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.

I call it the “intimidator”

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Not going to read the entire thread to answer the question, but if I were a heroin addict, I could.
And I would love it.

Done it by accident a few times doctoring cows… easy to do. Had to call poison control when I gave myself metacam once.

The other day, I got a taste of zellaris while treating a cow with pneumonia… I went to bite the cap off the needle and had obviously squirted some meds int to cap first… so that was something.

Yes. Because Mrs Noah (an RN, no less!) won't do it for me.

I have gout. Several times I've had really bad attacks. A joint (usually big toe) gets super swollen and painful. So I've taken to giving myself cortisone injections into the toe joint. But I'm a chicken, so I first inject myself with an anesthetic (lidocaine), wait a few minutes, and then try to inject cortisone into the toe joint. Even though a toe is just skin, tendons, and bones, sometimes it's hard to get the needle directly into the joint on the first stab, hence the lidocaine to numb up the skin, at least. Then I walk the needle into the joint, bouncing it off the surrounding bone for a pass or three, and inject away.

Once I had tendonitis in my ankle and had to inject that because Mrs. Noah was out of town. I couldn't even put amy weight on my foot, it was that bad. I was literally hopping on one foot and decided I couldn't go to work like that. That shot was actually pretty easy, as that tendon (EHL) is directly under the skin.

You do what you have to do.

Type 1 Diabetic, so several times a day. Thankful for the pens which make it much easier. But yes, given I'd die in short order, I could do syringes.

I took allergy shots for over 20 years. It made a HUGE wonderful difference in my allergies.

For the first year or so I had to go to their office, and sit and wait after the shot to be sure of no reaction.

Then my wife gave me the shots. She was still working back then, and had to go on business tips on occasion. I just gave myself the shot in my arm when she was gone.

No big deal.

Today's needles are so thin and sharp that it's no worse than a mosquito bite.

People have had to amputate their own limbs and at least one guy has taken out his own appendix. As already stated, people can do a lot if they have to.

Trust me when I say this needle is no mosquito bite.

Way bigger than the COVID shots.

It is amazing what a person is capable of when they have no alternative.

You ain't lyin'.

I take a pen type injection every 2 weeks for Crohn's. no biggie. After my cervical surgery I had to take L
ovenox by syringe twice a day for 3 months. Not a problem. You get used to it pretty fast.

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heck ya! i oil my hinges like the tinman.... i get free needles down at the dollar general...

Got lots of ‘‘em like this in basic training…”NEXT”!


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