Can you miss your muscle when you shoot?
Is it possible to totaly miss you muscle when your sticking yourself? Like your butt lets say can you miss your ass muscle and just shot it into nowhere?? how important is the right angle when injecting? and how will you know if you missed???
thanks :unsure:
Great explanation, Methusaleh . . .
For more on glute shots, here's something I wrote in a post back in October. (You can find the original thread by doing a search on the key word "lipstick" with my name in the user block.)
This was written for a member who complained of numbness in his butt cheek after a glute shot. It's one of my more off-the-wall posts, but I think it's one of the better instructional pieces I've written. An oldie but goodie . . .
It's not just a matter of aiming for the center of your cheek and popping in your, um, medication, it's a matter of going for the proper quadrant.
Now, grab some of your girlfriend's lipstick. Go. Do it now. I'll wait . . .
(Oh, excuse me. Well, if that's the case, go grab some of your boyfriend's lipstick. I'm still waiting . . .)
Now pull down your pants. I promise I won't get hot . . .
Good. Now take the lipstick and draw a line straight across the center of your right cheek. Then draw a line straight up and down the center of your right cheek.
There . . . You've got four quadrants. (Amazing, isn't it?)
Hold on, you're not done . . .
Now poke yourself with your thumb (no, sport, there's nothing kinky going on here) on the right side of your back around your waist, feeling for the top of your pelvic bone. (You'll feel bone going upward, then it will stop and you'll hit tissue but no bone.) When you find it, draw a dotted line across that part of your rear waist.
Finally, measure two-to-three inches below that dotted line in the middle of the upper, outer quadrant of your butt cheek and put a little "X" there.
Why? Because "X" marks the spot. And that is the only safe place to shoot yourself in the butt. See, who said that playing with lipstick couldn't be fun?
Now, the reason you went numb is because you hit a nerve. The closer you get to the center of your cheek (where your first two lipstick lines cross each other - as opposed to staying in the upper, outer quadrant, which less less nerves and less blood vessels), the bigger the chance you'll hit a nerve. If it's the sciatic nerve (which runs from the spinal cord down the center of your butt cheeks), you're likely to feel a sharp, stabbing pain going down your legs. But if you hit any nerve, including the sciatic, you will often get a numb sensation that, hopefully, will go away shortly thereafter.
So remember, just like vaginas, the upper, outer quadrant is your friend.
Now put the damn lipstick away. It doesn't look good on you. Unless you're really enjoying this, in which case you should do the same thing to your left cheek. Symmetry, and all that.
Well, he said, smiling . . .
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Originally posted by MONKEYNUTTZ
what will happen if you inject into the fat instead of the muscle??? beside wasting your shot????
You'll have really strong fat.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Seriously, Monkeynuttz, it's no big whoop, but you will generally be wasting the shot. You may feel some effects (depending on what you are injecting), but the fat will not "hold" the drug as well as muscle.
Past that point, there should be no negative effects from injecting into fat. The only time you will zonk yourself for a loop is if you inject into a vein (Intravenous versus Intramuscular), but you should be able to avoid that if you aspirate the needle before pushing.
Read Methusaleh's post again - it's a good one. Pay special attention to the discussion of needle length. Gauge is not the big factor here (although I wouldn't go higher than 23 gauge for an oil-based shot), length is the important consideration - for a glute shot, you should be using a 1-1/2" long needle, not the 1" long needles that you would normally use for the quads or delts. If you use the longer needle and if you are shooting the correct part of your butt (upper, outer quadrant), you are pretty much guaranteed that you will hit muscle rather than fat.