Symptoms, Questions, Concerns Week of 8/15

jackiesmom324

Hey Im gonna get us started with a new symptoms questions, concerns thread for the week since we tend to go like 3 weeks using the same one lol. It kind of does not bother me but i know it bothers some

jackiesmom324

 

anyone else chewing on ice?

MJDsquared

Cravings right now:
Arby's beef n cheddar
chocolate covered potato chips
Milky Way bites
jalapeno cheddar bagel with cream cheese

Honestly not confident that these are pregnancy cravings since I've always had random cravings but it's still a lot of random, unhealthy crap. Lol

MJDsquared

@jackiesmom324 I'm not but I think that can be a sign of iron deficiency.

KathrynJ088

Was talking with my MFM today about all the pelvic pain and pressure, and she essentially told me "you probably are feeling much like you did the last month of your singleton pregnancy, you just get to experience it for the last three months this time".. sigh

Mandayno

I have now entered into the swollen feet and legs phase!!

BelleZBoo

I think I might be coming down w strep throat...

breezybee

Restless leg syndrome is still in full effect. I'm going crazy. I think I'm going to start taking a warm bath every night now since that's the only thing that helps. Well, that and going down to pound town lol. 

Marley629

Heartburn! Helllppp nothing is working.  Pepcid, Zantac, milk ...nada. And it doesn't matter what I eat or don't eat. It's there...allll the time.  I think it's the driving force behind my continued morning sickness. 

clovelyone

@Marley629 That sucks! My heartburn is pretty bad too, but Mylanta has helped along with Zantac. I hope you feel better soon. 

Marley629

@clovelyone I haven't tried mylanta.  My doctor said maalox but I can't find it anywhere.  I'll ask about mylanta! 

jackiesmom324

@Marley629 what about Prilosec , avoiding triggers, smaller meals, not lying down after eating?

The swelling is so annoying I've had it since 15 weeks 
@Mandayno

@MJDsquared I have a hgb of 12.9 lol I'm just weird maybe 

tamaraaaa

The heartburn.    

failuretofly

@KathrynJ088 see a pelvic floor physical therapist! They can help! 

Heartburn ladies - have you tried apple cider vinegar? I know it seems counterintuitive but in 1st tri when my heartburn was so bad I lost 5lbs from not eating, it was the only thing that helped! 

elcd458

WTF.  Hardly any sleep tonight thanks to... weird muscle spasms?  When I first got in bed, I was having twitches in my shoulder on the side I was laying on.  Not just a few, but over and over for several minutes.  Thinking it was just a weird thing about the position I was in, I rolled over. Now my calf and thigh are twitching repeatedly. Fun. 

anewadventure

@Marley629  i swear, you just can't win. i feel so bad for you. nausea AND heartburn at the same time? that's just cruel. it makes you want to not be awake. just sleep until your delivery, like a fairy tale princess, har har...

beary67

@breezybee honestly baths or showers at night are the ONLY thing that help with RLS.  I started to just take a shower or bath by default each night because I know otherwise I will be taking one at some point when I can't sleep.  

@Marley629 girl this baby is putting you through it all!  Feel better!  

kaymariec

We felt her kick on the outside last night! It was so amazing. I'm about 21 weeks and I feel pretty good, except for some non pregnancy related stress. Today I'm having shooting groin pains though, but can't tell if it's from a run/bike exercise I did last night. I've never had these from exercise before. 

breezybee

@beary67 its so true. My water bill is going to be really high this month lol. At least CA is out of the drought!  
Ugh, the RLP woke me up last night. That's a first!  This is lame. 

stella_700

Bleh, I fell in the shower this morning. I'm fine, babies are fine. I caught myself going down on the shower curtain and ripped it from the wall but it helped slow the fall down. I will be now using the walk in shower every morning for the rest of pregnancy. I immediately started crying since that seems to be my go-to emotion right now. (so annoying, I'm not a crier typically) If ever there was a morning that I wanted to crawl back under the covers. I deserve gold fucking stars for being at work today. Hopefully no one messes with me...

I am feeling blessed to have not hurt the babies in the fall, and I'm relieved that so far I've not dealt with the restless leg issue. It sounds like a PITA. Sorry ladies, I guess try and make the baths as enjoyable as possible.

kyrwyn

@stella_700 I am so glad that you and the babies are okay. How scary! I hope you get to take it relatively easy today.

cait5413

I'd be crying, too, @stella_700! Glad you're ok

mdcd44127

@stella_700 Ugh, that's so scary! I'm glad you and the babies are okay. 

