Leftover follistim in cartridge- but not enough for full dose

[Anonymous]

I assume this happens to most people, but what do you do when there’s remaining follistim in the cartridge, but not enough for your full dose? Do you do two injections to get the full dose, or throw out what’s left and start a new cartridge? The medication is so expensive but I can see the math getting annoying fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume this happens to most people, but what do you do when there’s remaining follistim in the cartridge, but not enough for your full dose? Do you do two injections to get the full dose, or throw out what’s left and start a new cartridge? The medication is so expensive but I can see the math getting annoying fast.

Use what's remaining. See how more of the dose you need (whatever the dial says). Open up a new cartridge and inject the remaining amount. I've done this many times and it worked fine. The medicine is too expensive to throw out and they overfill the cartridges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume this happens to most people, but what do you do when there’s remaining follistim in the cartridge, but not enough for your full dose? Do you do two injections to get the full dose, or throw out what’s left and start a new cartridge? The medication is so expensive but I can see the math getting annoying fast.

Use what's remaining. See how more of the dose you need (whatever the dial says). Open up a new cartridge and inject the remaining amount. I've done this many times and it worked fine. The medicine is too expensive to throw out and they overfill the cartridges.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume this happens to most people, but what do you do when there’s remaining follistim in the cartridge, but not enough for your full dose? Do you do two injections to get the full dose, or throw out what’s left and start a new cartridge? The medication is so expensive but I can see the math getting annoying fast.

Use what's remaining. See how more of the dose you need (whatever the dial says). Open up a new cartridge and inject the remaining amount. I've done this many times and it worked fine. The medicine is too expensive to throw out and they overfill the cartridges.

Thanks!

Absolutely this. Don't waste the overfill!

[Anonymous]

The nurses at my RE clinic used to draw the leftover meds into syringes and consolidate doses for me. Maybe ask at your clinic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The nurses at my RE clinic used to draw the leftover meds into syringes and consolidate doses for me. Maybe ask at your clinic?

This is what mine would do too.

[Anonymous]

You can use an insulin syringe and do it yourself. There is a conversion formula for dosage.