I have used Apo-Go for more than seven years now, and though I'm a bit
ambivalent to it, I would not want to be without it. It is a miracle drug
for getting out of freezing episodes with foot cramps etc, but the pain
when I inject it and the nausea that I experience once in a while (mostly
when my stomach is empty and I'm really hungry, it seems) are the
downsides.

For me, the best place to inject is a 10cm/4" circular area around the
navel. I try to use the trick that diabetics use, when I remember it, that
is to choose the location by looking at the hour hand of my watch. That
way you run less risk of putting the needle in a recently used and sore
spot. I have also found 6mm or 1/4" needles that I can stick straight in
since I am doing the injections myself and have trouble with "aiming" when
I am off...
And regarding the right and wrong way, a neuro once explained to me that
the pain sensing nerve endings on our skin are fairly far apart, so with a
bit of luck you can stick the needle in without hitting one, but most of
the time you just have to live with a bit of pain when using Apo-Go... For
me, the benefits by far outweigh the drawbacks.

To avoid crash landings when the injection wears off, I usually take a
half or a quarter of a Madopar Quick Mite (12-25mg LDopa) dissolved in
water together with the injection, and that pill usually takes effect
right before the injection wears off completely. (I take 1 1/4 Quick Mite
every two hours as my standard dose, that is appx 63mg LDopa, and 100mg
Tasmar + 3x0.18mg Sifrol/Pramipexol every six hours - Just so you have
something to compare to.) If the freezing arrives less than thirty minutes
before I'm supposed to take my next bunch of pills, I usually take the
pills together with the injection and reset the alarm on my watch to two
hours.

/John 18/26/38

> we find that the least objectionable way is to grab a fold of the softer
> part of the belly, right under the waist, midway between the side and the
> naval, and while pinching lightly that fold of skin and fat with one hand,
> stick the needle in with the other on a bit of a bias (rather than
> straight in -- i.e., needle to skin NOT in 90 degrees).   the injecting
> itself should done at medium speed -- not be too fast or too slow.
>
> same technique works just as well on the fleshy part of the upper arm,
> midway under the shoulder.
>
> APOKYN has an amazing effect on getting my PWP out of a freeze in about 7
> to 10 minutes.    however, for what it's worth, he's stopped using the
> shots altogether because he feels that the subsequent 'off' is much more
> painful, intense, and harder to get out of.    also, he finds that the
> 'on' period that's brought on by the injection is too short in duration
> (even when accompanied by sinemet) and doesn't quite feel like a regular
> 'on.'
>
> hope this helps,
>
> ariela
>
> ----- Start Original Message -----
> Sent: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:08:23 +0100
> From: Alan Cromack <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Apo-Go
>
>> Hi there,
>> I wonder if anyone here is using Apo-go pens.
>> I could do with some advice in injecting.  Sometimes when I inject my
>> wife it causes pain and other times it does not.
>>
>> I wonder if there is a right way and a wrong way.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Alan Cromack
>> Scotland.
>
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