anyone use the same needle to draw and inject?

[wayneboard1]

Hey Wayne---are you saying that you go thru a rubber stopper and clean the top.......then you hop in the shower, take a shower, then clean the dart and inject spot......


Holy shit bro.....Simply wipe the top of the rubber stopper with alcohol----DONT TOUCH THE PIN---put it directly into the stopper---shoot your air into it, turn it upside down, draw out what you want----Now tap your skin a few times and wipe with alcohol-----now stick that pin in there.......


thats it---very safe.....

I never touch the pin with anything except with an alcohol swab. My procedure is as follows.

1) I get all my gear out and clean the tops of the vials, each gets its own alcohol pad to swipe with, and then the fresh needle gets an alcohol run down as well. I then let them both air dry for a minute or so, inject air into the vial and draw out what I need. Then I go take a good hot shower while my gear is sitting on my heating pad getting warm. Again, the needle is suspended in the air not touching anything. When I get out of the shower, I wipe the injection spot with 2 alcohol swabs in a circular motion from the middle of the injection spot outwards to move any possible contaminants outwards away from the injection spot. I then wipe the needle again with another alcohol swab, eliminate any air from the syringe and let about 1 drop of gear drip down to lube the needle. I then slowly inject the needle in a twisting motion to pierce the skin, aspirate, inject all the gear at a rate my body will accept it, then quickly pull out. I then wipe the area I just stuck with another alcohol swab and massage it and then sit on a heating pad for awhile. I put my sticks in a sharps container and will throw it all away when it is full. This procedure is what a good friend of mine (a nurse) told me is the best way to do a clean stick. She said that either not touching it at all or only wiping it with alcohol swaps in an upward motion towards the end of the stick is the safest way to do it. WHile a good needle manufacturer is safe 99% of the time, why not clean it to make sure? I trust her advice and it has worked for me. I realize this will seem like overkill to a lot of you but thats ok. I have learned from a good source how to be as clean as possible and after reading what an abcess might feel like, no thank you. It will also sound like it takes forever to stick, but it really doesn't take long at all anymore as I get faster and smoother about it as times goes on.

 

[glover]

Always. I use 23g for draw and shoot. Never had any problems or pain. Throw it away always never reuse.

If you think your going to dull through a rubber stopper just sharpen with your sharpening stone then sterilize. Maybe try a grinder could possibly get that thing down to 25g without even changing over.

 

[trying2grow101]

i draw and shoot with 20 g 1.5 in my legs or ass then i have to shoot again with 1 in 23 g in my shoulder syringes aren't big enough for everything but anyways still no infection

 

[digimon7068]

I used the same needle to load and inject only once. Hurt like a bitch; I will never do that again.

Me too. All the scraping around on the bottom of the amp seemed to make it pretty dull. Almost needed a hammer to pound the damn thing in. . .not good.

 

[digimon7068]

I never touch the pin with anything except with an alcohol swab. My procedure is as follows.

1) I get all my gear out and clean the tops of the vials, each gets its own alcohol pad to swipe with, and then the fresh needle gets an alcohol run down as well. I then let them both air dry for a minute or so, inject air into the vial and draw out what I need. Then I go take a good hot shower while my gear is sitting on my heating pad getting warm. Again, the needle is suspended in the air not touching anything. When I get out of the shower, I wipe the injection spot with 2 alcohol swabs in a circular motion from the middle of the injection spot outwards to move any possible contaminants outwards away from the injection spot. I then wipe the needle again with another alcohol swab, eliminate any air from the syringe and let about 1 drop of gear drip down to lube the needle. I then slowly inject the needle in a twisting motion to pierce the skin, aspirate, inject all the gear at a rate my body will accept it, then quickly pull out. I then wipe the area I just stuck with another alcohol swab and massage it and then sit on a heating pad for awhile. I put my sticks in a sharps container and will throw it all away when it is full. This procedure is what a good friend of mine (a nurse) told me is the best way to do a clean stick. She said that either not touching it at all or only wiping it with alcohol swaps in an upward motion towards the end of the stick is the safest way to do it. WHile a good needle manufacturer is safe 99% of the time, why not clean it to make sure? I trust her advice and it has worked for me. I realize this will seem like overkill to a lot of you but thats ok. I have learned from a good source how to be as clean as possible and after reading what an abcess might feel like, no thank you. It will also sound like it takes forever to stick, but it really doesn't take long at all anymore as I get faster and smoother about it as times goes on.

Damn! And, I thought I was meticulous/detail-oriented.

 

[wayneboard1]

Damn! And, I thought I was meticulous/detail-oriented.

Yeah I know it makes me sound like a anal retentive freak, but it's just second nature now. I jsut do it and go. I want to be as clean as possible, better safe than sorry!

 

[Devastation]

i draw and shoot with the same pin ALWAYs

 

[ass_face]

I never touch the pin with anything except with an alcohol swab. My procedure is as follows.

1) I get all my gear out and clean the tops of the vials, each gets its own alcohol pad to swipe with, and then the fresh needle gets an alcohol run down as well. I then let them both air dry for a minute or so, inject air into the vial and draw out what I need. Then I go take a good hot shower while my gear is sitting on my heating pad getting warm. Again, the needle is suspended in the air not touching anything. When I get out of the shower, I wipe the injection spot with 2 alcohol swabs in a circular motion from the middle of the injection spot outwards to move any possible contaminants outwards away from the injection spot. I then wipe the needle again with another alcohol swab, eliminate any air from the syringe and let about 1 drop of gear drip down to lube the needle. I then slowly inject the needle in a twisting motion to pierce the skin, aspirate, inject all the gear at a rate my body will accept it, then quickly pull out. I then wipe the area I just stuck with another alcohol swab and massage it and then sit on a heating pad for awhile. I put my sticks in a sharps container and will throw it all away when it is full. This procedure is what a good friend of mine (a nurse) told me is the best way to do a clean stick. She said that either not touching it at all or only wiping it with alcohol swaps in an upward motion towards the end of the stick is the safest way to do it. WHile a good needle manufacturer is safe 99% of the time, why not clean it to make sure? I trust her advice and it has worked for me. I realize this will seem like overkill to a lot of you but thats ok. I have learned from a good source how to be as clean as possible and after reading what an abcess might feel like, no thank you. It will also sound like it takes forever to stick, but it really doesn't take long at all anymore as I get faster and smoother about it as times goes on.

Why are you touching the needle at all? The needle is sterile... by cleaning it, you are taking a chance of actually making it unsterile. Also, this nurse friend sounds stupid. All those in the medical field I talked to said not to touch the needle. But if it hasn't hurt you yet... keep on going.

BTW, I always use a drawing needle. Usually 19 or 20 gauge. The needle I inject with gets the sheath removed seconds before injection.

 

[krishna]

I always draw and shoot with the same pin. If for some reason the needle has gotten dull, I can tell before it breaks the dermis, then I switch the pin. Look at needtogetas. He draws and shoots with a big ass pin. That crazy mofo. Really no big deal at all to draw and shoot with the same pin.

 

[Razorguns]

Let's not be too paranoid about having to "re-sterilize" the needle.

Hospitals and doctors just take it out of the package and stick ya. They do it millions of times a day. Why should we be more paranoid???