I'm needing to rotate my copaxone shots a bit more lately, so I asked my dad to give me my shot in the back of my arm tonight.

My dad is a nurse anesthetist and so he's a professional shot giver. (granted, a lot of what he gives people goes in an IV port...)

So, he picks a nice fat spot on the back of my arm (not difficult to find fat back there, I have a lot of arm apparently) and he started to give me my shot very slowly.

Almost immediately after he put the needle in my arm, and he had barely pushed the plunger in, my arm hurt really really bad! I made him take the needle out. I had pain going down my arm, and my index finger felt like there was water dripping on it. It felt like he'd hit a nerve, and that's what he thinks happened too since my middle finger felt like someone was dripping water on it.

My dad thought it was really strange, because he said the area he was injecting into was a fat spot. He said that he didnt think there should be a large area of nerves there. It was really weird.

Oh, and the stranger thing about it. My left hand has been numb off and on (mostly on) since Xmas. Today my index finger was pretty numb. Most of that numbness in the index finger and some that was in my middle finger went away after the failed attempt at the shot. (weird, but cool) I can kind of feel that creeping back in (darn!)

Anyone else ever have a similar thing happen?

My dad was glad that I made him stop the shot. He was afraid that he'd damage a nerve if he'd continued trying to give it to me. I guess the back of my left arm is off limits for shots for now. Oh well, but I have plenty of space on my backside to do shots for now.