No bump shot this week... I'm not feeling up to picture taking. Between nausea, swelling, and all that fun stuff, I had a bad doctor appointment this afternoon.
Last night while Jay and I were watching a movie, I got this bad pulsing pressure in my head. I checked my blood pressure and it was 156/115! That's the highest it's been so far... and I wasn't even doing anything but laying down relaxing. I checked it again this morning and it was at 105. At the doctors office, it was at 101 - went down to 98 when they laid me on my left side.
My doctor finally decided to prescribe me some meds for it. I'm supposed to take one pill in the morning that's sort of like a water pill to help with my swelling along with the bp. Then I've got to take something else 3 times a day to stabilize my bp. Together with my prenatal vitamin, I'll be taking 5 pills a day... eck. I'm just hoping that these meds bring my bp down long enough for my baby to finish cookin'.
He pretty much told me that he's just trying to keep me stable long enough for the baby to get as close to full term as possible. At this point, it's not looking like I'll have an August baby by any means.
I have my NST tomorrow, along with some blood tests my doc ordered... fun day at the hospital tomorrow for me. He didn't tell me what the blood test was for, but I googled it and I'm thinking they're screening for toxemia? The nurse set me up another appointment for this Friday morning to recheck my bp, but she said if the bloodwork came back "unfavorable", they'd be calling me in sooner... scary.
Last night while Jay and I were watching a movie, I got this bad pulsing pressure in my head. I checked my blood pressure and it was 156/115! That's the highest it's been so far... and I wasn't even doing anything but laying down relaxing. I checked it again this morning and it was at 105. At the doctors office, it was at 101 - went down to 98 when they laid me on my left side.
My doctor finally decided to prescribe me some meds for it. I'm supposed to take one pill in the morning that's sort of like a water pill to help with my swelling along with the bp. Then I've got to take something else 3 times a day to stabilize my bp. Together with my prenatal vitamin, I'll be taking 5 pills a day... eck. I'm just hoping that these meds bring my bp down long enough for my baby to finish cookin'.
He pretty much told me that he's just trying to keep me stable long enough for the baby to get as close to full term as possible. At this point, it's not looking like I'll have an August baby by any means.
I have my NST tomorrow, along with some blood tests my doc ordered... fun day at the hospital tomorrow for me. He didn't tell me what the blood test was for, but I googled it and I'm thinking they're screening for toxemia? The nurse set me up another appointment for this Friday morning to recheck my bp, but she said if the bloodwork came back "unfavorable", they'd be calling me in sooner... scary.