What needle length for my delts?

I use a 23GX1’ needle for both glutes and delts. No issues and I weigh 143lbs with an athletic lean build.
That will definitely cause quite a bit of scar tissue over time. Take it from me. I was using large gauge needles like you when I first started out and now I have bunch of scar tissue built up in my injection sites especially in my quads since it’s where the majority of my injections were back in the early 2010s
 
That will definitely cause quite a bit of scar tissue over time. Take it from me. I was using large gauge needles like you when I first started out and now I have bunch of scar tissue built up in my injection sites especially in my quads since it’s where the majority of my injections were back in the early 2010s
What do you recommend for delts and glutes? I don’t pin my quads.
 
What do you recommend for delts and glutes? I don’t pin my quads.
I’ve become a huge fan of the 27g 1.25 inch long for my glutes and the smaller 27g half inch for my delts and pecs. BD makes a 5/8 inch 27g needle as well that might be even more ideal for those injections but I haven’t tried them yet since I just push the needle base into the skin a bit more to get a little deeper into the deltoid. I was using the 1.26 min for my delts but I went too deep and hit a nerve a while ago and have been little gun shy about using longer needles in my delts since then.
 
I’ve become a huge fan of the 27g 1.25 inch long for my glutes and the smaller 27g half inch for my delts and pecs. BD makes a 5/8 inch 27g needle as well that might be even more ideal for those injections but I haven’t tried them yet since I just push the needle base into the skin a bit more to get a little deeper into the deltoid. I was using the 1.26 min for my delts but I went too deep and hit a nerve a while ago and have been little gun shy about using longer needles in my delts since then.
Thanks for the insight. I’ll have to give a 25G or 27G a try. I kinda thought they would be too small since 23G seems like a hard long pushing effort with just .4 to .5 ml.
 
Thanks for the insight. I’ll have to give a 25G or 27G a try. I kinda thought they would be too small since 23G seems like a hard long pushing effort with just .4 to .5 ml.
Warming the oil up prior to injection will help that process out quite a bit. What size syringe are you mainly using?
 
I can't believe there are 5 pages on this topic.

I use a Nipro 27g 1.25" for everything because that's the length of Nipro that's available. Currently at 2ml/day for which I use two 1ml syringes, because it's easier. A tip I saw on here was to make a spacer out of a needle cap, which I have done and sometimes use for the delts.

I warm everything before injection using this:

 
23GX1” 3ml syringe.
3ml syringes take a considerable amount of pressure to push oil through than a 1ml syringe. I used 3ml for my first couple cycles and heating the oil definitely sped up the process. Nowadays I’ll just hit 2 different locations with one mil each if certain compounds land on the same injection day as my test shots.
 
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