The back pain has been killing me the past few days. I also had a really rough weekend. I had really sharp pains all through my stomach and was nauseous. It must have been some kind of stomach bug or something because yesterday everything I tried to eat (mainly crackers and vitamin water) went right through me. I'm still feeling nauseous and just eating crackers but I'm trying to drink a lot.
I had been lucky to not have much heartburn during this pregnancy. But this past week, holy heartburn at night! I eventually caved and decided to get Tums. My DH bought me some fruit smoothie ones and they taste like candy! Should have made me buy me them earlier!
Itchiness has set in. Its like right at my bra line and it is so annoying. My feet have started to hurt because i have wicked flat feet and winter is not the time for shoes with arch support. Plus the extra weight I'm sure isnt helping. Other than that, general uncomfortableness and feeling huge.
Waking in the night due to discomfort is still the main complaint :-p Heartburn has kicked into high gear. Feel like my belly did a bit of a growth spurt lately so makes sense that heartburn would increase (as well as general discomfort). Hands are starting to numb a bit at night. That was a much bigger issue with my last pregnancy and happened much earlier, had to sleep with wrist braces to help it out. It's not so bad at the moment so I'm hoping I can make it the 5 weeks without it getting bad.
My upper back pain is becoming uncontrollable. By about 5-6 at night, it's so bad, I pretty much can't do anything in the evening other than lay on my heating pad. The OB said it's positional and probably from sittting at a computer all day, which makes sense. She also gave me some stretches to try but they haven't done squat. So, hoping it just cures itself and that I dont have to deal with this for the next 6 weeks!
My back hurts all the time. All day, and all night. So far heat/massage/stretching nothing has helped. It feels sort of bruised to touch and when I bend it feels like a pinched nerve. While I was awake for hours last night, I had mild period like cramping. It never progressed and was gone this morning. Unless something big happens before my appointment, I'll ask my Dr about it on Wednesday. Other than that I've got insomnia, general feelings of discomfort, fatigue, short on breath, weepiness, and irritability.
@kswiger06 I have also had some period like cramping. It's random and infrequent. I have a doc appointment tomorrow and am going to ask her about it, I'll let you know what she says.
My tummy feels like it weighs 95lbs, I feel like I'm peeing every 15 minutes, I've got some serious pressure in my pelvic area, and I keep getting pains in what I can only imagine must be my cervix. Oh, and I wake up about every 2 hours because my hip hurts so bad from laying on my side, so I switch sides, sleep for another 2 hours, then wake up because now that hip hurts...it's a never ending cycle of hip pain! This last month of pregnancy has definitely gotten more intense.
+1 to period-like cramping. I forgot to ask about it at my appointment, but I thought maybe it was BH or even very mild, very early real contractions at this point. It is especially triggered when I wear my maternity pants that are a little too tight.
@scifichick09 +1 to hip pain while sleeping! I woke up at least once per hour last night to shift positions. SO hard to get comfortable! Between hip pain and weird-ass dreams, I feel like I barely sleep.
I think I felt BH for the first time Saturday. I was a bit dehydrated since we did an IKEA trip and it's a 1.5 hr drive that I didn't want to be peeing every 30 minutes for, then a lot of walking around and the snowstorm on the way back made the trip back 3 hrs. It felt like my whole abdomen got really tight and would stay tight for like 2 minutes and then relax again. I kind of had some period cramping to go with it too. Once we got home and I drank a ton of water and laid down for a bit it all went away so I'm guessing it was just the dehydration and maybe extra walking that did it.
@scifichick09 I wake up having to switch hips every couple hours at night too! It sucks. Plus when I roll over and rearrange my snoogle I wake up DH and he's grouchy when he's woken up in the middle of the night lol.
My back kills me while at work. I can relieve it temporarily by walking every 30 minutes or so but 5 minutes after I sit back down it hurts again. I probably could use a sit/stand station but I don't think it's worth it to submit the request and do the evaluation for less than 2 months. It'd take a couple weeks to get installed anyways so it'd be more like a month at the most of me using it which seems like a waste.
