It has been a rough past few days. I started developing more symptoms of what could have been either preeclampsia or medication side effects. For about 4 to 5 hours on Monday, I had blurry vision (had trouble reading the computer, magazine, or TiVo listings), a dull annoying headache (not severe by any means), lightheadedness, and just overall generalized weakness all over my body. Called the doctor that afternoon, and he wanted me to come in the next day.
Same thing happened again yesterday for a couple of hours. It feels as if you just have no energy and are falling apart.
Went in to see the doctor again, and my BP there was very good, 130/85 I think it was. We (DH was with me) talked to him about all the symptoms including not feeling the baby as often, so he did a non-stress test on the baby for about 30 minutes. She was sleeping when we started, and then they gave me some juice. That woke her up for about 10 minutes, and then she went back to sleep. But the doctor felt good that she was able to be alert and she definitely started flopping around during the test.
He still doesn't think I have toxemia "yet, but it is inevitable". However, he does think that because I am now on a huge amount of medication that these are all side effects from the meds. It does make sense from the standpoint that I feels the worst about 2 hours after taking them, especially the morning dose. But because we want to be sure, I turned in my 24-hour urine collection in this morning plus they drew blood again for a toxemia panel.
We are in a balancing act right now. He says for every day we keep the baby inside that is two days that she won't have to spend in the NICU. We got to keep trying to shoot for 34 weeks, but he would be "ecstatic" if we could make it to 36. But when we get to the point where toxemia really hits, then it is "time to take her out."
I made a huge mistake today. After my blood work this morning, I decided to go to the supermarket down the street from the doctor's office to pick up something that I could throw into the oven for dinner tonight. I started walking through the store, and I quickly became very lightheaded, clammy, and I got to the point that I had to leave my cart, which I had filled with fruits, dinner, and a couple of other things, in front of the bathroom and had to sit in the bathroom for about 5 minutes just to cool down and catch my breath. I ended up walking out of the store without my groceries, just left them in front of the bathroom. I then sat in my car for about 20 minutes with the AC blasting at the highest level just so I could cool myself down enough to drive home. I promise I won't do that again. I really just wanted to do something productive, but now I know that I NEED the bedrest because I apparently can't handle just simple things right now.
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Hugs! It is so hard to sit and take it easy but you must. We want you to make it as far as you can. I know how it's like worrying, waiting for the toxemia to come but hopefully you can keep it at bay a little longer.
The grocery store incident had to be frightening! ((hug)) I think your productiveness needs to be limited to laying and being waited on!!!
I am so sorry the last couple of days have been rough. The store experience must have been really scary.
I take labetalol (I think how it is spelled) for bp and I was having those type of symptoms in the AM. Even though my bp was up to a normal rate when I went to the doctor he said I was on too much and he cut it back to half. So maybe you are running too low at certain times, but they want to make sure you don't get high at other times.
I'm so glad that baby girl woke up for the test. :)
Wow, 32 weeks--you are already 6 weeks beyond when my twin grandbabies came into the world!
I hope you are taking it easy now, Carrie. Hugs to you and the family.
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