Hi All, we are doing FET shortly month, I am just finishing the norethisterone and then waiting for my period. This is the first time we have made it this far, its our third cycle and this time with donor eggs so I feel a bit disconnected to it all.
I will need to self administer progesterone intramuscularly into my buttock muscle 3 x per week soon. My partner is a wimp and can't even look at the needles so I have to do it myself. I did all the stims injections myself in previous cycles and it became easy and actually I preferred to be control so I'm not annoyed or upset my other half wont help, I'm kind of relieved. Aside from getting over sticking a massive needle into myself and as you all know it is so much bigger than the stims needles, I think its going to be challenging to keep relaxed and make sure I'm inserting the needle in the right place and not hitting a capillary or god forbid, a bone.
I have read up on it, watched Youtube and done my research and it looks like it doesn't sting to inject the actual progesterone unlike my stims meds that stung so that's one positive, its the actual process of putting that long needle into me and in the right place that I am worried about. I wondered if anyone else out there self administered? Do you have any tips or advice? e.g. what position did you sit/stand/lay in, did you warm the syringe contents, did you warm or chill yourself? I was even thinking of asking the nurse at the clinic to draw on me with a marker so i know where to do it.
I know its all worth it but I feel like this is the biggest hurdle so far so any advice would be appreciated.