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Explaining an injection to a five-year-old

Started 15 July 2024 · 17 replies · 221 hearts · read 3.8k times

ZenBristol, UK · 15 July 2024
2 years ago

Explaining an injection to a five-year-old Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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

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 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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#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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HannahSheffield, UK
#2

the opening post 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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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NanNeath, UK
#4

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

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LuPreston, UK
#5

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

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GillyWorcester, 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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NemoneLewes, UK
#7

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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SalmaManchester, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, 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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MarkCoventry, UK
#9

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

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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BobbieRochdale, UK
#10

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

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BexPlymouth, UK
#11

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

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

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PipBristol, UK
#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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TasnimBradford, UK
#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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NualaArmagh, NI
#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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OskarWarsaw, PL
#15

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

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#17

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

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