Injection gone wrong.

[Offspring2099]

She was breathing heavy for about 4 hrs, I stayed up till about 4am. Then she got cold and I covered her with a blanket. She finally "came out of it" after almost 4 and half hours. Poor little girl.

She is pooping and eating now.

 

[Maureen Las]

I just scanned this whole thread quickly so this may have been covered.

When you insert the needle into the skin fold do you draw back on the syringe before injecting to seeif you get a blood return?

 

[Offspring2099]

I checked the needle after the shot and it had no blood on it. But no I didn't draw it back, right before the shot.

 

[Maureen Las]

If you don't draw back on the syringe after you have placed the needle in the skin fold you don't know whether you have accidentally placed the needle in a vein.
That is probably what has happened . The medication probably went into the vein causing your bun to have seizures and the other symptoms.

It is not easy (sort of clumsy with a bunny)to draw the syringe back after the needle is inserted so maybe two people can do the procedure.

After the needle is inserted in the skin fold and before you inject the medication pull back on the plunger. If the needle hit a vein blood will come back into the syringe.

When that happens you need to pull out the needle and prepare the med over with a new syringe and needle. Always pull back on the plunger before injecting to see if blood comes back into the syringe.

I bet that if you are able to do this that it won't happen again.

I looked back to Dec and I believe Haley asked you the same question

I know that some vets do not give these instructions and I don't have any idea why ?

 

[juliew19673]

Offspring2099 how is it going tonight w/Penny?

 

[Haley]

Oh poor Penny!

I always insert the needle into the skin fold, then pull back a little to be sure I havent hit a vien. If youre not doing this you should definitely start- if you get any blood on the return you know youre in a bad spot so start over and find a good place before you inject.

I also wonder if maybe shes starting to develop a lot of scar tissue in that area. If I were you I would speak to the vet about possibly taking her off or at least buffering it heavily with lactated ringers. Shes been on it a really long time with no signs of the abscess, right?

I hope shes doing better today. You must be so stressed out. Let us know if theres anything we can do to help.

Haley

 

[Offspring2099]

It took a little over 4 hours for her breathing to come down. She was ok after that, and the following shot(two days after) was good too.

I remember you guys mentioned the "pulling back" method and the reason we dont do it is because our vet says that the are no blood vessels that big around where we give her shots (flanks on her back).

He really thinks it was a nerve. He said that if it was a blood vesel it would have lasted a lot longer than 20-30 secs as it did?

Any thoughts?

 

[juliew19673]

I have no advice to offer - but glad she is feeling better, poor thing..

 

[Offspring2099]

Thank you for your thoughts.

juliew19673 wrote:

I have no advice to offer - but glad she is feeling better, poor thing..

 

[Maureen Las]

it"s possible that it was a nerve but I would still learn to pull back on the syringe as a precautionary measure.

I'm very glad that she is OK

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

I just wanted to say I'm so glad she's ok now.

 

[Marietta]

angieluv wrote:

it"s possible that it was a nerve but I would still learn to pull back on the syringe as a precautionary measure.

I'm very glad that she is OK

Ditto!

Marietta

 

[juliew19673]

Hey Offspring2099 how is it going? Is Penny doing better and are you doing better with the shots? Just in my thoughts and hadn't heard anything as of late (which is probably a good sign - )..

 

[Offspring2099]

Thank you all for your thought.

Julie,
Penny has been fine so far. I think we are developing bit of scar tissue around her head side flanks. We are moving lower now, but have to hold her in the towel, because she really hates it there, but so far so good. We give her some banana after the shot and she is happy as pie.

 

[juliew19673]

Awww Yay! So glad.. Scar tissue can form so easily - in my kitty that had the PKD we were on his flanks by the end; we did find the closer to the middle of his back was not good so we tried to go as low as possible (as fatty an area as possible) and that seemed to be better.. Give Penny a nose rub for me!

 

[Mehrdawd]

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We give Penny injection every other day. Right behind her neck. Today we did it just like any other day. Nothing went wrong.

Right after the injections she started to act as if she is spooked. Very alert. Heavy breathing.

What's going on? Please help.


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We just had another bad injection. Penny got the shot, ran off to the side and started crawling / flopping on the floor, seizure like. Scared the hell out of me. She is better now, but still breathing heavy.

I wonder if we hit the vain this time. Anyone else have experience when a bunny fall to the floor very disoriented and crawls/rolls about?

Hey there, My Albino Bunny recently had a problem she lied on the ground legs back breathing heavily and eyes open, she refused to move, i took her to the vet they injected 2cc of ani pain and 2cc of some sorta antibiotic.
They told me to continue injecting these 2 , 2cc per night each on.

After 2 night injecting, tonight supposedly i injected her wrong , she is irritated and angry as hell, keeps licking the area and she wond let me touch her or see the area but it looks its red or swollen. Although, she eats hay, sleeps and drink
I'd like to know your ideas about this long story, sorry for that !

 

[zuppa]

Hey there, My Albino Bunny recently had a problem she lied on the ground legs back breathing heavily and eyes open, she refused to move, i took her to the vet they injected 2cc of ani pain and 2cc of some sorta antibiotic.
They told me to continue injecting these 2 , 2cc per night each on.

After 2 night injecting, tonight supposedly i injected her wrong , she is irritated and angry as hell, keeps licking the area and she wond let me touch her or see the area but it looks its red or swollen. Although, she eats hay, sleeps and drink
I'd like to know your ideas about this long story, sorry for that !

Hi, I don't know but think you better copy past this story in your own new thread maybe more people will see it and you get some advice. Hope your bun gets better soon