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Instructions
Good to know
Watch video on vial coring prevention
(coring = damaging rubber stopper so rubber bits contaminates the vial)
Choose an injection site
Common/Preferred subcutaneous injection sites for Estrogen:
- Tummy.
Around navel.
Two or more inches away from the navel (right or left side works). - Thighs.
Front side, slightly outer.
- Butt.
Above crack, outer side of butt.
If you have a friend injecting you, butt would be a good choice.
If you are doing it on your own, tummy or thighs would work.
Choose injection amount
If using Estradiol enanthate 10ml (50mg/ml), inject once a week.
About 0.08ml each injection. The vial should last for about 120 injections.
(If using EE 40mg/ml, it would be about 0.1ml each injection)
Gather supplies
Put on your table:
- A syringe
- A drawing needle
- An injection needle
- Estrogen Enanthate Vial
- One or two disinfection wipes
- A plaster
- Your sharps container
- Some paper (toilet paper/swabs/paper towels)
Prepare
- Wash hands.
- Remove cap from rubber stopper (if it has one).
Do not remove the lid/top that the rubber stopper sits in.
- Disinfect rubber stopper with wipe (and let dry).
- Disinfect chosen injection site with wipe.
Drawing liquid
- Attach drawing needle to syringe.
- Draw some air into the syringe.
Same amount as you will inject. (It’s to balance the pressure in the vial)
- Remove cap from needle.
- Insert needle into vial
using a coring prevention technique.
- Grab and hold vial upside down
- Push the air into vial.
- Pull liquid into syringe.
Draw a bit more than your dose, and then push back the excess into the vial, or else you’ll have too much air in the syringe.
- Hold vial right side up.
- Pull needle out of vial.
- Put cap back on needle.
- Wipe off any liquid on the rubber stopper.
(With disinfection wipe if you’d like)
- Remove needle
(with some paper for better grip, or using sharps container hole)
- Put the needle in your sharps container.
Injection time
- Attach injection needle to syringe.
- Remove cap from needle.
- Hold syringe and needle upward
and tap it (not the metal part) with your finger like in the movies
and push out until a small drop comes out.
- Grab skin at injection side between thumb and two fingers. See fig →
- Push the needle (quickly) into the injection site
at a 75-45 degree angle.
- Keep the syringe as steady as you can.
- Slowly push plunger all the way in.
- Pull out syringe.
- Put cap back on needle.
- Remove needle
(with some paper for better grip, or using sharps container hole)
- Put the needle in your sharps container.
- Put plaster on the injection site.
Congrat.