How Are All The Other Pregnant Ladies Doing??

[GWENDOLYN]

Hi! I am now almost 30 weeks and think that I have been doing pretty well. I have been off all meds since I found out. The only thing I feel is increased frequency and the feeling of a pressure at times. I know I had frequency during my 1st pregnancy(before ic), but I can't remember if I felt the heaviness or pressure. Is anyone else experiencing this?
LeeAnne if you see this I wanted to say Hi and hope you are doing well! It's getting close for you!!!
Gwen

[Braedley]

Congrats to you - only 10 weeks to go and med free!

I'm 35.5 weeks along, stayed on my Elavil & Tylenol Arthritis (for pain management) and have been fairly lucky...I did have 4-5 months of less food sensitivities (I could eat pineapple!!) and the last few weeks they've been returning so I'm back to being stringent about the foods I eat...

Pelvic pain and pressure have been frequent lately, causing me to be off work since Jan 3/08 but it's not as bad as I anticipated it would be...just hard to get comfy easily and now that the baby is dropping some, the pressure has been worse :)

good luck to you in the coming weeks! I hope everything goes well for you!

[GWENDOLYN]

Good job! you are almost there!! When is your due date? Do you know if it's boy or girl yet?
take care!
Gwen

[Braedley]

due date is Feb 25/08 - 30 days to go unless "Peanut" has other plans :)

they don't tell you up here in Nova Scotia if you're having a girl or boy unless you pay to go to UC Baby clinics OR if you're high risk...They used to make so many mistakes they're legally not allowed to anymore...so it'll be a surprise! I think it's a girl but my husband thinks it's a boy ;)

[LeeAnn]

On Thursday I thought I had a UTI b/c of intense pressure/burning/frequency so I stayed home from work. I called the doctor FOUR times throughout the day (his office is closed on Thursdays) but I left 4 messages w/ whomever answered the phone and said I thought I had a UTI....he never called back.

Hmph.

I have an appointment w/ him on Monday morning and my husband has already said that he will say something to the doctor.

As it turns out, I don't think now that I had a UTI. At my visit two weeks ago I told my doctor I was wetting my pants a little at night so he told me to stop taking the Ditropan b/c he thought it was relaxing my bladder too much. So I quit taking it and I did quit wetting my pants, thankfully. But then, after nearly two weeks of zero Ditropan, I think the bladder spasms were getting out of hand and painful again.

So I think that's what happened. Late Thursday evening I decided to go ahead and take some Ditropan to see if it would help and it did! So I feel better now that the spasms have stopped and I feel normal and mostly pain free again.

Now I'm just irritated that he didn't have the courtesy to call me back, b/c what if I really did have a UTI?

One lady I left a message with said, "Well if you're feeling that bad maybe you should go to the emergency room."

???

Yeah, what's the ER going to do? Nothing! Make me sit there for five hours before calling my name and then charging me my $100 copay to diagnose me with something MY OWN DOCTOR should take a look at. All he had to do was call me and tell me I couldn't be seen and that he'd rather me go to my general practitioner or something. I mean, how long does it take to call me???

Grrrrr.

And what makes me the maddest is that I feel like I consistently under report and under rate my pain b/c I don't want to look crazy and I know that when it gets really bad I want someone to take me seriously. So I try not to complain, EVER, and then----the ONE TIME I do----he can't call me back.

Other than that, I feel pretty good most of the time. The baby's head is starting to get really heavy on my bladder and when I'm standing up it can be really intense and makes me feel like I have to pee right away. But usually if I sit down the feeling will go away.

I had another ultrasound early last week and they estimated the baby weighs 6.3 pounds already, which is a little big, the average at 34 weeks should be 4.75 pounds. They said it's just a big baby but healthy.

I'm only 5 foot 3 so a 9-10 pound baby is a lot for me to be waddling around with.

So now I'm 35 weeks......due March 1.

I really hope I'm not one of those people who goes two weeks past their due date. I'm uncomfortable enough already and not sleeping all that great which makes working full-time very exhausting. My company still has me putting in 50 hour weeks.....

I see the doctor on Monday and from then on I'll be seeing him every week until the baby is born...and my husband and I start a childbirth class on Monday evening, it's once a week for 4 weeks........Hopefully we'll get to do all four classes before the baby is born, but we're cutting it close.

Sorry this turned into a whining session........

