I just wanted to say that I am no stranger to injecting myself i've been doing it for nearly two years now and have tried all the tips and tricks.
I was injecting myself for 6 months with Humira and putting up with severe site reactions that made me severly itch to the point of restraining myself from taking a scrubbing brush to it, I also got no sleep and was very uncomfortable sometimes not even being able to put clothes over the site but i still did my injections.
Then i got pulled off them and put on Enbrel which i have been injecting since january so for the last 10 month i've injected and put up with the stinging and the anxiety and the stress before i do it, so this stuggle that i'm having at the minute is not just a wim desision i havent just been offered these meds and flatly refused to do them (which i know some people personally that have done.)
I just wrote what I was feeling i dont have any friends to rant to and my family dont understand and think its easy.
I know theres loads of you out there that cope and do your injections even though they hurt like hell and i'm so glad for you i really am.
The thing is telling me to grin and bare it is your opinion which is fair enough but it doesnt help.
Thankyou for ALL your replies. SORRY RANT OVER

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Dx AS Feb 2011
Dx Posterior Scleritis 2010
Vitamin D and calcium insufficient
Started HUMIRA injections (June 2011) stopped (oct 2011)
Started ENBREL injections (Jan 2012)
dx pernicious anemia sept 2011
possible psoratic arthritis 2012