Long-Term users, scar-tissue question

[AVelasques911]

I do TRT with slin pins, not SubQ, just shallow IM. It's only been three years but already there are a few spots that sound like saran wrap tearing when I go in and it takes some effort to do get the oil to go through, where as most of the good areas are a piece of cake.

I personally don't care, pinning doesn't bother me at all. I'm curious though if injecting into a heavily scar tissued area affects the absorption in any way? I'm having some issues dialing in at the moment but once I get sorted out I'd really like to switch to EOD as I prefer everything as stable as possible and I'm looking ahead 10, 20, 30 years.

Like I said, Don't care about the scar tissue being there but concerned about absorption.

 

[pins]

Ive been injecting myself for over 30 years now and im full of scare tissue.The key to avoid scare tissue is site rotation.I inject,glutes,quads,hams,tri's,bi's delts,traps.
Traps are very interesting I stand in front of mirror so I can see to.aspirate
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[maldorf]

Scar tissue

I am not sure about absorption, but if I had to guess I would say that it is compromised in areas of scar tissue and will take longer to absorb. I know once I injected into scar tissue and ended up getting a sterile abscess there.

I found over the years that if you leave an area alone long enough the scar tissue eventually goes away. I have had some go away entirely when I thought it was going to be permanent. Some of it took years to go away though.

 

[Userat204]

I had bad scar tissue in my delts from putting 3mls in the front middle rear and would switch sides but I'm thinking I'm rotating 6 spots. It got to the point I couldn't get oil to push out. I stopped injecting them for I think 3 years and I now can injecting them with no issue it's like I never had any problems and it was like rice crispys now smooth. But I only inject 125 to 500mg a week and I rotate and mainly go in glutes.

 

[epoxy]

seems like it just takes time to heal. i had similar issues when i ran ED shots for an entire year....i was rotating 6 sites but by the end of the year my pecs and delts couldnt push oil through 5/8 needles, and i wasn't about to start putting 1 inchers in those areas to get through the scar tissue. after months of switching back to twice weekly test shots just rotating glutes...i can now inject in pecs/delts again without issue.