[GWENDOLYN]

Sorry to hear that the docs office people were so irresponsible and unsympathetic.
I saw a lady with a pregnancy belt on tv that is suppose to help support the baby when they start to drop. I wonder if that might help. Ask your doc and maybe they may know where to get one. I was thinking about getting one!
You are sooooo close now! When I got a couple days away from my due date with my 1st, I drank raspberry tea, which is suppose to give you contractions(again check with your doc before trying), and the next day labor started and I had her 2 days early!!
Hang in there!!
Gwen

[ABliske]

I'm 20 weeks along and am doing alright. I have been able to keep working, at least, although it's been really hard. I have severe pain and have to take 30 mgs of morphine daily. I knew it wouldn't be an option for me to go without so I talked to a few Doctors before getting pregnant. I just saw my new OB and she says she only wants me to take it at night. ????? I do the opposite. I only take it in the day because at night I'm asleep. Seriously, it doesn't make any sense. Without it, I would not be able to get out of bed or function at all. I don't know why my pain seems sooooo much worse than others here. My bladder is about 1/2 normal size but the pain in unbearable. I've wanted it out before. My OB doesn't get it!!!
Any of you have problems with your Drs. understanding? Today she asked if I'd tried Pyridium. Yes, I've tried 100 things. It doens't help one bit and makes me feel sick. I'm worried about being repremanded so I went along with her and was like - I want to try to get off in my 3rd trimester. I do but I already know that's not going to happen, unless there's a miracle.
I've been so hurt and depressed about all the crap I get for taking MS Contin. I stopped my other meds and it scares me to be on it. I wish I wasn't. Even my husband does not understand it. We're had some of our worst fights over it. I don't think I could do this again.

[GWENDOLYN]

Sorry to hear that people are not understanding. You do what you need to do because the stress is worse for the baby than anything and it is not good for you either. It is hard, because the hubbies sometimes just don't understand unless they experience the pain themselves. I have been lucky because I have not had the kind of pain I first experienced when I was in the beginning stages of this ic(I have only been diagnosed by symptoms and eliminating other things), but if i had a flare now I would definitely need something to get me through. Good luck and I hope you get some relief and hopefully go into remission!!
Gwen

[LeeAnn]

ABliske, I'm sorry to hear your feeling so down and icky. But you shouldn't feel bad about using the narcotics. You have to do what you have to do! It's not good for the baby if you're feeling awful and are stressed out by the pain. My own dad was questioning my use of drugs during pregnancy UNTIL he got a UTI that is. I think that was great timing on god's part! After about three days of it he called me and apologized and said he now has a glimpse of the pain I have lived with for 12 years. He got all choked up and was half crying as he said it and explained he had no idea how bad it felt and how miserable getting up over and over all night long made a person. After experiencing his UTI for one week, he said he would never expect someone to suffer like that for an entire pregnancy and he now realized that a mom experiencing pain at that level can't be good for the baby. I wasn't *happy* he got a UTI but I was glad he had a change of heart as a result of it. Just hang in there! Even if no one in your family has a change of heart, you have support here, and *we* understand.

[Braedley]

LeeAnn,

glad to hear things are alright - none of us should feel badly or feel we have to justify our med use during pregnancy! esp when our quality of life is what's affected - my SIL just had a baby Jan 13 and she doesn't have anything like this but when she was stressed one day about the baby and just everything (life!) her milk wouldn't come in well so she had to use formula for a little while - until she was able to calm down and relax...if we're constantly in pain, how can our bodies do what they need to for the baby?
23 more days - have another ultrasound to check baby's position Tuesday and where they're sending us is a 'high care' unit so we are most likely to find out the gender! i really hope so, i'm dying to know! :)
good luck ladies, really hope things continue to be somewhat smooth sailing for you!!

[Charisse]

Hey ladies I'm glad to hear everyone is doing well (or mostly well). LeeAnn that sucks about your dr not calling you back. I'm glad it wasn't a UTI though. So I am pretty sure I'm pregnant myself but I'm just waiting to test because I'm afraid it's too soon to get a positive result. However I'm having lots of symptoms that I only have ever had when I was pregnant before. So be on the look out from me. I am so hopeful for an October baby! So far my bladder has been totally fine and I pray it continues to be. I'm more worried about morning sickness right now because I'm already feeling it today . . .