Just to say I injected with the methofill beast of a pen last night and it was so easy , it's like one of those stamps you got in a library when you check a book out !
It honestly didn't hurt at all and I didn't think it had actually gone in, stupidly I gave the injection site a gentle squish and yes it had injected !!
I did have to get physical with it trying to get it in the sharps bin (top bit of it is mahooosive) but I showed it who's boss and all sorted.
I'm totally happy to use the other 3 up ive got for this month.
So good to know if the pharmacy fluff up your prescription and you get this mtx pen its nothing to worry about 👍
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It wasn’t really an issue as my GP supplied a month's worth of pre-dated prescriptions. It was easy enough to pop in to the Pharmacy whilst out shopping. They're very social places!
🤞Mine is a hospital prescription permanently as in my health authority, GPs don't do shared care for Methotrexate or Sulphasalazine so I only get my Hydroxychloroquine and Folic Acid from the GP. Yet another complication 🙄😂
Exactly the same for me. It’s extremely frustrating particularly as they’ve now changed the prescribing hospital which means a further journey to collect.
One good thing to have come out of being told to shield (I don't agree that I'm that much at risk and have taken the personal decision to strictly social distance although I'm not going out much) is that when I told the hospital pharmacy, they offered to post my medication. Since then, I've just said "you posted it last time" and they've done it again. It saves a 40-minute journey each way and I'm happy to avoid going into the hospital unnecessarily atm.
They won’t use Royal Mail alas, as it’s a cytotoxic drug. It’s going to get worse as they’re streamlining their services which, as we know, will result in chaos!
That's really good news Marion. It looked better than the Metoject to me in the link that Kim from NRAS sent you. You don't have to worry about it any more. Just goes to show that size doesn't really matter! 😊 I did have a laugh at your description though about not knowing whether to roll it under your arms or inject. 😁😁
Good to hear you had no problems Liz. Having watched the video I did wonder if those with dexterity issues would find this type of injector easier than pushing down on Metoject push button type. I wouldn't think anyone would have a problem asking for Methofill by name as they're the same cost, in fact Methofill is 1p cheaper than Metoject in the 3 doses I compared.
Thanks for update, I must admit it looked very scary but on researching a bit more it looked better then the usual ones, especially for me with arthritic hands x
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