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Do I wake up with a headache every morning???? Normal 2nd tri symptom, or because I am not drinking anything for 7-8 hours while I'm sleeping? Anyone else having this problem?
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Re: Why???
can be a lot of things... totally normal hormone issue... could be your BP is too low (this happened to me around 17w - my doc told me to have caffiene and some more salt in my diet- go figure- but it worked and got rid of the headaches and dizzy spells)... could be too much caffiene... BP = too HIGH.... it's really hard to know unless you see your doc.
hope you feel better - i hated them!! Excedrine tension headache was my friend ( it's just tylenol + caffiene)
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the more water tips are good - I keep a glass by my bed and when I get up to go to the bathroom I take a few sips. sounds couterintuitive, but it totally helps me with that and leg cramps. could also be hunger. by time I get up I haven't eaten in 12 hours and there is about nothing that could stop me from eating.
Yeah, like pps have said, it's normal. It sucks, but it's normal. I had awful headaches & migraines from 14w to about 18w when they finally started subsiding. Tylenol, caffeine, and the first script pain med I was given (tylenol w/ codeine, I think) didn't do a thing for me, but then my MFM gave me a script for a pregnancy-safe migraine med, and that seemed to work. If they are totally debilitating (mine were-- I couldn't function enough to go to work), you might check with your doc about a script.
Luckily, when I get a headache now, a tylenol and a Barq's root beer (it's caffeinated, but not as much as a coke, for example) seems to work.
And definitely stay hydrated. (I try to drink half a glass of water every time I wake up in the night.) GL!
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Did you try drink extra water - I know it is hard, but I always took water to bed with me and when I got up to pee, I would drink more water.
I suffer from Migraine headaches - have since I was 7 years old and got a lot of them when I was pregnant with DD.
I lucked out and only had a couple with the twins.
Also - have a coke or hot tea and tylenol first thing before you do anything in the morning - that might help!