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Injection anxiety

I delayed by three days and felt terrible about it

Started 30 October 2025 · 15 replies · 125 hearts · read 2.5k times

SableCape Town, ZA · 30 October 2025
9 months ago

I delayed by three days and felt terrible about it Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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OmarAmman, JO
#1

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#2

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#3

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#4

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#5

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#6

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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SaraOslo, NO
#7

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BrackAlnwick, UK
#8

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#9

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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DelythBala, UK
#10

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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GaelanInverurie, UK
#11

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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CatoAntwerp, BE
#12

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#13

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#14

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GavinDundee, UK
#15

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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