Neat syringe disposal gadgets!

I almost forgot! You're also supposed to put in a little bit of bleach and shake it up before throwing it away.
 
Reading about sharps disposal reminded me of something a neighbor told me. She lost maybe 90 pounds about 18 years ago and has kept it off ever since. She was super happy when she heard that I've dropped ~30 pounds. She thinks weight-loss drugs are awesome, especially since I've been working to manage my type 2. It's so refreshing to hear positive opinions for once!
 
philly_gal82 said:
I recap and then put everything in a brown paper bag, inside another brown paper bag, along with alcohol wipes, empty pen shells, used vials, filters and nitrile gloves. When it's about half full I wrap it up TIGHT with gaffer's tape, then a little red biohazard tape, shove it all in an empty juice carton and write POISON on the outside, then wrap that in a grocery bag with some kitty litter. LOL I think I'm overdoing it.
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This is great. I'm stealing some of this! I'm always paranoid about disposal.
 
I've been using sema since mid-2025 and have lost about 55 pounds so far. Usually, I don't have any issues, but I had a rough trip recently. I've learned that the stress of travel can mess with your gut. All the changes to your schedule and hydration can cause problems. Now I take protein shakes and yogurt when I travel to try to keep things normal.
 
T2D here. Last injection was 12/20/25. A1C dropped to 5.4, lost 5 lbs since stopping. I spaced my doses out over 6 months — every week, then 2, then 3, then 4 weeks — before I quit. I also eat on a schedule, no random snacking. Planned snacks help me skip the emotional eating stuff.
 
just got snap8 and some botox. might use the botox for micro-needling first since sketchy is as sketchy does. been pulling from the bottle and dotting on my face and neck with a syringe. mixing it in a dropper bottle sounds cleaner. got a liquid radiance with ha already, gonna test mixes small-batch.
 
Lol. OP, look into ways to minimize filter waste. Air purge gets some back, a flush gets more, pre-wetting the filter keeps the most. You'll need more needles but there's ways to cut costs—like use a cheap diabetic syringe to pre-wet, buy LuerLok needles in bulk for like 6 cents each.
 
The needle-change-as-safety-measure intuition is backwards in practice - each additional manipulation of a sterile system introduces another exposure opportunity rather than eliminating one. The safest needle is the one that was on the syringe at the time of drawing and goes directly into the injection site with no intermediate handling. A second needle only makes sense if the drawing needle became visibly compromised.
 
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