In my experience random boob pains tend to reduce or disappear with more stable hormone levels. As far as I know, you can have growth without pain, but I imagine certain growth stages will naturally give some random sensations of itching, burning or pain.
could sometimes leave tiny plastic bits from the seal
That’s called coring. If that happens, say your farewells to the vial. It can however easily be avoided if you use thin needles (23+ gauge (higher number is thinner), I use 30 gauge and have no problem drawing MCT oil with it even when the vial contains no benzyl benzoate, more viscous oils however will have a harder time) and always draw from a different spot (or random spot if your needle is so thin like mine, where you can’t even see where you poked the rubber in the past). (some people advise doing a 45º-switch-to-90º pucture technique, but I find it totally unnecessary if you are using thin needles and is just another thing that can go wrong, and I advise just doing 90º punctures). People from countries that offer injections for HRT (such as the US), I’ve often seen them being recommended 18gauge needles. Do NOT use 18 gauge needles for drawing, they are way too thick and unnecessarily raise the risk of coring.
What vial is stating a 28 day expiration date? If it contains an adequate amount of benzyl alcohol, doesn’t show signs of contamination or coring, and the oil isn’t too yellowish, the vial should still be good. They generally last on the order of years.
Honestly, I wouldn’t skip the dose as that would result in a drastic drop in hormones (the half-life of valerate is so shit anyway that you are going to quickly drop way down with your hormone levels), which may affect your mood, and would instead “gradually” reduce it by just starting to inject the new dose within the normal schedule, just with the lower dose (as @BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net also suggested): https://estrannai.se/#it0_cu,10,0,1-8,7,1-8,7,1-8,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1_,8,7,1-c,6,7,1_1.887 (you can see on this chart that with valerate you’ll likely quickly reach the point of equilibrium in a very short amount of time, making a waiting period pointless. This one shows what the curve would probably look like if you skipped a week: https://estrannai.se/#it0_cu,10,0,1-8,7,1-8,7,1-8,7,1-6,14,1-6,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1-6,7,1_,8,7,1-c,6,7,1_1.887)
Even if you were doing enanthate (which has a much better half life and thus would need a longer time to reach the new point of equilbrium), I would still go for the gradual drop, rather than the quick drop, because while doctors may portray it as an issue that requires immediate fixing, those levels are only harmful if held over a very long time.
Also, I hate how doctors measure mid-cyle. Trough IMO is more important, but I imagine if you got 1200 pg/ml peak, your trough will also be quite high.
Disclaimer: I used estrannai.se in my post, but I should clarify that it should not be used to predict the exact levels of hormones and more as a useful tool to visualize E2 curves.
Ah I’m stupid. XD
Thanks!
I haven’t been paying attention to the news lately. What is going to happen in 3 days?
Even when watching the tapes, you get too distracted with the ugliness of the tie to be able to focus on the face of the suspect.
I for some reason actually like making airplanes. I don’t attempt landing them though (always fly directly above where I want to land at a sufficiently high altitude, quickly decelerate and use a bunch of parachutes placed in such a way that I land with wheels first), and I kind of suck controlling them as I am using a keyboard which isn’t great with fine controls (so I never managed to do the barnstorming missions).