Which body part/site have experienced nurses used most frequently for Depo-Provera BC injection?

12 Dec 2011

WhenI gave it, it was an IM injection and the preferred site of women was the deltoid but if I could talk them into it, I got them to let me put it in the gluteal muscle just because it is a larger muscle and absorbs the medicine better and isnt as sore. I would tell them to think about how much they use their arm muscles etc. Some of them would go for the glute and some insisted they wanted it in the arm. Either is ok but, as you know, the gluteal is really the better muscle.