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the thing is there's not much point in autoclaving or otherwise sterilizing everything before you put the estrogen in because the powder itself is not going to be perfectly sterile (hence doing it after, cooking the entire finished vial at once) 120+C is a bit safer, but with the addition of benzyl alcohol I'm not extremely worried. I did consider getting a lab steam sterilizer (purpose built pressure cooker) but decided against it for at least the first batch. You can't go too much past 130C iirc because it starts to affect the estrogen. I appreciate the concern and it's a good PSA I suppose, but as much as possible any risks I've taken were done soberly and with awareness.
But yeah if anyone else is going to do this I guess I'd advise doing the oil or pressurized steam method not just boiling water. That wasn't really the point of my comment and I should have left it off. See my other comment for notes on needles.
with my cishet ignorance and your trans aware knowledge we've spread info to the universe, good job us m i rite
The other thing I remembered was that the heat may make the benzyl alcohol more effective against spores:
But yeah, higher temp better really (and if you can't do that, then boil longer, 1hr or 2 separate intervals of 30m), I don't mean to justify my laziness too much. This is also my first go at injecting things, but between friends who've gotten HRT from their doctors and reading on the internet I think I'm doing okay
oh cool yeah that works then. I don't know anything about benzyl alcohol but if it's killin' them spores at a lower temp and also injection safe then that's p. cool
Yeah higher temp always kills things better but the important thing is if limited to boiling temps to use multiple boiling intervals. I think we re-boiled at shorter intervals in my micro class but 30 minutes or more sounds better imo, let them spores think they're safe then GETTEM lol
well keep up the good work and keep doin' okay