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Self-injecting feels like a scary, painful, dangerous procedure and becomes completely boring by the third repetition.
by Scaevolus 9mo ago
Self-injecting feels like a scary, painful, dangerous procedure and becomes completely boring by the third repetition.
- s5300 9mo ago[dead]
- stavros 9mo agoIt really helps that the needles are hair-thin and short.
- firesteelrain 9mo agoThe proprietary injector mechanism like for Mounjaro makes it really easy for users. Even compounded versions of it use tiny insulin needles that have near zero pain when injected into the subcutaneous portion of like the stomach while pinched. Source: I took compounded Mounjaro and compounded Ozempic/semaglutide.
- OptionOfT 9mo agoDo you still take it? I'm looking for some more information on compounded GLP-1 and their safety.
- firesteelrain 9mo agoI stopped taking compound Mounjaro a year ago. I started semaglutide in Sept and stopped because it made me sick (throwing up, other non desirable GI effects). My body couldn’t handle semaglutide.
- sincerely 9mo agoReportedly retatruide doesn’t cause nausea in as many people, but can still cause diarrhea. May still be worth looking into if you’re interested
- kotaKat 9mo agoSimilarly, I grabbed one of the over-the-counter CGM biosensors (Stelo) to gather some data for a couple of weeks and the initial fear of "holy hell, I'm slamming a needle into my arm with something stuck to it" goes away as soon as you slap the injector release. Just one little clap sound, you feel a little pat on your arm, and the sensor's already made it where it needed to with no pain. When you remove the sensor it's a little bit of a shock when you see the sensor wire and realize just how small it was and how you never felt it run around inside your arm for a couple weeks.
- butvacuum 9mo agofyi: the impact is an intentional decision. if your nerve endings are signaling something else(hot, cold, movement, etc), a needle prick can get blurred with the rest or ignored altogether. I suspect the bang/clag CGM applicators produce are much the same. and, for me, its always been the needle moving around thats been mentally disturbing. digging around vecause they missed for the blood draw, trying to hold a large vaccination dose steady as it needs to be injected over 20seconds. So, I suspect the speed itself reduces discomfort.
- cm2187 9mo agoI concur, exactly the way I felt before and after.
- amelius 9mo agoIsn't there some long term harm to the skin if you do this often?
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoTo the skin? Probably not. Heroin addicts and presumably anyone else who frequently injects into a vein can cause damage to the veins.
- nkrisc 9mo agoSeems completely negligible to the normal amount of tiny cuts and scrapes you accumulate on any given day.
- dgares 9mo agoYes, but only if you do it in the same spot every time.
- sowbug 9mo agoInsulin users would have better answers to this question, since they might inject multiple times a day, whereas GLP-1 users typically inject only weekly. But in either case, the answer for subcutaneous injections using needles sized 29g and smaller is no.
- cperciva 9mo agoInjection drug user here. We're advised to rotate injection sites but the largest issue is actually the insulin (most of it diffuses into the bloodstream but there is a local effect, usually taking the form of increased fat accumulation at sites of repeated injection), not the "making holes in the skin" part. I don't know the pharmacokinetics of GLP-1 drugs but my guess is that they don't have the same sort of effects on SC tissue? Before I had a CGM I did somewhere around 20,000 blood glucose tests over the course of a decade using about 1 cm^2 of forearm and the skin there is clearly not in great shape -- but it's worsened on the level of "looks like the skin of someone who is a decade older or spent too long in the sun" rather than anything medically problematic.
- Projectiboga 9mo agoType 1 insulin user. One the alcohol should dry before the needle goes in. Two faster is better, within reason. Three about one in a few hundred shots hits a nerve bundle. That really hurts, but resolves after a short while. Both insulin and these GLP-1 injections are subcutaneous not intravenous which once a patient gets the skill it becomes like riding a bike, in that it becomes easier than imagined.