B-12 Self-Injection Question

[HappiTam 19]

Today is the day (night now) that I'm to give myself my 1st B-12 injection. I have looked at videos online to see it done, but may videos have comments debating the best site to inject at. Does anybody have any tips?

[CanyonBaby 1,852]

Sorry I can't help with that, however, if you are unsure, do you have a urgent care facility near you where you could go and ask/have them help you with it? Did your Dr. show you how to do it? How urgent is it that you have it tonight? Can it wait until tomorrow, where you could have someone show you? I hope you can find a good solution, and when you do, maybe share it on this site for those who have the same questions as you. Good luck to you.

[jjinWA 511]

My dr prescribed B12 shots and his nurse does the dastardly deed for me. My insurance covers the service and my co pay is 38 cents! Guess it is worth me driving to the docs office once a month to get my shot. This covers the b12 solution also. I can't imagine giving myself a shot. I'm too squimish!

[HappiTam 19]

Thank you for your help. My doctor told me, but I couldn't remember the location. So I went with the intra-muscular in the upper thigh. It wasn't anywhere near as bad as I had hyped myself out about (blushing).

Now I don't have to worry about it until May 1st!

[jane13 2,256]

I gave it to myself in the meatiest part of my upper outer arm. You could probably go into a walk in clinic and get them to show you like at Walgreens, CVS or something. Maybe even a fire station.

[James Marusek 5,244]

I had intravenous Vitamin B12 shots (once each month) for about a year before I switch to daily sublingual B12 tablets. The shots were to the upper arm. I had my wife do it. She pinched the skin together and inserted the needle at the top of the pinch point. I changed to daily tablets because my wife hates blood and every time, just as she inserted the needle into my arm she would turned her head away so she wouldn't look.

[xmeridith 7]

I do mine in the thigh. It's not very critical where you inject because it doesn't need to be into a muscle. Merely under the skin. That is why the needle is so little. You can do arm, abdomen, thigh. Anywhere is ok according to my doctor.

[perk4756 259]

My Dr gives them but know nothing about them and very curious. Do they give you energy? I've had 5 back surgeries and the meds I take make me feel like doing nothing.

[NikkiDoc 312]

I had my doctor's office do it but his office hours suck and I work an hour from his office. The nurse would give it in my upper arm. I then went to self injecting in the abdomen. I picked there since that is where I used to do my Byetta shots. I then switched to sublingual B-12. I actually had to stop taking the extra B-12 since I was way over on my last pe-surgical blood test.

I just had a blood draw today and will get results on 4/30/2015.

I did find studies that appear to show that sublingual and injections have the same rate of absorption. My surgeon also told me that.

Incidently my insurance does not cover the self injected B-12 but would cover the doctor to do it.