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Avatar f tn my injections sites are fine for a few days after I give myself the pegasys, but about 3 days out a deep red spot appears about the size of a fifty cent piece and and they stay. I still have a red spot from 5 weeks ago, it has lightned but still visible. There is no infection and any other problems. It looks like the pegasys just is so disruptive to the skin it almost destroys it for awhile. Is anyone else experiencing this.
Avatar f tn My Dr told me to stay away from injecting on or near those red injection sites. I dont know for sure why, but I have followed that advice. I hope somebody with answers to this will chime in. Ive never heard of using your arms.
422881 tn?1257603579 I would like to avoid injecting in my thighs if possible due to the irritation at the injection site and the fact that my legs ache so massaging them would be difficult coupled with the irritation. I just took my 4th shot so no irritation there yet, but the first 2 places have a brown colored appearance and the 3rd site is still red, itches, and feels like a bad sunburn. All these splotches are not quite as big as a tennis ball.
1711722 tn?1356487554 I find that the injection sites start itching about a week after the injection. The injection sites also have a lot of itchy, red bumps around them. I take a Benadryl at night and apply hydrocortisone cream. I use hydrocortisone cream during the day too. It works for the injection sites. Aquaphor might work for your tummy sites. I was using just my thighs up until injections 11 and 12.
304573 tn?1345577338 Some of my stomach sites stay red for awhile, but don't hurt or itch if I keep them well lotioned. I gave up on injecting in my legs...it hurts like the dickens, gets black and blue and is leaving me with many broken capillaries that don't seem to go away. It seems the farther I am along in tx, the less problems I have with them though......
Avatar f tn In regard to injection, if u pull back and see blood does it mean you hit a.capillary,or vein or what? Last week the nurse who gave me the shot did.not pull back and check for blood. If there is blood can u withdraw needle and inject in different spot in same area?
895634 tn?1283989210 I am on infergen now, waiting for my week 12 results (got undetected on week 8)... I've heard a lot that infergen usually has a lot more/or harder side effects than pegasys, but I cannot say it applies to me. I failed pegasys treatment and switched to infergen.
Avatar m tn The nurse gave me the Pegasys injection intramuscular in my arm instead of subcutaneous? Will that have any effect on the course of treatment? Does it have the same efficacy?will I still benefit from the injection in the same intended way?
1201433 tn?1328997637 I liked to use the fatty area in my lower belly the best however, you need to rotate your injection site, so my favorite area (least painful), was not always the available option. Your meds should have come with a diagram of injection sites recommended..., or your nurse would have given you one.
Avatar n tn This is my wifes favorite site but I'm the infected one. Been on treatment for 15 wks.(interferon-Riba.) Developed rash at injection sites that don't go away and on arms neck etc. Dr. decided i'm allergic to interferon. Due shot on Saturday and was told not to inject.Going to replace interferon with Pagasis to see if I have an allergic reaction with it. itching is unbearable. Is pegasas that different that I might not get the reaction and i might not get the drug for a while.
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Avatar m tn So, in essence, you make it even more difficult to insert an injection. So, by alternating your sites, you lesson that possibility, because you give each area a longer recovery time. I can understand the difficulty in trying to give yourself the shots on the back of your arms, or on your backside hips. If my wife (who is afraid of needles and normally passes out at the sight of a needle) did not give me those shots, I couldn't do it myself.
Avatar f tn d appreciate experienced opinions. My Support Services weekly injection map/planner has only 4 sites for each arm, 8 for the hips, 10 for the thighs and 19 in the abdomen. That seems excessively burdensome for the arms and not using the abdomen enough. For some of us, sadly, there is SO much adipose territory in the abdomen I'm tempted to consider the upper and lower row of the abdomen two separate 8 site zones and go there twice in a rotation.
Avatar f tn wondering if anyone knows what the alternative injection sites are. I am on daily shots of copaxone, and I cannot reach the back hip area with the way my hands are - which is lousy.
Avatar m tn then he recommend Pegasys, injection po siya for 48 weeks, Salamat sa Dios kasi he lead me to my new Dr. I believe that God has a plan for all of us. inform you guys what will happen. after I'm going on my third week now taking this medicine after the fourth week I will have my sgpt test. I will update you guys on the result.
Avatar n tn after use of pegasys injection what is success full ratio of hepatites c patients.
Avatar n tn what should i do if pegasys injection remains outside the fridge for 18 hrs?should i use it or not?
Avatar f tn So, Pegasys and Peg-Intron are two different forms of alpha interferon, yes?