Hi to anyone and everyone reading this -
 
Took a few months to slowly yet surely research melanotan II. So here i finally am, Friday Nov. 5th, 2010, typin' away at my very first user log post. I will try to make this interesting and informative for whoever's out there.
 
Some preliminary info:
 
-I am a middle aged male. I guess my skin type - on a scale of one (burns easily) through four (doesn't burn/tans easily) is about a three to a three-and-one-half. I don't burn too often unless it's on a fast-tanning sunbed, then i might get a bit red (which i don't mind). I usually lay out for three hours in the actual sun during the summer when i'm at the beach and don't burn, maybe a tiny bit red but won't peel.
 
-Was VERY VERY hesitant about shooting anything. Good God, I HATE(D) needles (more on that below - VERY GOOD NEWS). It might be of note that i am a recovering drug addict - it will be i think 14 years clean & sober for me on January 1st, 2011 and the whole time i used drugs i never shot anything up because i hated needles so much. They freak(ed) me out. Injecting anything was the biggest turn-off and that's why i think i waited so long to start melanotan II. But i had to think of my skin. I like to be tan, especially in the summer. Some white people look great with pale skin, i do not. I look way better with a good tan. Now, i don't think i'm 'all that' by any stretch of the imagination - i know i am a bit on the skinny side (especially for here in gluttonous Ohio) - but i work out, do have a pretty decent body and LOVE looking at myself naked when i have a really good all-over tan!!! It just makes me feel totally sexual, i am a Scorpio and i love that feeling. (Hey-now!)
 
-Tanning beds will eventually wrinkle your skin. The sun will do the same, but at a slower rate. As i said before i am middle-aged and i can tell a bit now that my skin has been affected by tanning, especially by tanning beds. No, not a lot. But enough i can notice. Very tiny wrinkles are starting. They say the faster a tanning bed tans, the worse it is for your skin. I agree with that 100%. Tan enough and your skin will prematurely age/wrinkle. Period. Not-to-mention the risk of skin cancer.
 
-No, i'm definitely NOT and never have been an every-day tanner - that to me is just pure psycho (-it is!!!) - but in the summer i'll go to the beach on any available weekend for a few hours and when it's not beach tanning season i go to the tanning salon usually once a month, sometimes twice, year round. So when it's not summertime i tan just enough so i don't get pale.  
 
- There is something else to consider: No tan lines when you use melanotan II!!! Not that i have any most of the time anyhow, but there are no nude beaches here in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area by where i live. However, i do lay out nude sometimes (to avoid tan lines, plus i love laying out naked) down a couple of beaches when i can - when nobody is around - but it is illegal/VERY risky and i know if i get caught it will be an indecent exposure charge, if not something even worse. (Not good at all!) Also, i don't wear much anyhow when i can't lay out naked (g-strings/see my avatar), and i always think to myself, "Why in the hell can't i just be naked?!? It seems only natural to lay out like that.... WHY CAN'T I?!?" It pisses me off i can't just do it legally down the beach. I mean, COME ON. So sometimes i do, but it's not the same when you have to always watch for people in case you have to cover up so you don't offend them, or risk getting busted by the police. I don't lay out naked on the beach in full view, you have to actually come by me to see me. I don't mind people looking at me naked, but these are not nude beaches and i truly/honestly don't wish to offend anyone.
 
I just want it all tan, baby!!!
 
I found a place about 35 miles or so from where i live called Green Valley. It's a legal family nudist 'camp,' for lack of a better word. Don't get the wrong idea, it's not a swinger's place. It's nestled somewhere in the woods of Medina, Ohio. Lots of trailers. A really nice pool and Jacuzzi to lay out naked at. $32.00 to go there each time (i don't mean to sound cheap, but i think that's a bit high).  
 
I have no sense of direction WHATSOEVER, so about a year ago i bought a GPS. I've gone to Green Valley a few times now in the summer & i love it there!!! I absolutely LOVE laying out naked, it is one of the few perfect things to me in life.  
 
'Naked is the way God intended me to tan.' (-Tell THAT one to the judge, right?!?)
 
I hope i didn't babble too much, but all the above info figures into the tanning process.  
 
To me - if i really think about it, it is extremely goofy that people even do this to themselves (make their skin darker), but i guess than i am one of these goofy people!
 
Okay, enough background info.
 
