This Looks Promising

[MoKayD]

Someone is testing delivering B12 using micro-needle arrays. I'm sure someone has already read this article, but I just found it and it looks really interesting. sciencedirect.com/science/a...

[Judithdalston]

Almost anything that for me makes it less painful to inject b12 sounds good to me...don’t know why I find it so painful...husband does it in my bottom, but even the surge of b12 going in is painful...perhaps he is just heavy handed!

[Statesideheather in reply to Judithdalston]

When I was getting hydroxocobalamin jabs, I noticed the liquid sting quite a bit! Ive never had the sting with cyanocobalamin which is what I use now.

I don't doubt that you and your husband know about safe injection sites but please be careful in the rump! It seems like a great place but in reality there are arteries and nerves. If you hit a nerve you can really do some damage. I always had injections done on my backside and I intended to do the same at home. But I was swayed away from that.

You might find you feel it a lot less elsewhere. Many times I do not even feel a thing doing it myself. I do mine in the ventrogluteal area and I rotate sides. I'm trying to get up the nerve to start doing them in my thighs so I have more options.

Hopefully this new microneedle pans out...And fast.

[fbirder]

Wow! Hot of the presses.

Good to see somebody looking into this and actually trying it out in vivo. It looks very promising. I especially like the way that plasma levels of B12 continued to rise over 24 hours.

Maybe in another 5 years they'll be available.