I am about to take the "plunge" in the next few days but very nervous about my first self-injection. FYI, the urologist is prescribing Quadmix after Cialis and Viagra only seem to get me to 80% and only for a minute or two .
My Urologist gave me a choice of injecting myself or letting him do it while at his office. I should have pushed myself to do it, but I could not see very well and opted to let him do it. Over the past few days I have practiced trying to get a a view good enough to see visible veins but my stomach is too large. The doctor suggested using a mirror but that does not help a great deal. I could have my wife help guide me if needed but I would prefer to make the process less "clinical" for her.
Any suggestions for a good view when the view is obstructed by stomach? Or perhaps should I give up wanting to inject solo and have my wife guide me ?
I see a few past posts in this forum about "plumping". Is that a safe thing to do? My uncircumcised penis when flaccid is a very flaccid 2 inches. A worn out 70 year old penis, very hard to see anything . However I am usually able to get it to 5 inches with about 70% erection without any medication or pumps. . So is getting a semi erection in order to see better safe ?
My urologist injected a "test dose" of .20 He returned to the room after 25 minutes and assessed that I was "about 50% errect". That was correct but it was in the confines of his office. While he was out of the room , with the help of some self stimulation I was probably round 80% . The urologist advised that I try .30 at my first attempt at home. That makes me a bit nervous since most articles I read suggest only going up in .05 steps . I worry that going from .20 to .30 in one step might be too much since I can get about 70% for a minute or two with any medications. FYI, about 35 minutes of the .20 test dose I was totaly flaccid. So that .20 had no real lingering effect.
Also, despite watching several videos and reading a number of articles , I am still confused about a couple of steps in the injection process. Most articles I have read talk about the 10 or 2 o'clock injection concept. However the diagrams with a full clock, with a 12 at top and 6 at bottom confuse me. Would I be correct in ignoring all the full clock diagrams and just go with a 10 and 2 concept like we do for hand positions on a steering wheel? Locate the "middle third" and then 10 and 2?
Next questiom is the injection angle. Most articles say hold the syringe at a 90 degree angle , however many of the videos or images seem to show less than 90 degrees . To confuse me even more, one clinic's video said inject at a 45 degree angle. Also, some articles suggest avoiding the 3 or 9 O'clock position but isnt a 90 degree angle going to be awfully close to 9 or 3 ? If I am looking down at my penis and manange to see well enough to locate a vein free area, should I be inserting the syringe at the 2 O'Clock point and inject at a narrower angle that 90 degrees ? I guess another way of asking questions about angle of injection would be to imagine the syringe as a spirit level when injecting at the 2 or 10 postion , would the bubbles on a level indciate it is "plumb" .
Of course, the very next one I watched said 11 or 1 o'clock, another said 9 and 3 o'clock. The advice here has helped my not get too carried away with this detail. 
) I have decided I will not go from .20 to .30 of Quadmix in one step, even though my doctor recommedned this after my test dose. I'll go to .25 and see how that goes.
