Hi everybody!
So today I'm going to show you how to do
your own PIO shot, or progesterone in oil
You take these obviously through IVF.
I am currently 10 weeks and six days pregnant, so this is my second to last PIO shot.
For the past... I don't know, forever, I've been giving myself myself, my own shots.
So let's just show you all of the supplies that you need,
which I have all laid out here and already have opened.
So you need your drawing needle.
So this is what you're actually going to put into your progesterone in oil
to take out the medication. It's not what you inject with.
This is your injection needle.
So this is what you're actually gonna eject with.
Which the top will come off.
I have two alcohol swipes here. One for... swipes...?
Two alcohol wipes, one for the bottle, one for the tushy and I have my glass and my medication.
Your medication might be a little bit different looking than this
depending on which brands you have.
Okay, first thing we're gonna do is we're going to take our medication bottle.
We're just gonna put our alcohol swab,
wipe the top of that to make sure it's nice and clean.
This gets thrown away.
Okay, now we're gonna take our injection needle,
we're gonna take the injection part off. It just twists right off.
Now we're gonna take the needle and our draw up needle.
We're gonna screw that on and that is ready.
Okay, so now that we have our needle on I'm gonna draw back the amount of air
or however much you need. so mine's one. I'm drawing it back to one.
Now... I'm gonna pierce the bottle. Okay I'm gonna draw it back here upside down.
If you're getting towards the bottom of your bottle, look here where there's no sticker
and you can see farther down into the bottle.
Okay, I'm gonna press the air up into the bottle and just draw back my solution.
Normally when I draw that, I draw back a little
and.... I don't know how well you're gonna be able to see this.....
alright, normally when I draw back
I draw back a little bit and you see there's a little air bubble there.
I'm gonna press that back up and then I'm gonna continue drawing
so that I don't have any air bubbles up until I'm at my one.
Okay, now we have all our medication we're going to cap this back on.
We do not to....
put this in our tushy because it's too big.
So I'm just gonna draw back the liquid a bit so it doesn't come out.
I'm gonna unscrew the needle... like so.
I'm gonna put the original top back on. Screw that on.
Alright... okay, so now we're gonna get the tushy prepared so don't mind my butt.
Okay, we're gonna take our second alcohol wipe and we're just gonna wipe the area.
Pretty easy. So you're just gonna kind of have to turn to whatever side your're on.
I'll explain if you're not. This is my dominant side,
so like my right-handed side. So it's actually little bit easier.
I will explain what to do with your left side because there's a little bit more awkward.
Okay, so we have our.....
needle, gosh, what's wrong with me?
What I'm doing is I'll show you up here.
Okay I'm sorry if you can see all my dishes in my mirror.
But I have a small little mirror here. This just this moves.
I bring this up specifically for this shot
and then when I'm done I put it away.
So what you're gonna do is you're gonna take your cap off.
Okay, and....
you're just gonna want to get all that air out
and a little tiny bead right at the top.
Which I really don't know if you can see or not.
So I'm just gonna put this all the way and shoot up
and then a little tiny thing at the top.
Okay so... okay so now I'm gonna look right into the mirror and as you can see,
I can see my cheek.
Now I've been doing this for a while so I actually have little tiny bruises right here
which tells me where I need to take the shot.
So I'm gonna take it in my hand. Okay so what I do is I'm gonna flip my hand.
I'm gonna flip it upside down. Okay so I'm holding it kind of like I would hold a dart
and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hold one finger right at this little base right here.
Okay and then I'll show you this finger is
actually gonna touch right on a skin for the butt okay.
So here's the tush
and we have our needle prepped and ready.
Hands on it just like you would be throwing a dart and
again I'm not gonna actually put it into my butt because
there is medicine in here.
But what I do is like I said, I have a finger usually on that little edge piece
and I'm actually gonna... I just turn to the side
and then I'm gonna find the area I want and just jab it in.
So I'm going to show you that process on a little orange
so you can see what the jabbing is like up close. Okay, give me a minute
Now I'm gonna show you like I said how you're gonna put it on to your skin.
So finger on the base and usually I put my pinky on to my tush.. my skin
and you're literally I don't want you to go click and then push in.
I want you to literally dart it in okay.
So I didn't go prick, push in. I wanted to just dart it right in okay.
You want to push it all the way to the base. So see how that's touching
because you want to get it down into the muscle.
So once it's into the muscle, put your hand onto the plunger
and you're gonna press. I don't know how well this is gonna work, it's on an orange.
Okay, you kind of press all the way in, hold it for a second,
make sure you press it all the way in.
Grab back at the base, pull out,
grab your gauze, put it onto the spot.
Okay, it is really that simple. Yes it's gonna take a little bit of time
for you to get used to doing that.
It took me a little while used to uh, sticking myself.
There's a few times where I poked, pressed in, which did make it worse.
So just dart it right in. Just do it.
You know if you have to practice on an orange with a few needles, that's okay.
But it's gonna make it so much easier. Okay once you are done jabbing,
pull out and then you're gonna put your gauze on.
Something that's really important is you want to massage it in
and I don't mean just rub a little bit.
It might hurt in the beginning, but after a while you get used to it.
Push in! So I hope you'll be able to see,
like try to turn to the side... I am pushing in my skin
and I'm gonna rub, rub, rub really, really hard.
The reason we're doing this is you want to massage that oil into the tush.
Whichever muscle you're actually getting into right now.
You really want to rub that in and I do it usually for about a good 30 seconds.
So I'm almost done now, but you want to do that really, really well.
That is gonna help you to have less pain later
because a lot of times the pain is not the injection.
The pain comes later when you're just sitting there and you touch your bottom.
You're like ow! That hurts!
That's just because you have the oil in there and you can get lumps and bumps
and so you want to massage it out as well as possible.
Okay so that is it. Hopefully this was helpful
when you're trying to give yourself a PIO shot
and yes it can be scary. I totally get it.
Took me a long time to try it myself.
Probably at least a couple weeks I had my wife give me the shot just because
I couldn't do it and then one day
I had to do it myself. So I tried and just it was fine.
Ever since then it's just become easier to do it myself over time.
You can do it. just remember all the tips I will put over here.
So great! Again, hopefully that was helpful.
If you have any questions, let me know
and again I am done with my shots
but again good luck with your pregnancy.
Hopefully everything works out beautifully for you
and if you are pregnant, let me know how many weeks you are and what's going on!
I would love to hear from you, especially if you've gone through IVF like I have.
It was quite an experience.
Okay see you the next video. Bye!