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May 2014 Moms
artichoken
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Has any one had HELLP?
artichoken
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If so what were your symptoms? We're they vague or prominent? What happened after they found out?
TIA
TIA
Racheal- a newly single, student mom to 3 boys
CC 10/2005
NC 11/2009
DC 08/2012
and TEAM GREEN 05/2014
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Re: Has any one had HELLP?
Here is a link from the preeclampsia foundation:
https://www.preeclampsia.org/health-information/hellp-syndrome
Usually, (although not always), you have pre-e concurrently or before developing hellp. Symptoms of pre-e include high bp, swelling, edema, head aches, vision changes, protein in your urine, etc. But there are some cases (albeit, rare cases) where it develops independently.
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge:
I don't think it is very common to be asymptomatic (or virtually asymptomatic) with HELLP. Now sometimes the onset can be rather quick and you can go from fine to really sick quickly, but neither severe pre-e nor hellp is something you are going to walk around with for weeks and not know about.
My cousin who had hellp was really sick. When I developed pre-e (albeit, not HELLP), I was screaming from the roof tops that something wasn't right weeks before I was finally diagnosed due to the swelling and bad headaches.
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge:
If you had HELLP, googling it would be the biggest waste of time on the planet. Tick tock, time is very valuable. You wouldn't be wondering if something was wrong with you, you'd have called by now and you'd be getting seen.
I had HELLP, I almost died. It is no joke and Dr. Google isn't going to help you. Call you doctor. If you suspect something serious like this, get your butt to the hospital and stop fucking around on a message board.
She either died wasting time on here when she should have been calling a medical professional, or was looking way too much into symptoms. A headache and a pre-e or HELLP headache are two different things. One sucks and sends you to google. The other makes you want to kill yourself and incapable of looking at a computer screen to google. There is stomach pain caused by gas and constipation, maybe even a sluggish gall bladder that may send you to google and then there is the pain that someone with HELLP experiences as their liver starts to faill. Also making you incapable of sitting down in front of a computer to google. So my guess is on the latter. But I do think calling a medical professional is always better than googling or coming on here.
OP I hope you called. Even if for just peace of mind.