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Originally Posted by stevej37
Two years ago...twice a day/ every day for a month into my own belly.
No directions for the first one...just did it. It was easy. (needles now are super thin)
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Some needles are super thin. It depends on the viscosity of what you are injecting and if this is intramuscular or sub cutaneous. I have no idea what the Covid vaccine is like or if it’s injected sub cute or IM. If I use a 18 or 20 ga needle to be ‘kind’ with oxymicene or Resflor on an animal, it is a difficult injection because it is hard to squeeze a relatively ’thick’ fluid through a thin needle and these are generally given sub cute.
The old school penicillin we keep around is IM injection but very thin so easy to inject with a 20 or 22 ga needle, even on a 20 pound Tom cat... he only gets 1 mL.
Since this is IM, on a cow I would need a 18ga needle for the same stuff.
As a side bar, even the pros can’t do it sometimes. Yesterday it took an experienced nurse a couple tries to get my IV started before my operation and I realize this is far more precise than a SC or IM jab.