Tomorrow I will inject myself with a second dose of Testosterone Cypionate. Last week Thursday was my first dose. As a TLDR, needles suck, I didn’t experience any major side effects other than a bit of pain and itching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After years of trying to raise my testosterone naturally, through diet, training, supplements, and so on. I have finally accepted that perhaps I do need some medical help. I really didn’t want to become a prisoner of lifelong therapies, and I definitely didn’t want to have anything to do with injections. Anyone who knows me well knows that I have been horrified of needles since childhood, the thought of having to self-administer an injection in my stomach made me want to puke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet, here we are, one week later. Against all belief, I actually injected myself in the stomach. I was with the tech and I asked him, are you doing this, or am I doing this? He replied I would prefer if you did it because you will have to do it going forward. Up until that point, I wasn’t nervous and it was just a matter of fact for me. However, once I grabbed the needles and started to prepare the injection, that’s when the nerves hit. I was terrified like I said, childhood trauma. They used to strap me in with velcro on a board of sorts to give me injections and draw my blood. Yeah, trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, I’m a grown-ass man now, and despite that underlying fear, I followed instructions and did the deed. We can’t be fighting and throwing a fit at this age. So I stuck the needle in my belly fat and pushed the solution into my body slowly. You’ll find that the T is thick and oily, so it will offer some resistance and pushback, but you have to push slowly and steadily otherwise you can cause tissue damage. This means I had to endure this torture even longer while doing it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The injection itself wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t fun. After injecting it, the area where it was inserted hurt a bit. It wasn’t unbearable, but it was a painful sting. It continued to bother me for a while after. There was a little bit of blood, but a bandaid took care of that. Over the next few days, I occasionally felt discomfort and periods of itchiness. I did my best to ignore it and carry on with my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didn’t really feel any major results just yet, but my cardio sessions got longer and stronger. The resistance just felt easier so I have to put it up. Now this could be all in my head as I believe this takes a while to kick in, but the reality is that I had a much stronger session this past week. I’m also more inspired to train harder. My thought process is, if I’m putting this garbage into my body, I better make it count in every way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve noticed that I wake up with more morning wood and the erections are stronger. That could be due to a combination of things, but I think today was the most powerful ones I’ve felt in a while. It is still too early to really tell, but I am excited about things to come, and I hope they are good things. I’ve had a rough couple of years with fitness and injuries and I like to believe that I am due for some relief. This, along with physical therapy and BPC 157<\/a> are all parts of the long term plan. I’ll keep you posted on how things proceed. So far so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"