I’ve been self injecting every other day for around 10/11 months now.
As the time has gone on yes I greatly benefit from the shots but I also get more and more reluctant to do them as this last few months I’m making a complete bollocks of them in comparison to when I first started doing them.
I’ve now realised that it could be the simple fact that I’m so cold all the time in the winter months,when I first started it was spring and I never really had any issues doing them.My arms feel cold and hard and I feel like I have to use more force to get the needle in whereas before it was going in like butter.I find this stresses me more.I’ve not changed anything else in my regime ,other than using filter needles to draw up the liquid,I still change needles to inject.I just wondered has anyone else noticed this in winter months?
Thank you Nackapan.I’m going to warm up my arm today and next couple of shots I do this week and test my theory lol.I have not made anymore contact with my professor since this new variant arrived,I cancelled any blood tests I had and neuro cancelled but said I could do zoom appointment which I declined,I can’t see how that would be useful right now,I want an mri done of spine but again that’ll have to wait as I’m not going near any hospitals right now.
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Just thought j think it's more a matter if you are relaxed or not. Rather than temperature.I went through a phase of holding an ice block on the area to be injected as I was getting alot of bruises and sore arms . They helped in the warmer weather for IM ones .
any chance this is a new batch of needles? i know people around here say needles are needles. but i find it hard to believe that some cheapo off brand needle would have the same quality control as say a name brand like BD. maybe i'm being paranoid but i spring the extra (what amounts to nothing really) and got BD fitler needles, injection needles and syringes.
i've only injected maybe 30 times but the needle pain is the least troubling part. it's always the psychology that bugs me.
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I honestly can’t remember Thunderdoggy.you may be correct on your thoughts though. I’ll open another box of needles just to see.many thanks
I inject into my thigh while sitting down, easier to see and reach too.
I inject in my thigh too. If I get tense it is harder to do. We will all feel better when Covid is controlled. We will still have symptoms, but at the moment, we are not relaxed properly.
My legs are always cold. What I do is warm up a wheat bag and place it against my leg for a couple of minutes. I put the ampoule between my leg and the bag. There’s never an issue of pushing the needle in as I stab (never faff) which is totally painless. Warmth of both the leg and the liquid has been the answer for me, no pain or effort whatsoever.
I think the point Nackapan’s husband makes about his insulin injections may well be part of your problem. It seams to me that it stands to reason that if we continue to inject continually in one area we may well cause some tissue damage. This needs space to rest and recuperate. Therefore trying rotation of injection sights may well improve matters for you. Upper Thighs give you quite a large scope ..if you use sub cutaneous you could use stomach tissue as patients do with heparin (ask advice on this if you aren’t familiar with the technique) Good luck with this. The more we worry the worse things get. I feel that you were getting it right in the beginning so I am sure you will again.
I am also struggling and so putting off si for as long as possible each time. Last time I ended up bleeding profusely then bruising badly; the relentless showing of injections on the news at the moment is making me very jumpy about needles; it is a novelty for most people but for us lifesaving. I wish they would stop showing it so much.
Hi, I was a nurse, gave thousands of injections, but recently I've felt I mucked up a few times recently when injecting myself !Didn't think about the cold, that's a valid point, just thought I'd gone a bit too blasé .
Of course the more I think about it the more I muck up !
Felt I wasn't hitting the "sweet spot" , so now I've started drawing a target with a highlighter pen so I don't go off course at the last moment !
Hi Ghound I think I may have been right about the cold arm scenario,today I had my fleece on prepped all my stuff washed hands in hot water took fleece off and injected arm right away,had no problems no bleeding no battle to get the needle into my skin so it’s just something for me to bear in mind when doing shots now,just make sure I’m warm enough,stay calm and get on with it.I also have the same issues with having blood taken when I was having the sst test done at the hospital the nurse asked me to put my jacket back on because the air con was chilling me,it was summer,and she couldn’t get the blood drawn for testing ,I forgot about that.Thanks everyone for advice.x
as others have mentioned rotating sites. i rotate upper thigh and lower abdominal. 4 sites. and i inject once a week. so each site gets hit once a month. i was taught from my doc (injecting testosterone) to grab a thick bunch of skin/fat, inject, and then release it. trans dermal.
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