I have been using progesterone suspended in sesame oil. It is fine - no complaints. But I ran out, so today I had to use progesterone left over from our previous cancelled cycle. Rather than one big vial with a rubber lid you stick a needle through, they are tiny glass vials that you have to break open to use!
Yesterday, I decided to try to open one, and stupidly used my teeth, thinking there must be something that twists off. In hindsight that was really stupid, and I knew it as soon as I was spitting glass shards into the sink.
A call to my RE's office cleared it up. You have to break it at the narrow part of the vial using an alcohol pad. Yep, you have to BREAK GLASS and hope no tiny shards get into the liquid.
So today I had to break 2 little vials (turning my eyes away and grimacing and finally calling DH to open the 2nd one) and draw up the 2 ccs of progesterone.
Then DH gave me the shot.
Unlike the PIO with sesame oil, this stuff STINGS!!! I looked at the ingredients and it is in ALCOHOL instead of oil!!! No wonder. Who thought THAT was a good idea?!!
So I ordered another big vial of the PIO from the pharmacy which should be here today.
I won't be using those little ones again unless I have to!
Crystal
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