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So I'm fine but I spent yesterday afternoon in the ER
Fun! I'm told it's like a rite of passage for moms to be. At my doctor's appointment last week, my BP was crazazy high, like 160/? high. My doc was kind of a doucher and just said "oh we're going to test your blood and urine. See ya!" and walked out of the room. Awesome!
So fast forward to Wednesday night. I lay down to go to bed and my heart is racing. Eventually, I just fell asleep and it was fine. Yesterday when I woke up, I hopped in the shower and was getting ready for work when it started again. I got nervous enough to wake up DH. We both agreed that since it stopped last night I would just go to work and see how I felt. By lunch time, it was happening again. I called my doc and they said to go to the ER. So off I went.
I had an EKG and blood drawn. When I got to triage, my bp was 147/87, which is high, but not scary like it was at the doc's the week before. After lots of waiting around, they put me in a "room" in the ER, gave me an EKG and took some blood. After even more waiting around, the NP came back in and told me that I was absolutely fine. This was apparently very common in pregnant women, especially first time pregnant women. I need to lay off the sodium and up the water intake. So that was my Thursday afternoon adventure.
Re: So I'm fine but I spent yesterday afternoon in the ER
My vote is that you are having a girl. She's causing lots of dramarama already.
Seriously though, I'm glad you both are OK.
Totally agree, only girls can be that biitchy! Sorry to hear about that, glad everything turned out ok.
You should change the title of this post to "I'm fine but...I spent the day in the ER" because I almost had a heart attack clicking on this. I was afraid it was going to be some horrible news. However, obviously I'm very happy it's not!
Glad you're better and hopefully your bp stays down!
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Oh Jesus I didn't even think of that. I'm just as dramatic as this kid is!
I'm thinking that the rite of passage thing was something my mom was telling me to calm me. And trust me, I am never seeing that doc again. There are 4 docs in my practice and I have seen him twice now and that was plenty for me. He was seriously a GIANT dbag. I've been going to their office for 11 years and always see one lady doc who I will now specifically schedule my appointments with once I've seen all the doctors.
Just curious where you go? Because something tells me we go to the same place and I know who you're talking about. I'm interested to see if I'm right.
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glad you're ok. i agree with pp- not sure that this is a rite of passage. hope it doesn't happen again for you.
i understand you can schedule your appts to avoid this dr. but what if he's the one on duty when you go into labor. are you ok with him delivering you?
I have to agree with this. I had a dbag doctor in an office of several doctors and I thought what is the chance of getting him. I also thought the doctor didn't matter much, that they're only really there for the delivery so who cares what doctor I get. Well, I got the dbag. After my experience, I will say it makes a HUGE difference what doctor you get. If you're at all uncomfortable with him you might want to look into switching.
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Honestly, I'd be ok if he delivered. I was alone at that appointment and DH has a much clearer head in those types of situations. I honestly think that had he been there, things wouldn't have been so rushed. I was alone and scared so I was more in a stunned silence.
And thanks for all of the well wishes!
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14