Degarelix

I would need to mentor them, the first one at my GP surgery I had to show the online video to the nurse as she didn't know how to do it (second time she was slightly better), then because there was a mix up the next one was done at the hospital when I had my Docetaxel, the nurse who administered it also hadn't done one before and instead of reading the instructions shook the vial as though making a cocktail and I had to tell her to stop, then explained the correct way to do it (she didn't seem impressed) as you can imagine it took a long time for the foam to clear before she could inject it and even though I said it has to be done slowly it wasn't, that one was very painful within an hour and lasted for days. Hence why I'd be happy to do it myself 

I heard just recently from an oncologist that the common skin reaction to Degarelix/Firmagon is due to getting some injection fluid on the skin surface. I can't say if this is true or not, not having had Degarelix/Firmagon myself.

I did my own HT injections, although that was Zoladex in my case. I was on it during COVID lockdowns and it was simply getting too difficult to get the injections at the right time, so I switched to doing it myself. Nurse watched first time. I would email in the batch number, expiry date, and location - left or right abdomen, for them to put in my medical records. That worked fine.

Much as I had no problem injecting the rather large Zoladex needle and it didn't hurt at all, I still look away when I'm having a blood test...