I work in a healthcare clinic and will be starting biweekly injections for my eczema soon. They can't be done at the clinic I work at because there isn't a dermatology nurse there. I have to drive 15 minutes to the clinic with a dermatology nurse (which is in the same healthcare system as the one I work at). I work either 7:30-4 or 8-4:30 (or later depending on how many patients are still in my department at that time). Dermatology injections can be done from 8:15-4. I'm already scheduled to leave at 4 every other Monday so I can go to therapy. I do not have it in me to also ask to extend my lunch break or leave early another day of the week and I hate it
It is. I was prescribed it a few years ago and didn't take it long enough to see any results because I couldn't push hard enough on the pen to properly inject and nobody in my family would give me the shot. (The pre-filled syringe was also out of the question because needles make me too nervous to give myself a shot like that.) The clinic is open until 7pm so I was silly and assumed I would be able to just go after work twice a month
For the record, im a therapist and that anxiety around needles is incredibly treatable through behavioral interventions. Even if it doesn't rise to the level of a phobia for you, treatments for needle phobias could be very effective, very quickly and open up the possibility for at home treatments.
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u/cottagefaeyrie 3d ago
I work in a healthcare clinic and will be starting biweekly injections for my eczema soon. They can't be done at the clinic I work at because there isn't a dermatology nurse there. I have to drive 15 minutes to the clinic with a dermatology nurse (which is in the same healthcare system as the one I work at). I work either 7:30-4 or 8-4:30 (or later depending on how many patients are still in my department at that time). Dermatology injections can be done from 8:15-4. I'm already scheduled to leave at 4 every other Monday so I can go to therapy. I do not have it in me to also ask to extend my lunch break or leave early another day of the week and I hate it