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I have pretty significant foot drop on my right side which makes walking difficult and really tiring. I have tried Odstock and Bioness and found both to be helpful but Bioness was much more effective (and no wires). It's very expensive but the better of the two for me - I'd never heard of WalkAide b...

I tried the ice pack after injections when I first started injecting but read some posts on this forum that said it was a bad move, can't remember why. My MS nurse has said I should never ice the area before an injection as this will tense up the area and make it more painful, also she said that the...

Hey, I've finally managed to see an MS nurse and actually got a suggestion which seems to be having a dramatic effect on reducing the length of time for the stinging sensation after injection. She suggested putting a gel pack into the fridge and using that after the injection. I had been using a hea...

I had a suggestion by my MS nurse that I should massage the area after injecting. I had a horrible injection last night on my left thigh, I assume I hit muscle because I could see the side of my leg throbbing and it was very painful. As usual I could feel a hard lump under the skin, these usually la...

I've been really careful about rotating the injection sites and changing the location within each of the sites too but this week a day after injecting I find the site is really itchy and red. I'm confused as it's been different this week then other times. I don't know if I'm using too much heat afte...

I don't have much experience at this but I find that the syringe doesn't feel much warmer when just left out so I warm it by holding it in my hand for a while before injecting. This was suggested by my MS nurse and she did say that it'd help with site reactions but I'm still having them but it's too...

Thanks for the responses, it really helps to know other people are coping ok and that it'll get easier. I'm still finding injecting really difficult, in fact it's even more painful now but I think that's probably because I'm nervous and tense about the whole thing. I've decided that depth 6 is not f...

Hi All, I was diagnosed with MS in Aug this year and am now on my first week of injections with Copaxone. It's been a bit of a whirlwind from diagnosis to this point and am feeling a bit scared and alone with this whole injecting thing. When I inject I get a stinging sensation afterwards... this I c...