind him and a medical background could actually know a thing or two that you 6mo-1year pinners don't. 🙂
 
I'm roughly the same age — full Gen X.

We're a fairly stubborn bunch. Risk-taking is something we genuinely enjoy, and if you try laying down rules about what we must or mustn't do, you're signing up for a life lesson.

Though it might just be my ADD 🤔
 
Grogu said:

Nope, nobody in my circle fits that description. Why anyone would roll the dice like that is beyond me, yet the freedom to make poor choices about your own body is something I genuinely appreciate about the USA.

Food safety is where I'm the opposite of relaxed — I'm extremely careful — but one of my relatives takes a very hands-off approach. He's still alive and well; I just won't eat at his place anymore 😂. Not that this has anything to do with peptides.
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Is food poisoning really the price of freedom? 😛

Still, I can't figure out how doing it in your own kitchen would play out any differently no matter where on earth you live, can you? Sure, the standards swing wildly from country to country — but that's when someone is paying you to prepare meals for other people.
 
Slaine said:

I know a guy who works as a nurse and used to compete as a pro bodybuilder; he's about 55y.o. Given that background, you'd expect him to have a solid grasp of 💉, sterility and that kind of thing. Yet he runs peps and gets everything wrong!

  • reconstitutes them with plain saline
  • forgets them outside the fridge for a few hours until he remembers to put them back
  • reuses the same syringe
  • begins a protocol, then loses interest or forgets and quits for 1-2 weeks before starting again from scratch
  • applies alcohol lotion, or blue methylated/denatured/industrial alcohol
  • now and then stores the vials (reconstituted or not) near the heater or in the path of the air-conditioning

Honestly, it feels like he's hit every single one. I tried to bring it up with him, but his answer was: this is all bullshit, nothing happens, relax.

A few of us, him included, did a small group buy together. I just hope he won't turn around and claim the stuff I ordered was bad.

Do you have friends like this?
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The only thing making this truly bad is that he's combining all of these mistakes at the same time.

Bacteriostatic water is static, not antibacterial, and it only covers a portion of the bacteria that might be present.

Should contamination already be there, bac water merely slows the reproduction down; it doesn't halt it or sterilize anything.

So compared with plain sterile water, bac is only a minor improvement rather than a major one, and saline sits somewhere in between the two in my view — as long as the peptide is compatible, saline poses no problem.

There's no evidence that peptides become dynamite and blow up when kept at room temperature for a few hours.

"uses the same syringe more than once" could be either quite risky or not a big deal. If it's the same peptide and only on himself, it's irresponsible and painful, but nothing more.

Regarding the denatured alcohol, is that even bad? It's just less good and less handy than ready-made swabs.
 
Retaguy said:

Eh, I've got a few friends in that same boat. None of them have run into problems, so if it isn't broken…..
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Still, that whole approach is flawed. If it were me, I'd step in and give a buddy a hand — but that's just how I see it.
 
One of these days an infection will catch up with him... and then it's either death, quitting peps, or finally fixing his habits. Sad situation.

When I was a kid I caught a staph infection. Came close to dying — 11 days in the I.C.U., then 6 months on I.V. antibiotics.

Sure wish 1.5% bac was something Hospira produced.

A big bottle of rubbing alcohol lasts me about 6 weeks. I'm ocd about it.
 
tekkit said:

Plenty of nurses have a pretty thin grasp of medicine. Take the anti-vax crowd — a fair number of them work in nursing. A few have gone so far as to reject science outright. None of it makes any sense whatsoever.
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I'm aware of nurses who refuse vaccines — I'm not among them 🤪. The remark about nurses not knowing medicine doesn't make sense to me. Understanding medicine is literally what our job requires; you can't pass the licensure exam without a solid foundation in it. Plenty of nurses I know perform their duties poorly, yet they still know their medicine. Anyway, I'm going off track. Try not to read too much into what I wrote. I was emotional and probably got butthurt by that. All love ❤️
 
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