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October 2022 Moms
EmilyE13
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March symptoms
EmilyE13
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What are your symptoms this month? Any questions about symptoms? Drop them here!
Re: March symptoms
The fatigue is real!! It's so strange, the only time I feel energetic is when I wake up at 4am to pee, lol.
Food smells were originally the only thing that set off my repulsion. Yesterday at work, I smelled overwhelming cologne on a person and thought, oops, he has too much on. Then I smelled a second person with too much. Then a third. Then I realized they probably don't have too much on, it's just my PREGNANCY NOSE!
The only symptom that's got me down is I have zero libido. I love being with my husband and I miss being intimate but I just don't want it, haha. Has anyone had this get better later in pregnancy?
In the meantime I would get up and walk to release the trap gas and take a warm shower to help relieve some of the pain.
I have kind of a funny symptom. Kind of.
I’ll get this sense of physical discomfort/existential dread/unreasonably high anxiety. Two-five minutes later, I will have a really awful fart and feel all better.
I must say, it gave me a bit of comfort to hear how much gas everyone else is also dealing with. I’m just sitting on the couch hopelessly farting non-stop and already took 2 gas-Xs. And I didn’t even have any wheat today, which doubles the problem.
Still have intense fatigue, moodiness and all the other symptoms as before. I also have had zero libido and feel bad about it. By the time we get any alone time after our toddler has gone to bed, I’m too exhausted and have already gone to sleep. I’ve also had pretty bad insomnia this whole time. I think It’ll improve with the second tri though— which is coming right up!
The only real new symptom I’ve noticed is that my uterus and cervix feels almost low, which I’m pretty sure is my old pelvic floor issue resurfacing. Time to do lots of kegals 🤷🏻♀️ My stomach also feels firm now and is kinda getting a bump, rather than just seeming squishy.
Also minimal nausea over here, other than queasiness (same with my first). It is a blessing for sure! But I have all the other usual symptoms so it makes up for it.
Do you guys rinse your sinuses? Using NeilMed rinser bottles, NOT the Neti Pots, with warmed up distilled water and a NeilMed salt packet does wonders.
My husband and I do it for broken-sinuses and allergy reasons, twice a day, and I think that’s why my sinuses are kinda doing okay. They are a huge achilles heel for me.
Still dealing with nausea, especially on the bus, but I've noticed I'm either getting better at preventing it or it's starting to ease up because I think the waves are less frequent now. Mints help on the bus, and regular hearty snacks help a ton, as well as juice when I need to buy myself a bit of time to make a proper meal/snack to eat. Weight loss seems to have stabilized a bit too so I think I might finally be eating enough.
So much peeing, so many wake ups to pee and rehydrate, so much gas, so many food aversions (broccoli is evil to this baby apparently, though I managed to stomach kale the other night!), and definitely with y'all on the congestion front.
Good thing is the emotional disconnect I was feeling from this pregnancy is easing up a bit. Not gone, but I'm starting to feel like I'm processing the reality a bit more. It's super strange to me because I'm a very touchy feely person and this is a planned and very wanted pregnancy. Relieved it's easing up and working closely with my therapist to navigate it. It might just be because I had a very easy first trimester with my first, so this is just a lot more demanding.
also I thought my name got changed from the knottie one and I am editing my post now because I see it did not update. Working on this now 😀
Hope you both get some reassurance at your upcoming appointments and start feeling better soon when the hormones level out. With my first, it definitely took time to feel real and the connection gradually grew as the pregnancy progressed.
Also editing to add-- @rin_dancing there might be a straight-up hormonal component to the blah feelings as well. I feel down before my period and was down during the first trimester with my first as well, but felt like a cloud lifted as I approached the second trimester. So as other crappy symptoms ease up, the mood might as well. Here's hoping!
Speaking of which, while I found that I usually feel worse as the day goes on, yesterday I puked during breakfast and my body just kind of 'noped' out of eating and working the rest of the day.
I'm 9w3d and this is the worst smell aversion/nausea/vom combo. At least the gassy bloating is taking a back seat for the time being? It's always something🤷♀️
@EmilyE13 My doc also put me on the B6 and Unisom to help. You're in good company
Gas is better than it was at week 5. But I had noticed I wasn't pooping a normal amount, last night at 1:30, I found all of it - after spending a good 10 minutes on the toliet, breaking out in sweats almost feeling like I was going to pass out. Guess I better get on some Metamucil...
Nipples have been tender, but the SO and I's sex life is still very good, so I mark it as too much play.
ABSOLUTELY EXHAUSTED... Every day, tried taking naps and I run out of time. I am ready to sleep by 9 every night and I don't even have to get up till 7:30.
I've been having a weird scratchy feeling at one side of my throat that has made me cough. Wasn't sure if it was pregnancy related, but a couple days after it started I learned that tonsil stones can be a weird pregnancy symptom. I'm going to keep an eye on it.