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Subject: Re: Is it true that shots in small buttocks hurt more? Author: john [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Monday, September 25, 2023, 01:43: pm In reply to: Anne 's message, "Is it true that shots in small buttocks hurt more?" on Saturday, September 22, 2018, 07:00: pm I work in a surgical unit and was caring for a 25year-old very then petite girl with a burst appendix and infection of her wound. Initially she was on IV antibiotics and would receive occasona pain medications by injection in three butts. After one week it was getting more and more difficult to find a vein and she did not want to have a line. The doctor suggested to switch to intramuscular aantibiotics and vitamins. In my morning shift she would get a large antibiotic injection in one butt cheek and a second vitamin in the other. The night shifters would give her the second antibiotic dose and a paikillers medication. Three days into treatment it was in tears and it was diffuse to find a spot to inject that was not swollen or sore. She was glued to the bed clenching her cheeks with every injection and had to do so for nearly a week! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Is it true that shots in small buttocks hurt more? Author: ambrita [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 05:04: pm I am 30 y and my eight is 52kg I was diagnosed years ago with an immune problem as I do not build antibodies to vaccines.I am used to injections as I am often prescribed antibiotics that are given in series for few days and recently twice weekly for vitamins for weeks. My last injection was two days prior to my recent ordeal!. I am used to this pain and soreness of the injection sites. I was working assisting in a nursing home and was exposed to a person with severe shingles with a lot of scaling. When I told my doctor he said I should get gammaglobulins. He calculated the dose and told me I should get 0.6ml then he smiled and said per kilogram! You will get 30ml divided in multiple injections.He sent me to the hospital and a resident came and told me that each injection would be 5ml given by deep intramuscular injections. I cried as I realized that I would get poked 6 times with these 1,5 inch long 20g needles. He warned me that they are painful and that I will be sore for few days. He filled the first two syringes from a vial he got from the fridge. He started by one Shot in each butt cheeks.5ml each. I was clenching my teeth and was cramping from the pain that was radiating to my whole legs down. I was glued to the bed in tears when he pulled out the second needle. He then went to the counter to fill the next two from another vial and said you will get the next two in each thigh. The pain was unbearable.I was told that I would rest for while before the next set. An hour later a nurse came to give me another two, I was surprised when she started to warm the vial before filling the syringes. She said that the pain and cramping are more with the cold medicine. She swabed with alcohol and jabed the first one in my left cheeks and pushed rapidly I could not bear the pain and started screamed begging her to go slower. The next one was not better as it was in a spot of another injection. She abruptly pulled the needle and told me that she hit a vein and replaced the needle before jabbing me again and pushing rapidly the burning medicine. I was shivering and twitching from pain and clinching my muscles. I was sweating and in full tears when she pulled needle out and was applying pressure with alcohol swab. I was lying on my stomach unable to turn back and in real tears. They kept me on observation for two hours and when it was time to get out of the bed I was limping and holding my buttocks and thighs from the pain. I had never received injections in my thighs before. For the next three days through injection sues were hard, lumpy and very sore and very painful. I learned later that through can be doubled on occasions. I received a lot of injections and endured a lot of pain from serial antibiotic injections but nothing compares to through pain of the large and numerous gammaglobulins given in small butts and thighs! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Is it true that shots in small buttocks hurt more? Author: julie [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 12:16: pm I am 32 and weigh 52 kg. For three last 7 years I get monthly B12 shots that cause some discomfort and occasional soreness for few hours. I went to see my doctor as I had a skin rash and and an ulcer and he referred me to an STD clinic. It seemed that I have contracted the infection from my ex boyfriend. I was told that I will need to get a long acting penicillin injection weekly for three weeks ad that I have to consent to that. Through nurse told me that the treatment will be divided into one shot in each side as it is large and painful. She brought two 4CC syringes with a white liquid with a thick long needle. She told me to avoid contracting my muscles as It would be very painful if I did. I felt through pain When she jabbed the needle but I was in tears and cried when she starting to push on the plunger, a real agony. Th second one was even worse and for the whole week I was limping with two firm sore lumps in my buttocks. Through second ans third weeks were worse with the soreness and pain becoming unbearable, I also had two lumpy bruises on one side and a third on the other . Sitting and sleeping on my back was very uncomfortable and I pretended that I hurt my back as I did not want anybody to know about through the STD. On the third week I was due for my B12 shot and when the nurse at my doctor s office was about to give It she could not avoid the sore spots and added to more misery. Know I even dread my B12 as I still feel the discomfort! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]