Thread: USHCGinjections...Mixing instructions? (Help)

Originally Posted by anneq

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNVeWwiDGo Did you mean this video?

It's correct, you do not receive an empty sterile bottle.
You inject the prescribed bac water into the vial with the dried HcG (being as careful as you can not to disturb the hcg powder too much.
And yes, use the alcohol wipes they send with your kit to disinfect the top of the vials.
I know you're nervous about getting it right - but I'm sure you'll do fine. I used them in both my rounds and did great.

Thank you, Anne....I appreciate your help!
Feel a big outbreath now!

Thank you both for your help. I think I failed my "first day at Hcg School."

I have to say that I think I probably messed this up, though I followed the instructions as posted on
the informational website of the company. The biggest problem was that it was not made clear about
the vacuum in the bottles...! That is what I was trying to say about things being "vague" and that there
were a bit more involved steps in between, small problems that could crop up.

These are the problems I encountered...

Mixing:

They told me to hold the needle when drawing the water, or the water would get pulled back into the
vial. That was not a problem. Sorted.

When I went to put the water "carefully so as not to disturb the powder" (this was the only instruction
in the video) ...as soon as I put the tip, the teeny tip into the rubber stopper, before I could even angle it to avoid the powder...the water went WOOSH into the powder! Oh, dear. The vacuum had drawn the water in completely into the center of the powder. I am now thinking that the solution is ruined. Is it? ( I still went ahead and used it.)

Injection:

I drew the solution as described. There was a huge air bubble that was not apparent till I took it out. I was supposed to draw the solution to the 17 mark, I had the needle in the bottle and when I took it out...there was the huge bubble. I got rid of the bubble by first, tapping the injection tube gently, nothing. It was not really a bubble, it was more of an air gap near the top of where the needle goes in. So I pushed on the
plunger, got rid of the air bubble and ended up with 14 of solution instead of 17. At that point, I was out of the vial (as I said) and did not want to put the needle back into the vial because of possible contamination.
(I am guessing here.)

I got to the actual injection of the solution...that was so easy and painless. Totally
painless...for anyone wondering about the injection. That was the easiest part of the whole process
and I thought it would be the most difficult.

Questions

(There are no instructions on the video to warn about how strong the vacuum is in the HCG powder bottle. Please be careful. Hold on to the plunger, tightly,as you insert that needle in or it will spray that water like a hose at a five alarm fire!)

1. Is my solution ruined?
2. Do you get rid of air bubbles while you still have the needle in the vial? Does that mean you can pull
the plunger in to get rid of air, tilt it and reload the little extra to fill the air pocket? This, again, was not
made clear.

I hope one of you can answer these questions.

I thank you from the bottom of my bacteriostatic water bottled heart.

Originally Posted by anneq

Rory;
I had the same thing happen to me the first time I went to inject the bacto water into the dried HcG solution - it went woosh, just like you said, lol. And no, my solution worked fine for me - my next round I knew what to expect, but like you, it really, really had me worried.

I never had a problem with air in the needle after I loaded it with the HcG solution but your way of handling it, if I understand correctly, sounds safe. By the way, I ended-up adjusting my amount to 15 instead of 17 like the instructions say - so keep that in mind if you experience terrible hunger , generally it calls for adjusting your dose down.

Anne...THANK YOU! I feel so much better knowing that I did not mess up too badly...I so appreciate
your response. Just did my second injection today and it was much easier (after dropping the first
syringe on the floor, just before loading it! lol). All best wishes!

Hello Anne,
I am starting tomorrow, R1....and my first mixing and injecting day! I understand what to do in procedures but....I bought from ushcginjections and they only sell hCG in 5000 i.u. and suggest only mixing with 5 cc/ml of bact. water. I think it should be 10 cc/ml of bact. water (and confirmed this in this forum. My question is this: will the additional 5 cc/ml of bact. water that I want to add (totaling 10 cc/ml. bact. water) fit in the 5000 i.u. hCG vial? It looks too small.

I was able to get the 10ml into the ushcginjections hcg for my 2nd bottle. My hcg bottle said it was a 12 ml bottle so the 10 ml bac water fit. It was a bit tricky though to get it in.

This video from Beth_M helped me deal with pressures in the bottles. Thanks Beth!!!!

Now she is using a mixing vial bottle that you don't have so you have to skip that part.(Remember you are using her video to learn about pressures so that the hcg doesn't squirt back at you when you try to mix it.) And she is talking about mixing the bac water and hcg 4 to 1 which you cant do since ushcginjections sent you those little bitty .3cc syringes. Another problem with those little syringes is that if your dose is over 150ius they will be too small for you to use. Hopefully that will not be the case for you. As I said in the other thread, it worked for me with my 2nd bottle of hcg because I knew that my dose was 125ius(250 units on the syringe). Hope this helps you and good luck.

Click the link, then scroll down a little ways til you see the video.
hcg mixing