Why the most dreaded injection is called the ‘peanut butter’ shot

[rangerrebew]

Why the most dreaded injection is called the ‘peanut butter’ shot

Tim Kirkpatrick
Posted On October 28, 2021 04:00:00



Every recruit, in the first few weeks of boot camp, will get in a line during their medical evaluations and get stuck in the arm with all sorts of needles and have thermometers shoved into some uncomfortable places.

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Out of all the medications recruits get injected with throughout their processing week, none of them are as feared as the almighty “peanut butter” shot.
 

While these peanut butter shots are awesome, the ones we get in boot camp are far from exciting.

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[rangerrebew]

I remember mostly the next morning.  Guys couldn't even stand up let alone walk.  On my last day I was walking near a grinder and a guy asked if I could help him across the snow and ice.  I was flippant and said "the old bicillin blues, huh?"  He said not only that but they broke the needle in his *ss and had to dig it out.

[Smokin Joe]

A former boss was a Corpsman in the Navy. He said that when the person getting antibiotics for a dose of social disease was decent, they'd warm the syringe a little before injecting it so it would dissipate better in the muscle, and inject it slowly. If they were a jerk, they'd get it cold and fast.

[Elderberry]

I was relieved from standing barracks watch to go run to get that damn bicillin shot. So from a dead run, I dropped my drawers and felt liquid fire burring me up. And then I had to hobble back to continue my watch.