I just did my first new style metoject jab. Its simpler to do, more like an eppipen , which is a good thing. However it did 'hurt' more as it went in ,kinda sharper, like when they take bloods. Also ive just noticed that i now have a yellow patch under the skin at the site where i did it . Maybe a bruise ?
Just wondering how everyone else is getting on ?
When I usually do mine with the old pen it always hurt and bled and usually bruised. With the first one of the new pens I had none of that at all. No pain at all, no blood and definitely no bruising. I’ll have to see what happens when I do it tonight for the second time.
I've found the new style pens ok, personally. Mostly found them painless and as easy as the older style ones. I was a bit apprehensive at first about jabbing without pinching skin first to inject into but have got used to it. There was one occasion when I got it wrong and it hurt a bit, when I tried injecting into my stomach, but it's been fine before and since so I assume that was something I did. Hopefully it'll be ok for you with future injections.
I do it on my leg, i look for a bit of thigh with a bit more fat in the hope that it hurts less. 🤞😊
Hopefully my technique will improve . It probably dosent help that I look away when i do it lol . 
love the new epicentre style. Quick, easy and painless 😊👍
I've only been on mtx for 5 weeks, on the metoject I always seem to bruise and wonder if I am pushing down too hard on the skin. Sometimes there is a little bit of the yellow medication left on the skin too. Am trying a 'flatter ' bit of the leg tonight.
Thanks! Am definitely going more gently tonight !
I am now using the new pens for methotrexate and Adalimumab. They have been easy to use in my thighs but lost a whole dose when I tried my stomach. Rheumy nurse just advised to inject in my legs only. I think as someone else mentioned it was because I couldn’t pinch the skin while injecting. I have less stinging after methotrexate injection with the new pen though, so that’s a bonus!
Yeah, they seem easier to use
I find injecting into stomach less painful. When I used to do it in thigh always hurt and got a bruise . Try stomach and see if this helps x
I've done 4 weeks on the new style Metoject. The first week was brilliant, I didn't feel a thing. Last week I did it in a bit of a hurry and thumped it down like an epipen - I still have the bruise to show for it! I like that it's simpler to use, and just need to work on my technique!
Me too. 🤞
I like the new pens as so much easier and have been pain free. I only inject metojet in my legs. My sarilumab injections hurt a lot in my legs, so I now do that only in the tummy and Metojet in the legs. This system works well.
I’ve posted on this a couple of times and totally agree with you. The needle used must be a different type than the old one because they really sting! I’m off meds at the moment due to high liver enzymes but I’d take the sting right now if I could get back on some meds to control this disease.
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Yes agree always can feel the needle piercing the skin, very stingy post injection, often light bruising too. Also cos it's slimmer and my hands are affected by OA I find it harder to hold.
For me jury still out.
hi
May I ask - how did you get prescribed the pen? Was it your rheumatologist?
I m having lots of ongoing on my tablet prescriptions
My rheumy changed me to the injections early on after being diagnosed as the tablets gave me awful side effects. I still get side effects now but less so on injections. The change to the new style injections just happened . Metoject just sent the new style on my repeat prescription. All the best
METOJECT/ METHOTREXATE 
Contribution based new style ESA vs Universal Credit. 
Methotrexate injections ! Metoject pen
Bruising at site of Metoject injection. 
