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Has it ever been decided definitively when/if this is necessary? It used to be taught to always aspirate before injections but there has also been some new school that says it's not important and it's hard to tell which is right.

It's really easy to make a habit out of doing it every pin. But since it's almost always just air bubbles that come up, it's also easy to consider it unimportant and stop. On a recent quad pin, for the first time ever there was blood! Wtf?! After repinning at a new site, blood and all, everything was right in the world again. So what if anything could happen if you end up pinning someplace you're also able to draw blood from? Embolisms have been brought up as a risk, but are there any documented cases?

What say you, eroidian pros?

slimpickins14's picture

I aspirate each and every time. I have seen blood come back into the syringe only one time out of about 75 pinnings. I slowly pulled out, re-needled the syringe, and went for it again. I think I was pinning my quad if I'm not mistaken. I like the glutes much better. It feels safer to me. A lot less vessels to hit in the rear-end. Lol.

ChemDawg's picture

Can you actually die if you IV a whole CC of Test or even Tren? I am guessing no, if you are healthy, but you will probably feel like shit after that, while your body levels out and you puke your guts out from hacking so hard. Does anyone have any a real scientific study on this?

aronl's picture

Use 1" 25G needles and there is never a need to aspirate.

PIN_CUSHION's picture

And why is that?

aronl's picture

If you're choosing the right site- a good slab of muscle and going in perpendicular like you should then the chances the needle tip would end in the lumen of a large enough vein for there to be a problem is vanishingly small anyway but the risk is about 0 with a 1" 25g. People that are aspirating something are nicking vessels on the way in and drawing blood tinged tissue fluid not frank blood usually. Just take your time injecting and that is all that is needed IMO for safety. Aspirating likely will pull air into the syringe from around the entry point in the skin and increased contamination and risk of infection rather than do any good.

aronl's picture

I apologize in advance to the mods for my tone here--
But excuse me what are your credentials again? Maybe you should know who the fuck you are talking to before rudely and very personally contradict and you drop "bro-advice" with no medical basis. Pulling back is UNNCESSARY and this is coming from a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL not some shaky-hand douchebag want-to be body builder who cant put a needle in straight. Veins reflexively constrict when poked, not open up to swallow a needle bore. You have significant bleeding 1/50 injections??? wtf. Im not listening to you ive put 10's of thousands of needles into people with less complications. The longer the needle is in and the more someone fiddles with it introduces further risk of contamination and subsequent infection. But I guess we should all blindly follow your advice because you have poked yourself 100 times and maimed yourself in the process. Vast majority of oils will pass fine through a 25, and 1" is more than long enough for VG and delts unless your vagina is so tight you cannot aim straight. Quads will vary person to person, but larger more fixed position vessels will be deeper.

vhman's picture

Aspirating likely will pull air into the syringe from around the entry point in the skin and increased contamination and risk of infection rather than do any good.

Highly unlikely when the end of the needle is 1" - 1 1/2" in. There is no medical literature I've seen that states this. Aspirating has been around for decades and has been proven to work for it's intended purpose. I'm not against people not doing it, but infection, by your stated modality, is not a worry if proper protocols have been followed.

PIN_CUSHION's picture

Thank you for your explanation. The first comment may have been a little vague for inexperienced guys.

gambit's picture

VG is supp to be the main spot now.

B52-BODY's picture

i started pinning my calves to start. Never ever hit a vein. I have switched to just thighs now. The tear drop above the knee. Feels like mostly muscle to me there when I pin.Works very well. There is thing called
Z-Track Injection method. You can look it up on google.

gambit's picture

from my understanding both reading and asking my endo about aspirating. most docs, nurses still do, most everyone says u should, i used to. then i read like others do about needing to aspirate or not. i asked my endo and the nurse (when I was going to a doc for HRT) and both them seemed to agree it wasnt necessary but many still did it.
looking at a map of veins in the body u can see how it would be hard to get a good amount of oil in. ur pinning through them if anything with a fairly small gauge pin i use 23 or 25g myself.
yeah sure i had cough but seemed to mostly get it or got it when i aspirated! no blood thought i was good and bam, COUGH COUGH COUGH! figured i moved just a lil bit.
i like to think i have a steady hand but i can see where i am moving that needle ever so little so getting some oil into my blood stream is bound to happen.

now i am NOT saying u should or shouldnt. we should do what we know and are comfortable with and pers for me that means not just going by pers. exp.

on a side note, "tren" cough can suck. anyone getting it for the first time will prob be freaking. all i can say when u do it it, just relax, let the coughing happen and breath when u can. it will pass. sip water between coughs once is calms down enough. and be over a sink or toilet! Smile

wanted's picture

For the first time in 4 years i finally got blood when aspirating. I was so shocked and there was alot. So i guess i will continue to apsirate

SL's picture

In my emt class last week we did injections and had to aspirate. Pretty important for such an easy thing to do no? Unless you want to risk starting an IV

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gambit's picture

i gotten tren cough say a dozen times and most of them is when i do aspirate. go figure.

White Bolt's picture

I'm guilty of never aspirating. Haven't ran into any probs yet, hope I never do either.

finafan's picture

I always aspirate. I have pulled blood a couple times and one time some nasty puss. I avoided that site for a long time after that.

eastcoastmuscle's picture

Hurts like hell in the lungs, seems ESP bad with tren, feels like alcohol in lungs

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