Symptoms 8/16

slartybartfast

It's been a little while since we've updated one another on our glowing goddess status.

right?

slartybartfast

When it's a normal week (not a monster week):
-Need to eat all the foods. Last pregnancy I could barely eat the whole time and then DS was born and I inhaled foof for 5 months. Maybe this time I'll be less of a vacuum when DD comes...
-constipation
-boogies
-I get tired. so tired.
-and I'm already just totally uncomfortable. I don't want to bend over. I don't want to pick things up. I don't want to get out of my seat.
-desperation... every day I'm like... I can't take 4 more months of this. I can't do it. I don't got this. But I have to.

Lisa3379

Is anyone else experiencing mild swelling in their legs? As the day goes on, my legs feel tighter and tighter. It's not painful, just a little uncomfortable. I am on my feet for most of the day so others have said that's a common thing. One crazy thing that happened the other day was that I worked out for a bit, and then about 10 minutes later I felt that tightening feeling. Then I sat with one leg crossed over the other, so the outside of my left shin was resting on top of my right thigh, you know? Sat like that for about 3 minutes. Then when I uncrossed my legs, my left shin had a huge dent! I was a little freaked out. About 15 minutes later, the dent had gone away, but it was pretty unsettling. 

I now have to put my feet up for awhile when I get home from work to ease the swelling. My chores are suffering a bit because of this. Oh well!

bookworm8622

My hands and feet have been losing circulation more easily than normal, but I confirmed with my doc that that's not abnormal. But now if I'm holding a cell phone to my ear or sitting with my ankles crossed, my hands and feet fall asleep pretty quickly. It freaks me out!

cgss11

Constipation has come back with a vengeance. It might be related to me being back to work...not eating quite the same, not getting as much exercise, and just a different routine. But it's bad. 

That's pretty much it for me.

Austenista

-sharp pain in my left nipple a couple of days ago. So awful wouldn't go away. Now that boob is visibly larger than the other. 
-leg/hip cramped up in the middle of the night last night, wasn't like a charlie horse, was just a cramp/ache
-lots of movement. I've graduated from flutters to kicks, shifts, and wiggles
-really low energy. I just don't have it in me to want to do anything. 
-I feel like I have three phases and I'm constantly at least one of these things: tired, hungry, or I have to pee. 
-Still a few food aversions. Mushrooms and corn tortillas are my perpetuating undesirables. I made dinner tonight but didn't like how it smelled so I ate multigrain cheerios instead. DH said it was good, so it didn't go to waste.
-Legs have started swelling from the knee down @Lisa3379 when I go on long car-rides. Mine tend to go back to normal if I get out of the car and walk for a bit. So what's that, the literal opposite? Same difference though, I think. 

aframe77

I weened my son about two months ago and instead of experiencing the normal downsizing that most of my friends experienced my boobs just got bigger.  Grrrrr. Now I'm getting the sensation that I need to pump, like they're three quarters full.  Not that painful busting at the seems full but that nagging "milk heavy" full. Ugh, has anyone else who weened during pregnancy experienced this? I'm afraid I'm going to start leaking soon:( Ahhh the glories of pregnancy. 

mjgf

@slartybartfast I totally feel you on the hunger, tiredness, and generally not wanting to move! I'm having such a hard time not whining and crying every time I have to bend over! 

Also, @Lisa3379 my swelling has been unreal in ankles/lower legs. Full out kankles! But dr says it's nothing to worry about 

Lisa3379

It's good to hear others are going through it, but then I'm sorry you all are going through it! 

A co-worker of mine said something that really helped her was floating in a pool to alleviate the swelling and just to feel all-over awesome. I don't have a pool but maybe worth a shot if any of you do!

cayaylonglegs

- Sciatic pain so sharp and sudden it stops me in my tracks.
- crazy emotional
- restless legs/calf cramps
- peeing 3+ times a night
- lots of energy!

yellingbanana

@mforinger that is some impressive swelling for this far along. 
I get swelling based on what I eat and wear. When I wear wedges, it's like auto-swell. When I eat at a restaurant, auto-swell (thanks a lot msg and salty foods). 

