This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Post #118 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.
Pinching a fold is useful for lean tissue and unnecessary elsewhere. The point is to keep the needle out of muscle, and whether you need to depends on the site and on you.
Where I part company with post #120, and it is a narrow parting.
Needle length matters less than angle for subcutaneous delivery in most people. A short needle at ninety degrees and a longer one at forty-five put the material in roughly the same place.
This is the sort of thing the wiki should carry and currently does not.
Adding a small correction to the pinch summary above rather than a disagreement with it. The substance holds; one of the figures is out by a factor that matters.
Adding a data point of agreement rather than a data point.
Post #125 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
If you have to inject at a different time of day than usual, that is a much smaller perturbation than it feels for a weekly compound with a week-long half-life.
Injection discomfort: comes from needle gauge (finer = less discomfort), volume (smaller = less discomfort), temperature (room temperature or warmed is less uncomfortable than cold), and technique (smooth, purposeful injection is less uncomfortable than hesitant). All four are under your control.
Reading it back, the second half matters more than the first.
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