Mornin' everyone!! Raining a lot here in Naperville...my DD up in Stevens Point has a winter storm warning...she was hoping for a snow day...kids in her 8th grade class are a bit antsy...welcome to teaching!! No learning gets done in Dec.
Feeling a bit better this morning...shot my other thigh, and did get a welt, but much smaller. Thanks for all the advice...
I don't have a car today, so I guess I should get some homework done...blech...

Debbie, have you tried injecting in your stomach area? When I was on Copaxone and Beta I used that area and it's amazingly painfree! Could have something to do with all the padding there! :rolleyes: I also tried injecting manually - which is no small feat for me as I am the biggest needle weenie around - and it was so easy and much less painful than that aggressive autoinjector. I knew it was going to "pop" yet I still jumped a foot each time...sometimes even withdrawing the needle when I'd jump. :mad:

I don't use either of those meds any longer but I remember how much easier and how less painful it became once I did it manually (and in the stomach area).

Good luck! :)

make sure the depth setting isnt set too deep, that helps too, i have injected twice without the injector thingy and it was smoother but no way I am a bigger needle weenie kelly lol bak bak bak i went back to injector

Good rainy morning all. :rain: It was a little surreal checking the weather last night and having it be warmer at midnight than it was at noon. Wacky weather.

Sitting here planning my day. Today is one for clean, clean, clean. Of course, first step is coffee. ;)

Hoping everyone has a great day! :grouphug:

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Debbie D, Glad to hear you're feeling better. Glad the advice about C helped a little. It takes time for those site reactions to go down. I never believed it until it started to happen to me. :hug:

Weave, :hug:

Renee, I had to laugh at the Starbuck flirt. I have one of those too, but he toned it down since the one time I brought hubby in. My hubby is a short italian (5'9") that looks like a cop, so I think he got skeered. :D Glad things are looking up for ya. :hug:

Kelly and Sarah, glad to hear you guys are starting to feel better. :hug:

Good morning everyone!

DebbieD - It does get easier with time. I no longer do my thighs as there just isn't enough fat there and I would have terrible reactions. The stomach is my favorite place to shoot. Additionally, like Kelly, I tried the autoinjector and had more reactions than when I did it myself. I manually inject.

Warm the area up a bit before shooting and then ice it down after. Someone posted that they shower before doing their shot. I tried it and it works for me. I have been on C for almost 3 years now (3 years this coming March) and have only had 3 bad IPIRs. It does become just ordinary routine and I don't even really think about it anymore.

Weave - I had to giggle at your post about the haircoloring. DD18 wanted to dye her hair darker yesterday. She is a dirty blonde and wanted to go brown. She called me from Sally's Beauty Supply yesterday asking about some color - medium brown vs. chestnut.:eek: I told her neither as they would be way too dark and since she has light skin it would make her look very pale and sickly. She went with a dark blonde (my natural color) and it worked out great.

However, she had me do it and I was not having a good MS day yesterday; lots of tremors, jerking, etc. as well as a little cog fog. Needless to say, I missed a few spots. Thank goodness she has a good sense of humor, doesn't worry too much about her hair, AND it was only a demi permanent color. She now has dark blonde hair with blonde highlighting (not sure how I managed that "mistake" but it looks good) and the tips of her hair are a golden medium blonde.

Oh and her chocolate Hersey's kiss (white chocolate w/peppermint) got dyed as a tremor hit and I missed. LOL. She just cracked up about that.

Renee - Sorry I missed that post (or maybe I didn't and didn't remember - you know how that goes. LOL) I am glad you are enjoying being single. Have fun with it.:hug:

Kelly - It is hard to budget on a fixed income. Plus, you only get that once a month. All my bills are paid at the beginning of the month when I get the SSDI check.

Sox - Thanks. A couple of years ago DBF and I went on a mini vacation to a small town that he grew up in. The couple that we went with and DBF and I dressed up in all these old fashion clothes and hats and went out bar hopping (hence the Budweiser sign in the back and the color being off). It was a fun, fun night.;) Being that it is now that time of year, I changed it to my winter avatar.

Hi everyone else I know I missed. Hope you are doing well today.

Oh, I know I posted this in the Stumble Inn but thought I would post here as well just in case you didn't see this. Last night we put up our tree and while decorating it, Tux decided to hang out underneath. DD18 took this funny picture of him under the tree.

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/k...k/IMG_0495.jpg

She's such a cute cat! I cannot get used to calling her a "she", though. :p

We're having the same problem. LOL But it is very apparent she loves Christmas as she sits laughing under the tree.:p

Tkrik, Oh what an adorable kitty little Ms Tux is! :D

Renee, I'm glad you're having some fun, you deserve it! :hug:

DebbieD, I took Copaxone for 18 months and I used to have lots of good tips... :Scratch-Head:

I did the shot right after the shower, but I didn't do any icing afterward since it just seemed to make mine get more irritated. I had to adjust the depth of the injector since I was still pretty thin at that time, especially in the arms and legs. The heinie and stomach were my easiest spots.

I'd never reinject into another spot until all signs of the last injection were completely healed. I'd move a few inches over.

I waited a long time to start manual injecting and wish I'd done it sooner. The site reactions were less and also the pain. It wasn't that hard either since it's a small needle. (I'd started out self-injecting with Avonex and that's an intra-muscular shot.)

My update:

I was very sick last night, at about 2:30am. I felt like I was going to die, DH was terrified, he kept asking if he should call an ambulance. I had an intestinal reaction to something I ate. If I have an allergy to a food that's what happens, severe illness in the middle of the night. DH was so scared...

I ate a half of a pomegranate for a snack yesterday, the first time I'd eaten one... I get the same reaction if I eat shellfish.

I haven't been that sick in decades from an allergy... It's a good reminder to me that I don't want to chance eating even just one piece of shrimp... I'm still sick today but working anyway. It isn't anything compared to last night... :yikes:

Frank and Deb,

You two are very talented. I love those trees! :)

Sorry you were sick, Wiz. I hope you feel better....and no more pomegranate for you!