July 14, 2009

On July 13, 2009 my husband Brian and I went out to eat after going to the store and registering for items on Brianna's baby shower registry. That evening around 10pm I began to have severe heartburn and figured it was from what I ate so I took some tums and tried to go back to sleep. At 2am I woke up and was extremely sick to my stomach and began to violently get sick to my stomach. I had never been so sick to my stomach in my life. It was constant with no relief and I couldn't hold down water or gatorade. I called my OB's office and they gave me an appt to go into the office that afternoon. Brian stayed home from work and took care of me and tried to keep pushing the fluids even though they were not staying down. My ankles were also swollen and the bags under my eyes were monster looking. I went to the OB's office and saw the Doctor covering for my OB as he was not in the office that day. As soon as I got into the waiting room I needed to use the restroom and got sick again. They called me in and weighed me and I told the nurse thats odd I was up 3 lbs from 2 days before she didn't seem to think it was an issue. She was about to take my blood pressure when I had to excuse myself and go get sick again in the restroom. I also had to take off my bra as I had so much pressure in my chest but thought it was because I had been getting sick so much. I went back into the exam room and she took my blood pressure and she commented that it was high compared to my previous checks. I told her my blood pressure has always been good actually the only comment I have ever gotten in the past re: my blood pressure was that it was perfect. She left the room and the OB came in and checked on the baby's heartbeat with the doppler and said she sounded great and her heartbeat was 155. She noted that I looked very sick and I told her I had never been so sick before. She re-took my blood pressure and said that it was a bit high. She asked me if my eyes always looked like that and I told her no. She asked what I had eaten and I told her we went out to eat. She thought i might have food poisioning.  I asked her if she thought something was seriously wrong and she said no and the baby sounded great and not affected at all. She told me to go home and rest and drink as much water and gatorade as I could even if I was throwing it up and eventually I would begin to hold fluids down again and to call the next day if I was still sick.