Shooting up
Jan. 15th, 2010 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceriWell, the die is cast, or something like that. I've had my first testosterone shot, and learned how to do it.
First observation: prescription testosterone looks exactly like bottled shoggoth. I'm not kidding about this. It's clear, but extremely viscous - it takes a large needle to actually get the stuff out of the bottle into a syringe, and then a smaller one to inject it because using that needle would (I'm told and see no reason to argue) hurt like crazy.
Second observation: learning to inject myself wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, and I do like the idea of not needing to go to the office each time for it.
My thigh was sore around the injection area for a few hours. Duh. A cc's worth of anything into a large muscle will do that. It's already letting up now, and it's quarter to three pm, while the injection was at eleven am.
I remain profoundly sad about needing this. But wow I can use the energy, if and when it comes. Dave tells me that it'll be absorbed in two to three days and that I may or may not notice any benefit from the first shot, but that it's quite reasonable to hope for some.
First observation: prescription testosterone looks exactly like bottled shoggoth. I'm not kidding about this. It's clear, but extremely viscous - it takes a large needle to actually get the stuff out of the bottle into a syringe, and then a smaller one to inject it because using that needle would (I'm told and see no reason to argue) hurt like crazy.
Second observation: learning to inject myself wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, and I do like the idea of not needing to go to the office each time for it.
My thigh was sore around the injection area for a few hours. Duh. A cc's worth of anything into a large muscle will do that. It's already letting up now, and it's quarter to three pm, while the injection was at eleven am.
I remain profoundly sad about needing this. But wow I can use the energy, if and when it comes. Dave tells me that it'll be absorbed in two to three days and that I may or may not notice any benefit from the first shot, but that it's quite reasonable to hope for some.