(Small update)

Hey ladies

I’m wanting some opinions or shared experiences

About a week ago I started itching as if I had poison ivy in multiple places but no rash or bumps. My scratching did develop some damage that kinda looks like a rash but it’s not.

Wrists, forearms, shin area, thighs, belly and even face.

Well what do I do? Predictably, I look it up. “Itching all over body no rash pregnancy”

Cholestasis immediately pops up everywhere but I didn’t think anything of it since I didn’t have any other symptoms.

But still, I even text my husband this:

So I shake it off.

He’s right...it’s unlikely.

UNTIL today I notice that my stool is way lighter than it normally is. I remembered seeing that as a listed symptom.

So now I have these two very different and very random symptoms that both are listed as a possibility that this could be cholestasis...

I’m NO hypochondriac either but my poo is like the color of my skin (granted...I am tan)

I get back on “dr google” and sure enough I’m bombarded with ICP

I called my doc and “the rude nurse” answers (that’s what we call her) and she just seems uneducated and says she’s never heard of the stool thing being relative to it and that for my itching I could probably just take Benadryl....

I’m like....

Sooo am I crazy? Is it a coincidence that I have both these weird things?

I immediately became that annoying patient that every clinic hates and demanded a bile acid and liver enzyme test.

I don’t care if they hate me but I’m going to put my baby first and I’m not going to risk this. But I am curious what any of you think, who have experience with this!

Just a small update:

I noticed that I was having some weird ache near my ribs on my right side.

I asked my husband to feel it to see if he could identify the location and he (chiropractor) said it’s no doubt my gallbladder. When he pressed on it, I yelled and flew backwards and kinda got mad at him. (I know he didn’t mean to hurt me)

There is a large amount of correlation between gallbladder pain and cholestasis. Unfortunately I’m running out of positive thoughts.

Results will be here in a couple days and I will let y’all know if that was yet ANOTHER weird coincidence.