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Tymlos injection question

Posted by babbsjoy @babbsjoy, Sep 12 8:39am

I am about a month into my Tymlos opportunity. I notice that sometimes (not always) I have a droplet of medicine adhering to the tip of the needle when I remove it from my stomach. I do wait until the count of 30 before removing it….Is this common? I do not want to waste a drop of this stuff! I do stand up to inject, as I feel uncomfortable with idea of doing it laying down—but will try if this is the answer? Thanks!

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alicevondall | @alicevondall | Sep 17 8:30am
In reply to @windyshores "@alicevondall you flick with your finger to get air bubbles out and shoot 80mcg into the..." + (show)
@windyshores

@alicevondall you flick with your finger to get air bubbles out and shoot 80mcg into the air, holding the pen upright. This needs to be done with every new pen.

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Oh my gosh-I have not been priming it correcting. Thank you so much!

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njx58 | @njx58 | Sep 17 8:52am
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@windyshores

@njx58 are you unable to see where you injected recently?

That is a lot of work. I know people who do this kind of thing with insulin, pump and CGM insertions- again over many years.

I just don't want people to worry too much about this with Tymlos or Forteo 🙂 But I am sure your system makes it easy for you!

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No, I can't see where I injected recently. Sometimes there is a mark, but often there's nothing. And, some spots are old. Also, being male, there's some hair there, so that kind of hides things. There is no way I'd be able to just see where yesterday's injection was.

It's really not any work. I open my notebook, I see exactly where I injected yesterday and where I should inject today. There's no guessing and no visual inspection needed, and it guarantees that I rotate the sites between left and right. When I get a new pen, I just create a new page numbered 1 to 30, and that's it. It's very easy, and more important, it works for me.

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