It's funny about injecting when you startle easily

[twopack]

Since reading other people's confessions, I've been very careful about making sure I uncap the Copaxone needle when using the auto-injector.  Don't want to waste that precious, expensive Teva nector.  So I created my own unique fopa (or maybe not, if someone else is willing to admit it).  Here goes.

I'm injecting my arm tonight.  Load it - check.  Uncap it - check.  Position - check.  Inject - misfire.  Second attampt -  trigger won't budge.  What's up with that?  Third time will be the charm right?  Ready...Set...Go.  It worked!  But one of my hyperreactive startle reflexes now kicks in causing my injecting hand to pull away while shooting a steady stream of Copaxone in a graceful arc across the bathroom mirror and ceiling.  Shoot - yeah, that's what it did.

Hey, at least I remembered to take the cap off!

Mary

[Lulu54]

Thanks for reminding me we have to stop and laugh at ourself at times.  After all of our discusion last week about autoinjector pens and caps and wasting dosages, guess what I did the other night?

Yep.  Left the cap on. Then I'm not even sure what I did trying to back the pressure off because the next thing I knew I had copax on me instead of in me.So much for having worked out a solution to this problem.

This is the 4th or 5th time I have done this in 18+ months - each time I am pretty unhappy but have learned to not cry over spilled copax.

[jensequitur]

Done that too!  Splat...  Looks like that expensive medication won't take the finish off my table - there's that, at least.