My doctor wants to start me on Rocephin injections since I can't afford more IV Rocephin. I feel like the IV would be best, I am just so disappointed that insurance won't cover more.
Have you guys found the injections as effective as intravenous therapy?
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I am doing IM injections and started a thread about it a week or two ago -- you might want to do a search.
I can't make a comparison to IVs since I have not done the IVs, but in ten days the injections have made a difference.
My symptoms were really scary. I was unable to breathe and in acute respiratory distress with severe chest pain that got worse and worse over a month until I started the injections. And those symptoms are a lot better -- still not completely better, but I was sure I was going to die and the injections pulled me back from the edge.
However, I have to warn you the injections are painful!! I have big hard lumps at every injection site and I'm worried I won't last.
I'm going to try to inject the medicine more slowly to see if that helps prevent the lumps, but do whatever you can to make injecting easy on yourself.
I use lidocane to reconstitute the Rocephin, which I definitely recommend if you're using the powdered version that reconstitutes, as this helps with the pain factor.
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