So, I’m moving and about to lose my nurse. So my options are to either take my meds to my gp every month to get the shot, or learn to do it myself. Or, more likely, make my husband learn to give it to me.
So, do any of you self administer? Is it scary? I don’t know what to do and I only have about a week, maybe two, to decide.
I don’t know if you can really have your husband give em to u but idk where you’re from and I have heard of people having to pick up the box with the needles in em so they could then (presumably) take it to their gp to administer them. This is an option you can always consider, I know it’s not a prob for ur go really so that’s not a bad idea.
Otherwise are u averse to taking oral meds?
I know the drugstore sells auto-injectors for people who have to self-administer. Maybe those would be easier?
They won’t let your husband administer them if you live in the U.S. And I wouldn’t do it myself if I were you. It would be best to go to your GP’s office and get the shot every month. I am a former R.N. and I don’t administer my own injections @LED.
Oh! I didn’t know this! I’ll definitely look into them.
M currently taking both oral and injection. I needed to be on a higher dose than I was able to take orally so we added the shot.
I think auto injectors are just for subcutaneous injections. Not for intramuscular injections.
Are you sure they won’t? My nurse already said she’d be willing to teach my husband how to do it. Why would she do that if it was illegal?
In my state of Nebraska it is not accepted. Maybe in your state it is. Any way it’s kind of dangerous to have your husband do it.
My Epi-pen is an autoinjector and that’s intramuscular.
My husband has given me shots before for fertility meds, so I don’t doubt he’s able, but it’s too easy for me to get angry when it doesn’t go in perfectly, so an auto injector might be great.
Sounds risky to me.
I would have a nurse or doctor administer the injection to me.
What’s risky about it?
Personally I’d be too chicken.
Maybe your different.
Good luck either way.
I’ve had to give myself Lovenox and Arixtra injections (blood thinners).
I didn’t even consider having my husband do it for me. I used prefilled syringes. They were done subcutaneously in my stomach. It was difficult to get up the nerve to do it the first time, but after that I knew what to expect. I pinched the skin, inserted at an angle, and that was it. The needle didn’t hurt. The Lovenox stung, but that was particular to that medicine.
I don’t know if all injections are the same of it was a special case with blood thinners, but I couldn’t inject myself in the same area for a few days in a row. It had to be an inch apart, or something like that, so I would stick a little circle band-aid over the area to keep tabs of where I’d already injected. The biggest problem for me was extensive bruising- my stomach was literally black and blue all over- but I know that’s because it was blood thinners.
It’s dangerous if the injection goes into a vein if it’s meant for the muscle.
That was what I was wondering.
Okay, but you’ve gotta be pretty dumb to hit a vein in my ass. I’ll take that risk.
Why don’t you just have the pharmacist do it? They give flu shots. I don’t see any difference.
In May they transfer me to my GP and she will give the injections, I live in Canada though