CarolHaving advocated loudly for the Inject-ease, I feel responsible to follow up. The addenda to my previous posts did suggest that those interested in this device ask their pharmacists about the possibility of a model that would accept larger tips (and therefore larger size needles.) As I mentioned, the one I have accepts, as largest size, a 1cc needle which, I believe, is typically the size used to administer insulin. I was concerned that people would get tripped up if they found that they could not fit their child's entire dose of solucortef into this size needle and, therefore, find themselves having to fill it up twice. But you bring up another good point, Laura, that the 1 cc. needle tip is not long enough to give the shot intramuscularly, something I had not considered before.
Did anyone, by chance, end up asking their pharmacist about a larger model or one made by a different company for the same purpose and therefore going under a different name? The reason why I posted earlier that I thought there might be a similar device out there is because shortly after we acquired our Inject-ease, my then 4th grade daughter came home from school and announced that she had met the person who invented this device. Apparently, one of her special classes at school had had a visit from a local inventor, and among the things that he had invented was a device to deliver shots more easily, like our Inject-ease. (She was not the one to get the shots with this thing, but her brother.) When I asked her whether it was called the Inject-ease and whether or not it looked like what we had, she told me she didn't think so, which is what made me think it was possibly not exactly the same thing, but something very similar. That was all that we discussed of the subject, though, and I have no idea if my daughter had her facts straight. She takes this class twice a week, next time on Wednesday. I'll see if I can catch her teacher and ask if she remembers her inventor friend talking about his needle delivery device. If so, I'll see if I can't find out his name and number and ask him about it directly . (But again, this is assuming that what my daughter told me was correct.) Unlike the issue of shelf-life and solu-cortef with the Epi-pen, this is one device that I feel should really should be very readily adaptable for use with different size needles. I'll let you know if I find out anything interesting.