Did I inject this ventroglutes shot right?

[icommandyoutogrowbro]

So I’m taking a TRT dose of testosterone Cyp and only injecting about 0.4/0.5ml a week.

last time (first shot) I was terrified and decided to go subQ in the belly because I have a decent amount of fat there. It didn’t hurt going in but afterwards got a lot of pip and it swelled up a tiny bit and was uncomfortable when touched. It also bled a few drops and some gear came Back out so a bit of wastage.

so today I tried the ventroglutes because a lot of people say they have no major blood vessels or nerves and are safe. I tried for ages to feel the right place. Ended up standing and shifting my weight onto the foot and felt for a little muscular lump, also raised my leg to try and isolate the muscle. After I got the place I injected 90degrees and it went in like butter. No pain couldn’t even feel it.

I am using 29g 0.5inch BD insulin syringes. Draw and inject with the same.

problem is because I couldn’t feel it don’t know if I got it in the muscle. I didn’t aspirate after reading that is old advice and not needed in certain sites. Whilst injecting it bled a bit towards the end but I kept injecting and when I took it out stopped the bleeding with a tissue.

now I can’t feel it at all unlike when I did the belly shot. Did any test get wasted with the bleeding?

and how do I know if it got to the muscle or was in the fat? Do you think it made it to shallow IM at least?

 

[TestQuest22]

Unless you're shredded, 0.5" is far too short. You need 1.5" for most gluteal injections.

 

[icommandyoutogrowbro]

Unless you're shredded, 0.5" is far too short. You need 1.5" for most gluteal injections.

Yeah definitely not lean enough. You reckon just do subQ there or try IM in delts, that should work?
I have so many 1/2 inch needles wanna use them before I try buy some longer ones

 

[icommandyoutogrowbro]

Unless you're shredded, 0.5" is far too short. You need 1.5" for most gluteal injections.

The weird thing is though it didn’t leave a subQ typical welt like I got when I did it in my stomach, didn’t sting at all like subQ either, any chance it actually made it into my muscle maybe shallow IM

pretty confused now

 

[TestQuest22]

Yeah definitely not lean enough. You reckon just do subQ there or try IM in delts, that should work?
I have so many 1/2 inch needles wanna use them before I try buy some longer ones

I have read from others (no personal experience here, so ymmv) that 0.5" is perfect for delts. If you really want to use up the 0.5" stock you have, you might want to explore that route.

And yeah, it could end up simply being a very shallow IM injection. I'll let others with more experience opine, though.

 

[Vince]

I always inject the VG and use a 29g 1/2" syringe. It's my favorite place to inject.

I feel my hip bone and inject a few inches below that point. I even moved down three or four inches and inject there also.

 

[mooseman109]

I use 1/2” there all the time, works great for me

 

[Vince]

 

[MarkM]

I inject into the VG with a 1/2” 29 ga. Works good for me.