Symptoms Thread: Week of 07/11/16

Scarlett830

How is everyone feeling this week? Sore boobies? Morning (or all the time) sickness? Fatigue? Gas? Share the good, the bad, and the ugly here!

girlmama83

My breasts are so freaking sore. I didn't experience this with my first pregnancy, hell I hardly had any symptoms with my daughter, so this is all new to me. I can't even lay on my stomach. I'm planning on picking up some sports bras because I am all set with my regular bras right now.

My nausea is very mild. I'm exhausted all the time but I don't know if pregnancy is to blame or my toddler.

PattersRN

Constipation.  I haven't pooped in 3 days.  I've had two rounds of milk of mag and two rounds of colace today and nada.  I JUST WANT TO POOP!!!

Youre welcome.

AverageAsh

The gagging needs to stop. 

Scarlett830

PattersRN said:

Constipation.  I haven't pooped in 3 days.  I've had two rounds of milk of mag and two rounds of colace today and nada.  I JUST WANT TO POOP!!!

Youre welcome.

Did you try "the bomb"? Half prune juice, half apple juice warmed. We used to give it to our patients. Only about 60-70% success rate though. Some had blowouts afterwards, some didn't even have a fart.

meq124

No energy whatsoever!! DH is going out of town this week and the just the thought of having to deal with DD by myself is exhausting. I am tempted to have a babysitter come so I can nap, but I feel like that may be excessive. 

I am also noticing my ability to deal with BS is shrinking, maybe it's because I am too tired to care, but I feel like I am turning into Karl Pilkington (if you don't know who he is, I highly recommending watching An Idiot Abroad, it's hilarious)

jessdarconte

Puking...and nausea...and more puking.  I feel sick all the time.  Didn't have anything near this bad with my daughters.

Also, horrible headaches

kjd291

All day MS however I've yet to actually throw up, so I'm considering this a win! Made it past my 5 week mark where last pregnancy all I did was throw up every day, so I'm hoping to keep the streak for as long as possible. 

And so exhausted. I'm going to bed soon after putting DD down and trying to get as much sleep as possible, but I still don't have the energy to chase her around  

khbear

Scarlett830 said:

PattersRN said:

Constipation.  I haven't pooped in 3 days.  I've had two rounds of milk of mag and two rounds of colace today and nada.  I JUST WANT TO POOP!!!

Youre welcome.

Did you try "the bomb"? Half prune juice, half apple juice warmed. We used to give it to our patients. Only about 60-70% success rate though. Some had blowouts afterwards, some didn't even have a fart.

I second this as a constipation solution - I still give this to postpartum mamas with a colace!

I am having almost no symptoms! My boobs are pretty sore and I'm very moody, but I have no morning sickness or acne or anything else. It's actually worrying me a little bit. I'm 6+2 now ... Shouldn't I be sick?

ETA - I guess I've been experiencing fatigue as well. On non-work days I've pretty much fallen asleep every day from 2-4ish.

nursemama-2

Like garbage. Morning sickness is really hitting hard these last few days. 

nursemama-2

Like garbage. Morning sickness is really hitting hard these last few days. 

Spartanrd4

Well the acne has started- I had a huge zit right on the corner of my bottom lip yesterday- I popped it and now I look like I have a herpe there. Great!! 

klz0330

I had been extremely exhausted until yesterday. (Which makes me worry) I've been super sensitive to smells! I'm also gassy.

lindsey2017

At 5w5d I am feeling pretty good so far. I am at the point where if I don't eat something at the first sign of hunger, I will feel like I am going to be sick. Otherwise, boobs growing, and want to sleep a lot. I cannot complain. I am just kinda waiting for the sickness to hit and enjoying it while it is not here. 

lindsey2017

Spartanrd4 said:

Well the acne has started- I had a huge zit right on the corner of my bottom lip yesterday- I popped it and now I look like I have a herpe there. Great!! 

Sadly for me, I have always had zits (for God's sake I am 30, when will it end!) and now they just seem to be multiplying! Where is the "pregnancy glow"????

Scarlett830

meq124 said:

No energy whatsoever!! DH is going out of town this week and the just the thought of having to deal with DD by myself is exhausting. I am tempted to have a babysitter come so I can nap, but I feel like that may be excessive. 

I am also noticing my ability to deal with BS is shrinking, maybe it's because I am too tired to care, but I feel like I am turning into Karl Pilkington (if you don't know who he is, I highly recommending watching An Idiot Abroad, it's hilarious)

This exactly! I just cannot deal with BS lately and have been calling it like it is. It's actually been very refreshing and cathartic.