Marley629

@jackiesmom324 haven't tried Prilosec but have been doing all the others to try to help with the MS But no luck. I'll be stopping on way home from work and getting mylanta and Prilosec though 

@kvacmak I haven't tried that yet. I have read it works but I've been scared with my nausea. I may end up trying just to see if it's a cure all for me! Thanks

txmomma16

@stella_700 OMG! How scary! You deserve all the gold stars in the world for being at work today! You're a warrior! 

stella_700

Thanks ladies, I would even consider myself productive today. Some days DH gets the warrior and some days he gets the wimp and sometimes he just gets the rage witch. Physically I do fine, mentally pregnant brain is manageable, emotionally its been a whole new experience. For someone who hasn't suffered overly with pms my whole menstrual life, the pregnancy hormones have sent me into a strange, new, and scary place.

failuretofly

@Marley629 I would put it in ginger tea with a bit of honey, you could try that because the ginger might help the nausea too!

wabash15

@stella_700 glad you and the babies are OK. falling in the shower is scary and I think I would have cried too. The other week DH climbed in the hammock with me and the rope broke... I hit the ground hard, thankfully everything was fine but I layed there for a minute collecting myself before getting up. It just scared the heck out of me because I wasn't expecting it. 
@Marley629 damn, you can't catch a break. Sleeping inclined might help. 

MJDsquared

Guys, I mentioned this the other day, but my sappiness/sentimentality is out of control lately. Aside from all the baby feels, I've been really missing DH and my dogs while I'm at work lately. DH is one of those people who will text me like twenty minutes after one of us leaves for work in the morning like, "I miss you," and I say, "I miss you too," but generally inside I'm like, "I meeeean, it's been 20 minutes." lol. So this is a new level of sap for me!

YodaIsGreen

@stella_700 Glad you and babies are ok. Falling in the shower is scary!

I have an intense craving for spicy food. I would normally be comfortable with 2 or 3 stars. Now I want 5 stars and it is not spicy enough for me! DH and I had Indian food the other day and I complained they reduced the spices. However DH was sweating and blowing his nose and I was just eating away like there was no spice lol. Normally DH has a much higher spice tolerance than me. Does anyone else have this new love and tolerance for extreme spice?

mdcd44127

@YodaIsGreen I have a super-high tolerance because I worship spicy food (DH jokes that my veins run red with buffalo sauce, not blood), so I wouldn't say my tolerance has increased, but I definitely expected that with pregnancy the cravings would die down or I'd get massive heartburn, but neither has happened. DH now "apologizes" to the baby as I mainline Nitro hot wings.

elcd458

@YodaIsGreen  I'm actually kind of jealous.  My spice tolerance has gone down to almost zilch.  A spicy sandwich from Chick-fil-a gave me a horrifying bathroom experience and last week I had to give up eating an enchilada bowl lean cuisine thing halfway through.  I have consumed both of those things dozens of times before without consequence and barely registered the spice! 

YodaIsGreen

@djd0404 Haha. That's awesome! I could go for some nitro hot wings now.

@elcd458 I think the norm is decreased spice tolerance. It should come back after you have the baby. I have no idea why my case is inverted and I have this insanely increased spice tolerance.

kyrwyn

@YodaIsGreen Oh yes! I've been craving and enjoying spicy foods since first tri, when they were the only things that calmed my nausea.  Starting around 10 weeks, my normal spiciness levels had to get bumped up about 40% to be hot enough and in June we went to a Sichaun restaurant with chilis everywhere and it was sooooooo good. I dream of going back, but DH would melt just walking in the door due to the pervasive scent of peppers everywhere.

tamaraaaa

Are you all redheads?  Apparently they have high level of tolerance for spicy...  We tried putting the gross stuff on my daughters tumb to curb the thumb sucking and it never even phased her.

mdcd44127

@tamaraaaa Nope, dark brunette here (but growing up I always wished I was a redhead!)

breezybee

I can't get enough hot sauce. I put it on EVERYTHING. And I always have heartburn. Worth it!

GraysonsMama

I've started nesting. It's kind of annoying because I get pissed if I can't finish. Example: I decided to clean the carpets the other day. I moved all of the furniture, vacuumed throughout, and began only to have my carpet cleaner break. Dh figured out what was wrong and found the replacement piece. Yay? No. It's going to take 5-7 business days to receive it. I was so angry that he wouldn't let me buy a new $150 carpet cleaner instead wanting to buy the part for $2 (crazy much?). Long story short I rented a machine and finished because I could not not finish. It was disgusting.  

stella_700

@GraysonsMama Thwarted plans send me into frustrated anger mode. I imagine that the further along I go the crankier that will make me.

failuretofly

@breezybee I am the same haha Give me all the hot sauce... then I suffer afterwards!

mdcd44127

@GraysonsMama I totally get you on the nesting! Today I got two more stackable shelving units in the mail to store my coffee in (because I have an addiction to Bones Coffee sample packs, which take up an annoying amount of room). That quickly turned into completely reorganizing yet another shelf of my pantry (I'm supposed to be working right now!), which makes 3 pantry reorgs, 3 kitchen cabinets and the bathroom sink, plus a few other projects, all as close to impromptu as you can get with Amazon Prime.