Intramuscular Injecting Instructions
- Wash hands with soap and water.
- Clean injection site skin by wiping outward concentric circles with an alcohol wipe.
- Wipe top of vial with alcohol pad and remove syringe with needle attached to it out of packaging.
- Pull plunger back, filling it with the same amount of air as the amount of hormones you want to inject ( e.g. 0.5, 0.25, 1mL, etc.). Insert the needle into hormones vial, and push air out of the syringe.
- Pull plunger back to desired amount, filling with liquid.
- Then pull needle out of vial.
- Pull back plunger a little to get extra liquid out of the needle.
- Switch to smaller gauge needle, making sure the needle is attached tightly. (Higher number= smaller needle thickness or gauge).
- Push plunger in until a small bead of liquid is released from tip of needle.
- This will ensure no air is left in the syringe (which can seriously harm you if you inject it).
- Insert needle, bevel up, into the skin and push plunger down slowly:
For Intramuscular injection: Insert deep into muscle at a 90 degree angle. (Do not pinch skin.) - For Subcutaneous injection: Pinch skin together and insert needle into fatty layer of skin at a 45 degree angle.
- Pull syringe out and dispose in sharps container (or detergent bottle or coffee can, if you do not have access to a medical sharps container).
IM (deep Muscle): Thigh
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