FWIW, SubQ injections are pretty much completely unnoticeable in terms of pain / feeling at all. It’s more the mental barrier of doing it to yourself but once you’ve done it for the first time you soon realise it’s fine.

The actual doing it seems wild/absurd, but I don't think that would hold me back.

This is ignorant/uniformed, but, taking research chemical by ingestion feels like I have some natural barriers still. Where-as I feel like there's a much more raw exposure to risk with injection. Also there's dumb risks like infection, if I don't attend well enough to injections.

In spite of these protests, I think you are probably much closer to the truth here. Thanks for writing. These reactions I have are, I suspect, not really significant.

Counterpoint: Don’t inject yourself with stuff you found on the internet because people on the internet told you it’s ok.

Steroid users do it all the time and I haven’t heard of steroid users dealing with infections much.

I'm sure its because most people aren't going to talk about illegal drug use and when it goes wrong.

There are tons of online places where people openly discuss steroid use like r/steroids and many oldschool phpbb-style steroid forums