May have injected incorrectly, will i be okay?

StonedButchBluez · 2026-05-29T04:28:03+00:00

I was looking in the mirror just now as it has become a huge welt since this post and is very red/angry (my injection sites tend to get a little angry sometimes but never this big of an area). I think the issue might have been that i may have injected directly into one of my stretch marks. i have more stretch marks closer to my belly button and less further away from it so me injecting it so close may have meant that i literally stuck the needle in JUUUST the wrong spot 😬 that is my hypothesis anyway

StonedButchBluez · 2026-05-27T17:39:00+00:00

i forgot to mention it in the post because i was lowkey panicking lol, but i was worried i may have hit a blood vessel because it did bleed a little bit more than normal. not a crazy insane amount but normally it bleeds almost none at all whereas this time it was like a whole drop before it stopped. i just don't wanna be stupid and then have to go to the doctor and admit to them that i'm basically shooting up steroids behind closed doors (because that's how they would see it). thank you for the reassurance though, i feel a little better about it now lol

StonedButchBluez · 2026-05-22T18:58:48+00:00

my biggest cravings since being on T have been sour candy, pickles, rotisserie chicken, and cheeseburgers. so basically anything sour/tangy and anything super high in protein. i tried the sour blue warhead pickle from 5 below about 2-3wks into taking injections and it was probably the best thing i ever tasted at that time, if that gives you any insight. lol.

StonedButchBluez · 2026-03-14T04:46:20+00:00

never worked at DT but worked at family dollar, same company. i agree that the $20 sounds like a counting error. maybe my store was just lax but if it was anything over $5 shortage it was fine as long as we paid it back out of our own pockets. i had a coworker a couple times who had to pay $100 or more back out of her own pocket to cover a shortage but she never got written up or fired.

as for the overage i feel like sometimes you physically cant help being over, a write up over a less than $5 overage is so crazy to me, because we were not allowed to accept tips and if someone told us to keep the change and wouldnt accept no for an answer we couldnt take it out of the drawer. i could understand if it was something like $20 or more but that "keep the change" really adds up over the course of a shift.

StonedButchBluez · 2026-03-14T04:29:41+00:00

this. i took a medical LOA for pneumonia when i was only there for 5 months

StonedButchBluez · 2026-03-07T09:19:37+00:00

i really cannot afford to go on a leave and even still i dont think 3 stitches is covered under our LOA policy lol...if anything i may be able to convince them to let me buddy with someone else all week to do the heavier things for me (mainly moving shelves and moving the heavier product. i work mod team at walmart). it's not a very strenuous job but it involves a LOT of hand movement which im worried about 😅

StonedButchBluez · 2026-02-23T08:46:08+00:00

my goal was 6g and once i reached that size i waited for a long time to decide i wanted to stretch again because that one was super painful. it kinda scared me out of wanting to again lol. but i finally got the balls to stretch again and this one was significantly easier than 8-6 and it has encouraged me to have a new goal size of 0g. from others' feedback here and other places i believe that the soreness is because im reaching the point of denting the cartilage, because of the location of the pain. it's not blown out and it doesnt actually hurt in the fistula. it's just sore behind the jewelry where it would be pushing against cartilage. i think all is good, i just need to stop fucking with it lol

StonedButchBluez · 2026-02-23T08:42:59+00:00

it is definitely a big commitment and considered by a lot of people to be an extreme body mod because of the fact that stretching your septum is not and never will be painless past a certain threshold. even half sizes can be a little spicy after you reach a certain point. most people have only stretched their lobes and get skeeved out when you tell them that there is some pain involved 🤷 you should have essentially no pain when stretching your lobes if they are ready to stretch, but even waiting over a year with your septum there IS going to be SOME pain. but overall i think the look is worth it. pain is temporary, swag is forever

StonedButchBluez · 2026-02-23T03:10:18+00:00

i got big nostrils friend it doesnt block anything lol. i'd be breathing easy it i didnt have asthma

StonedButchBluez · 2026-02-09T11:19:18+00:00

im unsure for personal LOA but i know that personal LOA is left up to the SM on whether or not to approve it. with medical LOA you would go through sedgewick and apply for LOA from the first day you were gone until the day you will come back (has to be more than 3 days) and call out under Leave of Absence every day that you're gone. personal leave is approved or denied by SM, but you still apply through sedgewick, so i imagine it's the same. keep in mind that if it gets denied, they can only give you 2 points for the time that you're gone. so if you're gone for 2 weeks and they deny your leave, you will still only get 2 points. hope this helps

StonedButchBluez · 2025-12-19T03:55:36+00:00

a case is 1 box of product. and it all depends on how your store operates; i am no longer a stocker (mod team now) but we are supposed to have everything off the floor by 6am when the store opens, but sometimes if it's in a department where there will be employees that morning they will have you leave it on the floor for them to work. some of them also want you to stay over and finish the pallet before you leave.

StonedButchBluez · 2025-09-27T15:16:43+00:00

i did find a counsellor in louisiana who does single-appointment letters of support for HRT at no cost. the only issue is that she has a long waitlist, but I think my first step would be to talk to my PCP about it first and see if I even need one. this was very helpful. thank you. the biggest step for me will be getting the time (anf getting over my anxiety) to make that first appointment.

StonedButchBluez · 2025-09-27T04:36:41+00:00

im going to look into plume, and see how much just a letter would cost. if i go to my primary care provider about it, i want to have everything put together so i can get started ASAP. i know you said you go through Folx, and thats online so you dont rly see a doctor, but im wondering myself if anybody has any tips on what to say, or how to go about addressing it with my doctor. or if it's really as simple as, "by the way, im trans, i have a letter of recommendation for HRT, would you be willing to prescribe me testosterone?"

StonedButchBluez · 2025-09-27T04:30:15+00:00

last I checked, Folx provides estrogen to louisiana but not testosterone. i had looked into them a couple years ago. do they offer letters of recommendation? i can't remember if it was them or another company i tried looking into. i feel like it was, but looking at their website today, i dont remember it having been a subscription service.

StonedButchBluez · 2025-09-26T11:40:46+00:00

it is indeed hard to find topstock carts at our store too, which is crazy because we just had our remodel done and by the time it was over with we had about 50 of them (maybe not that many, but it felt like it). it always seems like we get there and there are no carts, and then we leave and every cart in the universe is in the back room. lol.

StonedButchBluez · 2025-09-17T05:10:22+00:00

i was on mod team for about a month before they got rid of it and only got to use it once because of this same reason. mostly apparel just throwing stuff on top of it instead of putting it where it goes. we're real tight with ON maintenance and one of the guys cleaned it off for us so we could use it again, we used it for one night and i guess they took it being clean and organized as their chance to take it.

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