The other week we got a vitamix, and I've been having veggies and fruit smoothies for breakfast- it's really cut down on my swelling. Which is great, now I can go eat cookies! Lol

The hardest symptom for me is my swollen pelvis. What the heck?!?! It's ridiculous!!!! 

Baby sometimes shifts so that he kicks my bladder and I almost pee my pants. 

I'm so emotional, like overjoyed and happy, and then murderous and annoyed. Dr. Jekyl and Mrs. Hyde over here. 

Lisa3379

yellingbanana said:

The other week we got a vitamix, and I've been having veggies and fruit smoothies for breakfast- it's really cut down on my swelling. Which is great, now I can go eat cookies! Lol

I LOOOOOOVE my Vitamix! I just had a massive smoothie this afternoon, and therefore peed 4 times in an hour. 

mjgf

@yellingbanana my mom has a vitamix too and it's awesome! I have a nutrition ninja and do try to smoothies for breakfast at least during the work week, easiest way to get your fill! Unfortunately I don't think it's helped my swelling, though today's was extra bad and I'm blaming my shoes. 

kbduke

Insomnia. I've never had to deal with it before and it is killing me. I've tried everything with zero success. 
Peeing all the time. 
Intermittent swelling. I'm on my feet or walk a lot at work. After I've been on my feet for a while my feet and hands start swelling. It goes down after I sit for a few minutes though. 
Fatigue. As bad as first tri or worse. 
Isn't pregnancy wonderful?

dmontgo

Knees and back killing me. Going for a massage tomorrow.

Heartburn, but Zantac 150 clears it up all day.

When I stand, I'm starting to feel that pressure in my pelvis...and then I immediately have to pee.

Hair in weird places...like my collarbone? :S 

Starting to get up more during the night to pee or freaky dreams.

Can't focus on one single thing at a time. Turns into 50 million thoughts of things I need to do at once.

BabyRobbinsAdventure

-weird/crazy dreams
-constipation... Like full force! TMI, thought I was going to pass out trying to poo the other day. Started eating prunes. We will see what develops from that
-emotions are all over the place. I seem to cry super easily this last week
-hips killing me when I wake up, feet killing me after work, back killing me all day
-I can't get enough ice cream covered in gummy bears... I guess that symptom isn't that bad though

ErikandAfton

RLP and calf cramps
Slight swelling of hands and feet
Tired so tired
Leif is kicking my bladder often! And then I suddenly need to pee!
Still a major aversion to pickels. 
My back hurts often.

Mamax2

@Lisa3379, this picture doesn't really show it very well, but my kankle/foot swells up to about the size of a softball or grapefruit. My toes become like sausages. My foot looks like it's growing a mountain on top. It's super heavy and painful. My leg(left leg and ankle only) swells as well. I get the indention marks as well. My OB is watching it, and has me wearing compression socks.

Mamax2

tinattt23

I know we've talked about belly hair before. It's now led to an ingrown hair on my belly. Gross. 

Also have started getting uncomfortable trying to sleep. Went to break out the big u shaped pillow last night from the closet where it's been sitting since I got it in May as a birthday gift. It was covered in tiny spiders! Screw that. 

karmba

At this point my most annoying symptom is sciatica.  It's making it difficult to sleep which in turn leaves me tired all day.  I start out sleeping on my side, then migrate to my back and wake up because my leg has gone numb or I have shooting pain.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to avoid this?  Or maybe to get the baby to move off my nerve? Lol

Austenista

In spite of waking up an hour earlier than usual with my shoulder killing me, I have a freakish amount of energy this morning. I have already made the bed, folded a load of towels, laid my husband's clothes out (I have literally never done this before), made breakfast for both of us, sent him off, and cleaned the kitchen. I think I'm going to go tackle a the closets that need emptied in the nursery before this goes away. Who am I, right now? 

dmontgo

@caseyewhitaker Feel free to stop by my house!

