For the last week I have felt very light headed at times and nauseas. At my Dentist appointment last Thurs. I had to ask them twice to lean me back up and for some water because I kept feeling like I was going to pass out. It was not a very fun feeling but at least I got out of the fluoride part =)
Then all day Thursday at work I kept getting that feeling again of light headedness and nauseated. I called my Doctors Nurse at the office to ask her about it and she said I may becoming anemic which is very common in your third trimester and for me to start taking an iron supplement like Slow FE. By the time I got home from work at 5 I started throwing up and not feeling good at all. I tried to eat a bowl of cereal after that and within 20 minutes of finishing that it came right back up. My Mom suggested that I call the on call Doctor and see what they say because by this time it was 9pm and I had thrown up 16 times. I called the Doctor and she said try drinking just water and fluids and if you are not able to keep that down then I need to come up to the Labor and Delivery part of the hospital immediately because they did not want me to get dehydrated. As soon as we hung up the phone I made a huge glass of ice water and laid down for about an hour and a half before it all came up. I called my parents; they always make me feel better when I am sick and they came over and took me to the hospital at 11. Once we got there they had me do a urine test to see if I was dehydrated and sure enough I was. They then took some blood to continue running tests. Next they hooked me up to an IV and gave me some nausea medicine because I kept feeling like I was going to throw up and sure enough once they got me hooked up and gave me the medicine through the IV I started throwing up again. My body was not reacting well to the nausea medicine they gave me so they called the Doctor to see what they could do. All I wanted was a glass of water but they couldn’t let me have one because the ice chips they gave me earlier were making me throw up. She told them to give me another kind of nausea medicine and all I remember was that I think it started with a G and it worked. I was finally able to fall asleep. It took three full bags of IV fluid before I was finally starting to feel better and rehydrated. Once I woke up they gave me a couple of ice chips and two saltine crackers to see if I could keep those down and they said once I was able to keep something down they would let me go. I was able to successfully eat the ice and crackers without throwing up so we got released Friday morning around 9:30.
They got all my blood work back and everything was fine which was good. They were able to rule out food poising and the flu but were still unable to figure out what caused all of this. They said they have seen cases of this before so that made me feel a little better. I would have to say out of everything it was such a great feeling getting to hear Taylor’s heartbeat all night because I was hooked up to monitors so they could monitor her as well. And the ice chips they give you are really soft and good!
I am finally starting to feel better but all day Friday when I got home all I did was sleep which was much needed because those hospital beds were not very comfortable.
