Re: Ciklokapron before UAE- is it ok??

[Guest guest]

Hi Anne,

I have another consultation since you used Cyklokapron. Do you think using this

medicine just a few days before UAE will interfere? I am thinking of already

postponing my UAE date to a few days later (if my IR is understanding enough) as

I am pretty convinced I will have started my period than and still does not feel

right to do the procedure. HOwever, since I use this medicine, I wonder what it

will do if anything at all.

Regards. Lidia.

[Guest guest]

Be sure to ask you IR about this and any other medication/herb/vitamin

you are taking.

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[Guest guest]

Hello Lidia,

That's a very good question. I wish I could answer it!

Common sense suggests any drugs taken a day or two before a

proceedure can have some effects, but whether it is one that may be

beneficial or not will have to be for your IR or GYnae to answer.

My Gynae did explain very carefully that this drug worked as

antifibrinolystic - it cuts down on the enzymes that the body

produces to prevent clotting. So its a clot aiding drug I suppose;

not that it will create big clots most of the time but it just stops

the hemoraging that can occur - and this is exactly how it worked

for me. But this conversation was a while ago and the details have

got a bit hazy!

Since the main thing your IR will be interested in is nice big fat

arteries for easy access I don't suppose this drug will be that much

of an issue but only he/she will be able to advise you. I am sure

this is a question that will have been asked before.

If you are bleeding at the time of the proceedure I expect it will

stop pretty quickly so don't let this worry you. Seek advice, I find

most people love to be asked!

Anne

> Hi Anne,

> I have another consultation since you used Cyklokapron. Do you

think using this medicine just a few days before UAE will

interfere? I am thinking of already postponing my UAE date to a

few days later (if my IR is understanding enough) as I am pretty

convinced I will have started my period than and still does not feel

right to do the procedure. HOwever, since I use this medicine, I

wonder what it will do if anything at all.

> Regards. Lidia.

[Guest guest]

Good day to you all and to Ann (storming1)

I was yesterday by my IR and (as rebound) my Gyne too, I bumped into the Gyne

just after my talk with the IR and he was very nice and kind and instead of

making another appointment he just talked to me for a few minutes there and

then, isn't that especially...nice? I thought so.

The IR told me that the use of Cyklokapron before UAE should not really matter

but, in any case, to stop its use 5-6 days before the procedure, just to be

sure. I did also postpone my UAE one week as to avoid heavy period days (or at

all), so that was fine too.

I could not clear up with my Gyne about which type of painkillers he uses but he

said " that why should anybody be in pain? " he gives a supository (?) and other

type of painkillers, I asked him that if I needed morphine whether he would give

it and he looked at me to say... " why not? " - Ja ja! I think is crazier than me

actually, although he also made the joke about " If I take it for a week I'll be

a junk " .....his sense of humour is quite.....unusual.

I also found out that the particles they use here are of the acrilic type, so,

no PVA as in the US, they reckon is a better substance because it adapts to the

arteries, a bit like a sponge (something like that). I still don't know why some

countries would use Pva and others acrilic...still.

My IR also told me that pendulating fibroids he does not want to treat, since I

dont have any of those (strangely enough considering the multiple ones inside

me) there is no issue. Pendulating ones are done by myomectomy. I do, however

have a large cervical fibroid, any info on those??

We also talked about the woman who passed on last year (in the same hospital)

and how rare her infection was that could not be treated with antibiotics, it

was a rare desease. He has made sure that I have all the contact emergency

numbers and so on in case something unusual happens to CALL immediately!!!!! (I

suggest that to everyone too) At first sight of infection, yellow green colour

stuff, whatever, not to wait and GO! . Also, they give antibiotics just before

and after the procedure via IV.

I am quite convinced that my IR will not take any chances and my Gyne, being

especially nice, won't either (I know that for certain), and hope that

everything is...more than OK.

Uff...tick tock tick tock.....show must go on.

Lidia