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Question: can a person who suffered with antithrombin deficiency do aerobics??? how will it effect the person?? i have a friend who who has undergone treatment for cerebral thrombosisis for an year and she was under warfarin..... an now she is not taking any medicines.... the antithrombin levels are just on the margin and the doctor said she need not take warfarin but she needs to be careful.... so now she is interested in doing aerobics... can she ???
Answer: ask her to check with her warfarin clinic or nurse as the levels may need checking prior to exercise ext
Question: How to deal with the pain from Lovenox injections during pregnancy? I have antithrombin iii deficiency, and have to take 80 ml of lovenox twice a day. I've been taken it since I was about three months pregnant. I'm 34 weeks now, and have a 5lb baby inside me, so if you can imagine my belly is way out there. I was told the best place to take the shot is on my love handles, but they hurt so bad. Does anyone have any tips on reducing the pain, or a less painful place to take the shots?
Answer: You can ask if you can have them put in your butt (if you have someone to do them for you). My husband did my shots for me. And that is where he was allowed to put them. I had to start them after a blood clot was discovered in my thigh at 26 weeks with my first child. And then through the whole pregnancy with my second child because of my Factor V Leiden.
I am pretty thin so I really never had enough fat on my stomach or my love handles to put the shots. So for me the rear was the best place. And sometimes it still hurt and burned but at least half the time it wasn't bad there. When I first started them I had them in my love handle and it was very, very painful there.
Some people I hear put them in their upper thigh. So you can ask your doctor about that.
And something else that helped- For me I tried to not move for about 15 minutes after each shot. That seemed to allow the Lovenox to move through me less painfully.
And my husband would pinch the area where the shot was placed and keep it pinched until the entire contents of the needle was in my body. Some nurses tell to you release the pinch well before then, but for me this greatly helped to maintain the pinch throughout.
