No Stupid Questions

I don't know if this will help or not, but nobody else has answered, so here it goes. I work in a pharmacy, and we have a couple of patients that we do allergy shots for. Worst case scenario, we pull an epipen off the shelf if things go south. Find you a locally owned pharmacy, call them and explain the situation. Ask if they can administer the shot, or if they can point you in a direction at least. It's worth a shot, and might get you an answer even if they don't do it themselves.

Probably depends on your state, but in mine it just has to be a nurse.

Like, literally any nurse. So just call around to clinics and even pharmacies.

I got mine at a very young age, so it was an elementary school nurse most of the year, and then a small local clinic for summer shots.

Like, you're already walking into clinic, just have them give you the shot. They're 100% gonna call the cops if people are injecting each other in the lobby. If your partner is in healthcare, I have zero idea why that's being considered as a legit option.

Are you US-based?

If your wife administers the injection at home, how do you acquire the injection? Would your allergist mail you the agent, would you need to pick it up from their office in person or would you pick it up at a local pharmacy after the MD sends in the Rx to that pharmacy?

1. As the other person commented, a locally-owned pharmacy is a reasonable option. Walgreens/CVS probably won't be able to do it.

2. Any hospital infusion center can do this for you. I'd look for an oncology infusion center. Even though you are in immunology and not oncology, an OCN is incredibly skilled at giving sub-q injections. They are used to patients having adverse reactions to chemotherapy (anaphalaxis) and subsequently have the necessary training to make sure you will be fine.

3. Have your current MD personally call the MD at the local immunology clinic. Docs will, more often than not, grant other docs favors and considering that the new clinic would be able to bill for the immunological agent and also the administration of that agent (two separate fees), it's not a huge favor to grant.

4. Get a local primary care doctor and have your immunologist's office set up injections to be done in-clinic. This has the similar risk profile as the pharmacy administered injections. If you ask for this yourself, you will probably get turned down. If your allergist MD asks, the request will probably be granted.

Try something like Wyndly. Same stuff that's in the shots, just sublingual. Have to do it every day, but can do it at home.

Have you checked out United Allergy Services? They claim to have self-administered allergy shots.

Can u explain your allergy issue a little more please?

I recently got allergies 4 years ago and I also describe them as delibitating so I wanna see what you're dealing with bc my allergies fuck up my mood, I'm constantly fucking sleepy, my eyelids swell and droop, I'm so tired, no energy, sneeze, don't matter what I take shit don't go away.

So just curious pretty much