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Advice on preventing bruising with blood thinning injections

Katiey-lee
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Hi,

My father has a grade 4 glioblastoma and is currently on palliative care and having palliative chemo. My mum and I are currently taking care of him.

recently he developed a blood clot in his leg and we are now having to give him blood thinning injections everyday. 4 out of the 5 times that he has had the injection, the injection caused a pretty nasty bruise. He is having the injections in his tummy, I am aware that some people do these injections in the thigh however we wasn't told that we could do it there.

I give him the injection in a different part of the stomach every time. I make sure to be at least 2 inches from the belly button. I make sure to pinch the skin and insert the needle at a 90° angle. I know that bruising is common with these injections but I can't help but feel maybe I am doing them wrong or could be doing something more to prevent these bruises.

Any advice or tips to help prevent these bruises would be much appreciated!

Thank You 

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    I recently had two lots of these injections pre op had to repeat due to cancellation on the day. The first l gave in the leg with out problems the second thought l would try the abdomen they bruised spectacularly ! I'm not sure if it  was due to first round of injections. 5 weeks before or not. I also find that giving it slowly and definitely not rubbing afterwards made it les painful l was having a big dose using two injections at a time.l have factor five Leiden or it's called sticky blood so have had loads of clexane over the years post surgery and clots. Last time they suspected a clot in my leg l had tablets instead maybe worth talking to the drs about them. 
    Take care

    Susie

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    Hi susie,

    Thank you for your response. We have been told that tablets could be an option in a couple months so hopefully that will help! Thank you for the advice it's good to know that bruising is conman and not a result of doing anything wrong! I hope you are removing from your surgery well! Best of luck to you, thanks again! 

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    Hi susie,

    Thank you for your response. We have been told that tablets could be an option in a couple months so hopefully that will help! Thank you for the advice it's good to know that bruising is conman and not a result of doing anything wrong! I hope you are removing from your surgery well! Best of luck to you, thanks again! 

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