clysmaniac (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:55 pm I can't help but be a bit skeptical about castration levels of testosterone being achieved with a minimal number of injections. My experience was with hundreds of injections. While I didn't keep track of individual injections, I was on my third box of 100 syringes by the time my doctor OKed my surgery. For the most part I did 1 1/2 ml injections in each testicle or 3 ml each session. I used just over half a liter of 100 proof vodka during a 8 month period. So lets figure 550 ml of vodka. I never wasted any so any vodka remaining in the syringe after an injection session was always returned to the bottle. So if I divide the 550 ml by 3ml doses, math says there were about 183 injections. It was then that my PCP doctor discovered that my testes were much smaller, very hard and much higher in my scrotum. He sent me to a urologist and after that I started using Everclear for another 2 months. I had near-daily injections then and probably used 20 syringes of the 3rd box or 37 injections of Everclear. That would be about 220 injections in total.
I'm guessing that this was most likely overkill as far as the injections go but once they're destroyed, additional injections won't hurt. And it got to be a habit that I did miss after the testes were removed. I had neither the swelling issues that some have had nor pain/discomfort lasting more than a couple minutes after each injection so maybe my situation was different.
Out of curiosity.... did your injections hurt? I keep hearing that some people (usually those claiming to have castration with few injections) have little to no pain. At first I had mild/moderate pain but after about 10 injections the pain has gotten horrible. I am lucky that I have access to lidocaine and marcaine so I do a block first, but even then after about 30 min the pain is bad. I wonder if it is a genetic thing that some of us have harder nuts to crack then others!!