bruising

[tyefly]

Now  I am getting a bruise  every time I give myself a EPO shot...... and B12 shot......  just has happened in the last two weeks..... never happend before........  why is this happening.....is this another sign of something  wrong.......  I have too many bruises  and am running out of room to give shots.......  I like it when they gave me my EPO in my  lines at D..... but now that I am on nxstage  I have to do it my self......  anyone else having this problem

[billybags]

tyefly, Daft question, but where are you injecting your self? My husband injects Epo into his stomach. No problems but I dont know how you do it on the nxstage. Have you thought of ringing your nurse?

[tyefly]

I am injecting it to with a insulin syring into my stomach too.... so every place that I inject I have a small bruise...... so today I have 9 bruises...... I am giving my self a injection twice a week......  when I was in center dialysis they put the epo in the lines while you were on the machine...... I guess we cant do that while on nxstage unless someone can tell me how and I will do that....... 

[monrein]

Are you perhaps getting too much heparin  during D?  I usually bruise pretty easily and so I used to have the little stomach dot bruises too when I was giving myself low molecular weight heparin for three months following a blot clot.
I always think of hemo patients as being quick to bruise.  Funny that's it's new to you though.

[aquadj]

Hi, we are using the NxStage machine & we inject epo & heparin in the lines. This is what our dialysis training nurse taught us.
peace,
DJ

[jbeany]

Until the transplant, the running joke among friends and family was that I would bruise if you pointed at me.  The bruising goes hand in hand with the kidney failure, the epo and the heparin.

You can do epo in the thighs as well, although this may be easier if, like me, you have a few extra pounds for padding!

[tyefly]

I can do it into the lines  but where .....  which lines.....the port on the cartiridge...... or ??