Any pharmacists or people with experience of Clexane

[HerculesMulligan]

I've been treated by the recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary's and am now almost 15 weeks pregnant. At my 12 week appt, I was transferred to the local hospital to me, and asked for a continuing prescription of tinzaparine. They've given me inhixa instead. I've read up briefly on LMWH and they seem alike but does anyone have a BNF they could check for me?

The inhexo is noticeably much more painful to inject - the needle is visibly bigger. I never thought I'd be wistful for the tinzaparine but the inhexo is really horrid.

Not a pharmacist but I've also been given inhixa instead of clexane for my most recent script. I think it's just a generic form? That's what my (medical) DH said anyway. The bruising is horrific! Do you think it has helped your pregnancy?

Inhixa and Clexane are exactly the same thing - both are enoxaparin just produced by different drug companies and with different names - the same as Panadol and other brands of paracetamol. I have been using both as was prescribed the generic drug rather than one or the other - there is also an issue from time to time with stocks of clexane.

It’s quite possible that your local hospital’s policy is to use enxoaparin rather than tinzaparin which is why you’ve ended up with the prescription you have.

Thanks, both - that's really reassuring.

Thumbellina - this is pregnancy #5 for me. #3 resulted in my DS despite having no treatment at all, but I've had three miscarriages at 6/9/13 weeks. I'm also on aspirin in addition to the clexane, and I don't know if that's the reason why but I'm certainly delighted to be at 15 weeks without anything going wrong.

What a lovely story. All the best for the future op x

Thank you, Ohyes. That's so kind of you. x

In the hospital I work we use inhixa when there are issues getting stocks of clexane, they are the same medication.

Also the BNF is available as a free app if you ever wanted to look something up xx