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As many of you read earlier this year I hurt my knee and the outcome was blood clots in both lungs and down the large vein in my right leg...they call that "deep vein trombosis" Anyway 4 months have passed since then and I have been taking a blood thinner called Cumiden,and at my last Dr visit a few days ago I found out I will have to take this medicine for the rest of my life. I have been getting upper eppidurals that have been helping with severe back pain from the RSD and deterioriating disc's in my spine. So now I have to do this thing called bridging therapy, it consists of stopping the Cumiden about a week before the eppidural procedure and for a few days afterwords,then back to the Cumiden. During this period of not taking the blood thinner I have to give my self shots in the stomach twice a day hence"bridging therapy" my gosh....I hate needles none the less intentionally sticking my self in the stomach for a couple of weeks ,twice a day. SO! Has any one else had to do this? Is it as nasty as it sounds? Painfull? Do not need any more pain! Big Chicken! Franknberrie |
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Wow! That sounds very painful. I have a friend who has to give herself shots in the stomach. I don't think the reason is the same, but just to have to do it is enough. How is your RSD? Is it just generalized in one area? Hope your having a minimally, painfree day. Sylvia |
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Hi SylviaMarie, I have upperbody RSD, its in both arms n hands and across my shoulders and down my spine to t8. RSD started in August of 2000 a few days after a left hand carpal tunnel surgury. I had a right hand carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand in 94 along with unler nerve transpositions on both elbows then too. Since then both ulner nerves have trapped down with scar tissue from being poorly done, the left elbo was redone to remove scar tissue from the ulner nerve 3 months after the RSD started in 2000....the comp DR thought that is what was causing the burning in my left hand...the outcome was spreading the RSD to my other arm and hand and the shoulders and mid back. I have had a total of 7 nerve surguries on my arms since 94....i am guessing that is why the RSD spread so fast and furiously, there were a lot of pain generators for all of the nerve damage on my arms.My fingers turn in like I am making a 1/2 fist and my arms tend to come into my body and twist....I type with my 2 index fingers. My arms are pretty much useless, if I try to do very much with them I pay for it with a severe flare up of pain and my whole body goes into a heavy sweat and feels like my body is about at the boiling point. A long cool shower will calm it down but then I have to relax and lay down. Franknberrie |
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Injections hurting? Not really, it's really mind over matter in this case. I was diagnosed as a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic at the age of 14, and at that time I was deathly afraid of needles. My father actually has passed out at the site of them in doctors offices before, so needing to give myself injections multiple times/day of insulin was something I didn't really have a choice of wanting to do or not. Type 1 diabetes cannot be treated with pills and unfortunately it can never "go away" no matter how much I excercise/eat right (I've even tried this too).
Basically long story short, if your giving yourself injections in your stomach, never go closer than 2 inches around your belly button and make sure you do it in an area that you have fat. Basically if you are very super skinny, you'll have to give yourself the injection sideways in the stomach instead of straight in.
The pain of injections is in your head. Here's what I do and it's worked for years and still does today. All you do when your are ready to do the injection is start pushing the needle in very lightly to the site where you plan to inject it, and if that hurts really bad, just pick up the needle and move it right next to where it hurt and do the injection right there, because the way the nerves work for injections is basically if you hit it enough in one spot, right next to it and right around it for some reason you won't feel a thing when you go to do your injection if you've already hurt in one spot.
Avoid super fatty spots, or places you may not get it far enough down to go underneath the skin/fat to absorb. They usually tell you a whole bunch of other crap too, but this is the general practice I've been using now for over 15 years with needles and I average 4 injections/day myself. My only issue now is years of needles are all piled up and I don't have the money to go get the sharps containers for all of them LOL...I also plan on getting the insulin pump soon so it'll take me down to one shot every 3 days then....that sounds like a pipe dream!!!!
Anyway, good luck with the shots, and you'll find out yer making a mountain out of an ant hill.... :-)
Take care!
~Phil |
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Hi Phillip; Thank you for the wealth of information on giving your self insulan shots, I used to give them to my grandmother before you were born but none the less I just dont like being stuck with a needle. Thirty four years ago I was in a motorcycle accident with a car that turned in front of me...bang! two broken femurs and the one on the right was a compound, then things were a little different. I did develop a blood clot in my calf and 6 weeks after the accident the clot went into my lung...much worse pain that this time by far and I was only 20 years old. Here is how I was treated then...every 4 hours a nurse would come and give me a shot in the stomach but these were much different that an insulan shot, these needles were long and had to go into the lining of the stomach...this went on for 12 days. During this time they had me flat on my back and I wasnt alowed to move, they actually had 4 inch straps to hold me in bed so I wouldnt accidently roll over when trying to sleep but this was only for the first few days. The shots hurt bad, bring tears to my eyes. I was at the Cumiden clinic since I posted and found out that I will not have to do it the old way....what a relief! What I have to do is exactly what you described but you give me a little more info than I had like moving the needle. Thats really great Phillip, thanks for the additional information and for posting it as well. Its people like you that bring life to the group buy giving of your own experiances and sharing them. Frank (Franknberrie) Asst. Manager |
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