After researching all over the 'Net about melanotan II i bought a kit from http://www.tansolutions.com/. There are many places to buy melanotan II. When i first joined this website i wanted to find a solid supplier, but there aren't really any listings for it here because i think they said then you just get a zillion suppliers just posting for their websites, so i emailed and left a post for a VERY popular person who supplies people here, who shall remain nameless. I waited and waited. He never answered my PM nor my post (douchebag).  
 
So i put it on the back burner and got a PM from someone a few weeks ago that mentioned tansolutions.com. I didn't know for sure if this was someone who worked for them or not, so i asked, and they said no (.......).
 
I then googled tansolutions.com to see if they had any complaints and came across a post by someone on this website. Actually, i think i might have ordered first (-???), THEN googled to see if they had any complaints. Wrong way! lol. I can't remember for sure, my memory is terrible (ex-pothead).  
 
I posted a few times to this person and also PM'd her. She has been MOST helpful (thanks, girlfriend!!!), answering all my stupid questions. She ordered from the same place i did or was thinking of, so i said what the hell, why not give them a try? Let's get the show on the road!!!
 
I ended up ordering this:
 
TanSolutions 50mg melanotan II Kit:
 
http://www.tansolutions.com/products/melanotan II/tansolutions-50mg-melanotan II-kit.html
 
And a few days later ordered this (-i should have just ordered them together):
 
Maintenance Needles 100 pack:
 
http://www.tansolutions.com/products/administering/100-pack-1cc-maintenance-needles.html
 
-You might also want to order some extra sterile water. You will also need extra alcohol prep pads which you should probably be able to get at just about any drugstore. (I need to get some more!)
 
Really great directions on how to inject:
 
http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/patient_education/pepubs/subq.pdf  
 
Excellent mixing and dosage directions:
 
http://www.tansolutions.com/mixing-dosage-injecting.html
 
My first injection was Thursday morning, November 4th, 2010. I was nervous!!! JUST LOOKING AT NEEDLES MADE ME QUEASY. (Note: 'Made me queasy,' past tense.) Guess what? I've injected myself twice now and i don't mind telling you at all IT'S A PIECE OF F*CKING CAKE!!! It really is!!! No, i'm not being sarcastic and/or exaggerating at all! On a scale of one through ten, ten being the most painful thing imaginable, it's is WAY WAY low, like about a one, not yet even a two. IT'S NOTHING!!! I cannot believe how easy and painless it is to do.  
 
Needles are not like they used to be when i was a kid. The needles i bought (see above) are - as far as i know - the same ones diabetics use. The actual needle is super-thin, not long at all. You just inject in an area right under the skin (NOT in the muscle) where there is some fat. I have a pretty lean body so i just sit and try to find something on my stomach.
 
SIDE EFFECTS:  
 
When looking at various people's posts here, one of the first side effects was nausea. So in order to try to bypass the nausea thing i inject right before i go to bed in the morning (i work 3rd shift/sleep during the daytime.) It's kinda like taking a sleeping through a long plane ride, this way you don't have to deal with what you don't want to deal with. You cheat, in a way. So so far no nausea, but i'm only injecting .2 mg which seems like practically nothing in the syringe to me. It IS almost nothing. But that's how you start. It is like literally a few drops of liquid.
 
SIDE EFFECT, PART II
 
'HEAT SEEKING MISSILE?' (lol)
 
For those interested in the sexual aspect of this, i'm gonna say yes melanotan II has made my you-know-what you-know-what, but since i am in bed sleeping (and this happens naturally anyhow while most men sleep) i cannot say how long the erection thing lasts after taking the injection. By the time i'm awake - about 6 hours later, give or take - it seems almost normal. But when i'm sleeping and wake up on and off, yes, i am aroused (hey-now! lol). I don't have any problems getting it up but years and years ago when Viagra first came out i was totally curious and asked my doctor to give me a sample of it and he wouldn't do it (as*hole), so tell me no and i want it twice as bad. I ordered some off the Internet, just to see what it can do. I ordered a generic version of Cialis, which lasts a lot longer than Viagra.  
 
It was nuts how easily you get aroused on that stuff!!! OMG!
 
I will let you know how affects me more sexually when i inject more of it at a time, if anyone is interested. Right now i will say it does give me a boost. To be perfectly honest there is a girl i work with i am totally in love with and every other time i think of her when i'm home "it" seems to happen to me anyhow (-it's true!), so i should add that in.... I know they are thinking of marketing melanotan II as a Viagra-type drug, so that's why i am mentioning this. (I'm not trying to be a pig.)
 
