Just wondering really...
I had a dvt 2 weeks after ds2 was born and took warfarin for 9 months (lots of problems keeping INR up!). A scary time and not a lot of relevant info available; everything seemed to be aimed at telling you about getting your dvt diagnosed after a pain in your leg flying .
I've been told that if I ever want another baby then I will probably have to inject heparin daily.
I would love to try again (and I'm getting on a bit so time is running out for trying let alone having!) but I keep wondering all sorts about the dvt
- will it be painful injecting every day? after 10 days of jabs the bruises were getting bigger and bigger and there was less available space to do more - so what is it like doing it for several months?
- When I had heparin injections initially and when my INR had dropped they were done at the hospital, during pregnancy they expect you to do them yourself - is it difficult, do you worry about doing it wrong or injecting air or injecting into pregnant stomach etc?
- worrying about the risk of getting another dvt and having big problems or worse (dying) from it - very scary (and something that they were never able to say very much about first time around, despite all the dvt scare stories that you hear on the news, couldn't or wouldn't say what that risk was. Or would be should I get pregnant again
- does heparin really really not harm the baby or have any other long term consequences?
- what is birth like if you are using heparin - are there risks of excessive bleeding or going into sponteous labour or not being able to have epidural/c-section/etc?
- any other worries or issues that you encountered that I haven't thought of!
Anyhow, any thoughts or experiences would be really gratefully appreciated as I just don't know what to do and I really don#t want to end up making a fatal mistake - I know I would love another dc but not if it means a really high risk pregnancy! [scaredy cat emoticon!]