Then yesterday happened, and I will never allow that to happen again, I don't care what my doctors think. I had to attend a diabetes clinic class yesterday. It was the dumbest thing I could do at this point. For women with normal pregnancies, yes, the possibility of gestational diabetes can be a scary thing, I'm not trying to downplay that. But realistically lets go over the risk factors of GD for the baby: higher then normal birth weight, hypoglycemic, pre-term delivery, and possible stillborn after 38 weeks. Even if I had full blown GD, none of these factors would be any different then what is happening right now in my high risk pregnancy. Ok, so the utter stupidity aside, I sat through the class with contractions 5 minutes apart, and as we were wrapping up, my contractions became on top of each other, 30 seconds to 1 minute apart.
I couldn't breathe, I couldn't talk, I was doubled over in pain, and my stomach was rock hard without any breaks. Granted, I was at United Hospital and not Abbott, but they really should know better. The gestational diabetes lady would not let me leave, I should have left, I should have refused to be looked at and went home. But I stayed to be monitored. Dumbest idea ever. They hooked me up to the monitors, I was contracting every 15-30 seconds with no breaks. But once again Therese was handling them well and my cervix was tightly closed. They keep saying its unrelated, but my muscles never work properly, and my cervix just doesn't dilate well if at all.
They called my doctor and supposedly they recommend I be sent home. No Tributline, no IV fluids, no pain meds, no extra dose of anything, just send me on my way with contraction that close together. I got my discharge orders and my friend drove like lightening to get me home and I took an extra dose of everything and had a glass of wine. 3 hours from the start of crazy contraction, they finally spaced out to a manageable level. I called to complain this morning and got a lecture about taking more then then recommend dose. I told her my blood pressure was so high during the crazy contractions, that even if it made my blood pressure dip low, it wouldn't have hurt me. I believe at the time my blood pressure was 160/91, my normal is 80/40. Let's just say I'm one unhappy mommy today.
The doctors are still recommending I attend all of my crazy appointments, I'm declining. If no one else is going to care about my pain management or how exactly I'm going to make it through the next few months, then I have to do something. So, I'm canceling all non OB appointments and just trying to take it easy. I understand that it's too early to deliver and that my contractions aren't currently changing my cervix, but if they really expect me to be in that much pain for the rest of my pregnancy, that is just not a reasonable request.
So how am I today? Mad, very very mad. Contractions are 5-7 minutes apart, who would have thought that would ever be tolerable? But after yesterday, unless I start bleeding, my water breaks, or Therese stops moving, I'm not going into L&D, I'm better off at home monitoring things myself and taking medicine as needed.
So keep praying for me, that things don't get that crazy ever again, that Therese stays in as long as possible, and that I can stay sane with the 'irritable uterus' that is my life for awhile.
26 weeks with crazy contractions
Doesn't she look thrilled with that salad?!
What the dang BP cuff did to my arm!
