When to seek help
I know this is long. I’m freaked out a bit.
I’m almost 16w pregnant. This is baby 3 for me. I know that every pregnancy is different, I know there’s a WIDE range of “normal,” but I just feel so awful. It’s not even just nausea and fatigue. It’s normal uncomfortable symptoms and also a million little things, like:
Muscle fatigue in my arms and legs, awful indigestion with every meal, constipation so bad it caused an anal fissure, heart palpitations, depression… my shoulders have been really messed up and in pain, even though I see a chiropractor regularly. I *think* it’s causing mild chest pain, but now I’m scared my chest pain is unrelated. Or maybe it’s due to indigestion? Yesterday I had a migraine, which I was able to get it to go away and it didn’t come back, which is good. I developed what my doctors are pretty sure is puppps even though I’ve never had it in my other pregnancies and I’m not very far along.
I’ve had one week of feeling “normal” this whole pregnancy. I’m so frequently too tired to think straight or in pain. I’ve mentioned most of the things to my doctors and they keep saying a lot of this is normal. I’m also not one who likes to complain, so I fear I might downplay it to them a bit.
At what point do I go in to check anything out? Baby’s heart is still beating and healthy. They ran a thyroid panel on me and it came back normal. All my other bloodwork and blood pressure is normal. Am I just a hypochondriac that’s freaking out?? Please help!
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