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I keep hearing that after the op you have to  inject yourself for 21 days in the stomach with hepering. Is this true? I'm worried sick if I have to do that. Can you take pills instead? you can see from my post I would be no good as a drug taker unless it was pills lol. Can anyone talk me through it please?

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  • eileen64__UK
    eileen64__UK Guest

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    Hi

    Just a bit of advice...As you ask us the questions write them down for the next person you see.  The consultant or whoever......I'm dreadful. I need my list otherwise I would come out thinking "why didnt I ask that"!!!!!!!

    Love

    Eileen   UK

    • Guest
      Guest eileen64__UK

      Posted

      I've already done that too. I keep a list for my doctor too who is lovely and will answer any questions.
  • Connie95372
    Connie95372 Guest

    Posted

    I'm in the USA.  I had to do the injections for 14 days.  Didn't think I could do it, but they were fine.  Not fun, but it worked.  They are very tiny and it just goes into a fat roll on the tummy.  Then had to take aspirin for several months.   Had to wear the white socks for 4 weeks. Nothing at all really.
  • mary268
    mary268 Guest

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    I'm just home after a hip replacement.  It came as a nasty shock just as we were leaving to be given a pile of syringes and told to give myself an injection in my tum for the next 30-something days. Luckily my husband is able to do it for me. Besides not liking needles stuck in me, I am not very dexterous and would probably end up breaking them. 

    The nurse discharging me  hadn't realised I didn't know about the injections but once I asked she did a quick demo using an orange as a visual aid. To be fair the instruction booklet did say about injections to prevent blood clots and that "you will  be shown how to do this" but with so many other things to think of I hadn't taken it in properly.

    Some hospitals use injections while others give you tablets to take. I know which I prefer.

  • christine69594
    christine69594 Guest

    Posted

    I didn't have injections gill I had tablets for blood thinning for 30 days.
    • christine69594
      christine69594

      Posted

      I'm in Norwich by the way gill and your in kings Lynn I think aren't you. I didn't have to wear stockings either as I had leg pumps.
    • Guest
      Guest christine69594

      Posted

      ooooh that sounds better christine and yes I am in kings lynn. Both hospitals tend to dish out similar or the same treatment too.

       

  • isabelle40781
    isabelle40781 Guest

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    Hi gillcat,  I think it depends on the surgeon and how he/she does things.  I was fortunate to have one who prescribed the pills. Perhaps you might be able to request that option.  I would have been horrified to have to inject.
  • renee01952
    renee01952 Guest

    Posted

    Oh, those injections ... I live in Holland and it seems that they have you on these injections the longest .... 6 weeks !!!!! I too was terrified ... I asked for pills but were not given to me ... and even mentioned Waverin ... it was not my favorite thing to do, but, as said before, it was not as bad (on hindsight, of coure :-)) Fragmin, disposable needles ... squeeze tummy roll and stab .. honestly, it didn;t hurt, except for a little burning sensation from the fluid - I had a lot of bruises because I rubbed over the spot ... I was not supposed to but nobody told me .... 

    Definitely talk to your doctor .... hang in there gillcat .... 

    • Guest
      Guest renee01952

      Posted

      thanks for the reeply Renee, I will hang on in there, as I said I haven't got a date yet but I seem to be thinnking of all the negativities instead of the posatives of how much better I'll be when it's done.xx
  • tracy54947
    tracy54947 Guest

    Posted

    I'm in scotland and I've had to do the injections for 6wks and wear the stockings! I have more discomfort from doing the exercises than I do from the injections, you just get used to them and they are very easy!
  • brian68625
    brian68625 Guest

    Posted

    morning gillcat, I went to Leicester General and had two asprins a day for 6 weeks and tight stockings also for 6 weeks.

    Best wishes

    Brian

  • hilary02336
    hilary02336 Guest

    Posted

    Hi

    never had one injection just tablets!  Hospital in Truro.

    hilary

  • m11010
    m11010 Guest

    Posted

    Hi

    I had my R thr end of Jan this year. The nurses tried hard to help me overcome my fear of holding syringe while I was in the hospital. Since I couldn't rise to the challenge my GP arranged for the district nurse to come and administer the inj instead.

    I did ask for substitute (pills) but wasn't available .

    Do not worry too much the actual injection is PAINless.

  • helen248
    helen248 Guest

    Posted

    i have pills. if you let them know when youre admitted that you would prefer pills to injections im sure they would sort it out for you
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