Question for those on lovenox

st.augbride · June 2012

I am now on my 5th week of lovenox and I find that as time goes on I'm having more and more trouble pushing the injection through my skin and it hurts more than it did at first. It's like I push and it just doesn't budge. I often have to abandon ship and try another spot (which leads to two sore spots, which stinks). Anyone else experience this?

gazing_iscariot · June 2012

I experienced that when I first started the injections. I STRONGLY suggest icing the area before you inject. I'm 36.5 weeks and icing has gotten me through the injections which I had a super hard time doing at first. If you're numb by the ice you can apply more pressure to get the needle in without feeling it so much.

SpruceGrouse · June 2012

What I do is pinch my skin really hard so I just feel that pressure and don't notice the needle as much. I think I need a new strategy though because now my belly is really big and grasping skin is getting very difficult.

yemil359 · June 2012

You can get a dull batch of needles. You can take them back to your pharmacy and they should swap them for a different brand.

sgb721 · June 2012

I've only been taking it a week but I did notice this last night. I've had no problems and then last night I had skin pinched, but the needle wouldn't actually go through the skin, it was like I had rubber skin. I thought it was really odd but now I'm wondering if like someone else mentioned, the needle was just dull.

I also found if I keep the skin pinched the whole time I bruise less (not sure how you are on bruising). I ice for 10 minutes prior (I go in Pinterest while I ice.)

mamatotwins0812 · June 2012

YES!! Thankfully I am off them now but I went through this a few weeks in also. It became so painful, almost like my skin got hard at every spot I already used. My best advice is to take a deep breath and find a fattier area that you can pinch. I also used to do them sitting down and when this started I would do them in front of the mirror standing up to try and see a nice area that wasn't bruised or poked already. Good luck!!

Pamela05 · June 2012

I had awful luck with generic needles, problems with dull needles,rough needles (tugging going in) and plungers that didn't go down easy. I had my dr rewrite my script for name brand only and paid the extra. Apparently the real stuff is in short supply though and I could only get 1 box at a time.

nidawi6 · July 2012

What works for me is lounging on the couch, pinching the skin the entire time, and taking the time to try a few spots. I poke the very very tip of the needle in sometimes 4-5 different spots before I find one where the nerves aren't so sensitive. I sink the needle in very very very slow, sometimes letting off on the pressure when the pain is there and then resume pushing the needle which seems to help somehow.

I get very few freckle-sized small bruises this way, and sometimes no bruise at all. During my last pregnancy my Perinatologist thought I was skipping doses, but nope, I just have lots of experience with the injections.

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