Evie (SleepyCatten)
For anyone on gender affirming hormone therapy who's interested potentially in switching to injections and would like to see an injection being done, I'm happy to do a demonstration sometime.
I don't imagine there will be enough time today for folks to ask before I do my injection this afternoon, but if you are potentially interested, I do my weekly injection every Saturday.
Just LMK if you're interested :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
@SleepyCatten I used to do estradiol injections into the stomach as part of my fertility treatment. Not as difficult as I thought it would be - but they came in tiny weird glass bottles that had to be broken to get open, very weird, this was difficult.
I‘m curious, do you also do injections in the stomach and does the estradiol come in more sensible packaging?
Evie (SleepyCatten)
Reminder of this in case anyone wants to see me do my injection shortly later today :TransHeart:
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
@SleepyCatten What does it mean to core a vial?
Evie (SleepyCatten)
@GreenSkyOverMe I do mine intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis muscle in my thigh, rotating the leg each week.
In terms of packaging, it's homebrew vials. All you have to do it carefully remove just the top of the metal lid covering the rubber stopper when you start a new vial. Other than that, there's nought much to it.
The only other thing to be mindful of is not pushing through the same stopper hole each time, as that risks coring the vial.
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