Kipper smoked, and eaten!!

Yes, I have successfully stabbed myself in the leg with a needle and injected B12! I don't think I pushed the needle into my leg far enough, but..

I followed this video youtu.be/txHdD4eG4L0(Not working as expected?)

(didn't need to do some of the steps as I have individual doses, not a bottle that I need to draw out of)

Didn't feel a thing! I did that better than the nurse does!! 🤣

Did bleed a bit, so I put a dinosaur plaster on my leg...

I'll be checking for any side effects or whatever, but I don't usually have any issues after a B12 jab

Thank you to every one who replied to my previous thread xx

[Nackapan]

Glad you've done it. I think there are better videos.

Perhaps with the person sitting down.

Laying out stuff needed on a table.

Washing hands ect .

If using individual ampoules helpful to use a bigger needle to draw the b12 up the change the needle to inject.

Glad less painful than the nurse doing it .

I've hax excellent pain free injections to terribly painful ones .

One nurse i totally avoided after two bad experiences.

First of many. 👏

[Hidden in reply to Nackapan]

Ooh, I forgot to wash my hands! Oh well!!

t'was easy enough, just wanted to make sure I was sticking the needle in the right place etc. My leg hasn't fallen off or anything, so hopefully I did okay!

The advice in the video to stretch the skin definitely helped, I bent my knee as far as I could under me, which seemed to help, and I watched the needle going in, which I always prefer to do (the nurses go mad at me "would you turn your head away?!") so I can see exactly when the needle breaks the skin and I don't flinch - a nurse told me years ago it's the patient tensing up and flitching that make a jab hurt worse than it should. IMO she's right!

[topazrat]

Yay, well done you. It'll be easier from now on. I threw up the first time I jabbed myself.

I love the dinosaur plaster 😀

[Hidden in reply to topazrat]

I got the plasters in Dealz (aka Poundland if you're in the UK) they'd princess ones and dinosaur ones. I don't like pink so I got the dinosaur ones! 😂

[Marlboro123]

Well done. Last November was my first s.i and i remember the panic before hand and the sheer relief of doing it then the worry that i had done it wrong. Give yourself a treat and congratulate yourself.

[Hidden in reply to Marlboro123]

I'm pretty sure I didn't push the needle in far enough, but I was slightly worried I'd go through to the bone!! 😂 I do have good big leg muscles, so I was probably getting in a tizz for nothing!

[HeartyGilly]

Well done, the first is always the worst.

[FlipperTD]

Love the dinosaur! Well done.

[Wwwdot]

Feel proud. Great achievement.

[DiNL]

well done… now u are on the road to recovery! I was shaking like a leaf the first time I did it. Well done!

[Midnight_Voice]

One in the eye for the other dinosaurs, the doctors who don’t understand PA 😛

[Bassettbabe]

Hi Saoirse2016,

Well done you! I have been SI weekly for about a year. I well remember my terror before the first time and then the absolute elation when I finally did it. I wanted to pull my T-shirt over my head and run around the neighbourhood like a goal scoring footballer. Not a pretty sight when you’re a 66 year old grandma. I still have the odd moment of nerves beforehand sometimes, but the benefits have been brilliant so far.

[B12life]

we’ll done!!! Keep it up!!!

[GalDriver]

YAY! Well done, you. x