Back from the Hospital

[SadieKate]

Can't this injection be given in the other really fatty area by one's partner? Of course, this assumes the partner is willing to wield a needle.

[maillotpois]

My .02--remember to really vary the injection sites. Some folks do it on a grid system, so they cover the entire area of (the belly, the thighs, wherever they told you inject) before going back to the same place twice.

That's exactly what the nurse who taught me told me to do. I prefer the lower belly area where all the child birth flab seems to congregate - doesn't hurt as much. But I try to move up and down a line there.

[maillotpois]

Of course, this assumes the partner is willing to wield a needle.

Mine not so much....

Based on today's blood, the warfarin goes up quite a bit. Hoping that soon the injections go away completely and the warfarin takes over. Re-test Sunday and re-adjust dosage Sunday night.

[KnottedYet]

I just remember getting amazing technicolor bruises at the injection sites. (cuz the Lovenox I was taking was really concentrated at those sites and I swear it dissolved me!!!) DPITA tried to make sure she injected me in a lot of different places so nothing got too beat up. I looked so pretty by the end..... (not)

[emily_in_nc]

I just remember getting amazing technicolor bruises at the injection sites. (cuz the Lovenox I was taking was really concentrated at those sites and I swear it dissolved me!!!) DPITA tried to make sure she injected me in a lot of different places so nothing got too beat up. I looked so pretty by the end..... (not)

Poor you! I didn't get bruises from Lovenox at all. I had to do the injections myself because my DH would have fainted! He's more squeamish than I am!

Emily

[salsabike]

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[maillotpois]

Salsa -

Thanks so much!! How very cool.