Injecting Blood Thinner Post Op

[notsochubbybritneyspears 4]

My surgeon advised I will have to inject into my belly blood thinner for 14 days?

Anyone have to do this?

Thank you :-)

[Naz 0]

Yes I did the same thing but for 10 days....it is to avoid emboli risk !!

[Naz 0]

Yes I did the same thing but for 10 days....it is to avoid emboli risk !!

[notsochubbybritneyspears 4]

good to know -- is it a tiny needle like a diabetic needle?

[Disney 20]

I didn't for this surgery, but I had to inject 2X a day for 6 months after I got a blood clot after having my daughter. Not fun, but 14 days? You got this! It doesn't hurt much at all, might burn for just a minute, and it is a tiny needle because it needs to go in your fat, not muscle. Just rotate your injection sites!

Good luck

[ILKrista 36]

I had to do 3 injections a day for 14 days. They wouldn't let me leave the hospital until I had done it 3 times in front of them so they knew I could really do it. I could either do my stomach or my upper thigh. I will say I was totally freaked out about doing it... I was more worried about that than the surgery itself. The first couple of days I would sit in the bathroom trying to psych myself up to do it. After that, it was really no problem. The needle itself never hurt, it was when I would inject the heprin that it would burn. I found that the stomach was much less painful than the thigh... probably because there is a lot more fat there. Good luck & you can do it!

[notsochubbybritneyspears 4]

Thank you :-)

[climbthestairs 0]

I did it 3 times a day for 14 days. I had major major bruising all over my belly but apparently that happens to some people. After a couple of weeks the bruising went away.

Thank you :-)

[ahoy 3]

They injected me the whole week I was in the hospital. (That's just how long they keep people here.)

The trick is to inject it really slowly. If it burns a lot, if you get a big bruise, you're not doing it right! The good news is, slow will sting a lot less

[Chicadee 10]

I had to inject myself once a day for 14 days after I left the hospital. I remember being really freaked out about the whole thing when I first heard I was going to have to do it but it was really no big deal. The needles were tiny.

[S311kyra 1]

My surgeon requires twice a day for 30 days. Of course I had to go see him today because I am slowly developing an allergy to it and i have a nasty rash now. So, I got off of them two weeks early. It's kind of like the diet, every surgeon does it differently.