Other than that, I feel you on the exhaustion of having to look after the LO on your own. My DH isn't going away, but his work schedule is horrendous and most nights I'm asleep before he even gets home. We're lucky to see each other for 20 minutes in the morning. But that means I work all day and then have DS afterward by myself, with no time for a nap. It's enough to drive a girl up a wall!

sammajane19

4w3d here and feeling great, except for really sore breasts and occasional bloat/gas.  i've had brief periods of feeling "icky" but not outright nauseated. lying down and or eating definitely helps. i'm waiting for the nausea to kick in....ugh. 

ALSO. is anyone else loosing hair like whoa? i'm loosing so much more hair than usual. just clumps of it in the shower. i looked it up and read that some women do experience more hair loss, due to the hormonal changes. ugh. i thought my hair was supposed to turn luscious and full!

BigBadWolf12

So.  Freaking.  Tired. 
Peeing all the time (4 times in a span of about 4 hours yesterday and all I had was one small waterbottle spread out during that time frame)
Boobs sore off and on. 
Feeling nauseated off and on,  but no barfing yet! 

MrsJN

5 weeks 5 days here. Haven't really had major symptoms as yet. Been experiencing fatigue since my BFP last week. Chores that I would do without breaking a sweat; now I have to take a break or two in the middle. I've also had a little bit of bloating/gas and the occassional sore boob.

MTB16

The past few days have actually been pretty good for me!  I'm still having sore and more full looking boobs, some days of being really tired but not all, and I am very bloated.  I'm also noticing a lot more irritability, I'm generally a no BS tell it like it is bitch anyway so thankfully no one else finds me any more moody then usual!  I'm sure I'll update this as the week progresses lol.  

Scarlett830

@sammajane19 yes to the hair loss! It had literally just slowed down after falling out in clumps from having DS last year, and now it's starting again! Hopefully it eases off; I don't want to end up bald!

ngcsugirl1112

More full and sore boobs here, too!  So tired all the time, and I always feel queasy in the morning. 

Gobruins0430

My boobs are huge ("30 % bigger" according to my husband), they hurt, and morning sickness is in full force. I was really hoping I'd escape it this time around

PattersRN

Scarlett830 said:

PattersRN said:

Constipation.  I haven't pooped in 3 days.  I've had two rounds of milk of mag and two rounds of colace today and nada.  I JUST WANT TO POOP!!!

Youre welcome.

Did you try "the bomb"? Half prune juice, half apple juice warmed. We used to give it to our patients. Only about 60-70% success rate though. Some had blowouts afterwards, some didn't even have a fart.

I have not tried that.  I'll keeping in the back of my head though.  I've used a similar concoction on patients in the past, but it includes milk of mag.  I finally got relief around 3:30 am today......now I've got my fiber one bars to hopefully keep me out of trouble.  That was terrible!

ErinSmith125

Still very sore boobs (can't sleep on my stomach anymore), and nausea has started.  Just kind of an all-day nauseous feeling, and even though I keep thinking I'm about to throw up, I haven't yet.  I cannot even think about eating any kind of meat right now without gagging a little -- and steak used to be my favorite food!  I got some ginger supplements (a pill you swallow) and those actually do help, as well as Sea Bands pressure point wrist bands, although it could just be in my head.

Also, I sleep like, literally 12 hours a day.  (10 hours at night and about a 2-3 hour nap every afternoon.)  It's a little ridiculous, but since I'm a teacher off for the summer and don't have kids, I'm just going for it on the napping.  I wanted to go to a movie last night, and DH said "No, you'll just fall asleep!" So we watched a movie at home ... and I fell asleep 10 minutes in.  

No matter what symptoms I have though, I'm glad to have them bc it means I'm still here!  

dubcompanion

@lindsey2017 Yep to the never-ending acne at 30. I don't even notice an increase in acne, because this happens anyway when my skin is too oily/dry/gotten too much sun/not gotten enough sun/etc.

One unusual symptom I've had - that I also had previous pregnancy - is a tendency to drool. It's embarrassing to admit, because it makes me sound like I walk around looking like a trout. (I swear, I don't.)

stephv18

With my last I had pretty bad MS from 8-13 weeks, so just waiting for that to appear again. I have had a few bouts of it here and there. Gas and sometimes my boobs hurt, although they do feel full and huge they don't really hurt! 

liepertsm

@AverageAsh Amen to that!! 

missydallas

5 weeks and 1 day - I'm just so tired all the time, but not sure if it's just me being dramatic now that I have my BFP. Constipation and so gassy, as well. Colace has been helping - but I had some major gas pains the other night that were so awful I almost made DH take me to the ER. 

librarymom917

My boobs are so sore, I've had a few more bouts of nausea luckily not enough to make me puke though. I did smell pepper very strongly in the store today and I wasn't even in the pepper aisle.

