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Okay, I know it's short, but Q is not one of my strong points. Now for a baby update:
My boss's daughter has been pregnant, three weeks further along than me. Wednesday she lost her baby. As you can imagine, this shook me up quite a bit. She was 22 weeks and developed very high blood pressure. Now I've never had blood pressure problems in my life, but my boss finally came back to work yesterday, and I decided to check mine out. So I drove to a nearby Wal-Mart on my lunch and used their blood pressure machine. My blood pressure was 155/103! This really freaked me out, because at my check-up 4 weeks ago it was a perfectly normal 120/78. So I called my doctor, and she was concerned enough to put me on a low dosage of blood pressure medicine right away, and she wanted to see me today. This morning it was even higher (161/102) so I called and they said to come in immediately. It had gone down some by the time I got there, and went down even further by the time they tested it again later on. They did a urine sample, which was negative for protein. This is a very good thing, because it means that at this point at least it's just hypertension and not the early stages of pre-eclampsia. They did some blood work also, which I will get the results of tomorrow, and she upped my dosage on the medicine. But the most important part of the visit for me was that we got to listen to the heartbeat, which was nice and strong. In fact, the doctor had to chase the baby all around my abdomen because it was so active. That in itself was reassuring to me, because, while I feel it moving a little almost every day it's never very strong, and at least now I know that that doesn't mean that it's not hopping around in there. Anyway, tomorrow is the big visit, the one where we find out what we're having - Hooray!
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5 comments:
Glad to see you out here on Q day -I was feeling lonely.
I'm sorry that you are having problems with you blood pressure but I am so glad you caught it so early. I hope you can keep it under control.
Looking forward to the news you'll be getting tomorrow.
Hugs,
PK
That's so scary! I never had THAT high of blood pressure, but I also developed pregnancy induced hypertension when I was pregnant with my son. I had to take a pretty high dose of blood pressure medicine three times a day!
What they told me was to lay on my left side with my arm stretched out above my head as often as possible, to rest as often as possible, and to watch what I eat and attempt a very mild exercise (a little walk or something).
I hope everything goes well and stays well for you! I hope your pregnancy is wonderful and can be stress free once you get this settled down.
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Tracy, keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
Love and warm hugs,
Paul.
I had high blood pressure with my first and she's now a happy, healthy and pregnant adult. Sorry you had such a scare, but you're doing the right thing. Take care, Meow
Hi there,
Not sure if your dr told you but don't worry to much about the ones at wally world. They are good for refrence but sometimes they are not calibrated right and could make your reading higher than normal. Good Luck
Yaya
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