Just curious to know what other people use for their injection methods! I do subq and recently had to reduce my draw needle gauge to 21 since I kept coring vials accidentally.
Just curious to know what other people use for their injection methods! I do subq and recently had to reduce my draw needle gauge to 21 since I kept coring vials accidentally.
yes! That’s the technique I use (even now with 21G, but also when I was drawing with 18G). I still cored vials that way, I think it happened because the width is so great and I was drawing from the vial twice a week back then, and I was using the vials for months, so the rubber got real torn up despite the technique (which does really help compared to just sticking the needle in at 90 degrees).
Haven’t had issues with 21G yet, even when I was drawing twice a week - but now I only draw once a week (though vials last much longer now, because both frequency and dose were lowered post-op).