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(Message started by: Patrick_A on Aug 7^th, 2003, 10:42pm)

Title: Care package received!
Post by Patrick_A on Aug 7^th, 2003, 10:42pm

Thanks to you, I wont have to suffer this week-end. Thanks to you i will be able to get by relatively painfree till i go see my Neuro Wednesday. I thank you with all of my heart, It makes me feel good to know people care enough to share!
Looking forward till when i can share also!

PFDANAWF,
Patrick

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by Patrick_A on Aug 8^th, 2003, 12:47am

hmmmm, Seems i dont know how to use this dagblame Injector thingy, Looks like 2 blue tubes is all to me. Am i missing some other hardware here?

LOL....Dammit, Should have went to College!

Patrick

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by Hound_Dogg on Aug 8^th, 2003, 4:58am

Patrick,

The imitrex Stat-dose (which is the injector with the blue tubes) comes in two parts. The injector "welcome kit" is a Gray box , a little larger then a cigarette pack. It comes with the stat-dose pen and a place you can put those "2 blue tubes". You normally get that with your first prescription of trex. The second part is the two blue tubes that are connected together.

Sounds like you're missing the Injector kit. Let us know...

Jim

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by stuey on Aug 8^th, 2003, 11:16am

I didn't have the statdose injector at first. If you use a sharp instrument you should be able to get one of the injections out of the blue tubes. If you can take it out you can slide the injection into the top part of your leg (I have always made sure the part of the needle that has the little scoop on it is on top before i inject myself, and using something thin at the top push the medication in and you will see a little black part coming down and you will feel a slight burn as the imitrex enters the skin. I use only half the liquid at a time. I hope you get the statdose pen because even if you do what I just said it's much easier to screw the statdose pen into the injection to pull it out and then do what I said. This probably makes no sense but I hope maybe some of it does. Stuey

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by vig on Aug 8^th, 2003, 11:18am

I have extra injectors.

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by maggie_may on Aug 8^th, 2003, 12:34pm

I also have extra injectors.

Lots of us only use them to get the vial out of the tube so we can inject the 1/3 or 1/2 to stretch out what little Imitrex our insurance companies let us have. That little of the med actually does work as well as a full dose 99.999% of the time. Personally, I don't use them at all. I just get the vial out with my fingernail and push in the meds with a q-tip.

maggie

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by River_Rat on Aug 8^th, 2003, 12:47pm

You can get the glass injection out simply using a butter knife, just slide it under the lip and pry it up, be clean!

LEE

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by Big_Dan on Aug 8^th, 2003, 3:50pm

on 08/08/03 at 12:47:51, River_Rat wrote:

You can get the glass injection out simply using a butter knife, just slide it under the lip and pry it up, be clean!

LEE

LOL... no offence to LEE or anyone else in their syringe removal techniques... but needle nose pliers (damnit I can't spell today) were made for jobs like this...

;D

-Big McGyver

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by Patrick_A on Aug 8^th, 2003, 5:30pm

Thanks ya'll, I got it figured now!

Patrick is so Gel'in!

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by Linda_Howell on Aug 8^th, 2003, 6:02pm

I recieved another care pkg today too.

I laughed my fool head off. she sent it with instructions.

She who is "enroute"... You're fuckin nuts......

Linda, who doesn't need instructions in nasel sprays.

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by River_Rat on Aug 9^th, 2003, 11:23am

WOW! Dan, when I read that I laughed my ass off, I suppose that would work the best, I guess I'm just to lazy to walk down to the garage to get a pair. ;D

LEE

Title: Re: Care package received!
Post by FrankF on Aug 9^th, 2003, 11:39am

on 08/08/03 at 18:02:41, Linda_Howell wrote:

The first time I used a nasal spray I didn't know how it worked so I wasted it... sprayed my shirt.