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Multiple sclerosis is a serious condition, which may affect your daily normal activities. However, with proper medication and therapies, the condition can be slowed down or managed. If you’re diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, you’ll be given several medications to choose from. If you decided on a therapy that is administered through injection, you may want to learn how to do it yourself.

Make sure to prepare alcohol swabs, cotton balls, hot or cold pack and the drug injections. Most patients with multiple sclerosis are often assisted by nurses to help you get used to administering injections by your own in different parts of the body.

Usually, the area of injections alternate in a clockwise manner. So if you inject right above your knee last night, you can inject in your stomach the following night and then on your hip or arm the subsequent nights. The injections are likely to be administered in different parts of your body at night or day.

Open the auto injector, making it into two pieces. Place the syringe into the bottom of the auto injector and turn the screw to the number most appropriate for the body part you’ll be injecting. The screw has settings that allow you to adjust for fatty or non-fatty areas to prevent body aches.

Take the screw off before injecting yourself. Get your hot pack and heat it in a microwave or warm water, which would be used in warming up your blood. Get a swab with alcohol and rub it onto the area. Place the injector on the body part, then remove the injector after completely administering the drugs. Place a cotton ball on the area to avoid swelling, but a small bump usually appears after the injection. Always practice safe syringe disposal.