The Challenges With Injections

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Portal Instruments' platform is in development and not available for sale or use. These stories reflect the challenges patients taking needle based injections face and do not endorse Portal Instrument’s needle-free injector.

Grace Vasher

Grace Vasher: Learning How to Inject at College

“I was alone at college and had to teach myself how to insert a shot by myself. I was terrified. I remember walking into my dorm room and instantly starting to cry out of fear of this needle and having to administer it myself. I was genuinely so scared. I thought, is it going to hurt more? What if I do it wrong? Where do I put the needle when I’m done? What do I do if I mess up? So many questions ran through my brain. Even after injecting a few times, it did not get easier.”
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Joni Kazantzis

One Woman's Expereince With Psoriasis Injections

“Historically, I have had great success with biologic treatments and prefer them as my main source of treatment for my psoriasis. But I plead guilty to putting off injections on occasion. The process is tedious and emotionally draining. I need to be in the right mindset to do the actual injection.”
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Howard Chang

My Journey with Psoriasis

"My journey living with psoriasis is a long and often arduous one. I didn’t know what to expect as a nine-year-old child when the dermatologists at University of California, San Francisco confirmed the diagnosis. I only remember how much my life changed…”
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Michaella

What It’s Really Like To Live With Ulcerative Colitis

"...giving myself self-injections was impossible. I had to be given a sedative to help calm me down, and I had to have my boyfriend, who is also a nurse, administer the medication to me with my mom holding my arms down. It was a tense and stressful process, to say the least. Ultimately, I refused to take the medication, and got a temporary loop ileostomy. I was on the path to a total colectomy, which is the removal of your large intestine and having a permanent ostomy."
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Logan Merrill

A Difficult Needle to Thread

"I would love to sit here and tell you about how brave I am when taking my shot, how it only takes me 5 or so minutes to do, just a quick in and out, but that is a bold-faced lie. I spend that amount of time alone just staring at the needle while cowering in my boxers."
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It's time to put people first, and needles last.

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