PIO Shots

[JulieF]

PIO Shots

NOTE: I've posted the same note in "donor issues" bb

I have never written to a forum, but feel very strongly compelled to relate my experience with the PIO shots. I have had bad experiences in the past with injections and IV, and thus I started out more fearful than most about these injections. And, after reading all the posts about how awful they were, I was terrified. I spent months worrying about the day I would have to start them. The day I was to start the injections, I went to my clinic so the nurse could show my husband how to do the shots. I was so upset; I was crying and almost didn’t think I could go through with the whole thing—just because of my fear of these shots. I got the shot. They ARE A BIG FAT NOTHING!!!! The nurse used no cream, no heat, no ice, no nothing and it didn’t hurt. I almost didn’t feel a thing (the only sensation was a slight, a very slight, prick because I moved away).

I am so upset that people have been whipping others into this fear frenzy over NOTHING!!. I am the biggest baby when it comes to shots, but these have been NO BIG DEAL.

After we got home, I was still a bit worried about DH doing them (he aint no nurse), but these have gone fine. We use Lidocaine cream applied one hour before the shot (I do the contact lens cap taped over the cream bit, and it works fine), but this is mostly for DH. He worries less if he knows the skin surface is numb. I don’t warm the oil, or ice anything, or apply heat afterwards. The first two or three times there was a slight sensation—but NOTHING that I would call pain (and I call a lot of things painful!!!). But, after that, NOTHING. Honestly, most of the time if DH didn’t tell me the needle went in and was pulled out I wouldn’t know anything happened. DH does say that the dart motion is important. A couple of other things. One, I do the shots in the AM and make sure to rub the area for a few minuets afterward to distribute the oil, this seems to help as I have not had any real problems with muscle aches (nor do I seem to have any lumps). Two, I’ve only been doing the PIO for less than two weeks (I find out next Monday if I’m PG), but I can see, however, if these shots went on for weeks and weeks that the area might become tender—but that’s what the Lidocaine helps with. I have a fairly small bottom, so it’s not that the stuff is going into padding—I don’t have much of that back there.

Bottom Line: PIO SHOTS ARE A BIG FAT NOTHING. The only uncomfortable sensation would be from muscle aches--which are largely preventable.

[BC-MomZ]

Thank you for sharing your experience here. Its always good to get other peoples opinions
Julie