A real dr mcoy hypo ?

[Reaper57]

I take bi weekly injections for my RA and i have been using regular syringes.
my new ones now are cool. called pens.

you remove the caps then you press the white end against your stomach, then push the red end, it realeases a spring that sticks a needle into you and shoots the medication into me , cool.
i just thought how much this reminded me of how the Docs hypo worked.
aint tech funny. :lol
john :cool

 

[blubeetle3]

Wouldn't be the first time the "real world" was inspired by Trek-tech.

 

[YenChih Lin]

Well, Hypos doesn't use a needle (at least not a physical one - just the med as liquid needle) and are painless. Intraject from Weston Medical developed in 1998 is the real-life pendant to McCoy's Hypo and resembles it. http://www.creactive-design.co.uk/product/intraject-needleless-injector.html

EDIT: I've found a cool image from 1947(!) hypo vaccination: http://images.google.com/hosted/lif...fe=off&client=opera&rls=de&sa=N&start=20&um=1

 

[Bowelrock]

Make a working replica that you can put your "pens" into that will make taking your meds much more exciting

 

[Reaper57]

Hey,
i figured out how to take it apart, i recocked it and filled the vial with water. push the button and it ejects a 6 foot stream. :lol
now what can i use it for. lol
john :cool

 

[Vaderman]

I had a Sewine Flu vaccination (really!) around 1978 that was done with an air injection gun. It was huge though and still hurt, as I recall. Also I got very sick from the shot.

Since then, a few companies have made air injection "hyposprays" and one of them, maybe the first commercially available, Medijet, sent one of their Medijet Injectors to the TNG art department.
There. it was "dressed" (stripey tape, etc.) and used it as a prop in Crusher's sickbay.
That was a pretty cool cycle of art/life/art, I thought.

 

[Jet Beetle]

Reaper, if you don't mind me asking - what is RA?

 

[phase pistol]

Just don't accidentally jab the one with the Cordrazine. :eek

"Murderers! Assassins!"

 

[tim]

Reaper, if you don't mind me asking - what is RA?

Rheumatoid arthritis, if I were to guess.

 

[Jet Beetle]

Rheumatoid arthritis, if I were to guess.

Ahh - sorry to hear you have to deal with that.

 

[Reaper57]

Ahh - sorry to hear you have to deal with that.

Thanks,

it hit me suddenly around 6 years ago . no one knows how it starts. but no cure.
got it in both wrists but with the injections it has been in remission for most of the time. funny thing is the injections are $900 a piece and i take two a month. my insurance paid all but $4 per injection.
when i left my last job i lost my insurance, i contacted the company that makes it and told them my situation and that i had been using it for over 5 years and now they send it to me at NO CHARGE.

Kinda makes me wonder how much it realy is worth.
i guess its the pay for the development thingy.

john :cool

OH Karl great idea, do you have a source for Cordrazine. :lol

 

[Jet Beetle]

I'm glad to hear you have it in remission, john. Funny thing is almost the exact same thing happened to me about 2 years ago. i started getting these awful pains in my knees and fingers - it happened almost overnight. I went to the doctor and they said it was connected with my Psoriasis (which started flaring up around my late 30ies. My Doc gave me Oxycodone for it but I ended up having to see a specialist. I wanted to just keep getting the oxy, but no luck.

 

[DS Operative]

I've used those "auto-injectors" before-- I hated them. I found they were more painful than the old-fashioned pre-loaded syringe so I switched back to those. Mine looked different than the one you have pictured though, but operated the same.