I just found out I will have to give myself shots in the belly

[Arik]

You and your wife can make a game out of it! Darts!!!

 

[jimmyj]

Been There, Do That.
No big deal as the needle is very small.
Helps if you have "Flab".
With off hand, pinch the skin where a roll of flab pushes up. with the good hand push the needle into the roll of flab and push plunger to expel meds. pull out needle---Your done.
Use different areas of abdomen for every injection.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

AND.....another little tip....If you use those little alcohol swabs that come in the big pac, and are packaged like those Efferdent or Polident packages. (You do use those too.?????)..Save some out and carry in your car or truck....They are perfect to use from time to time, if your steering wheel gets oily from your hands in the summer..Takes off the oil and dirt. (Also gets the sticky off from your hands from eating ice cream in the car.)

We all carry a spare band aid in our billfold don't we???? Then carry a alcohol swab too...They aren't any fatter than a band aid...


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[jag312]

I hate needles.

 

[BearBio]

As a diabetic and wildlife biologist, I have had most of the most "painful shots", including the "old" penicillin, gamma globulin, flu, pneumonia, rabies, and fast acting tetanus. Got flu, a rabies and pneumonia all in one day=they told me after the last shot, I was gonna be "sicker than cr-p in about 45 minutes". Took me an hour to get home and I made it with no more than 5 minutes to spare.

Seriously, the pneumonia shot was the worst, insulin is a snap, and rabies wasn't any worse than a flu shot. I now give myself insulin every morning. After a couple of days, it won't phase you!

 

[DWalt]

My wife just came through a total knee replacement, and the day after surgery I sat through a presentation on post-op procedures with a room full of patients which had just had either knee or hip replacements. No mention of shots was made, but my wife did have to take an oral anticoagulant (Warfarin) and wear support hose (is still wearing them 8 weeks later).

 

[dave1918a2]

I've been diabetic for several years now and shoot insulin twice a day. Just make sure not to use the same place. If You feel a lump where You injected it's time to move. I go in a circle around My belly button a couple of inches out and that gives all locations to return to normal before another injection. Good luck with Your recovery.

 

[rwsmith]

It ain't squat......

I shoot myself in the belly and thighs 8x/day. (Two types of insulin and an auxilliary drug called Simlin). A mosquito bite hurts worse than a shot with a fine needle nowadays.

The bad part is the PITA of having to take shots all the time.

Now SOMETIMES you hit a bad spot and it is 'rather uncomfortable'.

 

[PatriotX]

If they gave you the pre-loaded needles, those seem to suck substantially more than the fill-from-the-vial type.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

As a diabetic and wildlife biologist, I have had most of the most "painful shots", including the "old" penicillin, gamma globulin, flu, pneumonia, rabies, and fast acting tetanus. Got flu, a rabies and pneumonia all in one day=they told me after the last shot, I was gonna be "sicker than cr-p in about 45 minutes". Took me an hour to get home and I made it with no more than 5 minutes to spare.

Seriously, the pneumonia shot was the worst, insulin is a snap, and rabies wasn't any worse than a flu shot. I now give myself insulin every morning. After a couple of days, it won't phase you!

You ain't lived till you get a spinal tap. That big ole curved needle, going between the vertibre,(sp) then being able to watch it on the TV monitor, seeing that needle stuck in there.I survived three of them in the old days., when they'd do a spinal tap before doing back surgery. The first one, smart *** me (of course), you're told to lay flat in the bed and not move, or you'll get the MOST HORRIFIC HEAD ACHE of your life.....I moved....I learned, I didn't scratch my nose or my butt or blink after the second and third one.


Mylogram...I knew I'd remember the name of it eventually.

I doubt I'll be able to figure out how to reduce in size, then post a photo of the X-Ray of what my back looks like now...It looks like a coat hanger in there, with a twist of the two ends, holding me together. L3 down to my tail bone is all one piece now.

Some more thrills with a needle...Try getting Cortizone shots up your tail bone.

Taking a needle in the belly, I've had worse mosquito bites. At least taking a shot, it doesn't itch afterwards.




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[EQGuy]

WuzzFuzz
I know what you mean. I had a cortisone shot between L4 and L5 a few years ago. i still needed surgery a few moths later. That is why I am not going to have the rooster comb injection, it just postpones the inevitable. I got a cortisone shot in the knee last fall and when it wore off It hurt a whole lot worse. All in all I am not too concerned about the surgery as I have had much worse surgeries. I am just not looking forward to it. I also have a titanium rod holding my neck together.

 

[Lt JL]

Okay, I just read this whole sufferin' thread. I can't believe what a bunch of stove-up, mule-kicked, horse-dragged, bucked off, butt-beat old geezers, codgers, and gomers we are. Of course we have all the old S&Ws, they were NEW when we got 'em.
I worked part-time for the Feds off and on for 12 years, and I was inoculated for every disease known to man or beast. The worst, as I recall, was for something that might have been called Venezuelan Equine Influenza (?). Anyway, I got it in the butt, and it felt like that public health nurse was pushing a quart of 40 weight into me.

 

[OLDSTER]

JOINTS -NEEDLES ETC

THE "GOLDEN YEARS"

 

[JcMack]

Why shots in the stomach? A couple years ago I was in the hospital for 3 days. They wanted to give me Heparin (? ) shots daily to prevent clots. After 1st one in the gut I wouldn't let them give me another.

 

[BearBio]

Ooohhh! Forgot the cortisone!

Yellow fever was another one but CDC changes their minds on taking it or not every couple of years. So was the meningitis & plague in the Army==Oh, such sweet memories! Should give a medal just for the shots!!!!!

 

[rwsmith]

I know that they can......

If they gave you the pre-loaded needles, those seem to suck substantially more than the fill-from-the-vial type.

I know the pre-loaded needle suck substantially more money from your wallet than the fill-from-the-vial type, too.

 

[ralph7]

I have Glaucoma and have to put eye drops in 3x a day. This is a PITA, but after reading this thread I will probably never gripe about it again.

Thanks for the eye opener!

 

[Mtnfolk325]

I have been a Type ll Diabetic since 1997 & Insulin Dependent since 2008. Up until March 2015 I only injected Lantus 1x a day, always injecting in my stomach roll while sitting on the Throne ... ;o) In March 2015, I was finally able to get into a Diabetic Specialist. A 1x of Victoza was added as was 10 units of Novalog before each meal, smaller meals ment 4x daily. As of January 1st my insurance is no longer covering Victoza and my co-pay for Novalog went to $175.00 a month. They have now replaced the Victoza with a 1x weekly shot of Bydureon and the Novalog with an oral of Nateglinide before each meal. The Bydureon shot is about 12" long & must be shaken 80x to mix before injection, SWMBO does them in my lower back .... They cause a pretty black/blue bruise and make me sick for about a day .... ( The bright side is that I'm bake to only self injecting 1x a day with the lantus .... ;o)

 

[pittpa]

You're an Army veteran, and you live in California. After enduring all of that I assume you can probably give yourself a shot in the eyeball without even flinching.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Mtnfolk325...I don't think I'd be able to pronounce that stuff if I went to a pharmacy let alone spell it. Are you sure you can't regulate your malady with orange juice?...


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