The shared solutions nurse came for a visit and she was much more helpful than the first person. I did my shot manually instead of with auto-inject. I think I will like doing it this way better but it will take some time to get use to it. Anyway, she had a couple suggestions -
First, tape the auto-inject spring down so that you don’t press into your body to engage the safety. This is a great idea! No seriously! I love it! They should just get rid of this ‘feature’ because newbies like me push it into our bodies to engage the spring which makes the site reactions worse.
Second, the COOLEST THING EVER! A needle clipper! This little thing will clip the needle part off and store that within itself so that you can just doss the syringe in the garbage!!!! It stores 1500 needles so it’ll last forever. HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT? If anyone wants to get me a Christmas present….
Over all, a very good appointment. She was great, finally!
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Karla // Dec 17, 2008 at 2:13 pm
What do you mean by “take the auto-inject spring down”? I’m not following you. I have tried manually injecting now for 2 months hoping for less reactions and I still have huge red itchy welts (about the size of my fist). I’m open for any brilliant suggestions.
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ninareply on December 17th, 2008 2:33 pm
Karla,
Sorry, that should be ‘tape’ down. That way the spring is always engaged on the auto-inject. I was pushing it into my skin in order to inject but that is bad I guess.
Have you tried heat before and ice after the shot? Are you holding the needle at a 45 degree angle? She basically said do it as shallow as possible so that the medicine gets in but doesn’t go too deep. Good luck.
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2 Lisa Emrich // Dec 17, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Another way to get around the “pushing the autoject too hard against the skin” problem is to use both hands, one to hold the needle-end of the device gently against the skin, the other to push and activate the spring and press the trigger.
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3 Nadja Tizer // Dec 19, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I’m glad that went well for you.
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