This is less about my pregnancy and more about bitching for a moment. I know that I should treasure my sleep while I can and that sleeping past seven am is a luxury I will soon not be afforded, however I still don't think that makes it okay for my neighbors across the street to start weed whacking at 6:50 am! WTF. Rude. Not to mention the 8-8 quiet hours in the HOA rules. Inconsiderate!
In other news I am having some spells of being short of breath and my vision getting fuzzy. I went to my GP for this problem and she sent me for a CT scan of my chest because she was worried that I might have a pulmonary embolism or pneumonia. The scan came out clean, so she felt that the problem was probably more psychological, i.e. panic attacks. I am inclined to agree with her, however, I don't feel like they come on at the right time to be panic attacks. For example I am not dwelling on the unimaginable horrors that could befall my newly forming family, I am not catastrophizing scenarios that leave either Josh or I alone with a newborn to raise on our own...okay so now I might be thinking about those things, but hey, no shortness of breath.
Anyway, you get my drift. So the GP asked me to take Ativan to see if that helped the symptoms. However, after consulting with my pharmacist sister, who informed me that Ativan, along with all anxiety medications, is a Class D pregnancy drug, meaning it has been shown to cause birth defects in humans especially in the first trimester and at high doses. Now while I am out of my first trimester and was not prescribed a high dose, I am still leery of taking it. I discussed this with my GP and she agreed and felt that we should do some blood work to check all of my organ functions and whatnot (ex. cholesterol, liver function, thyroid function, and the like) and if that comes back clean and I am still having "episodes" she wants to do an echo-cardiogram. Whew.
Personally I think this might be getting blown out of proportion due to the fact that I am pregnant. I do have a history of anxiety and I do have a tendency to somatize stress, in other words I push the stress away from my emotions and conscious though and channel it into my physiological being. So I never really feel that stressed out but I end up with odd physical symptoms that are not traceable to anything. Yeah, isn't psychology fun!
I will keep you all posted on how this unfolds, but I am probably just stressing out so no worries. In lighter news, I am no longer able to button my size 10 jeans and really shouldn't be trying to get into them in the first place. It pains me, no literally, it hurts ;)- I am running out of pants to wear. I need my mom to hurry up and get here already so that we can go maternity shopping! Which I refuse to do by myself and will not make my husband go do, not because he wouldn't, but because he is not super fun to shop with and this shopping for over-sized tents needs to be super fun.
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Hey, did you ever get into the prenatal yoga?? I can't remember if Mom told anyone we heart yoga now. :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see Shannon in 11 days!! I am excited to see her little poochy belly and to go maternity shopping! Paula told me about the heart yoga while in Yuma and I tried to do it too. Philip and I were going to join a beginner's yoga class here in Seward but it is scheduled for a time when we can't be there. Bummer! Hopefully that will change in the fall class schedule after the busy summer is over. Let the traveling begin!
ReplyDeleteI have started a prenatal pilates class, which I don't love but know it is good for me so I am going to continue. I have a prenatal yoga dvd that I try to do but fail often because it is hard to motivate an already tired girl to get jazzed about doing yoga alone. But I keep trying :)
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