Monoclonal IV vs. shots?

They are effectively the same.

Good job on getting her treatment early. It works well when administered early.

IV likely a little better, but fine for subq injections (what she had) if it gets the med in sooner.
Many of the monoclonal treatment clinics are not staffed to meet the need to give IV treatments to all - much faster and easier to give as injection.

My hospital does the IV infusion. May I ask where your mother is located? Just curious,

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w/n a few hours, i started getting relief

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I’ve heard from coworkers that monoclonal antibodies work unbelievably fast!

I had the IV and the woman had a shot in each arm and two in the stomach.

It saved us both.

I am at a small rural critical access hospital in SE La.

Which one? If the need ever arises I’d rather go to the right place first

I got the (4) shots in my torso at St Tammany Hospital, the whole process is over in about 10 minutes, then you have to sit for observation for about ~30 minutes. The hospital gives you the option of either getting them in the arms or torso. The nurses recommended torso, as each shot is ~30 mL so it's a lot of fluid and your body will absorb it much easier over the larger surface area.

My wife got the infusion via IV at Slidell Hospital, took about 2 hours, plus the observation time. Same medicine either way, different delivery system.

We both definitely felt better almost immediately and were back to 100% in about 8 hours.

Surprisingly, for both of us our doctor's treatment consisted of "go home, take Mucinex and Sudafed and hang out for 10 days." The antibody treatment is strictly optional, they said to call the 800 number to schedule local treatment. We figured the best defense is a good offense, it was effective we were back to normal life immediately. Very strange that doctors treat this virus with less attention or specific treatment than any other time we've had the flu or similar short-term respiratory illness (maybe 2-3 times over the last 15 years).

Also, we were unvaccinated and every other person receiving the IV treatments at the same time were all vaccinated, so efficacy of the vaccines is a joke.