If you are on an injectable, what do you do with the pens?

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Anonymous wrote:I was just wondering this. Why exactly can’t I just throw away if it’s capped? Right now they’re all in a drawer waiting for me to figure this out

this made me laugh

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From Arlington county:

Special Items
Medical Sharps
Place the sharps in a rigid plastic container (like an old laundry detergent or milk jug) and dispose of them in the trash.

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Anonymous wrote:We get speciality meds through CVS and they send us sharps containers.

Same. What do you do with the full sharps container? I'm new to this.

Different poster: Contact your local CVS, ask to speak with the pharmacist and ask if they can take your sharps if you bring them in a sharps container. My CVS wouldn't, but my Walgreens would. I just waltz in, go to the pharmacy pickup line, and when it's my turn I say "I have sharps, was told you can take them to dispose safely?" and they always do. Been doing this for years.

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I put them in a detergent jug. I wouldn’t want the cap to come off and poke someone.

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Anonymous wrote:We get speciality meds through CVS and they send us sharps containers.

Same. What do you do with the full sharps container? I'm new to this.

Just tape it up and throw it away.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

+1. caps come off pretty easy.

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Just toss in the trash.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

What do you do about all the other sharp objects in your trash that aren’t needles?

This seems like massive overkill for literally the tiniest of needles.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

What do you do about all the other sharp objects in your trash that aren’t needles?

This seems like massive overkill for literally the tiniest of needles.

At least for Wegovy, they show the container disposal in the instructional videos-so as a user I assume that there are good reasons to do so. I'm not sure why I would sit around thinking of arguments against proper disposal.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

What do you do about all the other sharp objects in your trash that aren’t needles?

This seems like massive overkill for literally the tiniest of needles.

It's not because it's sharp, it's because the trash man should not risk poking himself with your dirty needle.

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I work in a nursing home so I have an RN inject me and they dispose of the needle there.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter takes a daily injectable with a pen. We buy disposable sharps containers from amazon (they come in a multi pack) and
toss them when they are full. It's what her doctor told us to do when she first started with the medication.

What’s the point of putting them in a container if they are still going in regular trash?

Preventing other people from getting poked by the needles.

It has a cap on it. No one is getting poked.

Caps come off. It's an extra layer of safety.

What do you do about all the other sharp objects in your trash that aren’t needles?

This seems like massive overkill for literally the tiniest of needles.

I don't routinely put very sharp objects in the trash. In any event, they aren't the same kind of biohazard that used needles present. Also, tossing them in an old detergent jug is dead easy and, frankly, pretty convenient - not "massive overkill."

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Put the cap on and toss.

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I’ve been saving the empty pens for use in a future up cycle craft project. I am a senior citizen and I live alone. There’s no one here to accidentally get stuck and the needle isn’t exposed anyway. I put the cap back on after use. I’m thinking about gluing them to the outside of a planter.