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I prefer using a syringe over the pen because i want to be in control of my injections and i think that it’s really powerful if you have control over your medication and you have power over your pain so for somebody who suffers from anxiety and someone who has gone through so many things i’m just i’m just so proud of myself that i’m able to do syringes because i
Always grew up really afraid of needles and this is very very simple so a couple things for you to know about each of these is they both have pros and cons but i will say that i have a lot of experience using this kind of method and i prefer a syringe over an auto-injector pen and i’ll explain why i did use an auto-injector pen for about three years and it’s
Always recommended for you to start with the pen because it is the easiest way for you to get the serum into you if you’re a beginner so basically the way an auto-injector pen works is that you take both the caps off this cap has a high-powered spring that is in a button and inside is the vial and then there’s a very small very sharp needle at the other end so
Basically a high-powered spring is activated once you hit the button and it shoots it into you it works the same way that you would use a pricker if you prick your fingers to check your blood levels if you’re diabetic it works the same way now the only thing that i would say about this that is a positive is that you can’t see the needle you really can’t see any
Of the mechanics in here so if you’re a visual person if you’re visually scared by needles this is probably the best bet for you because you don’t see any needles you don’t see what happens to you all you do is hit the button and it’s supposed to inject itself at such a intense rate that it will break the skin so you really don’t have to worry about inserting
Anything here are some cons about it though it does make a very loud clicking noise it can be very alarming it does hurt even if you leave it out for a while it can hurt more than a syringe it really won’t hurt that much but i just don’t like using an auto-injector pen anymore because i like to be in control i like to be the one that’s inserting the needle inside
Of me i like to be able to insert the needle at my own rate and i don’t like the idea of stabbing myself in the stomach because it’s kind of like shooting yourself or stabbing yourself in the stomach with something and by hitting a button i don’t know i just don’t like it mentally a lot of people will say that if you have some anxiety issues hitting this button
Can actually be really scary for you granted i only have to do it like a couple times a month but honestly after three years i looked for other options because hitting the button just became this big deal and i didn’t like the noise that makes i’m very auditorally sensitive i guess so those are basically all the things i have to say about the humira pen is that
If you are a visual person this hides any mechanics and you won’t be able to see it and you can always have somebody hit the button for you that’s what’s great about it so easy to use however i just don’t like how intense it is and i don’t like the idea of shooting myself in the stomach anyway but i mean you do what you got to do to make yourself healthy right so
Anyway i’m gonna push this guy kind of forward so i started looking into syringes i had a lot of questions and basically i kind of just answered all the questions myself by doing this one time in a doctor’s office with a nurse practitioner so she was able to answer all my questions right then and there and right away i immediately knew that i wanted to do syringes
So syringes first of all the same vial is in here that’s in the humera pen okay unless you’ve changed your milligrams it’s all the same the needle is actually the same as well so the needle that’s in here is also identical so the syringe what i like about the syringe is that you have a lot of control over the speed that you’re delivering the serum into you okay
With this it inject sit into you in a ten second period it could be really intense and that’s a lot of burning with this i can inject this as slow as i want and the great thing is that if i inject it into me and i notice i can feel the pain starting like i notice that it burns i can slow it down and i can inject this as slow as i want to inside of me and that’s
What i really like about it is that if i feel the burn coming from the citric acid i can just slow it down and that is less painful for me and also there’s no springs there’s no crazy noises it’s not like a gun where i feel like i have to push a button and i mentally have to psych myself to press a button the only thing that i had to teach myself is how to hold
It and it’s actually very comfortable to hold because it has these nice little thing holder’s in it it’s kind of like holding a pen like if you were to poke somebody with a pen which you shouldn’t do but um that’s kind of like what it’s like and it’s very comfortable the only thing that i had to teach myself how to do is just how to get it into my skin at the right
Angle you just have to practice a 45-degree angle and the great thing about this is the needle on it is so small and so skinny that you really don’t have to poke it inside of you if you wanted to the needle on this is so small that you could probably just like press it into you the way that you would do a blood lab i actually do it that way sometimes sometimes i give
It a poke and it goes in and then sometimes i just kind of press it into the skin and it just kind of goes in the way that a blood lab flying needle i think they’re called fly needles or maybe they’re called butterfly needles i don’t know it’s just such a small needle that it’s just so easy to place inside of you and i can do it as slow as i want and it doesn’t
Leave any bruises because it’s not high prized by a spring so i just prefer syringes if you’re starting off with the pen maybe after a little while if you want to try syringes it’s so easy all i did is i just called up my doctor and i said hey i have some questions can i have a nurse practitioner do one of these with me and that’s what i did and i did one with a
Nurse practitioner and then i went home and two weeks later i was able to do it all by myself so i don’t know i prefer using a syringe over the pen because i want to be in control of my injections and i think that it’s really powerful if you have control over your medication and you have power over your pain so for somebody who suffers from anxiety and someone who
Has gone through so many things i’m just i’m just so proud of myself that i’m able to do syringes because i always grew up really afraid of needles and this is very very simple and it’s very easy to use and also i want you guys to kind of look at how small this is me just show you in comparison to something else how small this is so this is a pen look at how small
That syringes it’s really nothing so if you’re the kind of person that’s afraid of if you’re afraid of needles or you’re afraid of shots this is just so tiny that for me it’s not scary and after talking to a nurse practitioner a couple times about it and i did one with her it just it was so easy for me it went into the skin so easy and i just wasn’t nervous about
It anymore so to just take that anxiety out of my life i’m so glad that i made the switch and i will show you a tutorial on how i do it very soon but for anybody that’s just starting humira and they want to know what it’s like i would prefer to use syringes just because it was really no different than learning how to use the pen and it’s so much less stressful so
Like i said if you’re starting off out there you can try both and see which one you like but i prefer the syringe because it’s just less painful it’s not as scary and it’s just not this big ordeal so that’s all i have to say look out for my tutorial coming soon so that you can actually see how it works if you want to know what it’s like to use an auto-injector pen
I have a tutorial on how to use an auto-injector pen i do it my stomach and it just shows me what it looks like how fast it goes into you and it also it can also give you an idea on what it sounds like you can kind of hear the click in my tutorial so if you’re interested in that go check it out it’s not my chip you
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Humira Pens vs. Humira Syringes By #That crohnslife