Given jip for injecting?

[louisew]

I'm slightly worried because I'm flying to Turkey in a couple of weeks and my insulin will be due mid flight. I've got a window seat so I guess I can just turn away from the person next to me to do it, but I'm wondering if I should mention it first, so they don't think I'm a drug addict or something?
I don't really want to go to a disgusting aeroplane toilet to inject.

Absolutely don’t need to go into toilet, and it’s easy enough to inject discreetly. And you don’t need to say anything, unless you want to.

 

[Tdm]

I do wonder if ozempic is going to mean the general public gets morefamiliar with seeing pens, and used to the idea of injecting being ok?

 

[trophywench]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

 

[rebrascora]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

I think @Tdm means because more people are injecting, and therefore become familiar.... perhaps along with family members too, with medical injector pens and also these drugs are very high profile, so lots of social media about them making more people aware of injecting medication.

 

[helli]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

That's what I was thinking.
Maybe more people become aware of injectors like insulin pens.
However, will the number of people "publicly" (as in raising awareness) taking Ozempic be more than the number of people publicly taking insulin.
I would expect Ozempic-takers to be at least as private if not more so than insulin-takers, even within their families and close friends.

 

[Lisa65]

Absolutely don’t need to go into toilet, and it’s easy enough to inject discreetly. And you don’t need to say anything, unless you want to.

Flight is tomorrow and I intend to inject in my seat without a fanfare

 

[helli]

Flight is tomorrow and I intend to inject in my seat without a fanfare

Enjoy Turkey.

 

[Tezzz]

I'm slightly worried because I'm flying to Turkey in a couple of weeks and my insulin will be due mid flight. I've got a window seat so I guess I can just turn away from the person next to me to do it, but I'm wondering if I should mention it first, so they don't think I'm a drug addict or something?
I don't really want to go to a disgusting aeroplane toilet to inject.

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

 

[helli]

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

Do you not carry something to store your sharps when you go away?
I use a "cosmetics bottle" so can remain independent and private when injecting in public I decant into my sharps bin when I get home.

 

[Lucyr]

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

That seems a bizarre approach. If a small child next to me id say to the adult with them something just to let them know im going to do my medication which is injected, if they could just watch their child doesn’t come too close for a moment. Id put my used sharps in my little screw on tub that lives in my diabetes kit, it’s one of those tiny round pots you’d use for dips or something. No need to involve cabin crew whatsoever.

 

[Tdm]

Depends on the kid and the parent...some are unpredictable and start screaming for no reason...and that's just the parents

 

[Lucyr]

Depends on the kid and the parent...some are unpredictable and start screaming for no reason...and that's just the parents

Can’t see why screaming means you can’t inject. If you’ve told the parent to make sure they don’t get in the way they’ll be holding them.