Guest guest Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Friends, Just had my PICC line and no problem. Really it is a nothing bedside procedure. No pain. Honest. They now use ultrasound to find a vein and can thus insert the catheter above your elbow joint, so mobility is unaffected. I can still hunt and peck with both fingers. Working out in advance helps pump up the veins as well as the muscles. So far it has all been anti-climatic which is good. I hope it is all anti-climatic. More later. Be well , 57 years old TODAY family doc & father of 4, dx 9/05 del 11q w ATM, unmutated, CD38+, W & W, stable except for growing nodes and spleen until ITP 9/06 eventually failed steroids, IVIG , Rituxan and splenectomy now on cyclosporin and finished Rituxan with ITP controlled and CLL in old school CR, planning a RIC MUD HSCT July 1 being admitted see http://bkoffman.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 I'm glad to hear that so far your experience had been medically boring - my favorite thing to be in medicine. May you continue to have a routine, boring experience right through to the 100 day party, which I'm sure will be anything but!!!! Pat**************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Had a picc line for 9 days, no pain, had to give myself antibiotic v iv twice day for ninety minutes, yes long tube goes near heart, x-rayed make sure right place then sent me home w 12 bottles. then removed line. mor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 , I'm coming in late on this conversation, so someone else may have already brought this up. When my autistic son had to come home from the hospital with a pic line, they put him to sleep while they did the procedure. He was sixteen, and he is AP. Could you perhaps ask to be put under while they do it? Deborah Deborah M. Piccurelli www.deborahmpiccurelli.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Hi Deborah, I had thought about that, or even if not knocking me out totally giving me a sedative, something, because going through insertion wide awake was just torture. I'm hoping though my thinking of losing weight will help with getting a vein for an IV, so that's what I'm actively doing now. We shall see though! ________________________________ From: DEBORAH PICCURELLI <DebPiccur> dwarfism Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 7:25:03 PM Subject: Re: PICC Line  , I'm coming in late on this conversation, so someone else may have already brought this up. When my autistic son had to come home from the hospital with a pic line, they put him to sleep while they did the procedure. He was sixteen, and he is AP. Could you perhaps ask to be put under while they do it? Deborah Deborah M. Piccurelli www.deborahmpiccurelli.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Hi , I had to have a PICC line when I went through a series of surgeries about five years ago. They knocked me out to do it, but they put it in a different spot. They actually went between my collarbone in my shoulder, right into the jugular I think. It was a bit uncomfortable (and freaky to think about), but not torturous. They also used some sort of ultrasound device to monitor its insertion. I'm guessing my arms are probably as short as yours. It might be worth asking about. Bill On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Oakcreek Girl <oakcreek_girl@...>wrote: > > > Hi Deborah, > > I had thought about that, or even if not knocking me out totally giving me > a > sedative, something, because going through insertion wide awake was just > torture. I'm hoping though my thinking of losing weight will help with > getting > a vein for an IV, so that's what I'm actively doing now. We shall see > though! > > > > -- Bill Bradford (aka BJ, ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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