I already use the individually packed ones. I'm not the OP. Was just thinking a pack of cotton you keep touching is less sterile, but I supposed that's irrelevant since the alcohol kills any issues anyway.
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Elektrobot
Member
The prepackaged ones aren't wet enough for me
I like my alcohol swabs the same way I like my women...... dripping in chemicals that kill any and all bacteria .
bananafeet
Member
This post had me so paranoid and tripped my OCD that badly I literally threw out two drawn syringes before finally being happy with the 3rd one.
I think I swabbed the area 7 times. Fuck.
I think I swabbed the area 7 times. Fuck.
Most likely your cruddy practice of not using alcohol to sterilize or maybe your gear got contaminated from not swabbing the top with alcohol. Probably a combo who knows. If your worried about the gear send off a sealed vial to Jano for sterility I did with some and both came back positive for fungus/mold.
WinnerTakesAll
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Definitely not a Looksmaxxer. Look he says he's been pinning roids for a year. That's typical millenial/Gen X roidcel behaviour. We run short cycles, we are not trying to become ugly, bloated and bald
danny91t
Member
bro lol. was thinking of pre filling syringes for the week but i got some OCD after this post too
lol, thank you, for writing this to a woman...
Elektrobot
Member
You wouldn't happen to be bathed in a blend of bleach and alcohol would you?
Ateam2023
Member
Geez if you can't do basic antibacterial cleanliness before you inject with needles I can imagine how you live , do you brush your teeth lol , wiping before injection with alcohol is like basic injection practices 101 , I guess you're lucky you haven't gotten an infection, you better thank God or whoever you believe in ..
I want to share the story of Staphylococcus epidermidis.
This species is a bro. It's all over the skin, like the name suggests. It prevents colonization by other organisms, helps maintain healthy skin chemistry, and even trains the human immune response. Like almost all microbes that have some health effect, most strains are neutral (or beneficial) while a tiny minority has the potential to cause problems. In fact, it's so benign that people with central venous catheters or PICC lines frequently have asymptomatic bacteremia -- a silent Staph epi population in the blood that's not doing a darn bit of harm.
Still, it's the second leading cause of injection site infections. Why?
There's a fuckton of it, and it's everywhere. Ten thousand to ten million cells per square cm, all over your skin. If you wash and swab with alcohol or iodine, you drop the concentration but it's never zero. All of us here have introduced this into organisms IM or subq a gang of times, but the statistics are on our side. They're on our side unless you routinely make bad bets, that is.
The upshot: you cannot avoid introducing bacteria to yourself, you can only stack the deck in your favor. Wash, swab, keep needles covered before use, use clean ones, etc. This is devastatingly easy to do and being this fucking lazy can kill you.
This isn't even harm reduction 101, it's that class they make kids take the summer before 101 because they get word from the last teacher that you drool a lot.
This species is a bro. It's all over the skin, like the name suggests. It prevents colonization by other organisms, helps maintain healthy skin chemistry, and even trains the human immune response. Like almost all microbes that have some health effect, most strains are neutral (or beneficial) while a tiny minority has the potential to cause problems. In fact, it's so benign that people with central venous catheters or PICC lines frequently have asymptomatic bacteremia -- a silent Staph epi population in the blood that's not doing a darn bit of harm.
Still, it's the second leading cause of injection site infections. Why?
There's a fuckton of it, and it's everywhere. Ten thousand to ten million cells per square cm, all over your skin. If you wash and swab with alcohol or iodine, you drop the concentration but it's never zero. All of us here have introduced this into organisms IM or subq a gang of times, but the statistics are on our side. They're on our side unless you routinely make bad bets, that is.
The upshot: you cannot avoid introducing bacteria to yourself, you can only stack the deck in your favor. Wash, swab, keep needles covered before use, use clean ones, etc. This is devastatingly easy to do and being this fucking lazy can kill you.
This isn't even harm reduction 101, it's that class they make kids take the summer before 101 because they get word from the last teacher that you drool a lot.
