always aspirate. simple technique works for me in glutes and delts. brace the top of the barrel where the plunger enters with your thumb, place two fingers around the plunger just under the top of the plunger, using your thumb push down on the barrel.

Yep, I hit something in my quad a week or two ago. Aspirating with one hand is pretty difficult, I'm just glad that I'm pretty flexible...and yes, I aspirate everytime.

Hit a fucking gusher in my delt today.. would advise asperating anywhere besides the glutes.. usualy with a 1 1/2 incher u get it deep enough to not have to worry

Yes bro... aspirate every time!!!!
switch from 2 or 3ml syringes to 5ml ones. the plunger has less distance to travel. If you inject into a vein it can be... unpleasant

I never aspirated for 7 years when I started pinning and frankly didnt even know what the word aspirate meant. About 4 years ago I met ifbb pro Luke Wood (rip) and in discussion he mentioned that he never pins without aspirating. I asked him "whats that?" he just laughed and thought I was fucking around so I just played along with it. When I got home I did my research and it happens to be one of the fundamentals of injecting, well nobody told me! So now I aspirate because its a part of the safe injecting protocol. I must admit that I draw blood atleast once a month so aspirating has saved me from injecting straight in to a blood vessel or two. aspirating in the glutes and shoulders isnt easy, you gotta be very good with the fingers and put up with the occasional cramping. Better to be safe then sorry!

i always make sure i aspirate, however i have never once drawn blood (knock on wood).....i do have a question though, if you do draw blood... do u restart the whole process? is your gear in the syringe bad now once it is mixed with the blood? or are you good to re-pin and continue to inject?

I do, I hold the tube thumb and middle and lift with index. I've got blood twice and just pulled back a bit. I think the issue with pinning in a vein is that the dose goes right in the blood stream so you don't get the slow release over a longer period and waste the shot. Just my thinking why I do it.

I aspirate because Ive always read that you had to. Some people are giving what sounds like legit reasons here not to so I don't know now. I can say out of every time Ive pinned yet I still havn't yet pulled blood into my pin.

I didn't aspirate for years.Didn't even know you were supposed to.One day hit a little resistance right before the plunge.Started to push and felt really light headed and flush. Pulled out quickly and almost pasted out.Since then I have aspirated every time and only pulled a small amount of blood twice.The larger veins run on the out side of your muscles so you should be safe.I still aspirate though.

I've aspirated b4 and seen a little blood after the pin, cause I.couldn't see it when I was pinning 500 mgs of test and nothing bad happened. You can aspirate one handed, but the challenge would be whether or not you would see the blood. I use a 23g 1.5" for all my sites and doubt at that depth that I would hit a vein or artery as their far closer to the surface, so in closing, no I don't, if I were new to this, I prolly would till I got comfortable with technique. So if your new to this aspirate, until your technique is mastered.

put it this way, I know a doctor very well, in his opinion, if you are injecting something at 90 degrees to a muscle, which your sapose to do in an intramuscular injecting, the possibility of putting the needle into a blood vessel is slim to non. just what i am told. that is why when somebody is doing intravenous the needle is help on a 30 degree angle. Im sure everyone has their opinions though

There are situations where I just cant pull the plunger back. I just go for it. The worst that ever happened is a headache and funky taste in my mouth. Never had a real problem. With tren it's a little different. Chest tightens up, you might cough, headache, but still, nothing serious. This is just my take on it. I don't really know the possible dangers. I've got to read more about it now that you mentioned it. I just know that i've had to go at it without aspirating before and i'm still here.

I have had a few nurses that have told me you don't have to aspirate unless its in the shoulder. I had a big conversation about this and asked them "can you die if you hit a vein," because i was pro aspirating. But they said even if u do for some reason you won't die from steroids. They said it would make you react a lot more violently, like you could break out and feel like straight shit. The last few times I haven't aspirated in the quad and glut it felt much better. The also said that there is a lot less damage done to the muscle.
They told me there has been a lot of research done on this topic recently and they are saying not to aspirate. It is supposedly an out dated technique.
Just my 2 cents

I aspirate Sarge and hit a vessel at least once a month. That includes gluts and quads. Or to be more accurate I do not know that I hit a vessel I know that I get blood into the syringe and pulling the plunger back when I hit blood is easier. I pull the plunger with the first 2 fingers on my hand and hold the syringe back with my thumb. So, take the first 2 fingers on your hand and touch them to your thumb and then open your fingers.

Always. Never hit a blood vessel but I seen them hit on internet videos. I don't know... I think the proper spot is the proper spot. Everytime I'be ever gotten a shot at the hospital they didn't do it. I don't do my shots at the hospital tho, I do mine in my closet and I'm not trying to be found like David carradine. Not a good look!!!