Christinaruth74

Sciatic pain, mainly starts on the lower right side of my back and shoots down my right leg
general back/flank pain
zero energy
sore boobs
so.much.pelvic pain... This baby is ridiculously low. A common conversation these days consists of, "how was your day? How is your vagina feeling?"
weird popping/pulling pains in my stomach. It's usually onset by lifting DD. Going to talk to my dr about it at my next appt. they are sharp and sudden and overall freaky. I'm assuming it's just some RLP? 

Gagging/puking has nearly halted altogether!!!!!! This is the biggest victory for me so far. With DD I puked 8+ months, but I feel like I might actually be out of the woods now. I still have crazy aversions to certain smells in the house, but as long as I can avoid them I'm doing alright. 

Christinaruth74

@slartybartfast I hear you on the desperation to be done. When I tell purple when I'm due they always say, "oh, December will be here before you know it!" I always bitterly say, "but not soon enough........."

some women just really lurve being pregnant and I generally dislike said women. Go glow somewhere else. 

slartybartfast

Christinaruth74 said:

@slartybartfast I hear you on the desperation to be done. When I tell purple when I'm due they always say, "oh, December will be here before you know it!" I always bitterly say, "but not soon enough........."

some women just really lurve being pregnant and I generally dislike said women. Go glow somewhere else. 

I was swimming in a lane next to another pregnant woman yesterday. She was bigger than me... I hesitated to ask how long she had to go because I was sure she was gonna say like one month and then I'd be all jealous. Nope she was being induced in 5 days, swimming laps like Ledecky, and when she asked how it was going for me and I said "oh ya know, not bad but I still dread every day" she just looked at me confused. Crap. I always expect every pregnant woman to be in on the misery. But some just aren't... they are built of different stuff.

For some reason I currently feel baby is yanking on my esophagus but really it's just a delicate blend of heartburn and nausea.

And now for a stupid question - how do you tell the difference between bloating and weight gain?

swhiddon33

I'll just agree with everyone here. We're all officially in the same boat. The same big fat pregnancy boat. 

I too am in a constant cycle of eat, pee, be tired. Eat, pee, be tired. 

As to the body hair discussion.... I've got an incredibly impressive nip hair going on right now. It's a single strand and DH and I are taking bets how long it will get before I have enough and cut it off. (The hair, not the nip).  

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH these joyous days.

tinattt23

@swhiddon33 Seriously, what's up with those nip hairs?! It's like they come out of no where over night. FI likes to pluk mine 

SarahF8611

aframe77 said:

I weened my son about two months ago and instead of experiencing the normal downsizing that most of my friends experienced my boobs just got bigger.  Grrrrr. Now I'm getting the sensation that I need to pump, like they're three quarters full.  Not that painful busting at the seems full but that nagging "milk heavy" full. Ugh, has anyone else who weened during pregnancy experienced this? I'm afraid I'm going to start leaking soon:( Ahhh the glories of pregnancy. 

My boobs have started getting hard again. It definitely reminds me of when I was nursing, like they're milk heavy.

leksiL

I have so much energy this week! I've been to the gym 3x. Unfortunately it doesn't translate to productivity at work. 

- RLP / Achy
- Up 1-2x/night to toilet
- Baby Bells moving around a lot
- Moody. Like people ask me how I'm feeling and I want to jump down their throat. Other times super happy. 

Lisa3379

leksiL said:

- Moody. Like people ask me how I'm feeling and I want to jump down their throat. Other times super happy. 

Does anyone else get irritated daily by this question? I have a co-worker that asks me this on a daily basis. I feel bad for getting annoyed (not outwardly annoyed though), because I guess she cares, but then I feel like she's also just asking to have something to say. Either way, I'M FINE.

Kacie209

Lisa3379 said:

leksiL said:

- Moody. Like people ask me how I'm feeling and I want to jump down their throat. Other times super happy. 

Does anyone else get irritated daily by this question? I have a co-worker that asks me this on a daily basis. I feel bad for getting annoyed (not outwardly annoyed though), because I guess she cares, but then I feel like she's also just asking to have something to say. Either way, I'M FINE.

