I have the same experience. In fact you put so much force that when the skin finally brakes Iām always scared Iāll stab myself all the way through 
Turns out thereās enough resistance that that doesnāt happen but that little release always feels weird.
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Mine was resistant slightly under the skinā¦ guessing the fascia layer or something
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My bet is they got hung up on the back side of the bevel. Thatās because skin was collecting in the hollow as the needle was going inā¦ this is the whole bevel up versus bevel down thing in action. If thereās plenty of lube and the point slides in easily, but you get hung up right at the backside then itās definitely an issue of skin getting caught because the bevel is upā¦ though going beveled down takes a lot more skill and practice to get it right without piercing back out through the skin from underneath.
Generally, the best approach is to insert the needle up until that point, then make small twisting motions to rotate the needle just a few degrees in either direction while applying pressure. This is usually enough to work the skin out of the needle hollow enough to finally let the entire bevel slip under the skin.
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Just doing a bit of a twist can really help get the bevel under the skinā¦ especially with these large gauge needles
https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/review-of-dangerous-things/11652/92?u=amal
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How many installs (back to back) can a needle holdup?
Everytime it blunts the edge worse and worse on a microscopic levelā¦ so I donāt think itās recommended more than onceā¦
You could makes get away with 2 or so if your doing them at the same timeā¦ anything else and why bother trying to reuse and dulled and dirty needle when they are cheap
Thereās a cool infographic about hospital hypdoermic needles dulling, Iāll see if I can find it
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What poor S.O.B. got that 6th jab?
Ouch.
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Gel or cadaver maybe
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Yeah, he did use the lube, could not say if bevel-down or up tho, canāt quite remember, could also be that I didnāt look at all. He said something about it being sharpened only on one side or smth, but Iām not a needle expert, so I got lost in the jargon he used.
Random shot in the dark,
Anyone use a sleep mouth guard that adjusts your jaw for snoring?
āMandibular advancement deviceā
Iām interested in using one, pretty bad sleep apnea in combination with an underbite so the idea looks nice on paper, but god I read some bad experiences that scares meā¦ moving teeth, loosening teeth, causing TMJ issues etc
Itās also clearly a shill heavy industry, so I canāt really trust any reviews or info because they all reek of paid advertising
But then again the people satisfied with something are rarely the ones shouting from rooftopsā¦ idk
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Iāve been mouth taping for about a year but thatās to control my snoring not necessarily apnea
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@ODaily for the longest time I thought your profile pic was the head of a hairy blue dog or rabbit looking to the right
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From a while from a distance I thought it was a blue baby yoda lol
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Itās a beta fighting fish thing.
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Same! I just realized that itās a fish.
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Yeah. I had to go check because I thought thereās no way itās a fishā¦
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WTF is wrong with you guys?
What size is you screen???
also, you do realise you can zoom in on a profile pic
Yaā bloody weirdos
Itās clearly Sid (aka Cookie Monster)
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Yeap, thatās how I checked once @Az_F mentioned that it wasnāt a dog of some sort.
Wait, thatās me IRL! And yes, I am willing to give up cookies for the certainty of steel.
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