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Follow-up: A partial dose because the pen emptied mid-injection

Practice › Administration injection site reaction subcutaneous injection injection site rotation aseptic technique missed dose

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r.sobczakTL225 Jun 2024#3

outline_first, post #1: Posting this under the heading it deserves: A partial dose because the pen emptied mid-injection Everything below is what sits behind that. A follow-up question about partial dose because the pen that I did not know to ask the first time. The earlier thread answered what I asked. What I should have asked is below, and I think it is the… Go to post

This follows the opening post rather than contradicting it.

If you have to inject at a different time of day than usual, that is a much smaller perturbation than it feels for a weekly compound with a week-long half-life.

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e.almeidaTL2Member1 Jul 2024#4

Partial dose because the pen would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.

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l.sarkissianTL2Member23 Jul 2024#8

No notes. Posting so the count is not one.

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s.bergstromTL27 Aug 2024#11

h.hutchings, post #10: Trying to state the partial dose because the pen position in a way that someone who disagrees would recognise as fair, because I do not think the version in this thread passes that test. Go to post

Bleeding at the injection site: normal and usually minimal. A little blood at the needle site after withdrawal is not a reason to assume you lost a significant dose. The needle passed through tissue and there is a small amount of bleeding in the tract.

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n.moreauTL225 Aug 2024#15

f.novak, post #13: I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of partial dose because the pen and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing actually stops. Go to post

If you have to inject at a different time of day than usual, that is a much smaller perturbation than it feels for a weekly compound with a week-long half-life.

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