I was going to take the injections in the morning. But rang up the emergency help line, which I don’t think impressed the poor nurse on the other end, but finally we got to speak.
I had been asked to start the injections on the Monday, but actually all the literature says that it should be taken on the 21st day and what with my cycle being a bit squiffy, Monday it seemed might be pushing it a bit. The nurse agreed that we needed to start the injections today. But that meant that we would need to do the injection when we got home, which meant that the injections which need to be done at the same time every day would need to continue being done at night.
I could not have been more terrified.
My step children were sent to bed and I prepared my first syringe of medicine!
Sticking a needle into to ones tummy is surely not a natural thing to want to do.
I got in such a flap I forgot to take my folic acid.
As it is I tried to get myself to do it to myself but I couldn’t so my lovely husband had to do it for me.
The truth is I didn’t feel the needle it really didn’t really hurt, although the sensation of the liquid being injected was a bit weird and it itched where it had been injected afterwards for a while.
Off I went to sleep with my glass of water, because apparently you have to drink plenty of water or you can get migraines.
I have discovered that you can get the drug as a nasal spray, although this is currently difficult to get hold of. There are some reports that the nasal spray doesn’t work as quickly as the injections, and some clinics prefer to use the injections but I don’t know the science behind why.
Apparently the same drug is some times used in the treatment of breast or testicular cancer!
I had been asked to start the injections on the Monday, but actually all the literature says that it should be taken on the 21st day and what with my cycle being a bit squiffy, Monday it seemed might be pushing it a bit. The nurse agreed that we needed to start the injections today. But that meant that we would need to do the injection when we got home, which meant that the injections which need to be done at the same time every day would need to continue being done at night.
I could not have been more terrified.
My step children were sent to bed and I prepared my first syringe of medicine!
Sticking a needle into to ones tummy is surely not a natural thing to want to do.
I got in such a flap I forgot to take my folic acid.
As it is I tried to get myself to do it to myself but I couldn’t so my lovely husband had to do it for me.
The truth is I didn’t feel the needle it really didn’t really hurt, although the sensation of the liquid being injected was a bit weird and it itched where it had been injected afterwards for a while.
Off I went to sleep with my glass of water, because apparently you have to drink plenty of water or you can get migraines.
I have discovered that you can get the drug as a nasal spray, although this is currently difficult to get hold of. There are some reports that the nasal spray doesn’t work as quickly as the injections, and some clinics prefer to use the injections but I don’t know the science behind why.
Apparently the same drug is some times used in the treatment of breast or testicular cancer!
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