Hey guys, don't no bout u but I lay in bed at night with my iPad and read all over this site, it's awesome. Sometimes it takes a little to weed out the idiots or the scaredy cats. Come on shove that thing in and get over it. Drink a couple of beers first, relax, think about how awesome your workouts going be. Animal in the gym.
So heres my advice to new guys. Get over the fear of the pin. Make sure the freshly cleaned skin is DRY the alcohol burns. Pretend it's your buddy your pinning don't look at it like its yours. Once the pin is in and your GTG , go slow. Before you pin make damn sure all the little air bubbles are out. Get a glass of SLIGHTLY warm water bring the oil up a bit. For those of us in cold country if that shit is cold it's like driving the plunger with all the force you can get to get it in. Go slow and once in don't rush to pull the needle out, go slow, dude your done now it's over.
For me once I took a little more time in clearing all air, making sure alcohol was evaporated and I plunged slowly with slightly warmed oil and pulled it all out slowly any pain afterwards seemed to go away.
Do not, I repeat do not (I did) reuse the needles. I'm not proud, I screwed up in fact I'm laying here right now with a bobo on my left cheek. Taking the dogs cephlexin, but I got this under control. Just do your research no the pitfalls and fixes. If all else fails you go to your doc and say I am about to disclose to you and I am protected, here we go and here's what I did.