As a part of your protocol, your doctor has ordered an Ovidrel syringe injection. Ovidrel comes in single dose units, and in this video we're going to go over the syringe. When it's time to do your injection, and you'll be instructed on a specific time to do it. You'll open the box  and everything that you need to perform the injection will be in the box.

So you'll just open this plastic container. You'll notice that the syringe is preloaded with the medication that you need already mixed and drawn into the syringe. You'll take the lid off the top and you'll just use the plunger to slowly push up to expel the air that you'll see at the top there.  You'll just go nice and slow. Until you see a bleb of fluid come out the top and now your Ovidrel syringe is ready to be injected.

In the next part of this video, we'll go over how to landmark and perform your subcutaneous injection for your Ovidrel syringe.

How to Perform a Subcutaneous Injection

Now that you have your medication prepared, here's a video on how to perform a subcutaneous injection.

First, these injections are going to go into your abdomen. So you'll pick a spot two fingers away from your belly button and inject anywhere in your tummy.

The injection is going into that fatty layer of tissue right under the skin. So two fingers away anywhere in your tummy, just like this.
When you're doing your injections, you'll pick a spot, and then you'll rotate your sites. So try not to poke into exactly the same spot as you did already today or yesterday. Try to rotate the spots a little bit. Even a finger away is helpful.

When you're ready, you'll use an alcohol swab to clean the area that you're going to inject into, and then you'll give that a few seconds to dry. You'll take the cap off of your prepared needle and pinch your skin where you're going to do the injection. You'll inject at 90 degrees all the way in. Push the plunger on the syringe down until all of the medication has been delivered.

Then you can relax your skin and pull out the needle. A little bit of blood, a little bit of liquid might come out. That's okay. It's normal. You can use a tissue to hold the spot until the bleeding stops.

And then when you're done, make sure that you put your used needle into a sharps container or your medical waste bag.