After seeing dozens of people getting injections in the news, I was concerned about the length of the needles they were using. I understand that they need to inject into muscle tissue and that some people have huge arms, but I was concerned about them hitting my bone because they seemed to just push it in as far as it would go. They seemed significantly longer than what they use for the flu shots.

FYI my estimate is at least 2” if not 2 1/2”

kv

Edit: Looking at a tape 2”

 

Google is your friend...

 

LOL I think it just looked bigger to me at the time, all I know the diameter is small and hardly even felt it.

kv

 

LOL I think it just looked bigger to me at the time, all I know the diameter is small and hardly even felt it.

kv

Did it look like this?:

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You are given 0.3ml (Pfizer) or 0.5ml (others) per dose.

 

Here's the needle they used on me...

 

Here's the needle they used on me...

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I hope they also applied a little flux and ran a hot air gun on the puncture so that you wouldn't bleed to death afterwards...

 

Hot air gun and a self-vulcanizing tire patch to keep it from leaking back out...

 

Hot air gun and a self-vulcanizing tire patch to keep it from leaking back out...

The caveat of your plan is that the patch should be applied from the inside...

 

What a novel idea! I never considered trying to patch an innertube from the inside. Hmmm... LOL I always use plugs on tires.

 

My older brother got his first jab of pfizer last thursday. He's reported that twelve hours after that, he got the chills, headache, dizziness and some fever that kept him in bed for most of friday.

Now he's terrified of getting the second shot...

 

I tell people who get bad reactions "That means it is working". I had no reactions after either shot and wonder if they worked.

 

I had no reactions after either shot and wonder if they worked.

A small percentage of people getting the shots have no side effects. That doesn't mean that the shots weren't effective.

I'd rather have side effects and know that it's working.

 

I'd rather have side effects and know that it's working.

And I'd rather have that attitude when I'm drinking a gin & tonic...

Seriously now, I had no side effects but I also have complete trust that the thing is somehow doing its job.

 

And I'd rather have that attitude when I'm drinking a gin & tonic...

That last time I let that happen to me was when I was still young and foolish...

 

I tell people who get bad reactions "That means it is working". I had no reactions after either shot and wonder if they worked.

The statistics on the effectiveness strongly show that "no reaction" is a lucky outcome. Many if not most people have no reaction and yet virtually everyone gains a high degree of protection. Those can't both be true unless the people with no reaction are fully protected.

 

I'd rather have side effects and know that it's working.

Wife and I got ours from the same bottle. I had no affect other than a sore arm for a while but she had a more moderate reaction. Which kind of surprised me because my immunity is compromised by my weekly injection I have to give myself for Psoriatic Arthritis and she has no immunity issues. The second dose had even less reactive affect. Go figure...

 

Wife and I got ours from the same bottle. I had no affect other than a sore arm for a while but she had a more moderate reaction. Which kind of surprised me because my immunity is compromised by my weekly injection I have to give myself for Psoriatic Arthritis and she has no immunity issues. The second dose had even less reactive affect. Go figure...

The side effects are the response of the immune system so people with active immune systems can have even greater side effects.

 

In the US, 6 cases of blood clots have been reported in women getting the J&J vaccine.

Now up to 28 cases in 8.7 million injections, with 3 deaths. 6 cases were men.

U.S. CDC identifies 28 clotting cases after J&J vaccine (yahoo.com)

 

My wife is getting her second shot today, I’m scheduled for next Friday. When she viewed the above posts relating to the length of the needle including the last picture she busted out laughing. But a child will see those needles looking like Post #126, she works with children and has been for over 40 years in daycare and pre-school. One can only imagine getting the shot will look like to a child

Oh, btw my wife and I will add our name to the list of people in our state, in a COVID Vax lottery, estimated at 1 million last in the news, not holding my breath but hey a night on the town would be good also.

kv

Edit: My wife had a 2 day bed rest, she didn’t scheduled time off the second day, decided she needed to rest more. Literally in bed for 2 days straight, only taking bathroom breaks. Stiffness, slight headache, lumping around the injection site. Yesterday the second day the injection site reduced as well as the stiffness, the headache was gone in the first day, she did sound a little chesty when I spoke with her over the phone late in the first day after the shot. Her shot was on the end of her shift before she went home so, I count it all as the shot day, then first day after and second day. I hear her in the bedroom yawning 5:52am, I woke at 4:30am this morning she is going to work at 7:30am, this is last week before the kids are off for summer.