Urgent Medical Advice Needed
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Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Hi there, can someone help me please. I am touring Italy at the moment and due to an ongoing medical condition will need to have a B12 injection next week.
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Hi there, can someone help me please. I am touring Italy at the moment and due to an ongoing medical condition will need to have a B12 injection next week.
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Id go to a farmacia, where the farmacist is more than qualified to help.
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Hi there, can someone help me please. I am touring Italy at the moment and due to an ongoing medical condition will need to have a B12 injection next week.
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
My GP surgery in the UK has given me the medication and I need to find someone to do the actual injection. Can you tell me if I can get this done at a pharmacy, a hospital or will I need to find a private clinic. I should be in Bari on the day I need it done.
Thanks
For what it is worth, you'll also need to buy a syringe from a pharmacy - no prescription needed for that, and they are dirt cheap.
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I also have to have B12 injections every month (the brand I use is Dobetin, generically known as Cyanocobalamin) - if yours is the same, it is an intramuscular injection. Anyone can do it - my wife does mine into the buttock with no training whatsoever - and it can also be done by you, though in that case it is normally into the thigh. I would imagine a pharmacist would do it for you (hopefully not in front of a shop full of customers . Lay people could also do it, but would probably hesitate for risk of being held responsible.
For what it is worth, you'll also need to buy a syringe from a pharmacy - no prescription needed for that, and they are dirt cheap.
For what it is worth, you'll also need to buy a syringe from a pharmacy - no prescription needed for that, and they are dirt cheap.
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I've had no wee problems, but given the colour of Dobetin, I can quite imagine it happening (for those not au fait with this, just think Campari, no soda )
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Thanks everyone. Would someone mind writing out in Italian what I need to ask for. I tried today in a pharmacy in Pisa, she knew I wanted an injection but couldn't get past that! Not her fault - it's me who isn't speaking the language!
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It's readily available over the counter.
Last edited by Pica; Jul 23rd 2017 at 9:00 pm.
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
Thanks Pica. I already have the actual phials of B12, I just need someone to put it in a syringe and jab it in my arm. I asked at my GP surgery if they'd teach me how to do it so I could do it myself but they said that as it was intra muscular I couldn't do it :-(
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Re: Urgent Medical Advice Needed
I also have to have B12 injections every month (the brand I use is Dobetin, generically known as Cyanocobalamin) - if yours is the same, it is an intramuscular injection. Anyone can do it - my wife does mine into the buttock with no training whatsoever - and it can also be done by you, though in that case it is normally into the thigh. I would imagine a pharmacist would do it for you (hopefully not in front of a shop full of customers . Lay people could also do it, but would probably hesitate for risk of being held responsible.
For what it is worth, you'll also need to buy a syringe from a pharmacy - no prescription needed for that, and they are dirt cheap.
For what it is worth, you'll also need to buy a syringe from a pharmacy - no prescription needed for that, and they are dirt cheap.
But when using the injections she did the injecting herself, It;s not rocket science,
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I'm a trained nurse and they wouldn't permit me to do it, I had to waste nursie's time and my own going to the surgery.
#13
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The word you need is iniezione -injection, shot, jab OR puntura