mellytoninn (imported) wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 10:24 am hey guys, I've been thinking about injecting 60% NaCl 40% ethyl alcohol. I've read about hypertonic saline injections and it seems to work. However, I can't get my testicle removed due to not having surgeons here down to do it. (fyi I lost the other one in an accident) Do you guys think it's a good idea?
As a general rule, unless you are a medical professional w/ appropriate training, injecting ANYTHING is not a "good idea" - but looking at your profile location and knowing what I hear on the news (probably not all that accurate, but all I have....) I can understand how surgery might not be easy to get...
From what I've heard / read here, all of the various options for injections seem to have mixed results, with some having success, others not, and (the biggest concern) some having bad complications. Since all we know is what people say they did, which might or might not be accurate, it is impossible to tell whether the unpredictability is due to the chemicals used, or the methods used....
Also worth noting is that none of the injection methods will get rid of the testicle, at best they will end up shrinking it a lot. What a lot of folks did was use the damage caused by the injections to get a surgeon to remove the 'abnormal' balls... Which sort of brings you back to the question of finding a surgeon in your country.
However it does seem that the hypertonic saline approach is arguably safer than some of the other methods as it has less of a problem with damage caused by any leakage from the testicle into the scrotum or surrounding tissues. It MAY be less effective than CaCl, but should work if done properly.
If you do decide to go for it, I'd suggest the following -
1. DO NOT inject any alcohol you wouldn't drink, or other things you wouldn't be safe to eat.
2. Be careful to use proper sterile techniques / equipment - you don't want to give yourself an infection!
3. Carefully study the reports of those that were successful (and those that weren't) and make notes of what worked well, and attempt to follow those steps... If you can find any scientific studies that are relevant, pay special attention to them, especially things like dosages ant techniques.
Good luck, and keep us posted...
WheelyFixed