I'm having trouble buying hrt and I'm not sure what syringe I should use to draw from a Vial.

2 days ago by FermiComics to c/mtf

Long story short I'm a twenty year old trans woman in an extremely transphobic third world country so I have to diy- HRT.

I previously was able to buy HRT and ship in to my country around January this year but three month in it started leaking so I had to throw away the vial. I suspect this was because I was using the wrong sized drawing needles.

Now that I'm trying to get access to HRT again the site I was using to but crypto (Binance) is now telling me its unable to accept my card, google pay isn't working and due to where I live doing a back transfer doesn't seem possible. Ive already tried getting a new card it does not worse.

What course of action can I take to get hrt? and what Size syringe should I use for drawing in the future?

Entertainmeonly 9 points a day ago

Use a 1ml syringe. This has proper dosage markers. I'm assuming you are taking somewhere between 0.075ml to 0.2ml a week. Draw with no bigger than a 20gag needle. 22 to 25 works well. I like to inject with a 29 to 31 needle but at 31 you need to really push the plunger down fairly hard. But at 29 i don't really feel the needle go in much. Thats a big bonus.

Remember to use new needles and syringe every time. Also swap needles from draw to injection to stop a painful injection. Just pushing a needle into the rubber top will bend the tiny tip enough you'll feel it. Try to poke the vial in a different spot each time. You can often see previous poke points. I like to go in a spiral around the edge. This helps to prevent leaks and helps prevent rubber becoming lodged in the draw needle.

Side not, alcohol swab the vial top before draw and swab the injection location before you poke yourself. This is just good sterile hygiene.

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azalea_flower 3 points 2 days ago

If the vial's rubber stopper developed a big enough hole to start leaking you should probably consider using a smaller drawing needle, transharmreduction has a good page for how to prevent this (here). I do subq injections so I use very small (insulin) needles in the first place, not sure if this is the best way to do it, I've only drawn 5 times, but I doubt I'd have issues with coring.

I can't really help much when it comes to crypto, but other people on here might be able to.

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irotsoma 3 points a day ago

Can't help with getting meds, probably, but I use:

  • 18 gauge, 1 inch long luer-lok needles for drawing
  • 23 gauge 1.5 inch long luer-lok needles for intramuscular injection
  • 1ml luer-lock syringes

I use estradiol valerate 20mg/ml solution so I only need to inject a few tenths of a ml but you may need larger syringes depending on how much solution you need. Also, the valerate solution I use is moderately thick.

In general, thinner solutions you can get away with thinner needles and thicker solutions need wider needles. And generally you want wider needles for drawing both to make it easier and to more daily eliminate bubbles.

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Chakravanti 2 points a day ago

Monero is the ONLY private currency.

Not in and by itself without the proper platform. FOSS all the way and strip anything and everything off two FOSH boxes/slabs; like Librem, Some Thinkpads (Go old; like Core2Duo X200 to avoid chipspection hardware; Like RMS does), custom iykwyd building C2D, crack an i5/i7/+ cracking ME off, or near two decade old AMD chip before PSP spy-subchip chipsets.

Ditch wifi all wifi components without having at least 3 FOSS systems. One connectable to manage your Monero. Second to handle broadcasting without the actual monero keys put into it.

On the third handle all wired movements from an active to a connection it handles and spies on yourself for every bit of data in and out censoring anything and everything that isn't explicitly approved permission via wireshark or better FOSS.

That's the only way to know your Darknet activity is not being observed close enough to know you before you know you are being attempted to be spied upon.

GPG, encryption, VPN (Mullvad accepts Monero directly), & NO systemd (Slackware)

i2p/TOR/etc. can find you any kind of dope you want and shit you didn't know was real yet. Test&Est on many markets, easy. Check the forums there before you trust a market and be very tight on the level of trust you never have to give a market.

I know someone that got the cops knockin' on their door, carrying the package in question, looking for a shitty vendor. Twice. No problem but probably because they weren't a vendor too. And they thought they were a clever jackass but no stamped history of convictions; though several equally strange scenarios dodged and not by snitching either. Ostensibly, sure. I knew enough to say so with surety but not trying to deal with them either way so I can't say it from that kind of surety experience, personally, though.

Still, enough to say, the inability to know anything because of FOSS over a meaningful target when they couldn't lay shit on even them, regarding packages they hadn't opened.

