Re: Thanks for your input - Re: 5 y.o. fighting GH shots - any suggestions

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Frances

What a neat idea!! Tell your husband he is a " cowboy " genius!!!

Deb

Thanks for your input - Re: 5 y.o. fighting GH shots -

any suggestions

Thanks to all who responded to my post last week. Apologies for the

delayed reply - we've been travelling.

FYI, my husband (while I was travelling) hit upon a solution that

works (at least for the meantime) He gave Max a Skittle candy - told

him to bite down on it (like cowboys bite on a bullet) when the

needle goes in. Like most 5 y.o. boys Max thinks this is wonderful

and we're now giving shots in record time!

Thanks for all your input - we're incorporating a lot of it, too.

Frances - mom to Max 5.75 RSS SID and Helen (almost 7)

>

> Hi all,

> My son, Max, is 5.5 with SGA and maybe RSS (borderline case & we

> haven't had the genetics tests done yet. Our endo says maybe, Dr. H

> says maybe not.) Max started GH (genotropin) at the end of August

& is

> responding very well (growth rate has doubled! yeah!)

>

> The problem is he's now really fighting the GH shots - tonight the

> battle lasted 22 minutes and is a real emotional struggle for my

> husband & me.

>

> He's never been shy of shots before but we had a couple of bad

> experiences early on (he has only 8% body fat - our trainer

measured

> him) and once or twice the shots were very painful.

>

> We've tried giving them in his sleep but the needle startles him

and he

> squirms and swats with his hand so that you can't get the whole

dose in

> (he gets a 1.0 dose)

>

> He's studying graphs at school and we make a graph of how much he

> thinks it's going to hurt, how much it actually hurt (almost

nothing)

> and how long it took. This worked for the first couple of nights,

but

> isn't working any more.

>

> Any suggestions???

>

> Thanks,

> Frances - mother of Max SGA/RSS? age 5.75

>