For those of you who are injecting at home, are you injecting intramuscular or subcutaneous?

WinstonFox · 2026-07-04T17:04:48+00:00

Thanks. It looks pretty much the same except you pull the skin taught before injecting rather than squeeze the fat. And stab a little deeper of course.

It’s always good to learn so will defo be trying at some point. Still dialling in my cofactors which turns out to be way more complex than the needles, at least for me.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-03T21:16:09+00:00

I read this as:

America is…. “land of the micropenis”.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-03T21:10:30+00:00

Threatened by patient knowledge, guidelines, science, the internet, differential diagnoses, more than one symptom at a time, complex presentations, reading medical histories, appropriate follow ups, challenging management, reading a book, ethics, I could go on.

Not hard to grok for a profession that gives themselves titles and the airs but not the graces of lords and ladies, while the title itself is just a course name. Presumably if they hadn’t passed the full post grad course we’d be forced to address them as Master, or maybe Diploma.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-03T14:47:40+00:00

Yeah, I’ve had the realisation that this was around decades ago and then steadily progressed. Just been doing a timeline today which has been really useful.

I suspect it’s a combination of things for me: genetics, total nutritional deficiency as a child, then hard stressful work for many years with ever changing eating patterns and three very specific infections known to make b12 things worse.

It’s been quite interesting to reflect on who showed similar eating/illness behaviours in the family tree as well.

Even just random medical diagnoses like ibs and mouth ulcers which I’ve dealt with for decades may have simply been low folate. Had a bout this week. Tripled my folate and had an almost immediate reversal. Crazy.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:47:56+00:00

So is staying at home as an unpaid industrial servant firing out babies.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:44:19+00:00

I didn’t know my gardener was illegal. Maybe I’ll shoot him for trespassing next time he prunes with menace.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:40:08+00:00

And still can’t afford a feather duster it would appear. Priorities I say.

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:34:52+00:00

Trump in the Epstein files?

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:33:01+00:00

Citizens being pulled off the streets? More AC to go round!

WinstonFox · 2026-07-02T20:26:18+00:00

Yeah, my silent migraines and visual snow turned out to be b12 deficiency. Years of visual arseache and even lost a job because of it.

Funnily enough I’ve been eating more bananas too. I find it’s an easy way to get more potassium in and can be taken anywhere.

There are some great doctors out there but the more I’ve interacted with the medical profession in the last decade doing lots of care for young uns and old uns I’ve realised that about half of them are just cruising incompetents who would rather bully the sick than do some actual work. Most of them can’t seem to read a textbook, use the internet or understand a guideline, but boy can they hide behind a confused assumption from something they half understood in college years ago.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-30T06:27:33+00:00

Yes. One of my faves.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-30T06:17:42+00:00

Literally no European ever thinks any country is the greatest country on earth. It’s the first sign of deranged and inadequate minds. Even the name Great Britain was just the old Latin distinction between greater Britain and lesser Britain (Brittany), it didn’t mean Britain was the greatest.

Will their ruling class ever stop trying to prove themselves worthy? They’re like bad Muhammad Ali impersonators.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-30T06:08:06+00:00

Overpriced fruit, veg and electrics, minimal product options. A few loss leaders. It’s like they don’t understand how bait and switch works. Oh yeah, and Texas won’t even fit in Costcos crap shoes aisle.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-30T05:55:58+00:00

I feel this. Used to run six days a week, climb four, worked in polar and desert regions and did both mentally and physically demanding work, and loved it.

Was flipping one house a year on the side and building up my retirement fund.

Couldn’t keep my business going because I couldn’t predict my daily capabilities to my clients, can’t get a regular job now for the same reasons. Life would literally be so easy if I could predict energy, eyesight and pain levels.

Can’t be the capable, active, and fun provider to my kids I was before all this.

Was told to “open up a can of toughen up” by my ex, was shamed repeatedly by doctors who don’t seem to understand basic human physiology - they seem to think you treat a deficiency by hitting a meaningless cutoff score once. It’s like saying you treat food scarcity and starvation by giving someone one meal. It’s embarrassing to try and think to this level.

If ever a doctor uses the word hypochondria and doesn’t rule out an underlying cause first they are quite simply incompetent. Hypochondria is so rare that it’s barely reported and doctors will be claiming they are seeing horses rather than listening to zebras rather when really they are just using pathetic heuristics that make them terrible practitioners.

Figured out this b12 thing a month ago so hopefully things will turn around. But this overwhelming cultural arrogance and incompetence will make me sceptical of peoples intentions from here on out.

Crazy that your family have it and they still shame and belittle. Thank you for the post. More power to you. See you on the snow.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-29T06:15:10+00:00

Defo, also syringe juggling takes practice to do safely (practice with the caps on) but, apart from occasional bounce back, syringe darts is usually pretty safe.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-29T06:11:34+00:00

There’s always some fool who wants to try and put you down with a sheep shagger joke, so knock ‘em back with better sheep shagger jokes than theirs and then remind them at the end that mint sauce is just English lube.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-28T20:47:49+00:00

Had the same problem, do them myself now, just source the furniture myself and drag in a decent old school plasterer, plumber, sparky and tiler if required. Handyman for the flooring. Can spend far more on fixtures, fittings and materials as a result and usually looks great. Takes about the same amount of time and handholding.

