This is NOT medical advice. This is just me talking about what we are experiencing. Only get medical advice from your doctor NOT from a random blog.
Munchkin #2 has decided that when I give her the weekly methotrexate injection for her rheumatoid arthritis that it hurts. She gets 10mg per week which comes out (at least for us) to .4ml per injection. I have to inject it slowly or it just all ooshes back out the little hole made by the needle.
So...via the grapevine I heard about 4% lidocaine creme. If you have ever bought 'blue' colored aloe vera after sun (ie for when you are sunburned) gel, than you likely have used lidocaine. The sun burn gels typically will contain around 0.5% lidocaine. So....you can imagine the numbing effect 4% might have. We now have from the rheumatologist a prescription for 4% lidocaine creme.
The idea is we put a pea sized amount of the creme over the injection site prior to injection. We then cover the spot with this clear plastic bandage thing while the lidocaine soaks in/takes affect or whatever it does to numb up the spot. I was a little more than surprised when the rheumatologist's office told us that we could just wrap the stop with clear plastic wrap (think covering a potato salad) if we couldn't find the little clear plastic special bandages. Say what? So does that mean my kid is going to stay crisp and fresh like fruit salad? Weird...
At any rate...we have not tried it yet. I'll post about it once we do. I just hope it helps. What is extra cool about this for us is that if the lidocaine helps, Munchkin #2 can use it for when she has blood work done as well. Sweet......
And, I just had to throw in this picture of Max Kitty napping on my bed. He looks so peaceful; I even think he is smiling.
Peace.
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