[decimon]

Ping

[freedumb2003]

“And THIS is for those all night study sessions and THIS is for the required graveyard shifts during nursing residency and THIS and THIS and THIS is for how the doctors talk down to us...”

[Ditter]

This is strange, I don’t remember ever getting a shot in the butt, it is always the hip or upper arm.

[mad_as_he$$]

Ping.

[ComputerGuy]

There’s nothing like getting a big slug of gamma globulin right next to your sciatic nerve - makes walking an adventure.

[MichaelP]

As a kid in the late 50s and 60s, every time I went to the doctor I got one of those double penicillen shots with a chrome syringe and huge needle in the tuckus. I hated going, because I just knew I'd get it. It did hurt something awful....

Mike

[ConorMacNessa]

In Hospital Corps School we were taught to inject in the upper outer quadrant of the upper outer quadrant well away from the sciatic nerve. Despite that, I once received an injection while in hospital that was dangerously close to the sciatic. Guess that corpsman didn't show up the day they were teaching about injections.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[savedbygrace]

I give myself B-12 injections and I prefer to NOT do intramuscular. Two reasons:

1) Less painful (I can use shorter needles to reach tissue, rather than muscle)

2) Effects occur more slowly over a longer time period

If I ever need B-12 uptake quickly, I do have a box of syringes with longer needles to do an intramuscular injection.

[keats5]

This must be a Canadian problem. I’m a nurse. I’ve never given, or have seen one of my colleagues give, an injection near the sciatic nerve. It’s always the upper outer quadrant.