So I was doing a routine injection today into my left glute. This is about my 5th injection done on my own, so I'm getting less nervous about it and paying more attention.
In particular, I'm paying proper attention when aspirating.
Anyway here's what happened to me about 10 minutes ago:
I stuck the needle in, and then pulled the stopper back. The needle appeared to turn black. My first thought was "holy shit that looks like oil", it looked pitch black. I was thinking to myself what the hell could that be. I pulled the needle out and held it up to the light, and it turned out to have a bubble of very-dark-red blood in it.
I couldn't believe it at first, and I placed the syringe down on the table thinking what the hell should I do know. I picked the syringe back up, changed the needle, and picked a site about one inch below the first site. This time I aspirated and just got a clear bubble in the syringe, so I pushed the stuff in and that was the end of that.
I'm the guy who started the thread recently "Have you ever drawn blood when aspirating", and I really can't believe it happened to me today!
As I said before, I let a "seasoned bodybuilder dude" do my first 17 injections, and he never wiped with alcohol or aspirated, and now I'm seeing just how god damn lucky I was to get away with it for 17 injections.
I remember reading in another thread that someone said you don't have to aspirate when injecting your glute, but I can tell you right now that you do have to.
Other people have described injecting into a vein as very bad experience, and I have to say I'm really glad I spared myself that experience today.