Did I inject him "wrong"?

[MClarke087]

My cats vet just switched his insulin and gave me new needles to correlate with the new vial. The needles are alarmingly thick and long (u40) but they don't seem to bother my cat. I've been injecting him without issue but the vet asked me to start injecting him more towards his back half than at the scruff. So I just injected him about half way down his back and a little to the side. He immediately yelped when I injected him so I withdrew the needle and gave him the remaining insulin in the scruff. My question is this: is there a chance I "misplaced" the insulin with the longer needle? Could I have gone through skin and into muscle or an organ or something? His yelp worried me, and he's not being very active.

 

[Wulfwin]

Unless you were injecting at a right angle to his body, I doubt you'd hit an organ (even then I'm not sure the needles are long enough; it would probably depend on where exactly you gave it). A muscle is possible, as is injecting into the skin itself, instead of underneath. I'm pretty sure I accidentally gave my cat Rain 2 insulin injections in her skin, instead of underneath - she flinched badly when I injected, which she never normally did, and her numbers those cycles weren't in her normal pattern.

 

[Ruby&Baco]

I think you maybe touched a muscle, I also sometimes got a little 'scream' from Baco when I didn't shot her correctly and I always thought that is was a muscle. But not an organ, that's a little bit to far for the needle I think!

 

[jayla-n-Drevon]

I agree --you probably just hit a sensitive area and surprised your kitty--
I inject anywhere in the scruff rotating spots.... Don't be hard on yourself .... we have all had the reaction and you will be forgiven