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been doing injections a month now it's so much better [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transfem]
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Personally I'm generally uncomfortable with needles, but not deathly afraid. I never look when getting vaccines or IVs. I got more comfortable with the idea of injections because my brother started a non-HRT injection that comes as an autoinjector and asked me to do those for him because he was too scared to do it himself.
I inject 0.2mL.
I spend a long time personally. I do IM injections*, but I can't do the stab in one motion. I've tried and I just sit there trying to get myself to do it and can't. Still probably less than 30 seconds for piecing the first layer of skin to having the needle out. Hard to tell since time probably seems to pass a lot slower.
Never got cold from it.
The outer half I'm the middle third is where you are supposed to go for IM. Not sure how subQ differs. I sometimes chicken out after it's like halfway in and just inject where it's at and that hasn't seemed to be a problem?
Push into flesh, push fluids, pull out.
Being in control helps a little I guess? I actually had have a medication I take by autoinjector and I kinda wish it wasn't an autoinjector. It's a short, thinner needle and I never see the needle, but it's still more uncomfy imo.