Longer needles needed for fatter buttocks LOL!!

Mon Nov 28, 1:50 PM ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday.

Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.

Two-thirds of the 50 patients in the study did not receive the full dosage of the drug, which instead lodged in the fat tissue of their buttocks, researchers from The Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin said in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

Besides patients receiving less than the correct drug dosage, medications that remain lodged in fat can cause infection or irritation, researchers Victoria Chan said.

"There is no question that obesity is the underlying cause. We have identified a new problem related, in part, to the increasing amount of fat in patients' buttocks," Chan said.

"The amount of fat tissue overlying the muscles exceeds the length of the needles commonly used for these injections," she said.

more . . . http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051128/hl_nm/buttocks_dc_2

well, well. I don't know what to say. It certainly would not be pretty to see that long needle coming at you but you gotta do what you gotta do. IM's are not meant to do well in fat, they need muscles to work. Another incentive to lose the extra weight. A new post it for the fridge.

(and ouch)

Well you hardly have a fat ass but that picture could have been taken at a better angle! The good news is that I was right after you and they missed mine! Whoa, that coulda been ugly.

For a short moment there I thought you were holding a beer. I forgot about the candles and where we were.

I wonder who took it?

Damn my ass looks bad in yellow. LOL

you looked quite lovely in that outfit, really. That is a damned bad angle. I think it was the guy that was sitting there with the camera that got up in everyone's face.

but I think he was looking for his glasses at that time.:hide:

How could you forget? LOL

One of the high (or low) moments of our trip:

He does have a seriously cute ass even with the hole. (I figure since this is now in the lounge that statement was ok)

it just seems to fit in a thread somewhere.

I wonder if we should send the picture to CNN? :)

to Anderson at his addy. I don't have it but I know it is there on their website. Actually I think he saw it when it made the internets.

Once again, come and worship the Buddah.

YOU win the cute picture contest. :)

I'm still kind of appalled at my gut there, even so.

But mostly it's a sad pic because it's of me on Nov 2, 2004. Guess what I'm praying for.

Wow, on edit - this is my 3000th post!

I was the 20th woman!!

*pout*

Even the fattest people don't have that much fat on their calves.

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He was actually making fun of fat asses, totally ignoring his own gigantic ass! I guess they could just inject it in his anal cyst and bypass his fat.

my brain? that's another story. I have a face the size of a washtub and my ass is as big as Missouri!"

-Rush Limbaugh "I'm a Nazi"

I am in the fat ass catagory.

Chubbster here too. Don't get to jocular about this, folks. There is a fatty bumbalatty or two on the side of justice and good as well as on the side of the evil empire.

Don't mind me but you are upseting my Hillary rants.

I think the way this was posted is beyond tacky.

Why is it ok to post "funny" things about overweight people?

It's about fat asses.

BIG difference. :)

Seriously, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just thought it was funny. I mean, who DOESN'T think their ass is fat?

even before the recent "epidemic" of obesity. Why wouldn't they have different lengths of needles on hand?

Learn something new every day I guess :eyes: