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Originally Posted by Debbie D View Post
Glad to hear the injections are going well, sweetie...
how do you inject manually? Do you pinch up some skin?

Dr W told me I didn't have to do the top of the thighs or the arms. In fact, he said if I just wanted to do the love handles of the hips, the tummy and the outside of the thighs where there's a fat pad, it's fine. He told me some of his patients only do the tummy.

I have real lumpy, discolored upper thighs where the quads are. Never going there again!!

Glad to hear that Daisy's doing well...
Yes Debbie,

I just pinch up some fatty skin, stick the needle in then let go of the skin. Then I inject slowly for about ten seconds, remove the needle and hold a cotton ball over the spot firmly without rubbing for about 30 seconds. It's very easy to do actually. I used to get much worse site reactions using the autoinjector.

I've been doing the injection before my shower and it's working great! I'm going to double up on my fatty areas and skip my arms altogether because I have some old dents there that are finally filling in and I don't want that to happen again.

Also, I take half of a Zyrtec at night for my allergies and that might affect the site reactions this time around.
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