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Early 30s, Female, Texas. Indian Ethnicity. HMU!
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I haven't tried it (cylce isn't til September) , but some women i know have had success with an auto injector for the progesterone in oil. If you search on Amazon you'll find it - there is only one - Autoject 2.
Thank you!
I got an auto injector and my husband does it most days. I don’t know how people do it without an auto injector, tbh!
I had to do roughly 1 million IM injections for my two kids.
I actually did the needle super slowly, with lots of breathing and sometimes Emla cream for the top layer of skin. Basically the opposite of the recommendations or auto injectors, but it worked for me and you will find your own way.
I also warmed the progesterone in oil in my bra for about 15 minutes beforehand which helped it flow once I was injecting. I also listened to a podcast and tried to pretend it wasn’t happening!
I can’t say that I liked it, and I still have some note in my muscles from them. But you do what you have to 🤷♀️.
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1 million sounds about right. The only silver lining about FET not working has been getting to stop the torture before I ran out of bum to stab. It was getting close.
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1 per day. Found a video that recommended holding it like a dart and coughing as you stick it in. Also, use the other hand to hold the skin taunt (while inserting the needle and while injecting the fluid). Made it SO much better than how I was doing it before.
Really?! I used suppositories during my IUIs that didn’t work. It was messy but easy.
I hope this gets better for women- I love the redi-eject pen for my gonal f. I found out today that one of my meds I’ve been mixing comes in a prefilled syringe in another brand 😩. Things like this keep making me wonder why the easiest solution isn’t available to everyone in every brand. I stress out about it SO much.
For most of my PIO shots, my husband did it, but I had to travel for some of the cycle and needed to do it myself. I used ice packs before, heat afterwards, arnica cream for any soreness, and my biggest tip - if injecting in the glutes, aim for the area that you would be touching if putting your hands on your hips. It’s higher than you think. If you inject into the fat of the butt cheek it will hurt way worse!
Oooh- I was actually wondering that exactly- in the picture at the clinic it did look higher.
Def have someone do it if at all possible. I had to go to a conference and had to do 5 days myself without an auto-injector of PIO. I dreaded each one, and got huge lumps/rashes where I did it. When using an ice pack and having my husband do it it was so much better