Help with injections

[Axis Langton]

I screwed up my first shot by not drawing back, luckily everything was fine. This second time around, I did everything as instructed and when I pulled the needle out, out came allll of my 0.2mls. I have no idea why this happened and Google isn't helping at all.

It doesn't help that my doctor didn't explain how to do these and I had to resort to the internet in the first place. Help?

I'm not sure whether to wipe it off and try again next week or what.

There was only a tiny bit of blood, not a whole lot.

[FTMax]

My process:

1. Unwrap drawing needle and injecting syringe, switch tips so that tube is connected to drawing needle.
2. Unwrap a bandaid and lay it face up on my desk.
3. Pull out T vial and tuck it behind my knee to warm it up.
4. Unwrap an alcohol swab, sterilize leg and top of T vial.
5. Grab syringe/drawing needle and pull plunger until the black tip is just past my dose.
6. Put syringe in vial, push air from syringe into vial.
7. Tip vial upside down, pull plunger back to just past my dose.
8. Tap side of syringe to get air bubbles to float to the tip.
9. Push excess back into vial and take syringe out.
10. Swap drawing needle tip with injecting needle tip. Put drawing needle tip into sharps container.
11. On the sterilized leg, pick a point, cup that spot by holding hand like a 'C', and push needle into the gathered skin.
12. Once needle is all the way in leg, push down plunger until syringe is empty.
13. Remove needle from leg, let gathered skin go, cover injection site with bandaid, put injecting syringe into sharps container.
14. Massage leg.

I don't aspirate (pulling back on the plunger once the needle is in your leg). I rarely bleed, when I do it's usually a very small amount but every now and then it'll be a lot. I like to keep a small roll of toilet paper nearby to blot if there is a lot. I've had some T come out before, and I honestly couldn't tell you how much of my dose it is that comes out. I don't do anything differently when this happens, I just inject as usual the following week.

[Alexthecat]

It looks like the T comes out when I do my shots all the time. The nurse told me to leave the needle in my body longer. It is a hit or miss if it works but I haven't been doing shots that long.

[JoanneB]

I'm not exactly sure what you meant by out came all....  Did you inject and then pull back on the plunger?

The point of "Aspirating", or pulling back on the plunger is to make sure you aren't in a blood vessel before you inject. Stick in the needle, pull back a bit to make a bit of a vacuum, look for blood. If no blood you're good to go

Often when I inject a little of the elixir of life dribbles out. It's usually a lot less then it seems.

There is also a method called a 'Z' track. This is when you pull the skin off to the side, and inject. After you pull out the needle the skin slides back to where it belongs to close off the hole from the needle track. It's a lot easier said then done, especially on yourself