Should you squeeze a muscle before injecting?

[Sonny]

Hi All:

When my doc's nurses gave me injections in the glute, they'd always grab a "chunk" of of my buttmeat (LOL), squeeze it, and then inject.

Obviously, you cannot do this very easily at all when you are self injecting.

My questions are:

1) Why do they do this? Every nurse did it.
2) How do they aspirate? I'm assuming that they don't let go of the squeezed muscle...so the needle must go in while held like a dagger, so that the nurse can aspirate, inject, and pull-out..all with the same hand?

Sonny

 

[pmgamer18]

This is all I have on it.
http://devweb3.vip.ohio-state.edu/Materials/PDFDocs/medicatn/geninfo/intrainj.pdf

http://flightline.highline.edu/drydberg/injections.htm
Phil

 

[greatgro]

Good info.

 

[Weatherlite]

Of all the injections I've ever gotten from a pro NONE of them have aspirated. Granted, I've never had Test injected by a pro but I would assume that you should aspirate regardless of what you're injecting via IM.

 

[cpeil2]

Of all the injections I've ever gotten from a pro NONE of them have aspirated. Granted, I've never had Test injected by a pro but I would assume that you should aspirate regardless of what you're injecting via IM.

The fact that the T is an oil suspension probably makes it especially important. I would imagine that if you injected into a vein, oil droplets could make their way to your lungs. You don't have this worry with water-soluble injectables.