That is the first question ANYONE asks me these days. It doesn't totally bother me, but does get old. I answer with a quick, I'm good and know it could be worse. I don't go into details, as I just want to move on. I do get that people are asking cos they care, but it's just one of those questions that I guess is common? IDK.

• Sciatic nerve pain, comes and goes depending on what I am doing. Mainly left side.
  
• Back pain. I got a massage yesterday and had them focus on my upper/lower back, which was great. Still there, and it's more middle pain.
• Hungry ALL.The.Time.
• Some feet swelling, and mainly on my right side. When I shave or put lotion on, I can tell the right is thicker around that area above the heel than my left.
• I guess leg swelling, too. We had some pics done a couple weeks ago and I wore a knee length dress. My calves/ankles look so swollen. It could also be cos I have slacked on working out, which obviously would help some. Yuck, either way.
• Consitpation. I took a stool softener Sunday morning, and it either started to wkr yesterday afternoon, or something I ate did not sit me well.
• Stuffed nose. All. The. Time.
• Peeing, every half hour, it seems. This is no matter how much liquid I intake. Thankfully, I can hold it all night... right now anyway.
• Still get tired if I do too much, like run errands on a Saturday and walk around a bunch. Just exhausted afterwards.
• Hair has gotten gross, and doesn't take any product anymore. I am hoping this is the time it figures out where it wants to part, as my usual go-to has not been a thing in a year now.
• Emotional. Watching the Olympics hasn't helped, ha.
  

Lisa3379

Kacie209 said:

Lisa3379 said:

leksiL said:

- Moody. Like people ask me how I'm feeling and I want to jump down their throat. Other times super happy. 

Does anyone else get irritated daily by this question? I have a co-worker that asks me this on a daily basis. I feel bad for getting annoyed (not outwardly annoyed though), because I guess she cares, but then I feel like she's also just asking to have something to say. Either way, I'M FINE.

That is the first question ANYONE asks me these days. It doesn't totally bother me, but does get old. I answer with a quick, I'm good and know it could be worse. I don't go into details, as I just want to move on. I do get that people are asking cos they care, but it's just one of those questions that I guess is common? IDK.

• Sciatic nerve pain, comes and goes depending on what I am doing. Mainly left side.
  
• Back pain. I got a massage yesterday and had them focus on my upper/lower back, which was great. Still there, and it's more middle pain.
• Hungry ALL.The.Time.
• Some feet swelling, and mainly on my right side. When I shave or put lotion on, I can tell the right is thicker around that area above the heel than my left.
• I guess leg swelling, too. We had some pics done a couple weeks ago and I wore a knee length dress. My calves/ankles look so swollen. It could also be cos I have slacked on working out, which obviously would help some. Yuck, either way.
• Consitpation. I took a stool softener Sunday morning, and it either started to wkr yesterday afternoon, or something I ate did not sit me well.
• Stuffed nose. All. The. Time.
• Peeing, every half hour, it seems. This is no matter how much liquid I intake. Thankfully, I can hold it all night... right now anyway.
• Still get tired if I do too much, like run errands on a Saturday and walk around a bunch. Just exhausted afterwards.
• Hair has gotten gross, and doesn't take any product anymore. I am hoping this is the time it figures out where it wants to part, as my usual go-to has not been a thing in a year now.
• Emotional. Watching the Olympics hasn't helped, ha.
  

You know what you should do next time someone asks? Read that list of symptoms verbatim to them. Then see if they ask you again.

sourlemon

This is totally gross but I blame pregnancy because it never happened before. Don't read anything below if you get queezy easily!!!



--------------seriously, it's gross-----------------



I have some sort of cold. Yesterday morning I was coughing up so much crap that I gagged on it which led to a 30 minute puking session. Every cough led to puking. For 30 freaking minutes. At least this morning only 1 cough led to puking...and it was short. 

Most other crap I'm not sure if I can fully blame pregnancy or not. I have all the "nesting" energy...while I'm stuck at work...then get home and just want to sit on the couch. 

