I'm beginning to think I might, might see the end of HG one of these days. Friday I only puked three times, Saturday twice, yesterday was awful, today so far just once! When I start having "more good days than bad days", I can start weaning off the medications. They're all PRN and I'm at the max dose for all of them. I'm looking forward to cutting out my night doses first, and hoping to cut back on the Colace shortly thereafter.
Part of me is mildly amused at my drug history. This may come as a surprise, but I'm one of those people who hated medications. I am far, far too tough for ibuprofen, I mock cold medications, I can't even remember the last time I took antibiotics for a non-IF reason, etc. So like--small child history includes meds for eye and ear infections, teenager is birth control pill, college is birth control pill plus I had a UTI, plus study abroad in Kenya so anti-malarials. Then Peace Corps, more birth control, more anti-malaria, ditched the anti-filarials, never caught so much as a stomach bug (wanna know why? Probably because I drank filthy, filthy pond water as a kid with great frequency). After that, just birth control pill, except once when I had the flu very, very badly and they gave me pain meds for the body aches and anti-nausea (probably zofran!) meds so I could rehydrate. And then, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, my pre-conception prenatal, which I kept taking for, well, ever.
And then along comes IF, and I become all polypharm. And toss in an SSRI when things got too rough. All of the sudden, I was filling prescriptions left and right. And pregnancy--woohoo! Thinking that, at 10 weeks, I'd be off baby aspirin and progesterone, and back to the good old days of just a prenatal. Yeah, not so much. I've added in 3 anti-nausea meds, Colace, Tums (I'm not sure if I'm having heart-burn, having never really experienced that, or if my esophagus is just being eating alive with vomit), and sometimes Pepto-Bismol. Good fucking times.
My OB appointment on Friday went like this: pee in a cup, dip in my own little stick (tested for protein, glucose, blood, and something else), hand if off to the nurse, get weighed, have blood pressure taken, wait, talk to doctor who says nothing much at all, doctor decides against Pap since I'm still sometimes spotting, get told pelvic rest can end once I've gone 2 weeks without spotting (YAY!!!), get told the weight loss is fine (ok), Doppler, sent on my way.
I actually called my doctor-sister to make sure I'm receiving adequate prenatal care. I mean, I know women have been birthing babies every since there were women (and other mammals have been doing it for longer), but...don't they want to, you know, do something to me? Take some blood? Yell at me for improper nutrition at the very least? Because surely there is a reason we're supposed to be going to the OB before about 30 weeks, right??
Apparently not. I did get some extra diet (and exercise) advice from my sister, but yeah. OB visits early on are "more of an opportunity for counselling" than, well, an actual doctor sort of thing.
Who knew?
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I think it depends on the OB.. I have seen lots of blog updates of girls 1st appt and they got blood drawn and pap (but you have a reason for not having that) and then everything else you said.. So I wonder what's up with not doing a blood draw (and WTF are they looking for anyway in the blood draw??) Maybe they will stab your arm up next visit and they didn't want to scare you :)
LOL "opportunity for counseling" In all honesty, I think us IFers and RPLers probably need a therapist more than an OB during pregnancy.
I was anti-medication too! I had to be doubling over and screaming in pain before even taking a freaking advil. Now I have an iphone app to remind me when to take my 15,000 (or so it seems) prescriptions. Urgh.
Glad to see you are turning the corner! Hopefully, you will be med-free in a couple of weeks. I, like you, try to avoid most medications when at all possible. THe side effects are usually worse than what ails you.
However, I will sorely miss my migraine medicine during pregnancy.
I just typed a long comment and then it got erased! Grrrr. So glad your sickness seems to be fading! I've never taken so many meds at one time, before this IF stuff. I just recently finished a large bottle of extra strength tylenol (all by myself) and Im pretty sure my child will come out looking like a red and blue capsule:) My next u/s is next tuesday and then theyll do another one at 8 weeks to check for h/b and then they will smack me on the ass and sent me off to the OB:)
Will keep my fingers crossed that the HG is leaving you alone.
I'm sorry you are not finding your ob appointments very constructive. I guess every ob is different like the other posters have mentioned. Each ob appointment has involved a quick scan to check on bubs, blood pressure and then just a general chat with the ob with any questions or queries plus her giving me the run down on any scans (ie NT/morph scan) coming up.
Hoping that the end truly is in sight for the sickies. It's not surprising that you lost weight! I had the teensiest amount in comparison, but kept shedding (this reversed in the 2T).
And I was the same about medications. Turned them down..even turned down pain pills after surgery. But the universe subsequently said: ha.
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