I have been using the auto injector for 12 days now. I wouldn't be able to do it myself without it and I really want to make it work.

I spoke to a nurse at our local MS center who told me that they just tell everyone to use an 8 setting to avoid going in too shallow. She told me to watch for welts as that could be a sign I'm not in deep enough. I also talked to a nurse at Shared Solutions who actually asked me some questions about my injection areas and thought that an 8 should work just fine for me.

This all is starting to concern me that maybe I'm not getting the medicine in deep enough. Last night I got the hugest welt so I called Shared Solutions again. The nurse told me that it sounded like I'm going in too deep and to take my setting down to a 6. What????

Now this doesn't make a lick of sense to me. When we were doing the injections by hand, we put the needle all the way in. I can't imagine, even on the highest depth setting, that the auto injector can put the needle in any deeper than it is long. Can it? Also one nurse is telling me welts mean too shallow and another that welts mean too deep.

I am assuming that I am misunderstanding something about how the auto injector works, but I wish that someone would explain it to me. I have three nurses I have talked to the same questions I am asking now, but nobody seems to be very informative and I'm getting conflicting information. I assume that the Shared Solutions nurses are probably the experts on Copaxone and the Autoject, and maybe I should just relax and trust that they know what they're talking about. I just wish it made sense in my head.