Humira pen or syringe

[Bridget97]

I have been recently diagnosed with Crohn's disease in September of 2014. I went from being a healthy teenager to going to docotrs appointments everyother week to figure out why my inflamation levels were so high and why I lost so much weight in just a years time. So once they diagnosed me my doctor put me on remicade right away. I was doing very well on it and I was feeling alot better. I never knee how bad I was feeling until I started treatment. On the third round I had a very bad allergic reaction to it. Since my levels were so bad my doctor wanted me to start humira. I like it because I am feeling better and can keep up with my friends but on the otherhand it just hurts so much! I want to try the syringe. I need help on what others have experienced with the two and the difference in pain between the two. Please help!

 

[lisadc1]

I use the syringe, never tried the pen. It still hurts, but you can control the rate it goes in. I get the site reaction that lasts for five days.

 

[aideen33]

Im using the pen, the click is disconcerting but I dont find the pain too bad at least in my stomach. Ive had some site reactions but i find that a bit of benadryl about half hour beforehand generally controls that. I havent tried the syringe but I can see where some might like it better by being able to control the rate of injection would be the advantage, whereas the pen has the advantage (if this is an issue for you) of not seeing the needle

 

[POTTYTIME!]

I just started Humira Injections this past Friday. I do the pen because its just one button, hold for 10 seconds, and its over. Not going to lie, it does sting. For some time after feels like I was kicked by a horse.

 

[Sef0912]

I mush prefer the syringe (have never used the pen because I cannot hold it due to my hand being crushed years ago) because I can control the rate of injection and I may be weird, but I like to see things going into my body instead of something just automatically being delivered at a rate I can't control.

 

[Pilgrim]

We use the syringe for our daughter. We have a nurse inject it. Do you want to do it yourself, or will someone be helping?

Maybe they could send a syringe for just one dose anyway so you can compare?

 

[Maya142]

Tagging my little penguin - she has had success adding Lidocaine to Humira for her son.

My daughter is 18 and has been on Humira in the past. It is a painful shot. She used the pen too, but mostly because she didn't want to see the needle. I've heard that the syringe is less painful because you can control how fast you inject, but we never tried it. We let Humira warm up for half an hour and also iced for at least 15 minutes. She used to do the shots while watching TV so that she was distracted.

She also had a hard time with them initially, but eventually got used to them because they helped so much. Hang in there!

 

[my little penguin]

DS uses the syringe
His doc prescribed lidocaine as well.
We are to put the lidocaine into the humira syringe ( a doc would need to show you)
It lets us control the rate which makes it less painful.
DS has been in it for almost two years but it is much more painful without the lidocaine
He is only 11 btw

 

[lookame]

I use the pen. I find it helps to leave it get to room temp (i try to wait half an hour to an hour before injection). I also have my husband inject me so I don't lessen up pressure on the pen as it goes in. It still hurts and sometimes I get bruises on the injection site but it's not terrible.

I also had an allergic reaction to Remicade. It was amazing up until I started becoming allergic. I was on it for 2 years (double dose every 7 weeks) then one infusion i started getting hives, the next infusion i had hives in my throat and the last one I had giant hives all over.s