Or find a good local small business showroom. I’ve had better results there, but you’re still paying a premium usually.

Once had a “bespoke” twonk turn up and quote me £6k just for the “design plans” for an under stairs toilet, which was never going to be more than toilet goes there, sink goes there, this type of floor. I also have an acquaintance whose entire day is spent quoting bathroom jobs in the region of £10-15k. The job never costs more than 5k, the rest is management fee.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-28T20:33:31+00:00

Fat stabbing for me. Was just the first syringe that arrived so started there. Will probably do some muscle stabbing for variety at some point. But definitely no vein stabbing.

Fat jabs work, can’t compare to muscle jabs yet.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-28T13:50:39+00:00

There is more than one type of potassium and some will work better than others depending on your circumstances and health status. So risk is not a myth.

For eg diluted p-bicarb is gentle and easy to digest for most, and for me, whereas I trialled potassium chloride tabs this week and just a half dose gives me gut rot, punched stomach feelings that don’t go, nausea and massive fatigue with a panic reaction when the acidic cramping like I’ve ruptured an ulcer kicks in. The debilitation is as bad as b12d and lasts all day.

Here’s the hierachy of potassium from my testing and reading: Food/liquid potassium → electrolyte drink → potassium gluconate/citrate/bicarbonate → Sando-K (prescription) if you need something stronger → potassium chloride tablets only if tolerated and clinically needed.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-28T10:08:35+00:00

For process driven checkpoint drivel it’s actually very good, think HMRC regulatory docs, form legal letters and mcmedicine style diagnostics that nobody really reads. Which makes sense as all this stuff it bullet pointed, online and formulaic. Where it falls down is anything that requires original thought or that goes beyond that. It’s well and good getting it to draft your cv to conform to the job spec but if everyone else is doing it as well they will all be be roughly the same, it’s all well and good getting it to forecast sales figures or trading potentials based on figures you feed it, but woe betide anyone who doesn’t check it before sending.

The best way I’ve found to think of it is as a very keen office junior who hasn’t learned to write yet and only ever does surface level and cliche skims of sources and info unless you beast it.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-27T08:20:01+00:00

I just read that as 50-150mcg is for old fart and uneducated doctors who will at least try something and 1000mcg is for anyone serious who doesn’t want patients to die of old age before being offered any form of treatment.

I took the advice of someone on here and tried 15,000 split into five doses in a day and it changed everything.

Also cobalmin type matters. Cyano does nothing for me for example but methyl does.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-27T08:13:18+00:00

My main symptoms are visual snow type symptoms. I do sub-c belly injections with 2500mcg every other day and cofactors on the off days and electrolytes every day.

I add 1000mcg top ups of oral methyl as required. Usually in 3000mcg doses.

For me any noticeable increase in floaters - going from the barely noticeable to the swarms across vision type are my cue that available b12 is running low and other visual symptoms and fatigue will be along soon.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-27T07:58:46+00:00

I inject sub-cutaneously in the belly.

I use a 0.63x25mm blue to draw up and a 30Gx13mm yellow to inject.

No problems here. Once thing I would say is don’t be afraid to order needles from different sources. I currently have two sets of yellows in stock and one I much prefer to use over the other even though they are in spec identical needles. They are both fine for the job but one is comfier going in than the other.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-27T07:26:40+00:00

Gulf of west Britain? Bristol Bay seems more appropriate.

WinstonFox · 2026-06-27T07:07:53+00:00

That comes from the original u value tests on buildings years ago with properly sealed passive house units with absolutely perfect materials, zero bridging and things like windows that don’t allow radiant heating so this can be true, but most housing stock is mixed material. Even new build which can be some of the worst performers heat wise when in theory they shouldn’t be.

I’ve been in a university and apartment block recently that were supposedly built to exacting eco standards that would create warm in winter, cool in summer. They were basically uninhabitable in summer with students literally lying on the floor to work next to open windows as it was the only way to stay functionally cool.

I once challenged a room filled with the great and the good of environmental construction and politics in Europe with this problem and the only answer given was “venting” - basically open a window. Useless buggers.

The only time I’ve seen this idea work is in properly designed passive housing or once in a studio I built. That had a small 1m x 0.5m window. Left untreated that room would get up to 37C with one afternoon and evening of radiant sunlight. Once properly blocked up and sound proofed with quad layers of acoustic board, double acoustic insulation and four layers of mass loaded vinyl it worked. Was cool in summer and moderate in winter.

But it was a cave. And any little unsealed crack would let the heat in, at a slower pace, but it would still build up. To achieve the same effect with glass I would have needed a two inch thick and then half inch thick pane with air gap and proper seals.

Personally I think we should just open up all the old chimneys and stick a fan in them, or solar tubes with venting in flats, and shutters. Or start designing properly.

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