Painful injections

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How much are you injecting at each site?

22G is a pretty large needle. Depending on how viscous the medication is, I would go with a 23G or 25G. I have given thousands of IM injections, and I started using 27G 1 1/4" on most people (in the deltoid,) and they work just fine. This is mainly vaccines, which are not thick.)

My guess is that with that large gauge needle, you are probably injecting too fast. Smaller diameters and longer lengths increase resistance. You can bolus stuff in through a large gauge needle, and you don't really want to do that into a muscle.

Put the needle in quickly..like a dart, Aspirate, then inject slowly. Leave the needle in for a second after you finish injecting. Pull the needle out and then massage the area with a fair amount of pressure for a minute.

I will definetly try the 23g or 25g injections. Now, the 27g... can that size also be used for other parts such as the outer quads or calves? Because it is very difficult to do my glutes. With the higher gauge, does that mean I have to inject slowly and allow the gear to move slowly through the syringe instead of too fast. Do u think 1" would be deep enough because I don't have that much fat on the injection sites, or can i go 1 1/2" deep? Will i get the same effectiveness because of the depth into the muscle or is that too deep? Definetly I will start doing that size gauge and let you know the results. Thank you very much for the input.