Soreness After Years of Injections

KemicalKid · Dec 10, 2021

So first thing. I'm not a super sized guy. 5'9 and 200 lbs. Fairly lean. Very vascular. So probably a shrimp compared to many of the fellas here. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Never gone over 800mg test/week in my time. 47 years old. So I've always only injected quads, glutes, and delts. Delts not so much anymore since I had a sterile abcess years ago that luckily went away on its own before I made an appointment to have it lanced.
So my glutes and quads always stay sore for days after injecting. Prob a lot of scar tissue too I imagine. Anyone else had this issue? As I said I'm not a big dense guy. I don't know I could really inject elsewhere. What do you think? Thanks.

Matsuo Munefusa · Dec 10, 2021

What kind of gear are you injecting? Some people react to EO or GSO or even BA/BB (sucks if the latter is you because pretty much all gear uses at least 1%/10%).

mg/ml matters too

Technique and rig matters too. Generally want to push through any skin/fat and puncture muscle fascia and keep going at least 1/2” before slowly releasing oil. Some muscles like delts or quads the angle of the injection matter more (the needle should be in a slightly greater than 45 degree angle traveling sort of parallel WITH the muscle). Other muscles like glutes or ventro medial you can just inject straight in fine.

I also utilize modalities like heat compress or hot bath on injection site especially if I notice it starting to lump up a little the day after.

01dragonslayer · Dec 10, 2021

I started having the same issues especially with my quads. I still inject glutes and felts, although less frequent on the delts but now have included hammies, lats, ago small volume with calves.

Muay Thai · Dec 10, 2021

i have issues from decade of nonstop pinning tons of scar tissue in my hip flexors from hitting those spots with 3cc , posture got fucked up, pelvic tilt. chiro grinds it out with a tool. take care of your scar tissue helps with rom sometimes also

jstrong20 · Dec 10, 2021

you Could add biceps and triceps. Also I like doing sub q for smaller injections.

KemicalKid · Dec 10, 2021

Not gonna lie, scared shit to do bis or tris

LK3 · Dec 10, 2021

if you inject the same spot all the time it canget tender after a while.
between quads, hips and ass i can do ed injects and not hit the same spot 2x.
also be sure to move just a little bit in the inject local each time.

bellicose · Dec 11, 2021

small injections daily will help this. Also move around a little bit on each site. I have 12 possible sites on each quad between rotating inner and outer and going up and down. 4 on each bicep. Its no problem when you are doing .3-1cc in a slin pin daily. Get away from 2-3cc shots, that will create massive scar tissue wherever you put it.

alfresco · Dec 11, 2021

KemicalKid said:
So first thing. I'm not a super sized guy. 5'9 and 200 lbs. Fairly lean. Very vascular. So probably a shrimp compared to many of the fellas here. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Never gone over 800mg test/week in my time. 47 years old. So I've always only injected quads, glutes, and delts. Delts not so much anymore since I had a sterile abcess years ago that luckily went away on its own before I made an appointment to have it lanced.
So my glutes and quads always stay sore for days after injecting. Prob a lot of scar tissue too I imagine. Anyone else had this issue? As I said I'm not a big dense guy. I don't know I could really inject elsewhere. What do you think? Thanks.

How frequently do you inject?

Matsuo Munefusa · Dec 11, 2021

LK3 said:
if you inject the same spot all the time it canget tender after a while.
between quads, hips and ass i can do ed injects and not hit the same spot 2x.
also be sure to move just a little bit in the inject local each time.

You ever get a sterile abscess and drain it with a big needle? I had one subq on my oblique area. I drained it with a 21g. It was a thick yellow pus oil that came out. I got about 1ml until the abscess felt hollow and I left it and it went away eventually.