DO you have to aspirate before you inject your gear when using a 1 1/5 needle OR is it pretty much close to impossible to inject into a vein when already in that deep and in the mussel??
THANKS and look forward to replies....
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DO you have to aspirate before you inject your gear when using a 1 1/5 needle OR is it pretty much close to impossible to inject into a vein when already in that deep and in the mussel??
THANKS and look forward to replies....
yes you need to aspirate
Mate,
I'll be real honest with you. In the beginning, yes, i would aspirate. Now, i never aspirate. I also use a 1.5 and pin in my arse. When i did aspirate, i never drew blood. maybe i'm just real lucky?
the other thing i noticed, is that when I went in for my trt injection, the RN would NEVER aspirate. not sure why. when i was trained to self inject, the RN never mentioned aspirating. If it was such a huge issue, the RN administering test, and the RN that taught me to self inject should have said something?
General response seems to be ALWAYS ASPIRATE, so I wont advize differently as to not give improper info. Myself however I also use 1.5 in arse and dont aspirate. I attempt occasionally but feel with all the moveing my hands around on the plunger and twisting to see etc, that I may break pin or tear up my muscle from the movement, so I tend to do without......
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Originally Posted by Times Roman
T.R..
YOUR a beast brother, thank you! you seem to know your stuff. I think if that pin is deep in the muscle how are you pushing gear into a vein. I understand popular belief and understanding is you must aspirate but after 20 or so times of doing it and not pushing directly into a vein, I stopped as well....
I agree JAB, it hurts in more ways then one to wiggle that pin around and I'm shooting my shoulder. in the arse w/ all that twisting must be brutal..
Thanks for your imput...
That's just because nearly every drug used in medicine is water-based, so aspirating isn't an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Times Roman
If the RN knew much about oil-based injections (and had been specifically trained in them), she would probably aspirate.
You couldn't be any more wrong. All tissues in your body require perfusion (blood-flow), so there is no such thing as an area free of blood vessels (be it arteries, arterioles, capillaries, or veins).Quote:
Originally Posted by mcfrankie
Im trained to inject and all in of my training aspiration was tought as essential for all injections
I aspirate everywhere except delts.
I aspirate every time. A delt shot had my on the ground coughing my lungs up for a good 15mins, I even aspirated but after doing so I pulled the pin out a few mm as it felt a little weird like a nerve or a vein lolQuote:
Originally Posted by austinite
For IV starts or IM injections?Quote:
Originally Posted by gonzo6183
Both, although the IV is automatic (unless its a pin straight into a vien) you dont need to aspirate when you canulate, I dont stick needles straight into viens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonaparte
I dont even understand why people dont. Its not hard or a big deal. Takes one extra second to make sure you are safe when aspirating.
Those who don't I'm sure once they do inject in a vein they will from then on, it's not fun.. As mentioned it takes a split second why wouldn't you.
yea you should.
I always aspirate except when I shoot in the glutes.
tbh, she looked like a throw back to the sixties hippy era, and she probably knew her way around a needle before becoming an RNQuote:
Originally Posted by Bonaparte
agree. just because i do a thing doesn't mean it is the right thing for anyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonaparte
didn't mean to mislead.
It takes a couple of seconds to aspirate so why not do it to possibly save a couple of minutes of trying to hack up a lung. But it's not a big deal until the one time you should have.