How to Inject Peptides

Your peptide arrives ready to use — no mixing, nothing to prepare. It's completely normal to feel nervous before your first injection; almost everyone is. Take your time, follow the steps below, and you'll be fine. Your prescription tells you your dose and syringe size, and your care team is one message away.

Before you start

• Keep it in the fridge. Your peptide is compounded just for you and shipped cold — the fridge is where it lives between injections.
• Take the vial out a few minutes early. Fridge-cold medication stings a little more.
• Wash your hands, then lay everything out: vial, insulin syringe (the size on your prescription), alcohol wipes, gauze, and your sharps container with the lid open and within reach.

The injection in five steps

1. Draw your dose. Wipe the vial top with an alcohol wipe. Draw up to the mark your prescription gives you — getting this right is the main thing. Tap the syringe so any bubbles rise, then gently push them out.
2. Clean the spot. The belly is easiest — a few centimetres from your belly button, a different spot each time. Wipe outward in a circle with a fresh alcohol wipe and let it dry.
   
   
3. Inject. Gently pinch up a fold of skin, slide the needle in at the angle you've been shown, push the plunger slowly and steadily, then let go of the fold.
   
4. Finish up. Slide the needle out, press gauze on the spot for a few seconds, and put the whole syringe straight into the sharps container. Never recap the needle.
5. Log it. Note the date, dose and spot so you can rotate sites, then put the vial back in the fridge.

Message the care team before your next dose if

• Redness bigger than a coin, or redness that keeps spreading.
• A hot, hard or painful lump that doesn't settle. A bit of soreness for a day is normal.
• A fever, chills or feeling flu-like within two days of injecting.
• You think you've drawn up the wrong amount — don't inject extra to make up for it. Message us first.

Where to get your supplies

We don't sell injection supplies. You'll need three things, all available from pharmacies and Australian medical suppliers:

• Insulin syringes
• Alcohol wipes
• A sharps container

Used needles never go in the household bin — return your full sharps container to a pharmacy or council collection point.

And if you just want a hand, message us — we're genuinely happy to talk you through your first one. The first one is the hardest part. You've got this.