Me: 33 | DH: 34 Married: October, 19, 2015 EDD 2/22/17 DS1 born on 3/2/17 EDD 3/8/20 DS2 born on 3/10/20 EDD 11/24/23 (Formerly Marriedhamstermom Feb ‘17)
@scifichick09 and @marriedhamstermom +1 to constantly waking up to switch sides from hip pain!! And I can barely walk when I first get up. Walking a lot during the day helps with my back pain but it isn't nearly as bad as you two have it. I hope you get relief soon!
Add me to the list of having to switch side to side at night because of the hip pain. Walking a lot and squats has helped me avoid hip or back pain during the day though.
The hip pain is rough! I'll also tell you that mine is exacerbated when I sleep on a firm surface. Seriously my new bed versus our old one made huge inprovements in the hip department! Also my PT recommended a few stretches that stretch your hip flexor area and it helps along with some slight pelvic thrusts. She did tell me if the thrusts started to feel weird to stop doing them. I had no idea how sore the sides of my thighs(hip joint area and down to my knee) truly are. She got a rolling pin and rolled down those areas and I could feel the soreness breaking up. Crazy! These were all from a few weeks ago but they still help me when I have flare ups. Hope y'all find relief because it truly does suck!!
The heartburn is terrible. I never knew what it was until this pregnancy. I am also having the period like cramps which my Dr assured me were just BH. I have a constant pain/pressure in my pelvic area just like @scifichick09 described. My office chair doesn't help with the pains either. Luckily my sleep is still pretty decent, but I have a feeling it will start declining soon. I am starting to switch sides and get up too pee more often now.
+1 to waking up every 2 hours, but mine is due to needing a bathroom break to stop my braxton hicks. It seems if my bladder is just a little full it triggers BH that wakes me up.
I am feeling much better now but I had the worst weekend. Woke up with vomiting and diarrhea from a stomach bug early Friday morning. By 5am started into L&D due to contractions. Got monitoring and sent home after a dose of zofran even though cervix had changed a little. Got home and could nt sleep at all and then started to feel like I might be leaking. Went to OBs office later that afternoon- had lost 3lbs since my visit 2 days prior. Luckily no leakage and spent the rest of the weekend recovering. Had a weird side effect of zofran where I couldn't sleep so had to stop taking it. Just glad to be feeling better and back to work. Didn't think I would say that but trying to last at least thru this week. So now just back to baseline pelvis pain which I can deal with.
@scottipino glad to hear you're better! Rough weekend!
i felt better this weekend than I have in months only to stay home from work today with BH and general mailaise. I've also had itchy hands and feet the last two nights in a row but only lasts about 20 min. If it happens again tonight I'll call the DR tmr. Anyone have experience with Cholestasis?
@scottipino I'm glad you're feeling better. I had what sounds like the same sickness weekend before last and it was dreadful. I was terrified all the vomiting was going to send me into early labor. I think something must be going around, because my husband got the same thing a week before I did and so have a few of his co-workers.
Thanks guys. I likely picked it up from someone at work, though I can't remember seeing anyone for vomiting and diarrhea. My fear was that I was going to have to labor that sick too. Thankful to be recovered. She needs to stay in until at least Friday- 37 weeks
I think I have acid reflux - never had this with my first. I have these disgusting acidic burps that taste like vomit...like when you drink too much and realize "oops, that was one too many". I even woke up in the middle of the night with barf mouth.
+1 to hip pain and menstrual cramps. The cramps only happen at night when i am trying to go to sleep.
Been feeling like a bump on a log all day today but forced myself to run some errands, which means I had to walk about a mile. Felt impossible the entire time. I know walking is good and is supposed to help get things going but I honestly don't see how that's possible. Every step was full of pain and pressure. Maybe it means I will go a little before my due date. Which is totally fine by me.
