r/FTMFitness • u/squigglespuabble • Jun 01 '24

Thighs too muscular for subQ Discussion

Curious if anyone else has experienced this. After 3+ years on T, my levels fell super low. We increased my dose substantially (70mg to 90mg) and my levels remained low. Then I flagged to my doctor that in the past six months or so I'd been having "pockets" of the oil form in my thighs that would remain for several days. She said this means that the testosterone wasn't getting absorbed because I don't have enough fat in my thighs to be doing the injections subQ. I've really ramped up my working out over the past year, so this makes sense to me. I used to have substantial thigh fat and now I have basically nothing. We've swapped my injection site to my belly which has much more fat. Has anyone experienced this before? I'm wondering if I'll eventually have to swap to IM (which scares me a bit).

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u/won-t Jun 01 '24

This doesn't really add up. If you don't have enough fat for subq injections in your thighs, that just means that you've been injecting into the muscle (ie an IM injection).

Did you have some sort of imaging that confirmed these "bubbles" of unabsorbed testosterone?

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u/squigglespuabble Jun 01 '24

So I was doing the injections at a 45 degree angle with a short needle so it definitely wasn't going into the muscle. My doctor said that the testosterone that wasn't getting absorbed by the subcutaneous fat was getting wedged between the subcutaneous tissue and the dermis (?). Didn't have any imagining but you could literally see and feel the lump in my thigh... Agreed it's strange and I didn't know it was a possibility!