First shot of Clexane

Last night I had to give myself my first shot of Clexane.

While getting testing done through Sydney IVF for recurrent miscarriage they discovered I have an abundance of t-helper cells in my uterus. This may mean that my body recognises a baby as a foreign body and then attacks it. I have to inject Clexane daily, at the same time each day, for the first trimester to try to stop this happening again. It has to be injected into fatty tissue - so luckily I have a fair bit of that :p

The man was happy to inject if for me - however... this was something I felt best to do myself. And in the leadup to doing it I realised that not a lot has changed about me since I was a kid. I always hated people watching me while I was taking medicine... partly because sometimes I could get away with pouring the medicine down the sink.. but mostly because I hate people seeing me when im feeling scared or "weak".

So I took myself out to the lounge room and sat in a "reclining position" as instrusted on the leaflet (side note... I can't believe they give people these injections to take and don't show them how to do it!), I fought to get the lid off the needle... finally got there.. grabbed a bit of my stomach and then fussed over myself for about 30 secs... trying to inject it but always stopping myself just before I hit the skin. At some stage I got the courage to poke myself with the needle.. to my surprise it didn't really hurt - in fact, I couldn't really feel it at all.

The next part was finding the courage to inject the Clexane into myself. I was expecting it to sting like nothing else! Again, I was surprised that it didn't really hurt that much. I mean.. it hurt a little and there was a small sting, but nothing like what I had imagined.

I stood up and walked back into the room.. that is when it started to sting more! It was really quite "ouchy" but it wasn't as bad as I had imagined it.

Sleeping was a little difficult last night as I had injected it on the side that I normally sleep on and I was quite impressed this morning when there was no bruise at the injection site. :)

I hope the Clexane does its job and helps Snowflake make it to us.