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Had a rough couple days... very long.
I haven't been able to keep water down my whole pregnancy, but yesterday I was feeling 'good' so on my way to pick up Lance for dinner I decided to drink a bunch of water... bad idea. Half way to dinner I had to pull over and throw up, and when I did, I got something lodged in my throat.
After a while I decided to go into the ER in case it could get infected. To get it out they gave me a drug which was supposed to relax my esophagus so that I could swallow whatever was stuck. Instead I had an allergic reaction to the drug and projectile vomited everything I had managed to get down at dinner. BUT I managed to get the food unstuck. Thank God.
Within a few minutes we realized that the vomiting had done as much harm as good. My esophagus began to to swell shut and I couldn't swallow anything, and after a half hour or so, I was having trouble breathing. At that point they decided come morning to send me via ambulance to send me to Edmonton for an endoscopy. They admitted me and I spent the whole night spitting into a bucket because I couldn't get it down.
Lance got back to me around 3am (he had to get Wyatt settled with his mom, get stuff for us in case we were stuck in the city for a while) and then we got shipped out at 5am. Luckily I managed to sleep in the ambulance for a few hours. The procedure went uneventfully. They could see where the food was stuck and swelling, but other than that they found nothing (YAY!).
By the time I got back to my hometown hospital the swelling had gone down a lot, and I can eat and drink again (although it's painful). I just don't know what I'm going to do if I continue to get sick. I have bad reactions to every anti-nausea med I've ever taken, so it might have to come down to dumb luck.
Now they have 'reason' to believe I have GD because my blood sugar this morning was 4.5, and was 2.8 by the time I reached Bonnyville. I said to the doctor I hadn't been able to keep any food down in over 24 hours, but they still think that my sugars should be higher regardless. They brought me some orange juice and sent me on my way. I'll have to talk to my doctor on Thursday at my appointment.
What worries me the most is that, since I'm so early in my pregnancy, no one ever bothered to check for a heartbeat to see how baby was doing, and I had to remind all of my nurses/doctors that I'm pregnant. I hate the thought that I've put myself through all of this and I don't know with 100% certainty that it is all safe for baby. I know it needed to be done, but I feel so guilty. I rarely so much as take a tylenol during my pregnancies, so now I'm paranoid.
Anyways... thanks for reading this! If you got the whole way through you deserve a cookie or a hot fudge sundae... or both.
Re: Had a rough couple days... very long.
#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
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Update: I was going about my business today and ended up bringing up a huge ball of phlegm (your welcome for the image) and inside of it was a big chunk of Cadbury mini egg shell that had been stuck in my throat... I'm kind of pissed that they didn't find it with the endoscopy (If they can't find something that is stuck in a tube then what is the point??), but on the plus side I have almost no more pain swallowing.
So no more hard candy for me, because apparently I don't chew them enough.