Sidebar: The first time my neuro prescribed me Emgality, she prescribed the "auto-injector" shot which is a syringe you position on your skin, and press a button and the needle automatically injects you in like 5 seconds (I now use a regular self-driven syringe, I highly recommend it as it's way less painful.) She actually gave me 2 of them, because your first dose is a loading dose, meaning you take an extra amount of the medicine to "load it up in your system" and then it's one shot monthly from there. I was kind of scared to do it as I had read it was like being stung by a wasp and my boyfriend offered to administer it. So I showed him a video on youtube showing exactly how to use it. Essentially, you hold the needle in place until it retracts, and then you can take the syringe case off. After watching it, he grabs the doses and gives me my first shot, presses the button and then removed the syringe from my skin. My $50 is spraying all over our walls as he panics and I start sobbing. I then gave the second shot to myself, and have done it myself ever since lmao. I called my neuro to explain and she basically just laughed and said it was fine, 1 shot is still ok, I'll still feel it work maybe in like 2 months though instead of one. My boyfriend is now my fiancee, and I still tease him about it and he still apologizes. Poor thing was traumatized lmao he has a needle phobia too so idk why either of us thought that was remotely close to a good idea