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Posted on 3/31/21 at 9:36 am to LuckyTiger
Several days before my wife's (no pics!) knee replacement surgery, the doctor took her off her blood thinner oral medication and had me (moi?) give her injections in the stomach. Fun times - I could develop some type of fetish around this practice.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 12:18 pm to SneakyWaff1es
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Two of those are not only new but a brand new type of vaccine. They haven't been studied that much. There's very limited data on them. It's pretty easy to see why someone would be uneasy about taking them.
And the reason the antivaxxers on the OT are so terrified of the others?
This post was edited on 3/31/21 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 3/31/21 at 12:37 pm to LuckyTiger
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stomach to prevent risk of blood clots. He said this became the norm a couple years ago.
If by “couple” you mean 30+, then yes.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 1:37 pm to Evolved Simian
It's still new. I've been vaccinated...I'm far from anti vaccination. It just seems reasonable to me to be wary of something new.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:22 pm to SneakyWaff1es
30+ years indeed.In 1974 my next door neighbor had her elderly mother at her house recovering from cancer surgery.I went over every day and gave the old lady heparin shots in her abdomen because her daughter was too squeamish to do it.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:40 pm to DarthRebel
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Better than a suppository
Its always alarming when the doctor inserts the suppository, yet you feel both his hands on your shoulders.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:43 pm to LuckyTiger
Hospitals are part of the medical INDUSTRY. They do a bunch of useless things to make more money. If they get you on a long term prescription, they've made money for Big Pharma. Almost anything outside of emergency medical care is just a big money making scheme.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:45 pm to DLauw
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I had to inject my wife twice a day durring her last pregnancy, because she had Preeclampsia.
And to think it all started with just one injection.
Real talk: Do they do this if you have an IV started and they have access? Some people here are saying this has been a thing for decades and I've NEVER had twice daily injections in my stomach or butt, but I've always had IV access in place any time I've been admitted. I've definitely been admitted for emergency trauma surgery where I wasn't getting out of bed for two weeks, too.
The nurses put the DVT preventative stockings on me, but I don't remember ever getting multiple daily shots in my fat.
I've always been admitted for surgeries, though, not medicine. Maybe blood thinners aren't a great idea if you're going to be bleeding? IANAD.
This post was edited on 3/31/21 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:47 pm to LuckyTiger
Yep. Lovenox.
Lsu pharmacy screwed up a few years ago and gave my ex a dozen boxes instead of a dozen shots a few years ago.
And then refuses to take them back.
Lsu pharmacy screwed up a few years ago and gave my ex a dozen boxes instead of a dozen shots a few years ago.
And then refuses to take them back.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 2:49 pm to LuckyTiger
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One was there for two days and received a shot in the stomach each day to prevent blood clots, she was told.
Yep. When I was in Harborview in SEA for a week, I had to have shots several times a day in the stomach for blood clots.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 6:02 pm to doliss
It’s Also known as a common treatment for snaggle teeth
Posted on 3/31/21 at 6:06 pm to LuckyTiger
Whenever I have a medical procedure that requires me to come off Coumadin, I have to go on the blood thinner Lovenox which is injected into my stomach. For some reason they always do it right around my belly-button. At first it’s no big deal but after a day or two it gets sore as hell, not to mention all the bruising.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 6:35 pm to Lithium
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Its a blood thinner. Don't want to get a blood clot while lying around in bed
Which is why I refused it, I was not laying around in bed any more than if I was at home.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 7:02 pm to EA6B
By all means, if you feel a need to refuse a medicine, then refuse it.
That being said, there is a host of reasons why it is given.
1. Even young healthy people are at risk for developing blood clots (dvt’s) when they lay around in bed for most of the day. Specifically, if your calf muscles are not worked as regularly as they should, blood tends to become stagnant and coagulate there.
2. Whenever you have a trauma, your clotting cascade does not behave the same way that it does when everything is stable. A patient is far more likely to develop a dvt after breaking a bone or having a surgery.
3. Many times, blood thinners are paused around hospitalizations for different reasons. These shots are simple, safe, and effective bridges for the time when the big guns like eloquis, plavix, and xeralto have to be stopped.
These are just the basics. If you are genuinely concerned about taking the shots, I would strongly encourage you to discuss it with your physician. I have seen catastrophic dvts in relatively young patients. If you speak with any physician or veteran nurse that works in critical care, I guarantee you that they have also.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when a nurse just goes into a room and starts pumping chemicals into a patient without discussing why and what. It really does break down the patient/caregiver relationship when communication is not effective.
ETA: On a side note, I heard from a drug rep that the reason it is given in the abdomen is that the medication interacts better with the olmental fat which is specific to the abdomen/love handles part of the body. Also, the air bubble in the syringe is not to be purged. It is a nitrogen bubble that reacts with the med and the tissue as well. Full disclosure, I just heard that. It may not be 100% accurate.
That being said, there is a host of reasons why it is given.
1. Even young healthy people are at risk for developing blood clots (dvt’s) when they lay around in bed for most of the day. Specifically, if your calf muscles are not worked as regularly as they should, blood tends to become stagnant and coagulate there.
2. Whenever you have a trauma, your clotting cascade does not behave the same way that it does when everything is stable. A patient is far more likely to develop a dvt after breaking a bone or having a surgery.
3. Many times, blood thinners are paused around hospitalizations for different reasons. These shots are simple, safe, and effective bridges for the time when the big guns like eloquis, plavix, and xeralto have to be stopped.
These are just the basics. If you are genuinely concerned about taking the shots, I would strongly encourage you to discuss it with your physician. I have seen catastrophic dvts in relatively young patients. If you speak with any physician or veteran nurse that works in critical care, I guarantee you that they have also.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when a nurse just goes into a room and starts pumping chemicals into a patient without discussing why and what. It really does break down the patient/caregiver relationship when communication is not effective.
ETA: On a side note, I heard from a drug rep that the reason it is given in the abdomen is that the medication interacts better with the olmental fat which is specific to the abdomen/love handles part of the body. Also, the air bubble in the syringe is not to be purged. It is a nitrogen bubble that reacts with the med and the tissue as well. Full disclosure, I just heard that. It may not be 100% accurate.
This post was edited on 3/31/21 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 3/31/21 at 7:49 pm to LuckyTiger
I was inpatient at Emory back in 2012 for 72 days total. Not consecutive but in and out for a week or two at a time. During the grand finale of my lymphoma treatment, I was there for a month consecutively. I had a male nurse that came in every night around 11pm and would give me a shot in the stomach. I was kind of out of it on pain meds and never questioned what it was for. During that last month long stay, I asked him why I was getting a shot in the stomach every night and that the last few were painful because he had jabbed me about 15 nights in a row. He said it was for blood clot prevention but that I could refuse the shot. I refused that one and told him no more moving forward. I wish I would have questioned about 10 days earlier.
Posted on 3/31/21 at 8:19 pm to armsdealer
I’d absolutely take it. PE is no joke. Heparin and lovenox are well studied and work.
Screw that cavvine
Screw that cavvine
Posted on 3/31/21 at 8:27 pm to bushwacker
Yes it’s standard
Obese bed ridden people love to get blood clots
Obese bed ridden people love to get blood clots
Posted on 3/31/21 at 8:32 pm to CamdenTiger
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Have them put an ice pack on area prior to injection, that numbs the pain
The needle is tiny and doesn’t hurt at all. I had to give myself heparin injections in my stomach twice a day for 6 months. Other than massive bruising from all the injection sites, it wasn’t an issue at all.
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