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or nah

I try my best but I do forget many times. Haven’t had any issues yet.

TwoStep wrote:or nah

Well think about it....
Ask yourself, would I want to get an infection in my dick?
So why not use an alcohol swab...just to be on the safe side.

Just saying,
stmfttr

I got taught to alcohol swab the injection site, and the top of the bottle too.

frwmw1 wrote:I got taught to alcohol swab the injection site, and the top of the bottle too.

Same!

frwmw1 wrote:I got taught to alcohol swab the injection site, and the top of the bottle too.

Yes, both the injection site and the top of the vial. In fact, my uro directed using one wipe for the vial and a second wipe for the injection site. And, backing up a bit, thoroughly washing my hands before starting to stage things for the injection.

When i first started, around 2007, for the first few years i didn't, because i didn't know that "prepackaged, single use" swabs existed. I couldn't bother to carry around a bottle of alcohol and cotton pads etc to do it.
Then, later on my wife thought about it and said "why don't we try to buy some of those medical pre-made swabs that diabetics use?" or something like that, we looked up on Amazon and found out there are packs of 100, relatively cheap. And since then i've been using these, cause it's easy enough, cheap and you can carry quite a few with you without them being a burden.

Hunchback wrote:When i first started, around 2007, for the first few years i didn't, because i didn't know that "prepackaged, single use" swabs existed. I couldn't bother to carry around a bottle of alcohol and cotton pads etc to do it.
Then, later on my wife thought about it and said "why don't we try to buy some of those medical pre-made swabs that diabetics use?" or something like that, we looked up on Amazon and found out there are packs of 100, relatively cheap. And since then I've been using these, cause it's easy enough, cheap and you can carry quite a few with you without them being a burden.

Considering you've been injection for about 16 years now it seems you got lucky to get no infection not swiping with alcohol. Is it 100 percent neccessary maybe not but like you said with those little cheap swipes there's no reason not to.

I always use a single-use swab to wipe the injection site before injecting. I also wash my hands and penis first, better safe than sorry.