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10/29/09
Are you pacing across your living room, contemplating the injection you need to give yourself this evening? You’ve gone online, done the research, planned a cycle, ordered and picked up your steroids, and unwrapped everything in the privacy of your home. Now comes the hard part. Everything you’ve been taught your entire life has taught you NOT to puncture your skin. You have a built-in defense mechanism against things that make you bleed. Now you are being told you have to pierce this skin several times per week in order to get these steroids into your body. Here are some tips for ensuring you don’t make any mistakes
Do:
Sterilize your needle
A little alcohol can go a long way in helping you to avoid infection. Clean your materials every time.
Have a buddy around
You don’t know how you are going to react with your first injection. Some bodybuilders will panic when they see blood, and faint on the spot. This might lead to slight embarrassment, if your girlfriend walks in to find you sleeping on the floor with a needle sticking out of your exposed rump. Or it could be much more serious, if you fall and crack your head open, and are able to bleed for several hours without detection. Your friend doesn’t have to sit in the bathroom with you as you puncture your glutes, but he should be nearby – just in case!
Practice
It may sound silly, but injecting water into a banana a few times will prepare you for the actual needle plunge which will be much more stressful when it’s your own thigh or rear end accepting the needle!
Don’t:
Re-Use needles
This is perhaps the number one reason why so many new steroid users become ill, developing an abscess or fever within a few weeks of starting their cycle. Often, they will chalk it up to “bad gear” and throw away their steroids after only 2 or 3 weeks. Not only do they fail to wait long enough to see if the steroids actually worked, but they squander their resources of time and money for the efforts required to get their hands upon those steroids in the first place!
Flush your needles
Think it through before you take the easiest possible route and flush your needles. Where do they go? Into a landfill? The ocean? Even worse, do they end up in the septic tank underneath your back yard? Realize that this will have to be emptied one day, and when it is, there will be consequences!
Recycle your needles
Yes, you consider yourself a “green” bodybuilder in that you always save your papers and plastics and maybe even drive a hybrid. This is great, and Mother Earth appreciates your efforts. However, placing needles in a recycle bin is a sure way to stab an unsuspecting recycling plant employee or end up with law enforcement at your door.
Throw away anything in your own trash
If you are under investigation for steroid use or sales, your garbage may be searched at any time without a warrant. Don’t giftwrap the case against you – throw away your needles elsewhere – and safely.
