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Hi everyone, I've just been to see my consultant & am being taken off methotrexate tablets & going on to the injections instead. I'm not worried about taking it in a different form but am a little worried about being able to overcome injecting as I hate needles. So, does it just become something you get used to & I'm just worrying for no reason? - I have my injecting training next week! Thanks Louise  
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Hi there I inject every week with methotrexate. I had a lot of trouble getting my head round the idea of injecting myself. My sister was shown how to do it and she did the first 3 or 4 for me. One week she wasnt available and I had to do it myself. All that worrying for nothing. I always do it myself now. It is painless and quick and nothing to worry about. Hope that helps. Louise
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Thanks for the reassurance  My hubby is coming with me next week as he said he will do it if I'm nervous & my mother-in-laws a phlebotomist so going to have a good chat with her. I think it's mind over matter with me at the moment as you said
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I am no longer on it because of a reaction, but injecting was easy. The needle is very fine. If you sit down pinch an inch around your tummy (no offence) you will have a nice soft easy target. You need to rotate the injection sites. Some nurses tell you to do tummy right and left and thing right and left over a four week period. But I did all 4 spread across my tummy as I did not fancy injecting a muscly thigh. Good luck Paul Barrett
Hexham - Northumberland - Loads of spectacular walks - all I need now are the joints to go with them! :)
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I changed to injecting MTX a few years ago and it is a doodle...honest. Never really feel a thing. Like Paul said I pinch the area, I think it numbs it a little, inject the needle, push the plunger down and it is over and done with in a few seconds. Must add here that once the needle is in let the area go, don't keep squeezing it or you will like I found out be left with a nice bruise. I inject MTX into my tummy and Enbrel into the top of my legs, left side one week, right side the next.
I did see on another forum that someone who like you didn't like needles, injected themselves by looking at what they were doing through a mirror, I don't know if it would work but they found it helpful.
Once you've done it a few times it will be second nature to you.
Good Luck
Paula x
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Little Miss Sunshine73 wrote:Thanks for the reassurance ...... & my mother-in-laws a phlebotomist so going to have a good chat with her. To be honest the experience of taking a blood sample is no reference point. Blood samples are taken from a vein (obviously) of a relatively thick substance in quite large quantities and therefore require quite a large bore needle inserted in a muscly area By comparison MTX is a small quantity of thin liquid injected subcutaneously (into the flesh) There is no comparison. MTX is easy-peasy. Paul Barrett
Hexham - Northumberland - Loads of spectacular walks - all I need now are the joints to go with them! :)
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Hi Louise, I switched from mix tablets to injections a few years ago as I couldn't tolerate in tablet form, such a sensitive tummy!  I get my hubby to do my injections as I'm such a wimp. Good luck Love Lou xxx I love people who can make you smile even when you do not feel like smiling. x
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Thanks everyone for your replies.... Wednesday is the day!!! My hubby is coming along with me for support and he said he would do the injections if I'm not comfortable but I need to take control myself and get over the first hurdle. Hopefully I'll be reassuring newbies late down the line that its all ok Louise.
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Good Luck! Paul Barrett
Hexham - Northumberland - Loads of spectacular walks - all I need now are the joints to go with them! :)
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Ulcerative Colitis (1990)
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See - we told you so! Well Done!! Paul Barrett
Hexham - Northumberland - Loads of spectacular walks - all I need now are the joints to go with them! :)
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well done, will get easier now 
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