EnglishTeacherMama

Oh my goodness, I am having ALL OF THE symptoms. (Send me my Drama Queen tiara any time, thank you.) Nauseated all day--though thankfully I've only vomited twice so far; my itty bitty titties are now enormous and sore; I'm sleepy all the time; my face (and neck??) are totally broken out high-school style; and everything makes me cry. I saw "The Secret Life of Pets" yesterday and the opening scene, where the dog is talking about how much he loves his owner, had me bawling. I was like "I loooove my doooog toooo." Embarrassing.

The worst is the bloating, though... I had gas pain the other day, but in my anxiety I convinced myself it was ectopic pregnancy symptoms, so I spent an hour going down the Google rabbit hole and was ready to head to the ER until I had a MASSIVE burp. Felt all better. 
I love you, baby! Be nicer to my body, maybe? 

*edit to add* And of course, peeing all the time... but I sort of did that already, so it's not a huge adjustment  

kiki75

I think my sense of smell is whacked. I didn't have a very good one before so I'm constantly asking H, "Does this always smell like this? Is this normally this pungent? Can you smell...??" We walked through where they were setting up a little street/art fair yesterday and it was a veritable cacophony of scents. And, when other smells are not present, I feel like I have a strange scent that just lingers in my olfactories.

Skyjewell23

I'm getting my butt kicked and its only week 6.

I am nauseous about 85% of the day. I probably look crazy breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth.

My boobs freaking hurt, and I have to get up each night to pee a least once (maybe this is because its my second pregnancy? I'm not sure).

Exhaustion is another key symptom. I'm ready for second tri.

KellyT22

I feel pretty good right now! My sense of smell is pretty stellar, and I get a tiny bit nauseous if I don't eat right when I get hungry, but otherwise nothing is different. I was so exhausted with my first pregnancy, but so far I'm at my normal level of tiredness (maybe having a 10 month old who doesn't sleep has trained me).

hippiemama-2

Morning sickness began mid-day yesterday.  I forgot how much fun this part is.  Oh well, at least hopefully it means my tiny human is growing healthfully!?  

Bluebird2318

My morning sickness has seemed to get worse with every pregnancy. I've never really thrown up, but first pregnancy I never had it, second pregnancy I rarely had it in the evening, and now I have it multiple times per day. The sore boobs thing is foreign to me though, I've never had that. I also have this awesome combo of lack of appetite plus nausea when hungry. Fatigue is everywhere.

Sugargirl1019

I'm 4 weeks, and I'm peeing frequently and that's about it. It's weird not having more, but I'm worried because I had lots of symptoms last time and I still lost the baby, and others who have no symptoms at all are doing perfectly fine.

Actually, I think I may have an increased sense of snell, but only sometimes.

Ahug77

Many of these sound like me. This is is my second and I didn't have any of these with DD so this pregnancy feels like a brand new experience. 

I'm 6 weeks and crampy which I don't know if it's from round ligament pain or gas. I'm also nauseous most of the time, especially if I don't eat every few hours. Not to mention the exhaustion which is always there.

PattersRN

KellyT22 said:

I feel pretty good right now! My sense of smell is pretty stellar, and I get a tiny bit nauseous if I don't eat right when I get hungry, but otherwise nothing is different. I was so exhausted with my first pregnancy, but so far I'm at my normal level of tiredness (maybe having a 10 month old who doesn't sleep has trained me).

I never realized how much of an issue the whole heightened sense of smell could be until last week I was sitting on our couch and could smell the litter box clear in the back of the house.  I even spent 30 mins tearing the living room apart to make sure neither cat left us a "present" anywhere.  I had to sit there with the window open because it was so strong.  DH thought I was nuts.

Peepster

Nothing too dramatic yet, though my two worst days of nausea came super early this time (at 4 weeks! It's what actually prompted me to take the pregnancy test). My nausea didn't start until 7 weeks the last time.

Other than that.... Mildly sore boobs, super tired, off and on sensitivity to smells. Today was the first time I felt snarky. And I'm vacillating between food just not sounding appealing and, OMGI'mStarvingLetMeJustEatThisWholeCake.

ETA: Oh yeah... Headaches and diarrhea the past two or three days. But I blame those on me switching prenatal vitamins. Serves me right... I should just stick with what works!

Scarlett830

@PattersRN my DH hates my pregnancy super smell, because he's in charge of the litter box and I'll point it out every time it's dirty. "Hey, the cats are taking a shit. Might want to check it out." I think he wants to kill me, but I just bat my pretty eyelashes and mouth "toxoplasmooooosisssss!!!"