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Injecting b12

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Hi there,

What is the best, easiest place to inject b12 when self injecting as the upper arm awkward unless administered someone else ?

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wedgewood

Into the outer middle third of your thighs into the Vastus Lateralis muscle if you are doing Intra muscular injections . ( look on Google)

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deniseinmilden in reply to wedgewood

Hi Wedgwood! Sooooo good to see your reply this morning - made my day already! x

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Wedgwood is our expert guide for injections. If you look up her profile by double clicking on her name, you can look under the heading "replies" for all sorts of useful information about self injecting - and lots of other things besides.

My thigh muscle when sitting, so easy given that you can see exactly what you are doing. I have no idea how someone injects their own arm, you must be very flexible! :)

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Yes. I'm not even that good at left leg - being right-handed - so right leg gets used more often than it should.

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MoKayD

When I self inject I inject into my belly fat. Fortunately, (unfortunately) I have a lot of that.

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