Me: 36, H: 37 FTM, 2 Furbabies married 03/17/07 lived in Houston, Austin, Los Angeles and NYC due: 2/15/17
Heartburn at night and BH if I do too much! I've been in crazy nesting mode but also still recovering from a nasty cold. All the cleaning I did yesterday turned into asthma today (we cleared out and organized an old musty closet), which makes me cough, which makes my belly hurt. All in all I could have it a lot worse!!! Hang in there ladies!
My vag is similarly swoll. I see spots every time I stand up or bend over. My reflux is insane and my insomnia has me up at 2 everyday. I'm officially a whiny pregnant person.
Dudes, you know what gave me heartburn last night? Bread. Motherfucking bread. I'm so done with this shit. I had to sleep propped up on my snoogle plus 4 pillows.
I'm lucky I haven't had much hip pain while sleeping, it's actually been shoulder pain for me odd as that sounds. I must sleep funny. My back pain is getting more prevelant though and it's been hard for me to find a comfortable sitting position because if it. I've also started experiencing mild period like cramps so I'm going to ask my midwife about that tomorrow.
@PerraSucia I feel hesitant to "lovetit" your picture, because nobody wants to lovetit something that looks so uncomfortable. Man, you are not whiny, you are uncomfortable as hell, and anyone that tells you otherwise, you can sit on them.
My waddle is unreal, I kind of want to video it because I know I look ridiculous, and DH maintains its "cute," but he's full of it and probably scared that I'll sit on him or something. I walk like a drunk duck. Also having intense period cramping and tailbone pain that kind of travels around, mostly at night. Tons of BH and (TMI) my pooping is out of control. Less than 3 weeks to go
Is complete denial technically a symptom? There is no way I'm 37 weeks. Nope. Nada. I still have eons to get everything prepared, and this most certainly is NOT my last week of work before starting leave. As far as actual symptoms go, I'm counting my blessings. I can still run to catch the bus I frequently almost miss, and all my awful burn-in-your-ears heartburn and joint pain have been remarkably better the last couple of weeks--which was perfect timing considering the -25 degree weather we've been stuck with.
So sorry for everyone having a difficult time, ya'll deserve some massages and chocolate covered strawberries.
I've officially established a sleeping schedule. Bed at 10, wake up at 12, 2 and 4 to BH from a full bladder and hip pain, get up to pee and switch sides until my alarm goes off at 6
All day yesterday I was having very sporadic BH, then last night they became semi-consistent and I was praying it was the real thing. Nope Went to bed exhausted, woke up at 2am having to pee and with horrible heartburn that I had to sit up in bed for 30 minutes after taking tums before it subsided enough to lay down. Woke up again at 5:45am because H finally got home from work and he was all pumped about the game so I didn't go back to sleep til after 6:15ish. So I woke up still exhausted this morning, I'm down to 1 pair of work pants that are still comfortable, I'm wearing 4 layers because it's cold, and my pregnancy induced carpel tunnel is getting really bad and I sit at a computer desk all day. My breasts are leaking, my belly button hurts when I move, I'm swollen, and my back hurts. I just want to go into labor, on my own, so I can stop thinking about it cause I'll admit I'm kinda scared but I'm so over this.
@becbec28 I feel ya! Last night I got some pretty consistent BH as well. They lasted about 2 hrs and were about every 10min. I wish it was the real thing, but then I get all panicked because it's too early for the real deal. I'm scared and anxious and can't wait for next month. Good luck and maybe we can all get some relief soon!!
I still haven't had ONE BH!! I am starting to get a little worried, like my body isn't prepping or something. The OB asked a general, any bleeding, contractions or larger gushes of water. When I said no she said excellent. But I'm assuming that was more geared towards the bleeding and water. Anyone else not have one?
I don't think that I've had any BH's. Every day, on my way to work, I do feel some tightness at the top of my stomach, but I feel like it might just be a foot wedged up there... like a morning stretch routine for the LO. It usually lasts a minute or two and doesn't repeat. Who knows?
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@kswiger06 I have also had some period like cramping. It's random and infrequent. I have a doc appointment tomorrow and am going to ask her about it, I'll let you know what she says.