Potty training has been a nightmare...DD goes in the little standalone potty...I need to dump it, I end up puking. I never struggled with diapers so I have no clue why this is making me puke. I taught her to dump her own waste in the potty now but sometimes she refuses. I have to do it otherwise my gross dogs will consume it...which will make me puke as well. I've always had a weak stomach but not usually this bad. 

DiFazette

I feel like I'm going to split down the middle with my vag being the starting point.  I'm hot, sweaty and annoyed about it.  My balance is off - I decided on a whim yesterday to start painting our kitchen (I'm impulsive AF during pregnancy) and the ladder is NOT your friend when you are 24 weeks pregnant with twins.  Center of gravity between my belly and enormous boobs is less centered than normal.  

brittnic86

I swear my bladder has just given up. It's not just when I cough or sneeze now, leakage just happens for no apparent reason

ajstevenson

I've been waking up every morning at 4 a.m. in a panic. I'm starving, dehydrated and feel like my heart is about to burst out of my chest. I know it's stress and anxiety. My doctor started me on meds last week but I'm concerned I'm going to have a full on breakdown before they really kick in. I had a 45 minute panic attack in my office this afternoon and still can't figure out what triggered it. The last 4 days have been hell because nausea kicks in so fast and I'm sick for hours thereafter. Like today, it's almost 4:20 in the afternoon and I've only eaten a 1/2 cup of chicken noodle soup because I'm so nauseous and keep puking (which I'm also on meds for).

Has anyone had similar issues and what do you do to help with this? I need sleep, I need to eat and I can't keep dealing with this. I literally feel like LO is trying to kill me.

ashleaf2018

-Puking has not gone away, ugh.
-Nexium has made the heartburn and acid reflux go away sometimes. I still have it at night but it's not as bad as it was.
-Belly peach fuzz has turned into full on belly hair... Kinda gross, but not the worst symptom.
-Very tired, all the time. Slept a good 12-13 hours last night but woke up several times to throw up/pee/eat, so not sure how many actual hours of sleep I got factoring in all the interruptions.

There's other symptoms too, like excess mucus production, weird hip cramping, etc. but none of those really bother me anymore. Losing my lunch is, and will always be for as long as it continues, a huge issue.

Austenista

@slartybartfast yes, it annoys the crap out of me. I don't know why it bothers so much but it really does. 

leksiL

Lisa3379 said:

leksiL said:

- Moody. Like people ask me how I'm feeling and I want to jump down their throat. Other times super happy. 

Does anyone else get irritated daily by this question? I have a co-worker that asks me this on a daily basis. I feel bad for getting annoyed (not outwardly annoyed though), because I guess she cares, but then I feel like she's also just asking to have something to say. Either way, I'M FINE.

I feel like they want me to say I am miserable, which is why I get so annoyed. So I just repeat back everything. How are you feeling? Great! How are YOU feeling? It also works for, oh you look so cute! Oh YOU look so cute. After a couple of times a few of these people have stopped saying anything. My coworkers used to like me haha.

gowenc

Here are mine: 

• Fatigue. Just got back from a fun vacation but we crammed too much in and now I feel like I need to sleep for about a week. Instead, I'll get up and go into the office tomorrow.
• Hip pain, especially at night, and then I end up rolling onto my back, which I know isn't good. 
• Emotional - had a massive breakdown before vacation about dishes in the sink, I'm getting short with my stepson for no reason (definitely not good), snippy with my husband...
• One positive: my scalp isn't getting oily so I can go longer between blow outs. Yay for less prep time in the morning! (see point #1)
• Here's a super fun new one: sharp, shooting pain in my nipples - especially the right one. There's a bit of crusty discharge too (sorry for the TMI), which google tells be is the beginning of my colostrum coming in. But dude, it hurts SO MUCH.I wanted to hold my boobs and cry all day yesterday. Today they're fine but I'm dreading it when it happens again!

As for people asking how I am all the time, it really depends on the person. One coworker keeps asking me with this look on her face like I might break or something. We don't know each other well and it feels a little patronizing in a way. Despite the above I am doing fine at work - not sure why she's talking to me like I've got some kind of life crisis going on.