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anabolicsqa
I can answer the part about steroids, but I've never used HCG.
I use an 18-gauge needle to draw the steroids out of the vial, then I swap a 25-gauge needle onto the syringe, kind of like Buster Brown. 25-gauge needle injections have always worked fine for me at any injection site - with the exception of glute injections, which I discontinued, because the risk hitting the sciatic nerve is too much!
I used an insulin needle 2-3x when I had no other needles left. It's painless, but was maybe 5/8", and the syringe could hold only a fraction of 1 mL. The insulin needle wasn't detachable to use with standard steroid syringes.