• doug@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    My spouse administers their own shots for their Chron’s disease medication; are the shots pretty much like… the tubular thingies wherein the needle’s kinda hidden and all you feel is the prick after pressing a button? Or is it like… the full-on here’s-a-fucking-needle-good-luck-chump shot?

    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      It’s been years since I took them, but at the time I used something that looks like the image below. Not a huge needle, and injected into an area with fatty tissue like the thigh or stomach so didn’t really hurt either.