[Carriage Hill]

The use a 60-80ga square needle to get the thick fluid into your shoulder, and that HURTS, with lasting painful side effects and more. Same for Shingrix shots.

I have Type 1 Diabetes, give myself 28 belly-fat shots/ week, but w/ 30ga short needles (width of a human hair). Don’t even feel it. I’ve seen some very serious reactions to those old mega-needles, and won’t go near them.

[palmer]

You got your gauges backwards. The lower the gauge, the bigger the needle: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/stockroom-reagents/learning-center/technical-library/needle-gauge-chart.html You use a tiny 30 gauge needle. I had some sticky goop injected (not my arm) when I went somewhere for some work. It seemed like a piece of pipe but I guess it was a 20 gauge.