Air bubbles

[freak1]

just started takin hgh thus last wk and always notice sml bubbles in syringe and have hrd time gettin rid of thm.any ideas?

[SlimmerMe]

tap the syringe? hold the vial upside down when you load?

[GirlyGymRat]

do what slimmerme says...also, with needle in the up position, push the bubbles out with the syringe...just ever so slightly until the bubble passes thru the needle, sometimes alittle gh comes out, but the bubbles are gone.

You don't want to put those air bubbles inter muscular...infection.

[zebra]

I haven't used my HGH yet, but I have been playing with syringes and needles for decades (as a nurse.) In my experience, air bubbles are usually caused by agitating the solution too much. From what I have read, you have to treat HGH really gently.Gently roll the vial or swirl it around to get your diluent to mix with the powder.

Another way to get bubbles in a syringe is by having the needle too deep in the vial. When you draw up the syringe, make sure the bevel of the needle is completely below the fluid level while you pull back on the plunger. As you get less and less in your vial, this becomes more difficult. In most vials, there is a little indentation in the rubber stopper that you can see on the side as you look at the vial. Just keep the bevel barely into this indentation as you draw up the last of the HGH. When using expensive stuff like HGH or botox you can actually lose a little of it in droplets clinging to the inside of the vial and stopper. With little vials like these, I take the whole stopper off and just stick my syringe/needle into the vial to suck the last of it up.

Another way bubbles get into the syringe is if the needle isn't tightened down into the luer-loc, and you are actually sucking air into the syringe around the hub threads as you draw the contents into the syringe. But if you are using insulin syringes, the needle is usually attached and this would not be the case.

Once in the syringe, you can get the little bubbles to coalesce by flicking the syringe with your fingernail, forming a big enough bubble to break surface tension and rise to the top, which you can eject.

By themselves, bubbles don't really hurt anything if they are injected sub Q or IM. But they are a sign that you need to look at your technique, like GGR says. If there is air getting into the syringe, something worse may be getting in there.

[GirlyGymRat]

freak1...I learned not to push the air from the syringe into the gh in the vial...i did that once (i was barely awake) by tippig the vial upside down and that air from the syringe was like a jacuzzi jet into the vial. I just skipped my dosing that morning.

Zebra is a pro...great post...I had to watch youtube to learn...

[zebra]

Heh heh! I am lazy so I put some air in the vial, but once I lost track. I blew the plunger backward out of the syringe and lost the whole thing. And botox is about $350/vial.

[ScotchGuard02]

The proteins in the HGH will create little bubbles when mixed with BW. I let my HGH sit for a while just to "air out". I push the pin into the vial, push 1cc of air into the vial, invert it, pull the pin out about 50% so the remaining section of the pin is all in the fluid. I draw past the amount I want, slowly push the plunger back to the amount you want to inject, pull out the syringe from the vial, tap the syringe to get all the air bubbles to the top, and squeeze the plunger slowly to get the remaining air out of the syringe. If don't freak out about having air bubbles in the syringe. I'm injecting subq so the teeny amount of air isn't going to hurt me.