Nothing better then giving a mass over view of my doctor's appointment to the general public via this blog.
No. There was absolutely no sarcasm in that statement. I promise.
Like I said earlier today, I was absolutely terrified to go into this doctor's appointment today. I knew I was learning how to inject myself with this new medication of mine, which doing anything new is scary. However, when I looked at the box, I realized I wouldn't be injecting just one "pen" into myself, but rather four. And the last time I got any sorts of injections/shots (i.e. the devil shots), I was in lots of pain after we injected them.
To say I was nervous was a huge understatement.
Well, the doctor who taught me how to do it was absolutely amazing. Seriously, she was super friendly, and answered every question I had thrown at her. She needed to verify some things about my current medication before we went over the proper way to inject those lovely pens. But she did answer everything, including the ever important "Will it hurt...."
Now about the actual injection. It's an interesting feeling to know you will be injecting yourself with medication, that sort of hurts, but not really. The pens are easy enough to actually do, just hold up some extra skin in my thigh area and hold down the pen for 10 seconds. Not too bad, the whole holding the skin part is more annoying then anything else. All I could think of for every pen (I did three on my own; the one she administered didn't hurt at all, but mine kinda had a little sting to it...) was that it was a suction cup whenever I hit the actual pump. Once again, really weird little action, but it's over within 10 seconds and then I just move on to the next pen.
There was a bit of blood, which of course scares me whenever I have any sort of blood, but I got four different band aids (not fun looking ones.....FAIL). I giggled going home thinking to myself how I would look completely broken if someone knew I had four different band aids all over my legs. On top of that really hot looking leg bruising or whatever.
Anyway, now I have to actually invest in a planner because I have to keep on top of when I'm injecting these pens. The next time I have is the beginning of December I believe where I will be using 2 pens, and then every two weeks I will be injecting myself with 1 pen. So only 10 seconds of uncomfortableness. YESSSSS!! So far there isn't really any side effects, but that happened last time too. I'm hoping that everything is going to go wonderfully with these injections. The only problem is I have to do some blood work, but luckily I can work this with my blood thinning blood work. The BIGGEST problem will probably be actually getting the blood outta my veins because that's been a huge fail any time I have gone to blood work.
But that's the update on my life from today. Tomorrow is a day to spend on the phone with mail order companies and billing offices. Wonderful day off huh? I lead pretty much the most exciting life in the world. And I wouldn't have it any other way....
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