It itches. It is warm to the touch. It is raised and welty. It is red. It is bumpy within. It's about 6"x 8". It is where I have been injecting Heparin for the past 3 months twice a day.
I almost clawed my leg to the bloody point last night in my sleep and we decided that today, I had to go in and get checked out.
I was released from Dr. Ayyagari. Dr. Crenshaw is on her two week vacation. So, we settled for our primary care Dr. -- Del Torro.
He believes it's one of two things:
1. I am having an allergic reaction to the Heparin in my system.
2. I have injected that area's fill of meds and the skin is now supersaturated and needs a break.
Either way:
1. I have to stop injecting Heparin into my right leg.
2. I have to use some anti-itch cream that he prescribed today
3. I can take Benadryl
4. If I have the same reaction on my left side - then I need to switch from Heparin to something else ASAP.
4 comments:
Man Sherry...your prego battles are so intense...I hope everything starts going a lot more smoothly for you. With all this agony your baby is going to be such a prize!
either that (prize) or it'll come out addicted to drugs and reaching for an IV!
I am hoping for a baby that sleeps A LOT!
I'm telling you as soon as the baby comes home start a sleeping schedule only two naps a day at 2 hrs each and bedtime at 8pm and he or she should finally wake up around 6 or 7 am, but he or she will wake up throughout the night for feedings or changes, unless the babies like my Noah and Andrew and I had to wake them to change them or feed them. I was so lucky, Noah still to this day will run to the crib and say night night.
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