You get good enough at this and find yourself highly suspicious of your environments suspicion on yourself, find a friend to receive packages. There's more but, meh. That's more than even I bothered to learn for...other reasons.

Gl and if you get that far or near it, I could tip you on more but you're probably better to just ignore me and go tech-research. To understand true FOSS sake because that is the Golden Aeon of living any minute in the future without this planet becoming Arrakis very fucking soon. Frank well detailed how the original book on buying bells was missing a zero to that prediction/plan/revealed.

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FermiComics 6 points a day ago

this was alot of cool information but im just looking for Estrogen not hard drugs and black market organs. Hrt isnt even illigal in my country they just dont sell it and no one is going to take a trans persob seriously here for me to get a prescription. Im in that weird place where my culture is so anti lgbtq that they basically know nothing about it trans people are just gay with extra steps and the average person doesnt even know trans people take hormones instead of just cross dressing. getting a knock on the door for drugs is the least of my concerns im more likly to get beat to death for being cuaght wearing a dress or kissing a guy.

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Chakravanti 1 point 20 hours ago

Nationalism is Fraud unless it candidly admits that it is and fully and openly defines it's own expiration and purpose. Though it can be requiring education to be able to understand an essence's own definition. Legality is literally approving some Capitalizm/Nazi/Fakommunism/etc./etc. that is always literally just stealing from your neighbor. Every time. Doesn't matter.

Governments are charades promising protection but they are always a pyramid scheme of murder, thievery, & death marketing. Sure, maybe they trick suckers into thinking they aren't when they will be bar the already stated exception of self definition. The mind may not be a deceptive troll and continue to live. It is literally the definition of moving the other direction.

This is how, and why, you are what they all mean by hero (even though every one of those expire in reality of being the notion). You will not, if you choose to continue learning and thus living.

Ask a Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. That Martian didn't make the Raiders disappear any more than Carl Sagan made Oak Street disappear.

Psychic isn't a trick to control someone that understands how to think without ego. It's a joker play on those who don't do the logic of living with self-awareness and meaningful choice at any level without the egocissim directing bicameral stupid spinning.

Hiding isn't fear for the self when one discards fear and uses paranoia practically to mind map into strange for emulative empathy that opens useful paths to people don't notice the door is right in front of them.

Privacy is most beneficial to the consciousness around you once you learn how to read and develop the ability to understand within yourself and those around. That cannot ever be one way and not the other. If you think it is, you're missing something.

Dissociation is key to murdering one's ego every day for very meaningful thought being a basis for any choice. DXM was my key choice in developing self awareness to be able to not take offense when people are helpful. Especially when they actually try otherwise because then they actually can be helpful without respect to their intent! It's also a Psychedelic translator as well.

I stand with Raoul Kerr, No Flag, & Bloodywood. Seen them twice, got backstage pix, sigs and the Rakshak Kali Tour T-Shirt. That man is the only person I have ever heard say literally anything and everything carrying my %100 solid, not just agreement, but thorough respect at how rapidly and precisely declaring and giving the most true heart and love I have ever heard anyone ever said, by orders of magnitude.

I do have an "Independents" Flag outside my place. If you're familiar with Firefly, then you may get that that is literally a Heath Ledger Joker level mockery of the notion of "Flags" the way he burns a stack of cash bigger than the 9/11 towers in the other direction. I hang that for exactly that reason.

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tracelr402 1 point a day ago

what is chipspection hardware?

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Chakravanti 1 point 20 hours ago

It's separate part of core computer chip that literally spies, broadcasts logs, and does it without you being able to see it happen unless you know how to watch it happen. Hence the separate watcher box to log all network traffic within your own LAN circuit.

AMD PSP & Intel ME

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sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper 1 point 9 hours ago

For injections, it's worth thinking about the specific ester and preparation you're injecting. Commercial estradiol valerate, for example typically uses a thicker oil than a lot of DIY, which often uses thinner MCT oil. For example, with commercial EV, I had to draw up with like 21g or larger and inject with 25g. With DIY estradiol enanthate using MCT oil, I draw up with a 25g and inject with either 27g intramuscular like 29g subcutaneous. There's a fair amount of trial and error, but so long as you can draw up and inject without hurting yourself or your vials, you're doing okay.

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