Help - Loose stools - 5wks pg

**csab** · February 21st, 2008, 04:07 PM

HI All,

I know it may seem a silly question, but I am wondering if I should be concerned about having really loose bowel movements starting up. I am 5wks today and when pg twice last yr m/c at 5wks yet I also had doses of loose bowel movements as well. I was a bit worried that, that is what is causing my m/c's. I have a DR's appointment tomorrow to check my HCG levels again, which yesterday they were 815. I was hoping that I wouldnt get it this time yet it has happened twice today. I never had it with any other pg'cys apart for last yr and now this one.
Have any of you experienced this. I am worried to eat any fruit JIC it gets worse, I just dont know what to do. My Dr prescribed some antibiotics to help with it, but the pharmicist said not to take it while pg, so I never bought it.
Has anyone any ideas on what can help with loose stools.
Now I am hoping that my levels have risen tomorrow just so I can feel better about this. I really don't feel any symptoms atm, so I am in a stage of the pg that I have no idea what is going on. HUgs all and Thanks
This really is starting to worry me..

**Nicambhar** · February 21st, 2008, 04:18 PM

Cheryl, I don't think it is anything to worry about. I kept hearing about how many ladies were constipated and I was, and still am the opposite. I don't have the runs or anything, just very regular and softer than normal, eeeeweee TMI.. I just put it down to me eating heaps of fruit and vege.

**csab** · February 21st, 2008, 04:23 PM

Thanks Nic, yet I havent been eating any fruit at all as every month since my m/c in June I was getting loose stools from around "o" until AF. As well as because of the m/c's I keep wondering if it was from that. SO I have been nervous about eating it JIC. Yet I seem to be getting it anyway.

**Nicambhar** · February 21st, 2008, 04:30 PM

I got the runs from a couple of days after O on the cycle that I got pg, that's what made me twig that I could be pg. In the early pg symptoms thread it says that the runs are a symptom.
If you are worried I would just get it checked out anyway.

**briggsy's girl** · February 21st, 2008, 04:31 PM

csab - i have found each time i've been pg i've had loose motions due to the hormones causing a flare up of IBS - one thing to keep in mind - stress will often cause your tummy to become upset, so it's possible the change in hormones together with the stress of the previous losses might be causing it.

make sure you keep up the fruit and veg - it's going to do you a whole lot more good than anything else you could eat.

good luck hun

**csab** · February 21st, 2008, 04:38 PM

Nic - I am seeing the DR tomorrow, just hoping that I am worrying over nothing. I have noticed even with the m/c's years ago I got the runs just before. I have read a few people getting the runs thru out pg. Just hoping that it gets firm again, and all is well. I thought that today was such a good day, no stressing felt good about everything, until that started up again.

Brigsy - Thanks hun, I will see what happens tomorrow when I see the Dr again. I told one of the Dr's I was seeing about it, and that I wasnt gain to eat fruit in case it made it worse, he didnt really say much unless I forgot you know with pg brain and all.

**jaspen** · February 21st, 2008, 05:40 PM

csab -- I like Nicambhar was always loose rather than constipated with each of my pregnancies - again its a way that I realise I am pregnant cause it continues for days on end. I can see why you are concerned given the previous circumstances but I'm sure the doc will be able to let you know tomorrow that everything is fine. Thinking of you.