Itch, Itch, Itch!!!!!
Hi girls,
Anyone else struggling to cope with being itchy? It's driving me mad!!!!!! I have yet to discover any stretch marks and have been religiously liberally applying Vitamin E cream to stop them, but everyone I speak to seems to think that they come with being itchy!!
Hope someome can help, before I go crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sam J
PS. Am due with bubs in 11 days!
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Where are you itchy? Is it just your belly or all over (including palms)? If it is all over speak to your care provider as there are some medical conditions that present as itchiness.
If it is just your belly umm not sure, maybe calamine lotion or a cool shower. I have been told it is your skin stretching. Fingers crossed on no stretchies.
I had an awful itch that kept me awake in the last trimester of my first pregnancy. My head and chest were very itchy. Nothing relieved it. I tried different shampoos and soaps. I think it was hormones for me though because a few weeks after birth it went. I checked it with my doc and I didnt have the condition that luey is refferring to but I had been worried it was that.
Thanks ladies. It is only my belly, specifically up high just under where my bra sits (have tried changing to many diff styles). It tends to worsen of a night, but not to the point that it is keeping me awake. Had mentioned it to midwife before (when it wasn't so intense) and just put it down to the heat and being hot. See OBS tomorrow, so will speak with him again!
Wish me luck,
Sam J
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Over the last 2 weeks my belly has got really really itchy too. i am lathering the cream on but it is just itchy all the time - no SM here either... think it is just one of those things that we are going to have to put up with until bubs arrives!
Oh and I know exactly what you mean! When I was pregnant, it used to get so itchy on my tummy up high where the bottom of my bra was. It drove me insane and I scratched so much, I made myself bleed....!
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