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

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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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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."

[Anonymous]

Put the cap on and toss.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

We use the sharps container that comes with the medicine. It closes when full and then our county says to put in middle of trash. If no sharps container, any heavy plastic container will work. It’s easy and prevents a garbage worker from getting stuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can use anything for a sharps container. OJ bottle, laundry bottle, any hard plastic bottle. Just toss in the trash.

Full honesty we just recap and toss.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A labeled wine bottle can serve as a sharps container. No need to buy a special shapes container

Only if your wine bottle is made of plastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is bonkers.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

I mean, the trash man also shouldn't have to risk lacerations from shards of the lamp/plate/glass you broke either. Wrap that stuff up in a way that ensures no one comes in contact with it.