• doug
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    Anyone have experience with the shots you can get to mitigate allergies/immunotherapy? I was thinking about getting them to temper my chronic sinusitis, and I don’t want to take Claritin for life.

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      I took them for a few years in middle/high school, and they worked well for me. If you don’t feel like going to a doctor every week for the shots (and you aren’t too freaked out by needles) you can usually also administer them yourself. My roommate in high school hated needles and shots, so I’d of course make sure to administer the shots while he was in the room.

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        My spouse administers their own shots for their Chron’s disease medication; are the shots pretty much like… the tubular thingies wherein the needle’s kinda hidden and all you feel is the prick after pressing a button? Or is it like… the full-on here’s-a-fucking-needle-good-luck-chump shot?

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          It’s been years since I took them, but at the time I used something that looks like the image below. Not a huge needle, and injected into an area with fatty tissue like the thigh or stomach so didn’t really hurt either.

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          At the time I was taking them I would have been on my parents’ medical insurance, so I’m not sure of the costs. I would imagine self-administration would be cheaper if only because you’re not paying for an office visit.

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      They can be effective. But speak with your doc first. I found them rather tedious as a kid

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      Not me, but my friend recently got approved for Dupixent and although he hates that he needs to even do this he says it’s night and day from before. Basically lived his entire life with not being able to breath. He got surgery, and it helped for a bit, but over time it came back. He says just being able to breathe normal is worth it.

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      Currently in my (I think) 4th year out of 5. I took them because I kept getting adenoid infections and wanted to avoid two surgeries. Has been a major improvement, but I still have to take an allergy pill every day and the occasional nasal spray. Hadn’t had another infection since year 1. You have to get shots every 3-7 days for several months and then they slowly spread it out over time. I’m once a month now. If you don’t have insurance it’s very expensive, especially the first year.