Blood drop on the end of syringe after injection???

[Sieden]

I have a question. Oh, I feel like I just did something wrong. After I give Peanut his injection, I've gotten into this habit of pulling the syringe out and then pushing the plunger down on the syringe to see if anything comes out, I guess to see if anything was left over and didn't get injected. Sometimes I'll see a drop of insulin and sometimes nothing at all but this time I saw a watered down drop of blood. I'm concerned now that I might have injected him into a vein or into the muscle. He didn't act any different while I was injecting, like as if there was pain or anything but I did feel something different as in a different texture when the needle went in. I inject him into the scruff area and I often grab the area several times until I feel that I have the perfect grab before I stick him, and I also use 8mm needles. Sometimes like today when I feel that different texture as the needle goes in, I will just pull it out and re-stick him but I always feel so bad about doing that and against my better judgement, I decided not to re-stick him this time. What do you think that I should do? Or what do you think happened?

 

[Yong & Maury GA]

Look what I found :
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/blood-in-insulin-syringe-after-injecting.76444/

 

[Phoebes (GA)]

Look what I found :
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/blood-in-insulin-syringe-after-injecting.76444/

You are the search bomb

 

[Squalliesmom]

You probably nicked a capillary. We've all done it. It's nothing to worry about. Injecting into the muscle would cause pain and I would imagine you would see a definite reaction from your kitty. Lantus injected into a vein would cause a rapid onset of a hypo, so if your Peanut's numbers are still good, he's fine.

 

[Sieden]

Look what I found :
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/blood-in-insulin-syringe-after-injecting.76444/

Sorry for the late reply, but dang look at you go "snap", "snap", "snap". That was a really good thread that you found for me, thank you. I am using 8mm needles and Peanut is a fat boy but I probably just went a little too far so tonight I'll try to go in more parallel and not as deep. Thank you for this.

 

[Sieden]

You probably nicked a capillary. We've all done it. It's nothing to worry about. Injecting into the muscle would cause pain and I would imagine you would see a definite reaction from your kitty. Lantus injected into a vein would cause a rapid onset of a hypo, so if your Peanut's numbers are still good, he's fine.

He didn't even flinch so it probably wasn't the muscle and he's been moving around as usual so I don't suspect hypo though I haven't done a spot check yet, I'm about to here in a minute... 12 years after the fact lol. I've been gone all day AGAIN.