Injections in the bottom

One of the big regrets of my life is that I've never had an injection in my bottom from a doctor or nurse. Does anyone know a safe way to make this happen - eg a mild, non fatal disease I could catch which would make this treatment inevitable?

hehe next time you have a flu shot ask to have it administered to your gluteus maximus rather than your deltoid OOOh and don't forget to request the largest needle available!!

*shuddering* Needles are one of my biggest phobias, you, sir are braver than I am.

In part because of my loathing of needles, I usually get them in the thigh. My family doctor, upon seeing me about to pass out at the thought of a booster, suggested it might help, and it does - it's easier for me to dissociate from a needle in my leg than in my arm, for whatever reason, so that's what I've been doing for a while. So to the best of my knowledge, there's no reason why a shot (flu, tetanus, whatever else goes IM) can't be in another large muscle. Tell them you have an irrational fear of needles in the arm!

And do report back; maybe it hurts even less there than in the thigh :P

better say arm and leg (any other IM sites to rule out here?) so that the doc's only remaining choice is the buttocks.

@jessicak... I would imagine that an intra muscular injection in the bottom would be way more painful than in the leg, because there is so much more fat to get through (so I would imagine a longer needle would be required). With sub cutaneous injections, the buttocks is less painful than the thigh because of the extra padding.

Tetanus injections seem to be the choice of injection for one's rear end. (Shameless Plug!) I mention this in two of my stories, "The Doctor will see you now" and "A very special liqueur".

@jessicak I share the same trouble, particularly with blood samples being taken. Something about seeing one's life blood draining away I suspect.

I thought at one point I would try to do my civic duty and give blood, but I only got to the bit where you give your name and address before fainting, and so they told me I was too much trouble and not to come back.

On the OP I do recall an older friend telling me that she'd had TB and had been in a small isolation unit of a hospital for some time with other sufferers, and they had such injections. After a while the patients were giving them to each other instead of bothering the staff. She said they needed to administer a sharp slap to the bottom before putting in the injection.

Oh, yes! You should try it with acupuncture. Don't you have this famous Dr. John Mclachlan, who found out recently that inserting needles in the buttocks increases the energy flow?


Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/13/be-honest-does-this-study-make-my-butt-look-big /#ixzz1zBvnsKUl

An alternative could be an injection of vitamins, offered by alternative medicine as well.

Why?

I'm sure that the insertion of a needle in the buttocks of most people would increase the energy flow. This was discovered long ago my schoolchildren who placed drawing-pins sharp end up on teachers' chairs.

There has GOT to be a story to this effect, somewhere on this site!