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Injection anxiety

The two hours before are worse than the ten seconds

Started 18 February 2025 · 17 replies · 165 hearts · read 2.4k times

ZoëHackney, UK · 18 February 2025
1.4 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: The two hours before are worse than the ten seconds

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

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.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#1

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#2

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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NadirCasablanca, MA
#3

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

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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GavinDundee, UK
#4

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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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#5

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

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

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IslaOban, UK
#6

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#7

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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BrackAlnwick, UK
#8

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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

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TedIpswich, UK
#9

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

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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GaelanInverurie, UK
#10

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#11

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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SableCape Town, ZA
#12

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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CatoAntwerp, BE
#13

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#14

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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DelythBala, UK
#15

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#16

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

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#17

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

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

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