Trimix injections.......Oooouchhh!!!

Not sure what I am doing wrong. Trimix is the only thing that works for me. And it works great. 100% for as long as I want. But it really hurts to get the shot. I am using a 30 guage and I feel the needle and the medicine burns for a couple minutes. Several people on here say that it doesn't hurt at all. My pain tolerance is very high so when I say it hurts, it hurts. Any thoughts from anyone?

It may be where you are injecting. My uro pointed out that there are nerves running the length of the penis at 3 & 9 o'clock. If you hit those, you may be pulling that syringe out of the ceiling. Mine showed me where they trace so that I could avoid them.

30 gauge is about as thin as you'd want. There is smaller, but my uro and pharamcist refuse to give me those, believing that they would be too easy to break off (yet another risk).

It is not painless for me. You'll get some burn from the alcohol prep if you don't let it dry just a bit (my uro's nurse said to be sure and use the 7x% alcohol preps rather than the 9x% out of the bottle, lest you just add more opportunity for burning. I have the same thoughts about those who say "nothing to it". I don't agree, but there is a good trade off there.

Thanks for your thoughts guys.  I'll definately try your suggestions.  My wife injects me too and feels so bad that it hurts me.

Bill

Forgot something that may help - my pharmacy provides a kit with standard syringes with a 27 gauge needle attached (yeah, use that to inject, you'll remember it, trust me on that), and a 30 gauge needle "extra".

The scheme is this -

Use the first needle to pierce the top of the vial.

Draw the dosage into the syringe and remove the needle from the vial.

Remove the 27 ga needle from the syringe, and replace it with the 30 ga.

Use the 30 for the injection. (It is a little harder to push through the liquid, but hurts less.)

I was a little perplexed by all that, and did some searches on nursing sites to see why they do that. It seems that just pushing the needle point through the rubber top dulls the point significantly. On the professional nursing sites they discuss this as a very important thing to do for patient comfort, especially for intra-muscular injections, but I can see it helping here too. The issue for me is that the more complicated the process becomes, the more stressful it becomes.

I don't have a whole lot to add to the discussion here except to say after 4 years of trimix it doesn't hurt at all, and I think that is just cause my body just got use to the sensation after awhile, cause it hurt like hell at first even though the dosage was about the same. My procedure, take vial out of fridge, roll it around in your hands a minute or two to get the three chemicals into solution, then draw it up in syringe, 31 gauge, 5/16 inch is perfect for me. Then roll the filled syringe in your hands for a minute or so to warm up. Sit on the floor, pull junior straight out and then one quick push on either side to get needle flat against surface of junior. Then slowly inject into junior, takes about 30 seconds. Then take thumb and press on injection site and count to 60, 5 times in a row. Junior should wake up. I dont use the alcohol pads anymore, i guess i should to prevent infection but I don't bother. I think the most important part is just limiting your dosage to the minimum to get a usable erection with stimulation from partner. That''s about it, I sure wish I didn't have to use trimix anymore, but I obviously had nerve damage from my "nerve sparing" surgery and oral meds do nothing. I am in the unlucky 50% after surgery that need help. Hope you do fine with trimix....

Blue,

I did have one batch of Bi-Mix that I got from my supplier where it did give a good amount of burning on each shot. (The kind of burning where you gotta really massage things vigorously to get rid of the burn!).

I talked to him and he send another batch and that one was fine. Something about the amount of buffering added to the solution to make it PH Neutral.

So you can check with your Pharmacist and ask him. Not sure what you would ask, but let him know it is giving you a burning sensation and could he fill another order. More money for sure -- and I doubt they would replace it for free like my guy .. but they might.

J