Had my first dose today. Went to the doc's office and he gave me the rundown of prepping the syringe, vial, needle, and to get a sharps container.
He demonstrated how to draw with one of my 18 gauge needles and showed how to cap and twist off the needle and replace it with a new 25 gauge, both of which he prescribed me with the test cyp. He had me pinch an area on my upper right thigh with my left hand and had me hold the needle kind of like a dart in my right hand and tools me to go ahead and stick it in all the way.
I took breath and sighed, and he said most guys hesitate at first and it takes them a while to get the motivation to do it. I said something like "guess I have to do this if I want to fix my low t" and just kind of pushed it in like I was tacking a pin to a cork board to hold a card or something. I was surprised that I didn't feel anything at all when it went in, there was a little resistance at the skin surface and a little more about a quarter to a half inch in where I'm guessing the muscle started, but it wasn't just painless,
I couldn't tell that it was in at all without looking at it. It did go in crooked and he said to go ahead and push the plunger in with a good amount of force, because the oil is very viscous. I asked is the needle was in sub cutaneous fat and he laughed and said no there's only about a quarter inch of fat there even though it's pinched, it's definitely in the muscle. He didn't have me aspirate, and it took a while to push all the solution into my leg. It was pretty cold but it was only 1 ml so it didn't make a knot or anything.
Small drop of blood when the needle came back out and then he wrote down my regimen for me. 1 ml (200 mg) every 10 days with blood drawn the day before the 3rd dose. If my levels come back high, he'll extend me out to every 2 weeks same dosage, if they're still low or completely nonexistent from being shut down and burning through the 200 mg every 10 days, he'll dial it down to the same dosage but weekly instead of 10 days, and if they're good, which he expects, he'll leave me at 200 mg every 10 days, which he said is a little aggressive, but most of his patients end up having optimal levels at 200 mg every 10 days, so that's where he's starting me. No idea when I'm going to start feeling better, but I'm looking forward to it. I forgot to ask him, but I asked one of the nurses and she said maybe a couple of weeks to start feeling a little better.
One thing I don't like, and the doc didn't either was that the test is in 1ml vials. Good for keeping sterile I guess, but they're tiny, and look easy to drop. Next time I see him I'll ask about cutting the dosage in half and injecting twice as often
