MIGRAINE TREATMENT
Pros & Cons: AutoInjection vs. PreFilled Syringe?
I didn’t even know I had the option. Did you?
It wasn’t until the second $700 worth of fluid spilled out of the autoinjector onto my thigh that anyone bothered to mention I had another option. And that person wasn’t my neurologist.
The new autoinjector had this odd kick that felt exactly like the kick of the old one — except for timing. New kick was just as the needle was deploying; old kick was as the needle was retracting. So you see my confusion. After a year of the old, my muscle memory took the new kick as a sign to release the pressure — and the fluid went on, rather than in, me.
Sigh.
I won’t say I like needles, but I don’t have a phobia, and I was tired of seeing all that money drip away just because I got surprised by a bit of recoil. Twice. I mean, shame on me. Not to mention each wasted shot was 3–4 weeks of added migraines.
When I complained to a friend, she told me her neurologist gave her the option of a prefilled syringe.
I had to get me one of those!
