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Originally Posted by Sacamulelas
Joe-
As I am sure you know, to do any good the ice has to be on the area for a pretty fair amount of time to give you anesthesia... THAT would hurt as much or more than a little stick from the micro needle, IMO.
Use some distraction techniques on her, rub an alchohol swab on a completely different area on her abdomen... let her mind "sense" the tingling from the alchohol as it evaporates and then give your injection while her mind is distracted to the other area. Talk to her, calm her down, get her less tense before the injection... 99% of what she is feeling is due to her anxiety not the shot. Find something that gets her mind off what you are doing...
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Good call.....I'll just hold a Taser on her Junglar that should take her mind off of the shot.
Acutally tonight we used the ice and she said it helped a lot. I also think she was more "prepared" mentally.
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Originally Posted by FrontSight
Joe,
What were the symptoms of the blood clot?
Hopes she's lots better soon.
FrontSight
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Moderate Rant to follow:
Feb 14th she started experiencing a cramping type pain in her left calf. Feb 15th she had moderate swelling.
Feb 16th She asked me WTF I thought and for some off the wall reason (God must have been looking out) I said its probably a blood clot. The extent of my med training is a wilderness first responder class about 4 years ago. So there is absolutely ZERO logical reason for me to guess that.
Next day she went to a walk-in clinic because the pain was getting worse and she couldn't get into see our Doc for a few days. The clinic Doc took one look at her leg, asked her to flex it, then sent her packing to the E.R. The E.R. did a sona-gram (sp?) and screwed the Pooch by telling us that it was a minor clot in a superfical vein and there wasn't really anything they could due to treat it.
Feb 18th we saw our Doc (who is an internist (sp?)). We go over what the E.R. did. He doesn't agree with how they treated her but conceded that being superfical there wasn't much they could do but they could have done something. He leaves the room for about 20 mins (Hmmm thats weird is ususally back faster than that) He had review the results of the sona-gram. Come to find out....its in the SUPERFICAL FEMORAL!!! which is a Deep vein hell I failed college A&P (twice) even I know the superfical femoral is a major deep vein. But a dumb ass himpy E.R. Doc missed it???
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Originally Posted by Eagle5US
I'm 3 months past my double Pulmonary Emboli-
had to do the Lovenox for the first 2 months, twice a day in the tummy.
The longer I did it, the more "poke sensitive" my belly got. It seemed to just get worse over time.
Not to mention all the nickle sized bruises that were coming up after about 3 weeks every time I injected myself.
Once her coumadin levels stabilize, she will be able to stop the injections. Keep close track on the "eats" and "do not eats"-it makes HUGE variances in the coumadin measurments.
Best of luck to her...it won't be forever.
Eagle
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Hopefully we only need to do this series of shots (which is only 5). After that the Doc said the coumadin should be in full swing.
Please excuse the knuckledragger in me but what do you mean by coumadin measurements? Like the bloods ability to clot or not? Also besides Vitamin K and green leffy veggies are there any or "Do Not Eats?"
Thanks again everyone for the help and Info it has defiently helped.