So I've been injecting T for 10 months, and I always ALWAYS remember to aspirate. But I just did my injection and blood came pouring out when I pulled out the needle. It freaked me out so much that I can't remember if I pulled back on the plunger before injecting the T.

Google is giving me very little information on what I would be experiencing if I did in fact inject into a vein.

So if I did, would I know it by now? It's been about 10 minutes and other than being freaked out, I think I'm fine. Should I call a nurse and ask? I'm in Canada and my province has a free health phone line I could call to talk to a nurse, but would a nurse even know what to do in this situation?

I'm just wondering if anyone can point me to info. I would know by now if anything bad was going to happen, wouldn't I? I just don't want to end up really sick in an hour or something.

Call a health professional and ask to be safe.  I would imagine nothing serious would happen, but I am not a nurse.  Better safe than sorry, mate.

You'd know it if you injected into a vein.  Coughing fit, feeling like you're going to die.  More than likely you just nicked a blood vessel.  Put pressure on the site.  Go ahead and call the line if you want.  The nurse might not know about testosterone IV side effects but could tell you more about IM injections.

I'm too hesitant to call Telehealth. It's for "general health inquiries only" and this seems a little more specialized. I did a bit more research and I likely would have known it by now, the injection was 30 minutes ago.

So I think I'm fine. I probably passed through a vein and that's why there was so much blood.

Also, it's likely that I did aspirate. I've done weekly shots for more than 40 weeks, aspirating is just part of the routine.

It's still scary though.

Just be sure to get help if you start feeling strange or unwell.

My mom works in the medical field and is experienced with giving IM shots to people.
She said if you hit a vein nothing bad would happen, you'd just bleed a lot and most likely bruise. 

Thanks. I think I nicked a vein, but what I was concerned about was whether the testosterone and the oil had gone straight into my bloodstream, as it's not supposed to do that.

Everything I've read says that I would probably have known by now if that happened though.

You sound exactly like me after giving myself an estrogen shot last week   I pulled out the needle and blood ran down my leg. I freaked out and instantly started searching the internet as quickly as possible.  All was well.  My mother was a nurse and said that I probably just grazed a capillary.

I've had this happen to me before and nothing bad happened.
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I was more concerned that I might have botched my injection than anything else.

Most of the stuff I've found online (though their isn't a lot about it) suggests that you wouldn't have any problems.

Next day report: I didn't die, so that's good.

My T levels were actually a bit high last time they were checked, so I'm not too concerned about a botched dose. If some of the T leaked out with the blood, oh well. As long as I don't suddenly get my period back (which will not happen with one missed dose) I'm fine.

Though I kind of hope that when I see my endo in a few weeks, he'll straighten out my dosage - I've seriously only grown a sideburn on one side of my face. It looks weird. Maybe if my dose is too high, lowering it will help my facial hair actually grow.

I haven't been injecting very long, and I forget to aspirate. Thanks for the reminder.

I've had similar things happen that caused me to think I've injected intravenously and yeah it can freak you out... but in the end, nothing ever came of it, and those experiences desensitized me to the fear I once had. Almost everything that could go wrong did, and I'm still here. 

What you're trying to avoid by keeping it out of the bloodstream is an oil embolism (just like a regular pulmonary embolism but with oil instead of a blood clot). Since the synthetic T we inject is suspended in oil, it's not meant for intravenous use due to the risk of embolisms.

There could be other adverse effects as well. Some people have mentioned coughing fits, etc. which sound similar to the "tren cough" (google it) but I do not know where they got that info from; whether it was a reliable source or just speculation.

If you hit a vein  you will probably develop a haematoma, basically a bruise. You inject into muscle for slow absorption of the T, you are highly unlikely to inject into a vein unless you deliberately try. You are far more likely to nick one and see the blood release. If you did inject T directly into a vein it would be cleared quite quickly, rather than being absorbed as you want it to be. Unless you are allergic to T or the carrier it is in there should be no effects, and if you are allergic you would know it by now anyway from the IM injections. Which is one reason the initial injections were probably given in some sort of medical setting, so if you had a reaction they could retrieve you.

BTW there is quite a lot of mythology about injecting into veins, to induce a myocardial infarction in a healthy normal adult  person, you need to put about 50mls of air into a vein. That takes a bit of doing. That does not in anyway mean to experiment, or get careless, and the calculations are based on the big rat model. That is if this does that to a rat then someone ten times bigger than the rat will have suffer this affect.

QuoteBTW there is quite a lot of mythology about injecting into veins, to induce a myocardial infarction in a healthy normal adult  person, you need to put about 50mls of air into a vein. That takes a bit of doing. That does not in anyway mean to experiment, or get careless, and the calculations are based on the big rat model. That is if this does that to a rat then someone ten times bigger than the rat will have suffer this affect.

I saw a movie once where a guy disconnected, emptied, and reattached an IV bag. Then he squeezed it and you could see the patient's veins bulging. blarg. XD