Taking my lumps

[AR's King Silabolin]

Well my brothers, I need a little advice.

For about 3 months now, I can’t seem to take an injection without getting a ridiculous knot. Even my weekly TRT pin is lumping me up like grandma’s potatoes.

I’ve been powering through and doing the basics like changing needles, rotating sites, tried switching up labs (RX test is doing it too) and warming my oil. The only thing I’m thinking is maybe I’m plunging too fast? I always seem to be short on time. I’m also massaging the muscle afterwards as well (for like 20 seconds)

My glutes and shoulders are my favorites but I can’t get to either cheek right now (golf balls) and probably rolling to quads tomorrow, because even a shoulder has some swelling.

I’m two weeks into a blast and this shit is already old. I’ve never run into this issue before (not with this consistency anyways)

Anyone else run into this out of the blue? Maybe I’m just fucking old? Having to pin 3X a week now and don’t feel like going sub q (too many pins and too much volume) what else am I missing?

Thoughts?

Never ever massage the muscle after. I know that advice follows the book, but its rubish.
Sometimes i had the problem too. I always massaged.
After i stopped massaging, i never get a bump.
U simply massage the oil out towards the skin. Thats not good. We use long needles to avoid oil in the outer area.

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[SampsonandDelilah]

Never ever massage the muscle after. I know that advice follows the book, but its rubish.
Sometimes i had the problem too. I always massaged.
After i stopped massaging, i never get a bump.
U simply massage the oil out towards the skin. Thats not good. We use long needles to avoid oil in the outer area.

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I like when you come out of the castle! I’ll give it a shout brother because I always massage

[kelkel]

Never ever massage the muscle after. I know that advice follows the book, but its rubish.
Sometimes i had the problem too. I always massaged.
After i stopped massaging, i never get a bump.
U simply massage the oil out towards the skin. Thats not good. We use long needles to avoid oil in the outer area.

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Totally agree. Zero need to massage. Hell, you've already irritated the area by injecting and now massaging it makes it worse.
That logic is right up there with taking a hot shower prior to injecting.

[charger69]

Totally agree. Zero need to massage. Hell, you've already irritated the area by injecting and now massaging it makes it worse.
That logic is right up there with taking a hot shower prior to injecting.

Wow. I can save a lot on hot water now. [emoji23]


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[SampsonandDelilah]

Wow. I can save a lot on hot water now. [emoji23]


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Ironically my hot water heater took a shit 3 days before Christmas. The pump I needed was hard as hell to track down and took forever to arrive (weather and shipping delays) then the hot water heater at my gym broke too!

It was a miserable week of “showers” with the teapot and towels, it was subzero temps (FML). I’ll never take a hot shower for granted again, strangely I’ve been lump free for the most part since this post though, so maybe they helped?