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tell me about your anit-contractions meds

SLM05SLM05
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Please share with me, when amount and what u were on.  I amgoing to talk to doctor tomorrow.  I made 1st L and D trip on Monday, stayed 4 days, given mag, the procardia that worked, sent home Friday afternoon.  Retunred to L and D last night for  13 contractions and hour, they game me fluids and a turbuline (?sp) shot and sent home.  I told them i was nervous to just go home and stay on procardia every 6 hours.  They said they don;t want me to be on turb pills this early if not needed, well i think something is needed, i don;t want to have serious boughts of contractiosn every other day.  So what are/were you on?  For how long? thanks!  
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  • Temp6313048411121614Temp6313048411121614 member
    I started on Procardia 10mg every 8 hours at 28w.  My OB said to pretty much take them as needed.  After about a week I upped my dosage to 10mg every 6 hours (which my OB was happy with).  I spent 5 days in L&D at 32w for contractions.  When I went home, I went to what I was told the max dose was at 20mg every 4 hours.  I was still getting contractions, but they weren't bad enough to go in for (maybe every 30 or so minutes).  I had no side effects from Procardia, I know some people say that they feel very jittery on Terb but I never was on Terb.  GL.
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  • fallbride110406fallbride110406 member

    I was on mag twice (first time for 24 hours, second time for 12 hours).  After the second time I was put on procardia 30mg once a day.  I've never been upped because my contractions are well within normal (under 3 per hour, usually only 1 every hour-hour and a half), however I was put on hospital bedrest with twice daily NST's until I have the babies because I'm now 3-4cm dilated and my cervix is almost nonexistant length-wise.  They're more or less just waiting for my water to break.

    I'm surprised they haven't kept you to monitor you and make sure you aren't contracting.

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  • SLM05SLM05
    I have a home monitor which gets sent to the nurse and she calls to discuss the results.   Right now the procardia 10 mg every 6 hours it not enough, i start having contractions about 1-2 before the next dose it due.
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  • Nikki1007Nikki1007
    I have been on a terbutaline pump since 23 weeks. Plus I have the home monitor where the results are sent to a nurse to evaluate. I was originally on .06 mgs per hour with a bolus dose of .22 mgs every 6 hours, but was contracting starting about 1.5 hours before the bolus dose so now i get the bolus dose every 4 hours and that seemed to help.  I still have contractions but usually less than 3 in an hour so they are happy with that.
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  • JustaKidAtHeartJustaKidAtHeart
    I was on Turb pills at 29 weeks.  Stayed on those til 34 weeks.  I was shaky the first 2 weeks or so. 
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  • lnlelnle
    I'm on 10mg procardia every 6 hours, although there are days when I feel like it needs to be every 4 hours. I'm going to ask my MFM at my next visit if it's ok to adjust the timing of the doses based on how I'm feeling that day. I often get crampy 1/2 hour or so before my next dose is due.
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  • blairsgirlblairsgirl
    I started procardia at 30 weeks when I was hospitalized for pre-term labor.  When I went home I was on 10 mg every 8 hours.  I stayed on that dosage until I had them at 35 weeks when I had an emergency c due to pre-e.
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  • Cath&BrianCath&Brian
    Sorry, I don't remember the dosage, but I was alternating terb & procardia every 4 hours each (so a pill every 2 hours around the clock - it BLEW) from 27w - 36w2d. ?I delivered the day after I came off (should have delivered that day, but that's another story...) all meds. ?
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  • 3VIBride3VIBride

    I got 2 terb shots and started taking the pills at 33 weeks (which was when I went on bedrest).  It was a low dosage and I took them twice a day, not too much but they did the job because my water broke the day after I stopped taking them at 36 weeks!

    I called them my 'shaky pills' because they made me shake a bit, not too bad though. 

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  • lajolla09.30.06lajolla09.30.06

    I was on terbutaline "as needed" from around 26 weeks on.  I hated how it made me feel so I really tried not to take them, I was on strict bedrest anyways but sometimes if I walked from the couch to the bathroom too much or spent too much time sitting up I'd take one.  I really really wish I'd been given instructions to take them more regularly, because when I was admitted to the hospital at 33 weeks the nurses kind of said off-hand "oh so you didn't take the terbutaline you were supposed to" as if that was why I ended up in there... but NO ONE TOLD ME that I was supposed to be taking it regularly.

    total sidetrack I realize Smile

    when I was admitted I went on a mag IV and was on it for a week until 34 weeks when they turned it off "to see what would happen" and I had the twins that day

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