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i am 37 weeks pg tomorrow. i have had a fair bit of swelling (hands feet face) since quite early on, and had carpal tunnel syndrome in my arms. blood pressure always been fine.
this mornin i have woken up and i look like the michelin man. my forearms and hands are huge- more so my right and i can't open up my hands. i think my face is also puffier.
it's quite different to last night, does this happen to others, or do i need to get it checked out?
thanks
I personally would get it checked- just to put your mind at ease if nothing else. Excess swelling isnt something to be taken lightly. Good luck, I hope it is nothing too serious and it settles down soon.
Go and get checked out, just to be on the safe side. While small amounts of swelling are considered normal, what you're describing sounds a little more serious.
Hope it turns out to be nothing.
I have just had a shower, and my hands have come down abit and i can move my fingers again. My legs and feet are also swollen. Will try to get in to GP first. why does it happen on a saturday?
thanks
oh hun go to the pregnancy assessment centre at the hospital straight away. Swelling is a sign of pre eclampsia which isn't something to mess with.
Yeah, it can't hurt to go and get checked out at the hospital pregnancy assessment unit.
I've had some pretty awful swelling over the past week or so - spoke to my Ob about it and he checked my BP etc to make sure it wasn't PE (thankfully not, just fluid).
Best to check though. PE isn't something you want to be dealing with.
Hope you're ok sweets.
Sue x
How has your BP been, and have you had any headaches, or Protein in your urine, it is usually a combination of a couple of these things and the swelling that is a sign of PE, maybe pop in and get your BP checked and see what that is like :hug:
Take care xxoo
yes your right Beema, the problem is it can come on so suddenly that BP and things WERE fine last checkup, then they wont be the next week.
I had the beginnings of HELLP with Ashton, it was very sudden and effected my organs too! I was induced the next week.
I agree with Missymoo.
A marked difference is swelling is one of the key signs. Even if it's nothing, it's better that you know that for sure.
Absolutely I completely agree that it can come on very quickly and be extremely dangerous, I have quite a few close friends who have had prems due to PE and HELLP, and they were induced within hours, so very severe cases. Which is why I suggested that she also goes in and gets checked out :D It may also just be a more extreme case of Oedema, my SIL went through just that 2 weeks ago.:
Certainly not something to be messed about with, just adding the information about the other symptoms incase she wasn't aware of them and may not have made a connection ;)
Kate, stuff the gp, go to the hospital hun, asap. Big hugs, hope it turns out to be nothing worrying :hug:
I agree you need to get this checked ASAP
I agree, go and get checked out.
I was massively swollen with DS, puffy and full of fluid. My BP was fine though, but I never got noticibly more massive overnight IYKWIM.
I also had carpel tunnel with him and I couldn't open up my hands with that. It's not pleasant.
Kate I hope you've managed to get to the hospital for a check and everything is going ok. Thinking of you xx
Hoping all is ok and that you have been checked out.
I hope everything is okay and you managed to get into a Dr or went to the hospital.
:hug:
xox
Kate - thinking of you, hoping all is okay.
Thanks for all your replies.
I went to the hospital to get checked out. They took blood and urine, blood pressure, and did a CTG and everything came back fine. The swelling has come down today, but is still more than i have had previously. If i get it again in the morning, they want me to ring and talk to them.
I have an appointemnt on Monday, which will be good to just get checked again.
My blood pressure has been good for whole pregnancy. Just had swelling.
Last night i had couple cups of raspberry leaf tea (for the first time). Would this have casused excess swelling? I forgot about it when iwas at the hospital.
thanks for your concern,
Kate
Kate - good to hear that all those tests came back fine, hopefully it was a one-off thing. Although would still be nice to know what has caused it. I don't know everything about RLT, although it would surprise me if this contributed to your swelling. My OB has no problems with me taking doing the RLT thing - in fact last time he suggested it, so I kind of take that to mean that he sees no potential issues with it (perhaps combined with a dose of medical scepticism about it's efficacy ;))
Glad to hear hun.
Thinking of you Kate. Take care okay! :D :hug:
Glad to hear you are ok :)....not sure about RLT...
My friend just had a baby two weeks ago and she had really noticable swelling (odema) everywhere... no blood pressure problems at all....as soon as bubs was born she started losing all the fluid. I rekon she wouldve put on 10kg in the last 6weeks just from fluid. so lets just hope thats all it stays at :)
I had an appointment at the hospital with a physician today. She looked at the results from Saturday and said i have anaemia, and low protein in my blood (but normal in urine), and my blood pressure was up slightly. She thinks the low protein is causing the swelling.
She wants me to increase my protein intake. i haven;t had red meat for close to 20 years, and have only started eating chicken during the pregnancy after 15+ years of not eating white meat either. i can't really think of any red meat that i would be able to swallow, so am going to have a look at other ways of increasing my protein.
does anaemia or low blood protein lead to any difficulties with bleeding during labour? any other issues?
I am glad you have seen the Dr and got a better picture of things :hug:
For more protein, try oats for breakfats, 6.2grams per 50grams
Also Egg Whites are high in protein
I am sure there are heaps of other things high in protein!
If you don’t want to eat red meat of chicken other foods that include protein are fish, eggs, cheese, milk, most nuts and beans.
Low protein will have no effect on bleeding. The problem with anaemia is that if you do bleed you will have very little reserves of iron to carry oxygen around your body. Anaemia itself does not cause bleeding.
You could try disguising red meats, like wrapping them in other things, putting mince in with other dishes, or charcoaling them.
Quinoa is a good source of protein, if you don't know what it is - it's kind of like cous cous. I love it!
Also, beans (soya, mung, butter, kidney etc) are a great source as are nuts!
There are loads of ways to get protein without red meat babe!
Could you also find a pregnancy friendly protein shake? I'm sure there are a few on the market at the moment, health food shops might be able to help you out.
Sue x
Thanks for all the suggestions. I considered trialling the red meat but don't think i can do it, I am definately gonna try the non-red meat options first.
Alan, thanks for the info on anaemia too.