Matt's MS - Copaxone: How to Self Inject With the Autoject 2

[KodaL3]

Hi again. I started taking copaxone this past monday. Love the way I don't feel the needle, but HATE the stinging that comes afterwards... Does it still sting pretty bad for you? Or does the shot site eventualy stop stinging as much?

[mattalleng1990]

@KodaL3 Hi! Glad you feel no pain! I have not been taking it in a while but after a while I did kind of get used to it. The key was to make sure I warmed the area as much as possible before and than used the ice packs after. The warmer the pack the less it stung it seemed but of course don't burn yourself!

[KodaL3]

Lol. Thanks Matt! ^^

[mattalleng1990]

@KodaL3 :^b

[Feverant]

oh yeah and your views?!?! HOLY SHIT!

[mattalleng1990]

@Feverant lol sorry for the late reply! Yeah I have not injected in a while but it's easy, painless mostly. And I dont have as many views as some haha but this is after like a year and a half man!

[Feverant]

ok i dont inject, i have never injected but that video was so bloody transfixing for me - thanks for putting it up Matt! I feel like i learnt a lot today.

[KodaL3]

I was using Avonex for a while, but the side effects were too strong and made me miss work a lot, so I'm switching over to copaxone. The needle for Avonex had to go into the muscle, and I would do it myself. Sometimes it would hurt. Is the autoject easy and painless?

[mattalleng1990]

@KodaL3 Copaxone is subcutaneous so it doesn't go into the muscle, just into the skin/fat. Its pretty painless and that's coming from a skinny guy with no fat. I would imagine that if you have any kind of mass to you that it would not hurt at all because when I do my thighs I don't even feel it. You mostly react to the sound of the autoject launching haha!

[22bellas]

HOW R Y DO U TAKE LDN HOW IS COPAXONEWORKING/

[mattalleng1990]

@22bellas I have not been taking Copaxone for a while but I just picked some up today, might have to try something new. LDN was too high of a dosage so I have not been taking that :( need to see if I can divide the pills in half but it will be painstaking because they are casuals

[robnmisha]

Matt, thank you for your video. I will start taking Copaxone next week. I'm trying not to be freaked out about giving myself a daily injection. I'm so anxious just thinking about it. But you made it look so easy. Thanks for calming some of my fears!

[mattalleng1990]

@robnmisha It seriously, seriously, not bad at all, you really can't even feel the needle! Its just the shock of the spring that scared me at first but you get over that super quick! So no worries, good luck!

[justurbetterdream]

I was diagnosised with Ms this last april after 6 years of wondering what was wrong with me lol!! my doctor gave me copaxone to take ..i didnt want to take any thing at first. i. ..but thinking bout this for 2 months.. educating myself the best i can.. ill give it try but still skeptic... .. ,my doc said could deform injection area.. i didnt hear a word he said was thinking deformed omg no way ... lol thanks for your awesome video Trace

[mattalleng1990]

@justurbetterdream haha deformed? Thats a strong word... After years and years the skin around your injection site can form little dimples, it will become a little tough because its scaring inside but I would not go as far as to say deformed.... Good luck!

[mattalleng1990]

It's hard to tell... I still experience symptoms but this medication is not meant to eliminate symptoms, it's meant to simply reduce flareups and reduce the severity of flareups... I also heard (which I still have to research) that it takes about 9 months for the medication to really start doing it's job. So I don't know, it's hard to tell so "soon".

[MrSimoneferrara]

hi, I will start using copaxone soon but I read around and I've been told by my doc I am not supposed to use any ice after the injection as it might form some kind of lump under the skin! Is that right?

Hope you'll get the chance to answer back!

Regards

[mattalleng1990]

@MrSimoneferrara Hi! sorry for the late response, I don't always get an email alert for some reason. But I have nevr heard of the bump/cold thing, the Copaxone nurse is the one who told me to do so. She did say some people like to do hot then cold, cold then hot, hot then hot, or cold then cold, its up to you and what feels best but i do hot and then cold and dont have any kind of problem.

[mattalleng1990]

@mattalleng1990 You will get a little bump when you first inject but thats just the medicine going under your skin, it will go away pretty quick as your body absorbs it but that has nothing to do with the cold.

[mattalleng1990]

Sorry for the lack of replies everyone, I honestly STILL can't figure out where everything is on youtube... There are comments on top and on bottom and its just messy I hate it, haha. But yeah I have been looking into CCSVI, I think they are really on to something but its not going to be easy for them to push that theory cuz if they accept it as the cause of MS then think about how many billions of dollars Pharmaceutical companies would loose as we would no longer need needles & meds

[107helder]

thank you

[xX311blissXx]

Ok, thanks. My girlfriend just got diagnosed last week with MS and she just got the copaxone and autoject so we're just trying to figure out the correct way to do everything. Someone from shared solutions is going to her house soon so Im sure she'll take care of everything. Thanks again.

[mattalleng1990]

@xX311blissXx oops, didnt mean to hit that vote up thing. Anyways, when the person from shared solutions comes they will give you a bunch of stuff including that chart and a book that had the chart in it too. Sorry your GF has to deal with this crap... You guys should check out my blog mattsms.blogspot.com - If you guys have any questions or need to talk or w/e feel free to hit me up. You can find me on facebook via my blog as well.

[xX311blissXx]

where can I get a chart like you have with the different locations and depth numbers?

[mattalleng1990]

@xX311blissXx If you take copaxone call Shared Solutions and they will send it to you for free, its actually a magnet! But the depths aren't on there because a nurse from shared solutions has to come and determine the depths for each spot depending on your body weight you know?

[donny91740]

do you or did u have any side effects from this drug??im to start it within a few weeks......thanks

[mattalleng1990]

@donny91740 So far, NONE what so ever and its been about 5 months or so?

[KingStivan]

hi , im here only to see how u can use the autoject for I.M and ty for that . i dont have ms my self my aunty have it and i know how it effect the way of live me my self have Hypogonadism (central ) yes we do meet in the quality of life suck ass place as for Fatigue , poor sleep , etc for me it was testo shots and im good to go tell i need to have babys then its a daily shots of another kind bla bla bla what i realy want to say is go look for CCSVI

[KingStivan]

@KingStivan im not a doc and u seems good and i dont know if u need it but i feel that i need to say some thing and i might help you/others by doing so.

best of wish`s

[mattalleng1990]

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[mattalleng1990]

Honestly, I never had any interest in the muscle injections BUT I wanted to make my decision purely on what seamed to medically be the better decision and I liked the way copaxone worked on a microscopic level.

Here is my article on that very topic:

[tryan84]

Great post Matt... I am expected to start injections soon, and this was good to see. Did you consider once a week muscle injections as apposed to daily fat injections?