Re: 5 y.o. fighting GH shots - any suggestions

[Guest guest]

Frances - hello! Nice to meet you. You know - I'm not sure if this

would help as I do not know where the shots are being administered -

however, my son Ian (2.5 yrs) recently has been getting his blood

sugars tested. Now although this is obviously a different

experience needle wise - nevertheless, I have found that Ian NO

LONGER cries or gives me a hard time since I've given him the

control of the situation. What I do now is tell him we are checking

his blood sugars. He sais " I want to do it " . So, I tell him fine

and to pick a finger or toe. He gets to pick. Then, I have him

wipe the area with the alcohol swab. Then, I let him push the

button on the monitor. Then, I ask him to push the button on the

pen (well, he always refuses and tells me to do it - but, I still

give him the choice) and then after it's over (again, he never cries

anymore) he gets to wipe the area again with the alcohol wipe. This

has been a tremendous success for me. Now, I also have a 4 year old

(well, tomorrow he will be 4) and he sometimes likes to help - so,

Ian will sometimes let him push the button, etc. My 4 year old (as

you know) likes to do everything himself. Like, when I give him

medicine - he has to push the syringe, etc. So, if there is some

type of control you can give Max - try that. See what happens.

Good Luck and keep us posted!

- H

>

> 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

>

[Guest guest]

i do have always done christopher's on the inside of his thighs since

there is more fat there than his arms (we just started to use his arms

recently and he is finally fine with it) also dont use the acohol on

his skin sometimes it may not be dried all the way and that can cause

it to burn. also let it sit out in room temp for about 15-20mins

before giving it, if it is too cold that can ,make it burn as well.

get a calendar for him to put a sticker on after his shot and make some

kind of reward system for it as well. gets so many stars receives

________ (you fill in the blank). make it a routine before bed, but

before he is tird and cranky (he would probably fight you no matter

what you do at that point). good luck!!

jodie c

(nicholas-7 1/2 nonrss, christopher-4 1/2 rss 39.33 " 29.98lbs periactin

6.8ml 2x daily, ght genotropin .7, ADHD & OCD possible, assmentry (left

leg 1cm), scoliosis 8 degree curve to right, athon-2 1/2 nonrss)