I've been in the gear game for quite sometime and have used different types of oils like cottonseed, grape seed, safflower and ethyl oleate and some oils mixer with guaicol too.... I want to focus on EO on this post and give u my experience and witness to others use of it....

First I want to define EO or ethyl oleate...as Wikipedia defines it.... colorless to light yellow liquid. Ethyl oleate is produced by the body during ethanol intoxication. [1]

Ethyl oleate is used as a solvent for pharmaceutical drug preparations involving lipophilic substances such as steroids. [2] It also finds use as a lubricant and a plasticizer.

Ethyl oleate is regulated as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration under "Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption", 21CFR172.515

Ethyl oleate is one of the fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) that is formed in the body after ingestion of ethanol. There is a growing body of research literature that implicates FAEEs such as ethyl oleate as the toxic mediators of ethanol in the body (pancreas, liver, heart, and brain).

Ethyl oleate is not currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for any injectable use. However, it is used by compounding pharmacies as a vehicle for intramuscular drug delivery like anabolic steroids.

Now that we defined it lets talk about experience personally....I started using EO based compounds a few years ago and after many injections and reactions I decided it just wasn't for me... Now please understand that we are all different so my experience may differ extremely from urs but my goal is to help inform the community so they can decide if it's for them or not

Injecting EO based compounds were just as I had read.... Very smooth and somewhat painless at the moment of injection but many days after is when I would learn just how bad my body hated it.... It would be on day 3 or later and I would have this painful red swelling at or near my injection site and then it's like my muscle would turn into a tough piece of beef jerky or leather like whelp at one point I developed what was call strep cellulitis....yes different than staph bc there is no puss nucleus it's just an extreme superficial inflammation between ur skin and muscle.... I had to go on a two week run of Bactrim DS which is a broad spectrum antibiotic for u guys wondering.... The inflammation stopped and swelling and redness resolved but the knot or strap as I called it remained for another two weeks and it also limited my range of motion....

Now I just dismissed that as a bad isolated experience but the other times was as painful but resolved....it wasn't until recently with a friend of mine that we figured out just what the hell was going on because maybe one or two times out of 10 injections would be somewhat tolerable but the rest a bit on the excruciating side of things.... Now he's in the med field with me so we already knowour lifestyles are not clinically studied so we are left to our Dr Frankenstein mad science ways of self experimentation..... We found after a few trials and test that my auto immune system was basically isolating this fatty acid transport to the area and not absorbing it back into my body like the other transport oils.... Basically the hormone was absorb but left EO in my tissue and it would basically get walled off into the fasicals of the facia....for u guys that dont understand that it's basically connective tissues for our muscles to say it simply

So I would have this painful hardened strap of tissue or knot pending where I injected left.... I tried to work it out and stretch it out with no success and finally my friend used a ultrasound and soft tissue mobilizer to force the substance out of the fascia and back into my body for reabsorption..... It was very painful and uncomfortable days afterwards but resolved with no trace left.... So understanding my body and the way things work I believe it wouldn't be too long if I kept forcing myself to inject with EO compounds that I might find myself with injection granuloma which is basically calcified scar tissue that would have to be removed surgically if to big and superficial....

Now I know that sounds bad and it sure as hell was for me BUT I had a guy that was using the same oil and compound and never had one incidence even remotely close to mine .....so yes there are definitely guys that can use it and suffer nothing and it works perfect for them but just was not for me.... I did find others that had my experience so I know I wasn't along so I figured that I would share my experience and see if any of u Eroidians had a similar experience or none at all....

I hope that maybe I helped u guys with my experience and insight with this and encourage u to study it if ur considering using an EO based compound

My reference to EO
www.Wikipedia.com