Have you not used the term peanut butter shot?

2014-08-07T07:34:30-04:00

I am currently in a TRADOC environment. I work in the O room and yesterday I was talking about how sometimes when I am stretching I can still feel the lump where I had my peanut butter shot three years ago. I was the only careerist in the office at the time and all seven IET personal had no clue what I was talking about. Is this something that they don't give any more? It is like the another time when I was trying explain to them that there is more to PT than just PRT and they looked at me like I was a unicorn or something.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2014 8:02 AM

2014-08-07T08:02:47-04:00

Very few soldiers benefit from the gamma globulin shot, I wouldn't be surprised if most entries in the last few years never took it.

Response by 2LT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 7 at 2014 9:10 AM

2014-08-07T09:10:41-04:00

For those who are unfamiliar (like I was):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_globulin

Gamma globulin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gamma globulins are a class of globulins, identified by their position after serum protein electrophoresis. The most significant gamma globulins are immunoglobulins ("Igs"), a subclass of which are antibodies, although some Igs are not gamma globulins, and some gamma globulins are not Igs.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 8 at 2014 2:06 AM

2014-08-08T02:06:52-04:00

I had to get a penicillin shot a few years back for a case of strep throat that I needed cleared up fast (oh, the things Company XOs will do to make their commanders happy). Anyway, the medics who administered this particular shot referred to it as peanut butter (it felt like it while being injected into my backside too!) so that is what I have always associated peanut butter in shot form with.

Response by SPC David Hannaman made Mar 10 at 2015 3:51 PM

2015-03-10T15:51:45-04:00

According to http://www.nationalguard.com/forums it's a penicillin shot, since I have a red dog tag that says I'm allergic I'm sure I didn't get one, and quite honestly I don't recall getting ANY shots except in the arm. ('89 - '94)

http://www.AR-15.com has some entertaining exchanges about how it's supposed to have the inverse effect of Viagra. I probably could have benefited form such a shot with all the energy I wasted chasing tail.

Now I will say that before deploying to Desert Shield they hit me with 15 shots one day (7 in one arm and 8 in the other) and that night I woke up with a fever so high that I was hallucinating. I did have a clear fluid producing knot in my right arm for several years after that little event.

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Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 10 at 2015 6:57 PM

2015-03-10T18:57:34-04:00

Are you talking about Penicillin? Because that's the only injectable drug I have ever heard referred to as the peanut butter shot. No there shouldn't be a lump. And they shouldn't give you antibiotics unless you have a bacterial infection.

Response by PFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 11 at 2015 10:23 PM

2015-03-11T22:23:44-04:00

They still hit you with penicillin in the ass cheek... at least as of Oct 2012

Response by Cpl Casey Reilley made Nov 26 at 2017 9:53 PM

2017-11-26T21:53:00-05:00

Term for tetnus shot

Response by SGT Jeremy Andre Richie Barton made Nov 27 at 2017 12:45 PM

2017-11-27T12:45:43-05:00

WORD! My son just enlisted and I asked him about it and he was like WTF? Granted I whent through basic in the early 90s but still.

Response by CPT Marsia Jager made Nov 29 at 2017 7:03 AM

2017-11-29T07:03:38-05:00

Never heard it called “peanut butter” before. However, I recall feeling somewhat like cattle going through a chute getting slammed on both sides.

Response by SSG Michael Eastes made Nov 30 at 2017 1:25 AM

2017-11-30T01:25:36-05:00

A large IM dose of penicillin can really hurt, especially if the medic/nurse gives it straight out of the refrigerator. Most of us took pity and warmed it up for a while first, but it's still thick, and given through an 18 gauge needle, 1 1/2 inches long, so that it gets deep into the muscle. We gave tons of it for gonorrhea, esp. in Germany. IM (intramuscular) injections hurt worse than any, IMO, and I have given and received many over the years. Gamma globulin is similar, very thick and given through a big needle, but I never saw either given in large groups like some of you describe.

Response by SP6 Ron Geatches made Feb 16 at 2019 7:31 PM

2019-02-16T19:31:22-05:00

I was in the military for 28 years and never heard the term "peanut butter shot". We did PT but I have no idea what PRT is.