happy stab day! 💉 ✨
EDIT: oh, also - I’m very afraid of needles and have like a whole write-up on tips and tricks on how I managed to inject safely and overcome mental hurdles; if anyone would like that, just let me know and I’ll share it
EDIT2: uploaded my tips here: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27953271
Please share! Could be very helpful
OK, I wrote a separate post just for this, here’s a link: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27953271
Please share it. Maybe it’ll help me finally switch to injections from sublingual.
I keep hearing anecdotes about peeps switching to injections and seeing better results, but I’m too scared.
I’m not scared of needles when someone else is poking me, but I am super scared of pushing through my skin with my own hand.
Thanks for the encouragement, I decided to make the writeup a separate post, you can find it here: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27953271
I can relate to the difficulty of pushing a needle into me, it’s one of the most difficult things I have ever done. I literally couldn’t get my body to do it at first.
I’d gladly stab any trans people I see.
Fear of syringes is a bitch, and I’d be happy to help (if invited to do so, obviously).
I stabbed my GF a few weeks ago.
It was one of those home blood test kits, and she couldn’t do it herself.
Please don’t take line 1 or 3 out of context.
“I’d gladly stab any trans people I see.”
“I stabbed my GF a few weeks ago.”
😳
Wow, I almost rage replied after the line, I’m so glad I kept reading.
interestingly, i don’t have a conscious fear of needles but whatever self preservation mechanisms run in my brain go completely ape shit if i do a self injection.
it used to take me up to 2h to do my own T shots, and sometimes those instincts would present so intensely i was inches away from passing out (tunnel vision, ringing in my ears). i don’t fear needles, i don’t fear the pain, there barely is any to begin with, but my brain is hell-bent on not getting stabbed by my own hand. piercing the skin isn’t hard, but it sometimes took me 10min of trying to make my hand move and it just would not. i had to disassociate myself with loud music or youtube videos just so i could do it, and after i finally succeeded, i was often drenched in sweat and needed chocolate to stop feeling light headed
after 4 years of that with no improvement, i decided to just go to a local clinic and have a nurse help me, and now my T shots take a whole maybe 15min at most (other people >:|). i have no idea why that ridiculous gelatine of the head panics so violently it tries to turn off conciousness if i try to stab myself with a needle on my own, but if someone else does it’s like “huh, ok”
just why
I’m only able to stab myself when I’m confident I’ve done everything right. I was lucky enough to have someone with ton of professional experience walk me through it the first time. If it wasn’t for her, I probably would never have gotten as comfortable as I am (this isn’t to say it doesn’t still suck).
It also probably helps that I feel time limited. If I wait too long after sterilizing the injection site, it tends to sting. I probably spend most of the time meticulously setting up and drawing properly, because once I get ready to stab, I don’t leave room for thought.
Well I guess I am a little dangerous now that homophobes have driven me to finally get a gun for protection from them
Add a bayonet and you can continue to stab.
Your gunpowder-laced perfume is super hawt. I wanna watch you outshoot everyone at the range.
Happy girlstabbing!
I held out for a long time on injections, and surprisingly doing it myself cured my fear 🥲
I feel called out
You should („ಡωಡ„)
first time I’ve seen my language in an (owo) variant
omg it’s your lamguage that has the mini amonguses, amazing
usually it’s a different language that is most commonly used for amoguses, but we do also have an amogus character
Absolutely me irl
