don't release the pressure.... that will likely cause some pain. imagine you fold a piece of paper in half, then you jab a pencil through it. now try to unfold the paper. watch what happens to the paper. that's your muscle. don't release the pressure. release as soon as you've pull the pencil back out from your piece of paper.
aspirating requires nothing more than very slight pulling pressure on the plunger. you can just get a finger under there and kinda flick. you do not need to see bubbles (though they will not hurt you) and you do not need to tug way hard. trust me, if you're in a vein, you will probably know before aspirating by seeing a little trail of red where the needle screws into the syringe. a slight tug will bring in plenty of blood... if you don't see it, you're blind.
also remember to aspirate when you have the needle fully inserted. some people get it pretty much all the way in, aspirate, then when they apply pushing pressure to the plunger it also pushes the whole syringe into the leg/arm/booty/breat/whathaveyou which also then forces the needle deeper than it was when you aspirated.
you could, theoretically, aspirate fine and then go 1mm farther than you were when you aspirate and plant yourself right smack dab in the middle of a vein.
i contemplated trying to make you paranoid by making the odds of that happening seem super duper high but i decided against it. thank me later. lol j/p.
chill out, relax, stick some metal into your guinea pig, watch it squirm a bit, then get its fat ass back into that hamster wheel to start doing work son!
aspirating requires nothing more than very slight pulling pressure on the plunger. you can just get a finger under there and kinda flick. you do not need to see bubbles (though they will not hurt you) and you do not need to tug way hard. trust me, if you're in a vein, you will probably know before aspirating by seeing a little trail of red where the needle screws into the syringe. a slight tug will bring in plenty of blood... if you don't see it, you're blind.
also remember to aspirate when you have the needle fully inserted. some people get it pretty much all the way in, aspirate, then when they apply pushing pressure to the plunger it also pushes the whole syringe into the leg/arm/booty/breat/whathaveyou which also then forces the needle deeper than it was when you aspirated.
you could, theoretically, aspirate fine and then go 1mm farther than you were when you aspirate and plant yourself right smack dab in the middle of a vein.
i contemplated trying to make you paranoid by making the odds of that happening seem super duper high but i decided against it. thank me later. lol j/p.
chill out, relax, stick some metal into your guinea pig, watch it squirm a bit, then get its fat ass back into that hamster wheel to start doing work son!
