A Serious Question About Lovenox and Bees

I am terrified of bees. Fuzzy little bumblebees, graceful shiny wasps - I totally panic when any one of them flies into my airspace. I do this elaborate bee-evasion dance and seek shelter as quickly and awkwardly as I can. No, I'm not allergic, I just have a few too many traumatic childhood bee stings tucked away in my memory bank. If and when the kid I'm carrying around in my belly emerges into the world, I will have to strike a delicate balance between "Every creature has a purpose in life, this is how flowers are pollinated, we wouldn't have strawberries if we didn't have bees" and "Run for your life!"

Oh sure, it looks all helpful and pretty NOW.

As the seasons change I've been seeing more bees around, which is why it occurred to me the other day as I was injecting my Lovenox (yes, I'm back on it now that the immediate sub-chorionic hemorrhage danger seems to have passed) that I was now basically "stinging" myself voluntarily. Think about it - I jam the needle into my skin, inject a whole bunch of painful liquid, and the injection site hurts afterward for about 20-30 minutes. It's not entirely dissimilar to a bee sting, although it avoids some of the things about bees that make my skin crawl the most: one sting somehow alerting all of the other nearby bees to come sting you too, stepping on an underground nest and being surrounded with no warning, the tracker jacker scene in The Hunger Games... shudder.

This brings me to my question. It has been, what, 15 years since I was last stung by a bee? Longer? So, no, I don't really remember what it was like. It might be way more painful than a syringe full of enoxaparin, or I might be psyching myself out over nothing. Has anyone out there experienced both a bee sting and a Lovenox injection lately? Are they remotely similar experiences? Important stuff, this.