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SubQ - how to do it correctly
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<blockquote data-quote="davidrn" data-source="post: 75891" data-attributes="member: 13164"><p>I was wondering what your real question is. In years of teaching patients how to self administer injections and IVs, I've learned that a fear of air is #1. This fear is because of TV murder mysteries. On every show, especially in a hospital, the camera lingers on an air bubble traveling down the IV line , with accompanying ominous music. However, this is very much an inaccurate fear. A small amount of air in an IV line will have almost zero effect, and actually leaving a small air bubble in a IM/SQ injection helps prevent meds from coming back up the injection tract. When you want to leave a small amount of air in the syring, you just flip it so the bubble will go in last, this hurts in no way, but reduces meds leaking out, and even an occasional irritation in the skin.</p><p>If you are more worried about being lean, and thinking you are doing an IM injection, instead of SQ, so what. A small bore needle reduces the pain in most cases. </p><p>If injecting yourself does hurt, my technique (used for almost 40 years) is to press down firmly on the skin where you are going to inject for about 15 seconds,(should leave a small indentation for about 10 seconds if you push hard enough) then a quick swipe and then inject, you won't even feel it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davidrn, post: 75891, member: 13164"] I was wondering what your real question is. In years of teaching patients how to self administer injections and IVs, I've learned that a fear of air is #1. This fear is because of TV murder mysteries. On every show, especially in a hospital, the camera lingers on an air bubble traveling down the IV line , with accompanying ominous music. However, this is very much an inaccurate fear. A small amount of air in an IV line will have almost zero effect, and actually leaving a small air bubble in a IM/SQ injection helps prevent meds from coming back up the injection tract. When you want to leave a small amount of air in the syring, you just flip it so the bubble will go in last, this hurts in no way, but reduces meds leaking out, and even an occasional irritation in the skin. If you are more worried about being lean, and thinking you are doing an IM injection, instead of SQ, so what. A small bore needle reduces the pain in most cases. If injecting yourself does hurt, my technique (used for almost 40 years) is to press down firmly on the skin where you are going to inject for about 15 seconds,(should leave a small indentation for about 10 seconds if you push hard enough) then a quick swipe and then inject, you won't even feel it. [/QUOTE]
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