HRT and needles

[yummyyumi]

Ugh I had a hard time doing my intramuscular injection today. I think I was more scared and nervous than the first time I did it XD but I managed well and did it after many many failed attempts. Last week it was so easy and painless but this time it was hard, I guess I was not in the right mind set. Is this normal? The fear I felt was very similar

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[ohka15]

I dread injection day every week it comes around, lol.

It gets easier each time, but I still do not look forward to it. I worry I could screw up or hurt myself.

I mean, heck, worst case for me, if somehow I did it wrong and got ill or collasped, no one would know for a while that anything happened to me since I live alone now.

[ex_voz_lati]

I have my boo do me, and I do my boo, but sometimes I do myself. It does get better, but even after several years, I occasionally still flinch.

Take a deep breath, choose a good site, and drop it in.

Have you tried sitting down, and injecting into the central ninth of your upper thigh? I've found that to be a good, goof proof place for self-injection.

[yummyyumi]

Yeah that's how I do it, even though I notice that it's easier if I have my leg extended in my bed and after a shower. When I said failed attempts I meant the "One, two, threes" in which I didn't actually stick myself lol. I had been lucky that I have not aspirated any blood in any of my thigh injections, I guess it's just fear :P

I understood.

[ex_voz_lati]

yeah. I never have bothered to check for blood. Chances are, it's a small vessel, and not likely to give me any trouble.

It's not fear, it's an autonomic flinching reaction which happens a lil too fats for fear, so you manage it slightly differently.

That said, it sounds like you have a pretty good understanding of it all, and I wish you luck. It really does get better, but you shouldn't see the flinch as a setback or anything.

Re: I understood.

[yummyyumi]

I hope so! thanks ^.^