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Hi bdantonio,

Thanks you for your response. How far along in your pregnancy? I found when the belly grows bigger and bigger, it gets tougher to do it on the belly as you can't get the skin fold any more. That is why I am considering other areas.

Do you have the same problem with the belly area or it is not important to do the skin fold?

Jenny

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Jenny i only took it through the first trimester i do not have a blood disorder i took it as a precaution to m/c

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the injections are so not as bad as i feared, it burns but other than that i have no side effects whatsoever, i get little bruises sometimes and other times i dont, but not huge basball sized ones like ive seen describe on this forum before. i think each person will react to any drug differently and i for one am glad i dont have any adverse effects, and i pray that goes for my baby as well.

that being said it also concerns me that because im not feeling any side effects my dose may be too low. i asked my DR. why i wasnt given dosage based on weight and she said that because pai 4g/5g is so common(yah right) and its not high on the totem poll of severity as far as clotting disorders go that im on a precautionary dose verses women who have factor v or more serious disorders need a theraputic dosage so that based on weight.

i'm 8 weeks guys, i just got back from punta cana. right before i left i had an ultrasound and they measured me at 7 weeks( a week ago) and i saw the heartbeat on the screen, 130 beats, and they said eveything looks good. i cant help but fear that the baby is going to die without me knowing it, with my son last year there was no bleeding or pains i just went for my normal check up and they could find the heartbeat so i cant help but feel like its going to happen again, how do i get over that feeling?

i still have to get a new doctor ive been putting it off cause i thought the pregnancy might have not been viable but now that i have it confirmed im going to start calling new dr offices to see who can take me in, my docotr now saw me last on 11/14 and then doesnt want to see me again till 12/7???? now come isnt that it little far in between visits for someone whos high risk?

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veroki that does seem far apart until i got to my safe zone through the first trimester i saw the dr weekly then even everyother i am not still at everyother i go one f=more time then weekly again.

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[quote author=Robyn link=board=13;threadid=1981;start=945#43694 date=1196071841]
Hello ladies! So glad I found this site. It's the most informative I've found!

I'm currently 35 weeks pregnant, just diagnosed with a Pulmonary Embolism :( They started me on 2 hots of Lovenox a day. I'm getting used to them already, but the burning is quite irritating to say the least. It's all for the best though! :)

My question, for those of you who have taken blood thinners to the end of pregnancy, were you induced to prevent going into labor while on Lovenox? I read somewhere that switching to heparin at 36 weeks was a good idea, as it has a shorter half-life than Lovenox. My doctor wants to induce so that I have at least 24 hours off the Lovenox before delivery. I don't want to be refused an epidural due to blood thinners being present, but I certainly don't want to risk being paralyzed either.


I've been asking my drs about this a lot lately. from what they have told me the heprin is really not worth the pain and bruising. they both take a day to get out of your system the only difference is that they can actually test for the heparin to check if their is any left in your system. the lovenox they have to use time to their advantage, hence the induction, they can control how long you've been off. in which case 24 - 48 hours after your last shot they will induce and in a case of an emergency do a c-section no prob. If you go into labor early, NO epidural.


The other thing that concerns me, is that if I need a c-section, and the Lovenox is present in my system, I would need to be put under general anesthesia. I'd really like to be awake when my son is born.

cross your fingers you don't go early

Any advice? I see my OB this week, but I don't feel like they're taking this as seriously as they should be. I don't have many options, because as great as military health insurance is (I pay nothing for Lovenox), I have to see the doctors at our military treatment facility, or it costs an arm and a leg.

I go to a OB that is in the washingtonian for the best practice in the dc area, and i go to a high risk dr who was recomended by my OB, I trust them all completely



Thanks for reading!!
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Mickey,

I took lovenox throughout my pregnancy. At 36 weeks I was switched to heparin. My understanding is that the heparin is out of your system quicker and is more surgery friendly. I was told that I would not be induced but that they would also not let me go past 39 weeks. At 35 weeks my blood pressure began to get too high. Finally, after being in and out of the hospital a couple times (none of this was due to the lovenox) they put me in on a Monday to stay until I had the baby. After some testing, they decided to induce me that Friday at 37 weeks. I had my last heparin shot Wednesday night. I was going through labor, had the epidural, no problems. Then the baby's heartrate dropped too low and I had to have an emergency c-section. I was not put to sleep or anything. They just gave me more meds through the epidural and I was awake for the birth. I had no complications from the heparin whatsoever. My high risk OB said he preferred to let me go into labor naturally rather than by induction. My induction was because of something totally unrelated to the blood thinners. I think however, from what I have read on here, that some doctors prefer to induce. I, myself, was kind of happy that I was induced because the situation was more under control in my opinion. It does take away some from the experience of going into labor, etc. However, after 2 miscarriages and 9 months of shots, I did not care because I now have a healthy 4 month old baby girl.

