Can you give yourself a shot (injection)?
 

Can you give yourself a shot (injection)?

I take a shot every 2nd week for Eczema. It normally comes in a pen that you just load up against your stomach and it goes pop and 15 seconds later you are done.

They accidently sent me syringes this time and I don't have the balls to do it.

Booked a time with my doctor.

Can you give yourself a syringe injection?

Gave myself allergy shots for several years…intramuscular so no big deal. A foreigner doctor who carried a gun let me do it. His instruction sheet said if you had a “reaction bigger than 25 cents apiece” take the epinephrine shot. I think he meant larger than a quarter.

I’ve never had to give myself a shot. I think one of those Ephedrine automatic shots would be OK but I don’t know about anything bigger than that.

It's also a 2ml shot.

Me too...Ozempic for diabetes. But easy-peasy with the pen. I could probably use a syringe, but would need instructions and wouldn't like it.

I hated it. Couldn't get over the fear of stabbing myself. Such a wimp! Once I did it though it was always..."well that didn't hurt at all". Then next time, the fear again, lol.

I wouldn't like to have to give myself shots using a hypodermic needle, though I suppose I'd eventually get used to it. My grandfather was diabetic. He gave himself injections of pig insulin daily. As a very little kid, I remember him filling the needle and sticking it in his arm. As a little kid, I didn't think much of it at the time.

I've never needed to do that but I stick a catheter up my junk 4 times a day. That ain't much fun.

if you're talking Dupixant it's not a problem. I'm going to assume you have been given the prefilled syringes. The needle is very small and you will hardly feel a pinch. Jab yourself somewhere with a bit of fat on a 45* angle. push the plunger gently until you see the holding tab spread a bit and release. needle will self retract and you're done. oh ya, alcohol swab on the area first. I can only go at my stomach I have no fat anywhere else. Have you been getting the results that you expected? are your joints sore?

I give myself an Ozempic shot every week also

TMI that.

Yep, TMI.

When I broke my femur, they sent me home from the hospital with 60 pre-loaded syringes that I had to inject into my stomach fat twice a day for a month.

I remember the nurse asking if I had ever done it before...to which I said no.
It wasn't bad at all. If you have to do it...you just do it.

Not too difficult.

A lot of it is in the gauge of the needle and how deep you need to go.

How you hold it makes a big diff. Hold it like a dart with a finger tip on the plunger, slides in way easier than holding it like a pen.

I just got back from my doctor and only cried a little. lol
The Dupixant has been amazing. Almost no itching. I was bleeding from scratching before and losing my mind. I don't think I've had a problem with my joints, but feel older everyday.

I've received lots of shots, and that's never bothered me. I think I could do the old shot in the arm, leg, whatever if I had to. Into a vein or other part of the anatomy might be weird.

I was bitten by a sickly acting kitten when I was in Spain, and started getting streaking. Since it was an unknown, I got a bunch of shots. I got 2ml of immunoglobulin (thick fluid, FAT needle) put into one of my fingers. Then they put the rest of the 10ml ordered by the protocol into my deltoids. I got 4ml in each shoulder. My finger looked like a sausage with no wrinkles, and it was sweating clear fluid out of all of the injection points (about 20 of them). The 2 mls via 15-20 injection points into the end of my finger was the worst shot I've ever had (presumably because of the amount of nerve endings in your fingers).

Almost as bad.... I had to change out the bag attached to the pump that I wore on a sling for 7 weeks. So the shunt was taped on my arm and into a vein. Had to clamp it off, remove the tube connection, get the other sanitized and hooked up with no air bubbles. I was a bit nervous every time I released the clamp.

My wife was scared to siht about it. I did one for my stepdaughter too when she had a brain infection. I ain't no nurse. You do what you have to do.

yes

way easier to give it to someone else

You can do it, not bad at all, before insulin KwikPen I did it all the time. Newer needles and syringes are very small

Nope, no, naw, and hell naw, I can't do it and I don't want anyone else giving me a shot either.
If my life depended on it, I guess I would have to learn to do it or die.
My late brother-in-law gave himself insulin shots once a day every day for many years. When we were cleaning up his place the oast couple of days, I found several syringes that he had dropped or lost behind furniture. I miss him, but glad he doesnt have to do that anymore.

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That’s why I got pills. The damn monitor in the arms bad enough.