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sfjock29
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Has anybody self-administered a Lateral Gluteal, also called ventrogluteal, or hip injection? I can find directions for administering it, but if you read them you'll see that it's not possible to self-administer in the way they describe.
e.g.
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/osuhosp/patedu/Materials/PDFDocs/medicatn/geninfo/intrainj.pdf
The reason I'm interested in this is that according to this web site, this is the only other site besides the posterior glute that can accommodate 3 cc's. So supposing you need to inject 9 cc's a week. You can do 3 in the left gluteal, 3 in the right, but there's no other site that can accommodate 3 cc's so you'd have to split it up into three 1cc injections. The lateral gluteal injection would solve that problem. I have also read that it is just as painless as the normal (posterior) gluteal injection, maybe even better.
e.g.
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/osuhosp/patedu/Materials/PDFDocs/medicatn/geninfo/intrainj.pdf
The reason I'm interested in this is that according to this web site, this is the only other site besides the posterior glute that can accommodate 3 cc's. So supposing you need to inject 9 cc's a week. You can do 3 in the left gluteal, 3 in the right, but there's no other site that can accommodate 3 cc's so you'd have to split it up into three 1cc injections. The lateral gluteal injection would solve that problem. I have also read that it is just as painless as the normal (posterior) gluteal injection, maybe even better.
