INJECTIONS AT HOME

They’ll show you and there’s instructions but it’s very simple. The first time you’ll be really nervous but it quickly becomes just something you have to do and you get your technique. Remember to take one out of the fridge half hour before. Take some loratadine, I don’t know why it works but it does help with the side effects of the injection. Was told that on here and it did help. Good luck x

If it's the kind of injection I had to do, then it's an easy one. I had to grab hold of a piece of belly, shove the thing in, press the plunger, release, discard into the sharps bin the gave me. I used to grab it right out of the fridge to inject, but different injections may have different instructions as Anna's post shows, and some don't even have to be kept refrigerated, as the one I nearly had to give myself just recently and was spared at the last moment from having to do.

It is kept in the fridge, thanks, so assuming the same one. 

It’s easy to do but I found doing them quite hard so asked my partner to help .  Good luck Tuesday xxx

Pretty much what I was first time they told me I will be doing injection myself at home, I said no way, I had district nurse to come twice to show me and then I was doing it myself, very straight forward, you get used to it, doesn’t even hurt… 

Good luck with your treatment, stay strong 

xx

Mine were exactly as Greycats describes,my ones you can also do them straight from the fridge but they advise it’s more comfortable to let them get to room temperature first, that said I never did it straight from the fridge so I don’t actually know if that’s true either way I found them quite easy x

Hey I didn’t know about the room temperature idea . Think I will try that when I re start chemo xxxx 

Are they 'normal' injections or like the insulin that you just zap into the skin? 

They are normal injections sadly . They are do able though xxx

It depends which brand they give you so you’ll get different answers to that. I’ve had two styles of self injections (others were blood thinners) and whilst they were different they were equally easy, my filgastrim was as Greycats described, stick it in and plunge, the others were a more classic injection but both designed to ge easy for self administering xx