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been doing injections a month now it's so much better [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transfem]
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I prefer tummy injections, but yeah it's a big deal, congrats on hrt! Take pictures to look back on!
Is that something approved by your doctor? I've only ever heard of them going in your butt or your thigh
Butt/thigh are for IM, tummy is likely subcutaneous
trashgf is right I'm doing subq, shorter needle, injects into fat. Result is the same, it absorbs a bit different I guess but I feel much less sore.
Edit: You can also do subq on your thigh, but on the other side(ish). My partner does that, but I still avoid the legs. Subq also avoids larger bloodvessels. I had quit injecting for a while doing IM because of a..
CW: injection mishap spoiler
I did my injection as normal, but after doing my legs for a while in roughly the same place my skin was getting harder to pierce. I tried to inject, couldn't get the needle through, pulled out and put it through roughly a centimeter away. Still felt hard and it hurt, I pushed it through (here I know now I had hit a vessel, they are surprisingly tough) and did my injection.When I pulled out my leg started gushing blood and I luckily had gauze and stuff nearby to help clean and contain it.
After that I switched to patches for a while. Those are worse and have their own annoyances. When moving in with my partner who knew how to do subq I went back and she does it for me (I know I am lucky.) There's almost no pain at all for subq, a good injection I barely feel and when done perfectly I don't even notice.
When doing subq though there is a greater chance to lose some of the oil, so z-tracking is more important. when you do IM the muscle soaks up the oil like a dry sponge. fat is slower and of course you are injecting closer to the surface of your skin, but yeah if you do it right subq is way better imo