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April 2021 Moms
BuckeyeNut05
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Symptoms Checkin w/o 9/28
BuckeyeNut05
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How far along are you?
How are you feeling this week?
How are you feeling this week?
*skipping the GTKY here since they’re in all the other threads*
Re: Symptoms Checkin w/o 9/28
The nausea has eased, but I'm getting sick of sinus congestion/headaches. And fatigue, feel like I've been a zombie forever.
@skyeleesmommy721 I'm glad you're here too. Hey, my nausea turned to vomiting right at 10 weeks too. So I called my OB, and they put me on B6 and unisom. Haven't vomited since I started that, and the nausea is down. If you aren't already doing that, maybe call them and see if you can try.
However, now I am so terribly moody and irritable-- the littlest thing sets me off. I just wish I could have a little break where I feel like myself for a few days..
I’m jealous of the ones whose nausea is subsiding. My symptoms haven’t changed yet, still nausea, exhaustion and irritability. B6 and Unisom don’t really do it for me, but I know that Zofran doesn’t help either so I am just white knuckling it until around 13 weeks and hoping for the best.
How are you feeling this week? Still exhausted. I feel like I can sleep forever but when I actually lay down to sleep, it’s terrible. Ugh. I want to stop taking the half unisom because I think it is making me feel tired during the day too, but exhaustion is better than nausea. My nausea seems to be a bit better. Praying I’m not jinxing this and that I’m turning a corner.
I am feeling like the last two days I was less nauseous during the day which is hopeful to me but still really sick at night 🤢🤢🤢 was hoping it would be gone by 12 weeks but still battling lol! I still strangely can only drink la croix (which I hated pre pregnancy) I’ve started getting a few headaches here and there but i think it could be from being so inactive 😬
not sure how common it is but I haven’t had any real overwhelming craving or aversions mostly I just didn’t think anything sounded appealing and now I think of food as just ehh. I was a super foodie before I got pregnant so this seems unusual for me.
My nausea and food aversions are gone. My gut feels horrible, i'm constipated, but treating it, but feel like a giant gas filled whale. Also i can't stop eating.
How are you feeling this week? I've started having pretty bad headaches, they usually start in the morning, subside during the day and come back at night. I've been making a point of staying hydrated, so I'm not really sure why I'm getting them. This morning I got out of bed to pee and was stopped in my tracks with sharp pains in my lower abdomen. I was a little concerned at first, but no bleeding at all, and when I googled it seemed to be the epitome of round ligament pain, just from moving/changing positions too quickly. I'm still experiencing it a bit, but I have an ultrasound tomorrow so I will have extra peace of mind to know everything is okay. I finally gained my first pound this week!! I'm going to attribute that to actually having somewhat of an appetite back! I mean, I'm not excited to gain weight, but for a while I was just worried my scale was broken lolol.
@theblondebump my headaches get worse at night too, and vary with sleeping position. Such a pain in the butt!
@bblair24 as much as I just want carbs, if I eat ONLY carbs, I feel the same and have with my prior pregnancies (although it's worse this time) and I've never had GD and my A1C was in the low end of normal so I just think that's how our bodies operate. Usually I have a yogurt drink but didn't this morning - I do it to get some protein in. DH made toast and instead of cinnamon toast I've been having I told him it had to be PB. I'm off of my 8:30-9:30 call (on the west coast) so off to have yogurt with some homemade granola (I promise I'm not that crunchy but it's so good!)
@forevertired OMG I'll eat that cake. It sounds delicious and right up my pregnancy alley.
@theblondebump I agree it sounds like RLP. It is frequently a quick stabbing/sharp pain when you sneeze or move quickly (you can look up a diagram of where exactly it is). I also have had radiating pain for hours from it. Like, I legit had either a kidney stone or horrible RLP (they could see a very tiny kidney stone but weren't sure if it was actually the cause of my pain) at 39+4 with my first. I went to L&D b/c at that point, you don't go to the ER. I was literally writhing on the bed crying it was so bad and they eventually gave me a Percocet which took the edge off long enough for the pain to subside.. Fun fact - it gets worse with each pregnancy! I had an earlier spell that was more mild at around 6 months that I was okay with a very small heating pad used low (you have to be VERY careful with heating pads) and tylenol. Luckily it was never that bad last pregnancy so hoping for the same. Another fun fact. Your kidneys move all over the place in 3rd tri so when they did the ultrasound for the kidney stones my right kidney was vertical but really far over and my left kidney was horizontal right along where the RLP pain would be (and the side I was having pain on).
@theletlers ugh I've lost 9-10lbs and I'm 11 weeks I only lost 5lbs in the first tri with my previous 2 pregnancies. I lost more at the beginning this time and have kind of figured out what I can stomach so am not losing as quickly as I was. I had gotten down to prepregnancy weight after my first but not this time so if I don't lose any more, I'll essentially have hit the same low number for my weight for all 3 pregnancies so maybe that's just what my body wants?
Aside from feeling like I want to throw up (but only actually doing so once at 8 weeks, thankfully - I'd do almost anything to not throw up), I still can't look at chicken most of the time and generally feel like crap and so tired. I was holding off on eating b/c I was making something in the oven I wanted to eat and got super light headed so had to sit down on a chair in the middle of the kitchen while I finished.
Does anyone else notice a lack of focus and forgetting things? This is my first, so I'm not sure if this is normal or if I am just attributing things to pregnancy that are unrelated. Normally I love to read, but I just don't have the focus to read a book these days!
@bbrahmbhatt, I’m 100% with you on the focus and forgetfulness. Like I even forget words sometimes - it’s bad, haha! Pregnancy brain is totally normal. I like to think that the baby is taking my brain juice but I’m not sure how scientific that is 🙃
@kvh22 first off homemade granola is amazing! I’m hoping things don’t get as bad as with DS1 when I lost 20 pounds. They told me if I lost anymore they’d make me do a zofran pump and IV, but I thankfully just stopped losing or gaining. By 20 weeks I was finally not constantly vomiting. With DS2 I only lost I think 13 or 14 pounds but the nausea eased up to a manageable amount a little sooner.
@bbrahmbhatt This time I started feeling it almost immediately. It’s like my mind just goes blank and I have to make a super concerted effort to regain my thoughts (and that’s IF I can even get myself to remember whatever it is I had forgotten). @mamabee1113 I have to write EVERYTHING down too!!!
@theletlers I’m excited about HDBD too! I usually enjoy being pregnant but I really enjoy once it’s visibly obvious haha