View Single Post
  #2  
Old 09-01-2021, 01:41 PM
Cecily Cecily is offline
Planar Protector

Cecily's Avatar

Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 5,842
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Abdomen sounds gnarly, but really it’s a sub-cutaneous shot into belly fat. The higher the gauge, the smaller the needle

Intra-muscular shots will always hurt more than sub-cutaneous no matter their location. To give an example, type 1 diabetes patients do their insulin shots with a sub-cutaneous needle into belly fat and don’t feel it

Vaccine is intra-muscular
It's less fun if you phrase it accurately. I used to do IMs weekly. They really didn't hurt either.