I think i do have a bit of a loss of appetite also, but i should also state that i'm currently taking a drug called 'Provigil,' which is for Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD) and that does decrease my appetite also. -Just for the record, Provigil is for people who work 2nd and 3rd shifts who may sometimes get sleepy while working. It keeps you up..... No, not THAT way (lol!). I mean it keeps you awake at night! I think it might be a derivative of some type of amphetamine, a low dose of it/not sure.
 
Okay, that's where i am now. "So far so good."  
 
Take care everyone and feel free to reply if you wish to do so.

first of all.. good work though it was quite a read haha
 
Quote from flossy666 on 11/06/10 at 00:04:10:

 
Agreed!
 
Quote from flossy666 on 11/06/10 at 00:04:10:

 
Agreed!
 
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keep up the good work

I noticed i'm starting to get some color in my face already. Good.
 
It says in the directions that after i mix my 10 mg vial with 100 units of water 'there is 1mg of melanotan II per 10 units, 100 total units of melanotan II.'
 
Should my first vial be on its way to running out then or no? I have been injecting so little at a time....
 
Tommorrow is only my 6th injection.
 
.2 + .2 + .2 + .5 + .5 + .5 = 2.1
 
Odd or no?

Hi -
 
I just injected again. It's going good for me. It's just my 6th day so i didn't expect much, but i can definitely see some color in my face. I tanned at a tanning salon a day or two before i started my injections, but only for like a good ten minutes (it had ben a couple of months since i tanned), so i think that is about 75% gone and the rest is melanotan II.
 
As i stated above, during non-beach weather i tan at a tanning salon only once or twice a month, so most of my color in the next few months should mostly come from melanotan II.
 
I haven't used any other melanotan II from any other place besides tansolutions, but i would still state here that their product seems VERY 'clean' to me, no problems at all. Yes, i would recommend it. And no, i don't surreptitiously work for their website (i worried about that when someone from here recommend their product to me).
 
Good luck!
 
P.S.
 
If anyone reading this wants to be friends on facebook - i know everyone and their mom seems to be on it - just PM me or reply here with your direct link.

Great post! Just wanted to chime in that I am a new user and ordered a 50mg kit from tansolutions as well. I live in Florida and I am in the sun frequently so I have had great results so far. I was a bit worried about the injections as well but I am lucky to have friends of mine that have been using this stuff for a while and showed me the ropes. I am no expert on this stuff in fact my friends told me where they ordered from so I did the same but I have no complaints with the product thus far. I have noticed that some moles I have have darkened and I was told that is to be expected, as for side effects I inject before I go to bed and it seems to be the way to go.

HI everyone -
 
I think i'm about on day 10 or so, did my first 10 unit shot last night. I look like i went to the beach for a couple of hours. I'm definitely getting to be the color i want to be, about 60% of the way there... give or take.
 
Haven't tanned on a tanning bed since i started this stuff. (Still just once or twice a month for that.)
 
I really like it. I also really like telling people about it, i LOVE the whole shock factor!!!  
 
"I'm doing tanning INJECTIONS."
 
"No, you don't get a prescription for it. It's NOT approved by the FDA or any other government ageny i know of."
 
"Well, it's kinda experimental."
 
I work with a lot of black people, and doing this really freaks them out.
 
"He's crazy!"
 
-until next time -

November 17th, 2010:
 
Cut back to about .7 per day.
 
-Perhaps i shouldn't call the brown dots i'm getting 'moles,' as i did above. Are the are actually called freckles? I don't know.  
 
They look like someone took a brown Sharpie marker and 'dotted me up.'   I had some before using melanotan II, but am getting many more now, don't like it. This is definitely a undesireable side-effect.
 
-Still getting some blue pigmentation on my lips.  
 
Besides that, melanotan II-wise, everything else is fine.  
 
P.S.
Do they make melanotan II that comes in a non-freckling formula? They should!

You are way over dosing in my opinion. All the signs are there.

Too much melanin is produced and not enough is oxidized.

Didn't inject for the first time in about 19 or 20 days this morning. Face is dark enough.  
 
I will probably be injecting every other day for awhile from now on/not sure.... Perhaps every three days.... About .4 at a time, give or take. It's hard for me to get a really accurate reading on the amount cuz it's such a little bit.