Good luck and let me know if you have anymore questions.

Elizabeth

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Thanks for the info, i was responding to another post and my comments got mixed into Robyn's message, so i guess it was hard to tell who had the question first.

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got my Dr appointment bumped up to 12/4, but still. im not totally freaking out cause i did just have the u/s 1 week ago, so thatll be only 11 days inbetween checking on the baby but i still think thats too much considering im supposed to be "high risk". i almost feel as though she doesnt really think i should be considered high risk, because through her questioning of me she made it clear that i shouldnt have even been tested for thrombolic disorders because losing 1 baby at 15 weeks shouldnt have warranted testing??? i think shes nuts. tomorrow i HAVE to call another doctor, ive been procrastinating for too long! i guess im just sacred of calling another dr office and being treated the same way, and when i call them, what do i say? "hi im high risk and i need a new doctor?" im mean i tell them im high risk right, so that they get me in quicker? ive been going to the same dr office since i was 20(first gyno visit) so i guess im just anxious that itll be the same everywhere else or that i wont be treated with priority. fear of rejection? idk.....

its weird cause i dont feel the level of anxiety that i thought i would this being the first pregnancy since i lost my baby . but i still am fearful of losing this baby and not knowing it, i think since its still so early it hasnt hit me yet but once i start getting closer to to the 15 week mark im sure ill be a bundle of nerves.


on a differnet note, are any of you taking dha supplements in addition to your prenatals?

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I had a stroke 2 wks. after the birth of my son 51/2 yrs ago, I was 29. I am now 35 andI really want another child. My doctor says that I would have to take Lovenox 2x/day. I am really nervous to give the injections myself....

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veroki just call high riisk obs and tell then you are looking for a new dr and want to set up a consult they usually get you in pretty quick, they are just usually 1st apt in the am or last in the pm. Get questions together that you want to ask and feel them out before you make them your dr but in the mean time keep your ob so that u arte still being watched. I do know how you keel though i lost my 1st at 14 weeks and wasnt tested for anything i was just told it was a freak of nature after i lost my 2nd they did testing however they never found any reasons. I have now lost a total of 5 and have seen many specialist i just have unexplained infertility and unexplained m/c's

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[quote author=StaceyK link=board=13;threadid=1981;start=15#17974 date=1146502115]
Where do you all inject yourselves? The tummy seems to work best for me. My doc said I could inject from my thighs up to the top of my tummy.
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I am currently 19wks and started my injections at 8wks. I wasnt very big at first and my stomach wasnt very tight so it was easy to do in the belly but as of about 3wks ago i started doing it in the thigh. Although there is jsut as much muscle in the thigh, I pinch a tiny bit of skin right under my underwear line and make sure its not flat so taht i dont stick it into the muscle. Sorry to say, it still burns....itll get easier, I keep telling myself that!

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i did it, i called a doctors office and made an appointment, im so scared to go to someone new even though i hate my current doctor, how weird of me. i have an appointment with my current doc tomorrow and then with my new doc friday, the thing that sucks is that i think they are doing all my prenatal labs tomorrow so it going to be a weird transition. im 8 weeks shouldnt they have done this stuff at like 5 or 6 weeks? this is why im changing doctors i guess....

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veroki i didnt get my prenatals done until 9 weeks when i went to my first ob apt. I was at the re office prior and they never did them. Its just your measels, aids, rh negative or positive, anemia, and a couple more they dont really reflect hormones or anything to do with the baby its more about you. Not to worry about that. That blood wrk wont change how your baby is growing.

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Hey everyone! I am new here! This is a great site.
I just wanted to know if anyone out there has been in my shoes?

I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my lung 5/07 and I have been on coumadin. Took Lovenox at the beginning for 5 days.

My antiphospholipid antibodies are high.. and of course I am at risk for miscarriage.

Has anyone ever been on coumadin then found out they were pregnant. I have my ob appointment 12/10
the hematologist says they may suggest abortion..I don't believe in this.

I also worry about hemorrhaging with child birth... can anyone out there tell me if they have went through anything similar?

Thanks a million

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why would they suggest abortion why dont they switch you to lovenox

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bdantonio~ thats true, still makes me nervous though, the blood work that is. i always feel like there going to find somethign else wrong with me. but im anxious for my appointment tomorrow, baby hasnt been checked in 11 days, and ive been in and out of the country in that time frame so i hope everythings ok. im also kinda nervous at how many u/s ive had already, 4 u/s is alot for only being 8 weeks and having a whole pregnancy to go through still, i read that the effects the u/s have are still unknown and some DR's believe that the virbration of the sound waves can cause bubbles in the amniotic fluid and cause birth defects and thats why you should have too many..... great another thing to worry about.

that being said, how will they be checking on the baby tomorrow? 8 and a half weeks is too soon for a doppler to pick up the heart beat right?

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