My tummy feels like it weighs 95lbs, I feel like I'm peeing every 15 minutes, I've got some serious pressure in my pelvic area, and I keep getting pains in what I can only imagine must be my cervix. Oh, and I wake up about every 2 hours because my hip hurts so bad from laying on my side, so I switch sides, sleep for another 2 hours, then wake up because now that hip hurts...it's a never ending cycle of hip pain! This last month of pregnancy has definitely gotten more intense.
ME: 25, DH: 27
TTC #1 since 09/2015
Miscarriage @ 10 wks 02/28/2016
BFP 05/28/2016!
@scifichick09 I wake up having to switch hips every couple hours at night too! It sucks. Plus when I roll over and rearrange my snoogle I wake up DH and he's grouchy when he's woken up in the middle of the night lol.
My back kills me while at work. I can relieve it temporarily by walking every 30 minutes or so but 5 minutes after I sit back down it hurts again. I probably could use a sit/stand station but I don't think it's worth it to submit the request and do the evaluation for less than 2 months. It'd take a couple weeks to get installed anyways so it'd be more like a month at the most of me using it which seems like a waste.
Married: October, 19, 2015
EDD 2/22/17
EDD 3/8/20
EDD 11/24/23
(Formerly Marriedhamstermom Feb ‘17)
i felt better this weekend than I have in months only to stay home from work today with BH and general mailaise. I've also had itchy hands and feet the last two nights in a row but only lasts about 20 min. If it happens again tonight I'll call the DR tmr. Anyone have experience with Cholestasis?
ME: 25, DH: 27
TTC #1 since 09/2015
Miscarriage @ 10 wks 02/28/2016
BFP 05/28/2016!
Been feeling like a bump on a log all day today but forced myself to run some errands, which means I had to walk about a mile. Felt impossible the entire time. I know walking is good and is supposed to help get things going but I honestly don't see how that's possible. Every step was full of pain and pressure. Maybe it means I will go a little before my due date. Which is totally fine by me.
FTM, 2 Furbabies
married 03/17/07
lived in Houston, Austin, Los Angeles and NYC
due: 2/15/17
My vag is similarly swoll. I see spots every time I stand up or bend over. My reflux is insane and my insomnia has me up at 2 everyday. I'm officially a whiny pregnant person.
Add me to the hip pain at night club.
My waddle is unreal, I kind of want to video it because I know I look ridiculous, and DH maintains its "cute," but he's full of it and probably scared that I'll sit on him or something. I walk like a drunk duck. Also having intense period cramping and tailbone pain that kind of travels around, mostly at night. Tons of BH and (TMI) my pooping is out of control. Less than 3 weeks to go
As far as actual symptoms go, I'm counting my blessings. I can still run to catch the bus I frequently almost miss, and all my awful burn-in-your-ears heartburn and joint pain have been remarkably better the last couple of weeks--which was perfect timing considering the -25 degree weather we've been stuck with.
So sorry for everyone having a difficult time, ya'll deserve some massages and chocolate covered strawberries.
All day yesterday I was having very sporadic BH, then last night they became semi-consistent and I was praying it was the real thing. Nope
Went to bed exhausted, woke up at 2am having to pee and with horrible heartburn that I had to sit up in bed for 30 minutes after taking tums before it subsided enough to lay down. Woke up again at 5:45am because H finally got home from work and he was all pumped about the game so I didn't go back to sleep til after 6:15ish. So I woke up still exhausted this morning, I'm down to 1 pair of work pants that are still comfortable, I'm wearing 4 layers because it's cold, and my pregnancy induced carpel tunnel is getting really bad and I sit at a computer desk all day. My breasts are leaking, my belly button hurts when I move, I'm swollen, and my back hurts. I just want to go into labor, on my own, so I can stop thinking about it cause I'll admit I'm kinda scared but I'm so over this.
Married: 9/2013
Love my LEO!!
TTC #1: 9/2015
BFP: 2/1/16 MC 2/8/16 @ 5wks
BFP: 5/22/16 RAINBOW BABY
EDD: 1/30/2017 *IT'S A GIRL!!!!*
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