Ive been shooting b12 ed for the last 7 days to get a idea of how to inject properly before i use the real deal. Rotated ed with shoulders, quads, pecs, and glutes to give me 8 sites cus i want to use prop for my 3rd cycle. Every site was almost painless except for my glutes and quads, got some charley horses in those spots 15 min after inject for about an hour and no pain next day. I have all terumo equip, pins, syringes, etc. I have 23g 1 1.5" to draw and 25g 1" for small sites and 1 1.5" for glutes still 25g. Drawing and injecting was so easy and flawless with the water based b12, not with my gear. Today was the start of my first cycle (500mg of test enth for 10 weeks shot every mon and thurs). I used my 23g to draw and almost nothing would draw! I know my gear is underground and very legit, no problem there. Not sure what kind of oil was used to make my gear but could find out if that makes a difference in thickness of oil. Many members on here have told me that 23g would be fine to draw and 25g for shots everywhere with oil based test. I aspirated 1.5ml of air, poked pin into vial upside down, pressed the 1.5 ml of air into vial slowly watching the bubbles go into the gear to creat my vacum effect, pulled back on the plunger to draw and to my surprise it was hard to draw and when i would draw i would only get a few drops of gear per ml! I then kept the pin in vial upside down, placed the pin higher than the gear level to press in 3ml of air (since now i had only a few drops of gear and the plunger back to the end of my 3ml syringe), then drew again and not much better. Had to do this method several times to finally get 1ml of gear into my syringe, like pumping a damn super soaker almost. Then switched to my 25g 1" pin and shot into my right quad slowly since i had no choice cus it was hard as hell to begin with to shoot my 1ml of gear with the 25g pin.
My questions are:
1. Is this common and all i need is a bigger pin to draw and a bigger pin to shoot?
2. Is my gear made with a thick oil that makes this uncommon since so many members have told me that what im using is fine for the type of gear I have?
I already ordered some 20g pins to draw and 23g pins both 1" and 1 1.5" to shoot today and my source had 1 new BD 18g pin for me to use to draw til i get my order. Should i just use the 23g 1 1.5" pin to shoot while i wait for my order to come through and just save all my 25g pins for the future if i do any water based gear? Im not scared of needles, just want to have the least amount of chance to create scar tissue.
Other than that, another point for the dark side! No pain at all with my first shot today but now 4-5 hrs later i feel a nice charley horse in my quad that has me walkin with a slight limp. No biggie though, virgin muscles and all and well worth it in the long run! Thanks for any input u guys can give me and for reading my long thread!