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been doing injections a month now it's so much better [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transfem] (infosec.pub)
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[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

ooooh I wishwishwish ~needles~ wouldn't give such genuine life-threatening fear feels, otherwise I'd totally do that... Actually... Imma ask.

  • OK, how painful is it?
  • How much do u have to inject?
  • How long do u take to inject fully?
  • Does it get uncomfy cold under the skin?
  • do u have to aim for specific part of leg?
  • do u usually have problems with the ~needles~
  • how far do u have to inject?
  • do u just press in and pull out, or did u actually have to 1. Push needle in flesh, 2. press rod to insert fluid into blood 3. Pull out again?

Content warning: me talking about uncomfy feels with needles. You may get nervous from this.For me, I always, without exception, get crazy panic before I get injected, as in like, months before. Then the stress levels keep increasing over the coming days, i keep going between bargaining, acceptance and regret and seem a lot colder to everyone around me, to the point that they think I'm sick and hand me a puke-bucket.
Then, once the day comes, I may puke some times over the day, then when the actual moment comes, I usually first go "ah, that wasn't so bad", after which I fall onto the chair again, I lose my vision and hearing, I can't feel anything besides aggressive raindrops shooting onto my body from all sides, and I feel incredibly incredibly sick. After 2 - 3 minutes I can stand up again and I can go in about 5 minutes.

BUT! If the needle isn't too long and aiming isn't too hard, doing it myself feels a lot more managable. Especially since I'm the one in control and I know what I'm doing.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

It sounds like what you need is an auto injector. I had the same life-threatening fear feeling and doing my injections was agonizing and took hours and involved crying.

I figured there had to be a better way. Turns out online you can find devices that will hold a syringe and stab it for you using a spring loaded mechanism. I spent like $80 on mine.

Definitely look into it. Injections only take a few minutes with one and there's no fear and less pain since it is a fast precise stab.

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