Anyone used self- injector pen for b12?

[Judithdalston]

I am a whimp, despite having insulin dependent diabetes and thus inject daily, I am thinking I need to start self injecting B12 more frequently than NHS/ surgery offer. Been looking at website wedgewood highlighted for Danish firm unionmedico.com. I’m assuming i’d need intra muscle device, and was looking at a non- disposable one...it appears that it consists of two parts...one takes a conventional disposable plastic syringe( ? and needle), the other parallel attached part looks rather like the diabetic pen, with push button to shoot out the needle/b12 from the syringe. Am I interpreting this correctly? Anyone used one, any comment/advice?

[Ritchie1268]

Please see my post on auto Injector for my experience of the device.

[Judithdalston in reply to Ritchie1268]

Excellent...all very timely! Thank you Ritchie.

[Ritchie1268 in reply to Judithdalston]

You're very welcome.

If you need to ask anything else about this, ask away. 👍

[Ritchie1268 in reply to Judithdalston]

Also, see garretttimson

post regarding this. We're all here to help each other to make this as easy as possible. Good luck

[Thulasi1 in reply to Ritchie1268]

Hi,

Is this onetime purchase.

[Ritchie1268 in reply to Thulasi1]

Hi, yes it is.

[Judithdalston in reply to Thulasi1]

I think if you read thru the details on website you will find ‘small print’ saying something akin to ‘ plastic guaranteed for 200 injections’ or some such...not sure 200 was correct, but remember thinking that would last a year or two with lots of use. Suppose the metal one folks were discussing earlier that was much more expensive would last for years and years.

[JMN2017]

In case this is of help ... I self-inject but didn't like injecting IM so I inject SubCut with orange needle into abdomen. As a person self-injecting insulin, I would imagine injecting into abdomen with a fine nore needle, you would be ace and with little issue.

The hydroxicobalamin is absorbed well via SubCut injection and, for me, very much easier and a lot less stress

[Judithdalston in reply to JMN2017]

Thanks for that, yes wasn’t sure about b12 subcutaneously, as everyone seems to do it into muscle...even if only say 80% in, I might be happier with that. Will look at the variants and see what dr.is prepared to offer next week.