What is your magic number?

[Jkm7]

Did many people come home from the hospital on lovenox shots until their INR was in range? I must have missed comments about that as this is the first I have heard patients coming home after surgery on lovenox injections.

 

[CRM-Mom]

Hi MN mom,
You have a good attitude given your situation and you're moving forward. What else can we do except try, and that is what you are doing. One day at a time, and it will get better each day.

I hope it goes well with cardiac rehab and with the shots/coumadin. It is alot to deal with and you had surgery only 3 weeks ago. You are doing wonderfully! Keep up the good work and progress.

I am at 7 weeks post surgery and many things have improved greatly in the last month. My INR readings are up and down still and it is still getting adjusted. Sometime I feel like they don't know what to give me, and then I realize that it all takes time to adjust.

Hang in there! It will get better. (by the way, I am a Minnesota mom too from Coon Rapids)

Wishing you well and a smooth recovery!

CRM-mom
Barb

 

[MNmom]

I had no idea either

I had no idea either

Did many people come home from the hospital on lovenox shots until their INR was in range? I must have missed comments about that as this is the first I have heard patients coming home after surgery on lovenox injections.

I had never heard of giving myself shots until two days after I got home from Mayo, and my local coumadin nurse at my town clinic told me I would need them. I was shocked, and so soon after surgery getting my blood drawn and then being told about shots I was flabergasted! It is a good thing to know going in, about the possibility. Maybe that should be a new thread in pre-op- what no one ever told you might happen!

 

[Cooker]

5mg every day except Wednesday.....10mg on Wednesday.....40mg weekly...I'm stable

 

[SHEEPDOG]

Help!!!

Help!!!

I HAVEN'T BEEN PANICKY LATELY BUT THEN I READ THIS! WHAT SHOTS? I'M NOT TRYING TO GET OFF THE SUBJECT HERE BUT WHAT IS LOVENOX? HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? (THE SHOT STUFF) IS IT THE SAME AS COUMADIN IN A LIQUID? NOW I AM PANICKING A BIT AGAIN. BUT NOT TOO MUCH.
SHEEPDOG

 

[Guest]

Did many people come home from the hospital on lovenox shots until their INR was in range? I must have missed comments about that as this is the first I have heard patients coming home after surgery on lovenox injections.

I was in the hospital 6 days, they started my coumadin dose at 2 mg from day 2 post op. On day 6, my INR was at 1.6. I was ready to get out of there. The agreement was to let me go home the Monday before Thanksgiving, lovenox twice a day, visit the coumadin clinic the following Friday, then schedule visits with the clinic until I was in range. It took a while to get me in range. If my INR dropped below 2, I had to do the lovenox, I had 4 courses of lovenox over 2 to 3 months.

 

[Jkm7]

I came home with INR very low but didn't have to use Lovenox. I came home on a Tuesday, was at clinic for testing on Friday and was still very low. They increased my dose every time I was tested and though I got up to 88 mg per week, I never reached range before I was permitted to stop.

I have a bovine valve so I can only think it wasn't as critical to get me in range???

I've read here of some people with tissue valves who never took warfarin.

 

[MNmom]

I had a tissue valve and never needed to take coumadin. This is all new to me.