Injection help - 12.5 from 10 pen

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Can anyone help advise? I’ve been told I can follow an early escalation schedule to 12.5 for the rest of my pen as I’ve been on 10mg for a long time and suppression has stalled. The clinician I spoke to told me how many clicks to do etc and was very rigorous with asking how many doses I’ve had etc etc. What I forgot to ask was- do I do the first full dose and then change needles and then do the 15 clicks? Has anyone else done this and can advise? Many thanks

I’d do the 15 clicks first then whilst the pen is still inserted, re-click to do a full dose.

If you have to take the pen out between doses, I’d put a new needle on it.

However, if you get some suppression at the beginning of the week, you could try dosing a day early? I dose 3.5mg every 6 days so that it doesn’t drop too low in my system. I’m doing my best to stay on the lower doses (save money) and I’ve been using this for 9 months now.

Use a syringe ,Draw up .75 only have to inject once.

I'd just take 10mg every 5 days which would increase the dose to a similar concentration.

You actually don’t need to change needles, it says in the instructions that if you haven’t injected the full dose you can reinsert the same needle. By the same principal you can take it out and redial and reinsert.