u/mponesss

Hi everyone. I guess I am just looking for any positivity or help to look at the plus side of things or not feel so anxious.

I’m on postpartum lovenox (I’m a month postpartum this Thursday).

I got started on lovenox at 19 weeks due to DVT in my leg.

I am feeling SO anxious about waiting for my period to return postpartum. I can’t shake this feeling of fear. All I see online are horror stories of a mixture of postpartum periods and periods in general while on blood thinners.

I have such a fear that something bad will happen or end up in the hospital due to the bleeding.

I definitely know I need some therapy to process all I’ve gone through this year.

Anyone have positive stories at all or any way they processed this? Anyone else felt the same and was okay?

I am just thinking the worst ugh.

When did your bleeding reduce postpartum? When did it stop

I wanted to share my delivery story below due to my DVT and pregnancy. While I was pregnant I was looking for positives outcome stories so hope this helps someone. :)

Back story: I had a history of subchorionic hemhorrhage in January. Shortly after that had a laparoscopic cystectomy to remove a 13cm dermoid cyst. DVT diagnosed at 19 weeks (my whole left leg). Placed on lovenox twice a day.

We got called in for an 8am induction on 7/22. I got checked and I was 0.5cm dilated.

When we got to the hospital there was some back and forth on my plan for my lovenox since I have an active DVT. Finally they made a decision so we talked about next steps (after many discussions with hematology, MFM, OB, and anesthesia.)

I will say that initially the plan was to be on a heparin drip and then stop it 6 hours prior to when I wanted an epidural. We did not do this and I’m happy for this because it would have been so hard to predict when I would need the epidural.

My last lovenox dose was 5am on 7/22 and they needed me to wait 24 hours for an epidural.

They did not want me to start the cervical ripening pills because if this effected baby’s heart beat and I needed an emergent c section then I would need to be put under general anesthesia and they didn’t want that.

First step was we started the foley ballon at 12pm. The pain was not too bad with this. It was just a lot of pressure. This stayed in for 12 hours and then they took it out. My water never broke with this or anything and the contractions were very intermittent and not too bad. They took this out at midnight. They checked me and I was 3cm. After this there was just some waiting time until I was 24 hours past my last blood thinner injection.

Around 4-5am they give me the first dose of misoprostol vaginally to help dilate my cervix. I got to 4cm. Four hours later they gave me another dose. At this point they checked me again and I was 4-5cm. They calculated my bishop score and I was able to start pitocin.

They started pitocin and at about level 6 I started having contractions. Nothing too bad kind of like moderate period cramps. They got my pitocin level up to 8. I was doing a lot of position changes to help get dilated.

I was laying in the bed and I heard two loud “POPS” in my belly. It kind of scared me so I called the nurse. She checked and told me my water just broke! I started having bloody / watery mucous discharge.

Not even five minutes after my water broke I started to have more intense contractions. It was more intense than before but tolerable still. Within ten minutes I called the nurse and told her I think I will need an epidural soon. Shortly after that it got WAY more intense. It got up to a 10/10 pain for me and I had to wait 40 mins for the epidural I was so miserable. Once that epidural kicked in I was soooo relieved. The epidural didn’t hurt. Just the numbing stung a bit and the rest was just like a pressure feeling. He had to do it twice because he wasn’t in the right spot. Wasn’t a big deal.

After this I got re some relief and felt much better. She checked me and I was 7cm. After about an hour I started having left side pelvic pain and it went from mild-moderate. As it was getting more intense my nurse said we should check how dilated I am and I was a 10!!!

I pushed for 32 minutes and ended up with 2nd degree tear. The delivery was actually pretty peaceful for me surprisingly.

Overall things went pretty well! My biggest fear had everything to do with my DVT and lovenox. Being off blood thinners during that time made me nervous. I got through it all and I feel so thankful. Now I am just focusing on recovering and I am back on my lovenox.

Also - at the beginning of my induction they mentioned that MFM and hematology recommended doing the automatic machine massages on my legs (I spaced out on the name) It’s where the pumps massage your legs to prevent blood clots. I was so hesitant to do this because I was always told not to massage my DVT leg. I kept telling myself to trust the experts. They said it was okay because it had been months since my diagnosis. I let them put it on me and I had a full anxiety attack I started sweating and everything. I told the nurse I needed her to take it off. I wasn’t sure what the best thing to do was. In the end I decided to go against their advice on this as it was giving me bad anxiety and worry. My medical team was okay with my decision and things ended up okay. During the induction and postpartum I stayed active by walking around I wasn’t bed bound until the epidural and even then it was only for about a few hours really.

I wanted to share in case it helps anyone in their own journey. Happy to answer any questions!

Currently pregnant and I’m supposed to get the TDAP vaccine today. I’m feeling nervous. Not because of the tdap but just with getting a vaccine while on lovenox.

I’m worried about bruising bleeding etc.

I have never worried about injections prior to my DVT and getting put on blood thinners but now I just feel anxious and worried.

Anyone else get vaccines while on lovenox and/or on other high doses of blood thinners? Were you okay?

I’m due in July and as the time gets closer I feel more anxious worried and scared. Yesterday I couldn’t stop thinking about the what if’s of what could go wrong.

I’ve had a very challenging pregnancy to say the least.

But I wanted to share something my husband told me yesterday as I was spiraling.

He said a bunch of positive what ifs. What if I have a beautiful healthy labor and delivery. What if everything goes great. Etc.

This has been really helping me focus on the positive things. I know there are so many things that can happen during child birth but what if everything goes okay…

Just wanted to share in case anyone else needs some kind of positivity as well

Anyone here that had an active clot during pregnancy and was on a high dose of lovenox post partum - any positive birth stories?

I mostly worry about postpartum bleeding and hemorrhage makes me nervous. I’m due in July.

I know that everyone is different, and some people’s clots never go away.

However I am wondering for those who have had an extensive leg DVT - did yours go away? How long did it take?

Just curious to hear others stories on this.

I’m pregnant and on 3/2 diagnosed with extensive left leg clot. Have been on lovenox twice a day since then.

I don’t have anymore leg pain. Maybe twinges here and there but I’m also pregnant so who knows.

My only symptoms are leg redness when I stand up and end of day leg swelling.

Currently pregnant with extensive DVT diagnosed at 20 weeks. Currently 2 months out (28 weeks). I’ve been on 80mg twice a day.

They had me do some bloodwork and told me I need to increase my lovenox to 100mg twice a day.

Anyone have a similar experience? Just makes me nervous. 🙁 I know it’s not a huge increase but still. I’ve already been anxious with the DVT and pregnancy.

Any reassurance anyone has or similar would help.