Yesterday was my cycle day 3 ultrasound and everything looked good. So I was told to start the Follistim that evening. I was some what excited about moving on with this cycle, but very apprehensive about giving myself shots.
So last night about 9pm I went in the kitchen and gathered my supplies.
I’m using the Gonal-F pen that I ended up purchasing from a now pregnant woman who no longer needed it. But more on that later. I decided to do my first shot in my upper thigh. I figured it would be easier because I could completely see the area and it was like a target. Where as on my stomach I didn’t feel like I would have 100% control. So I dialed the pen to the correct dosing, sat down at the dining room table and used an alcohol swab to clean the area.
Then I froze.
I mean seriously...how was I going to give myself a shot?!?! I mean who wants to stab themselves with sharp objects for fun, well besides heroine users and people with mental health problems. Which thankfully I am neither.
By this time I had an audience. Mr.B was standing there watching me and telling me to hurry up and just do it or let him do it for me. Then his friend was standing there watching as well, because it was cool to see me give myself a shot I guess. For a moment I though about letting hubby do it, but he had this evil look to him. The look of “here babe...let me stab you with this needle, muahahaha” So I passed. At one point I tried to “feel” how sharp the needle was with my finger, but Mr.B told me to stop before I made contact. Why I was ok with poking my finger and not my leg I will never know. I mean it was stupid considering I would then have had 2 needle pokes. The things we do to procrastinate, lol.
I did finally ask him to get me an ice cube so I could numb the area. After numbing it 4-5 times, because I kept waiting to long and the area was no longer numb, I finally got the courage to stick the needle in...
...and it didn’t hurt at all!!!
Seriously, there was like .05 seconds of a pinch and that was it! I thought to myself “I was really this upset over this?”
I still don’t think I could ever be a heroine addict, as it still wasn’t something I’d do for “fun”. But none the less I think the next several days will go by much easier than I thought. Well until I have to shoot myself in the hip, that one I am not looking forward to. But in the end if we get our baby I will know it was all worth it.
5 witty comments.:
I was the same way!! My husband was waaaay too excited to stick me with needles!! :)
I hated giving myself the needles, I am lucky, my husband is in the medical field so he had no problems with stabbing me with a needle and would get very impatient with me when I tried to do it myself.
By the end of the two weeks of shots I found I was getting to be an expect at it!! I was even able to get it done in a bathroom stall at work...lol
Good Luck with this cycle!
ICLW #97
I found ice helps tremendously!! And I never understood how drug addicts can do this! All the best to you... happy ICLW!
Good for you for doing the shot yourself. I always have my husband do it. LOL on your comment about never being a heroin addict. I couldn't either.
Stopping by from ICLW. Starting my follistim injections tomorrow, glad to hear it's not that bad, I have been nervous about it. GL this cycle!
~ICLW 110
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