So these past two weeks have been just a bit rough for a pregnant lady!
During week 16 I got food poisoning (or at least thats what I think). Monday night around 8:00 I got sick to my stomach but just thought it was the pregnancy. But as the night went on and I got even more sick I realized I felt like I did when I had food poisoning a few years ago. Luckily I had some nausea pills left over from my morning sickness stage. Brandon gave me one and the nausea stopped for the moment. By morning I thought I was going to be able to make it in to work but got sick again. Finally around noon I was able to keep down fluids and soup.
Then starting week 17 and throughout the entire week I've been in and out of the ER with pains and vomiting. It started Sunday night when I woke up with a stabbing pain in my left side. About an hour later when I found myself in the bathroom I knew what was wrong... kidney stones! I had the same thing happen to me about this time when I was pregnant with Ryleigh. Last time the pain went away after a few hours so I thought I'd wait it out. But by 2:30 my pain was worse than labor pains and I didn't have anything left in me to throw up. I called the on-call doctor at my doctor's office and luckily it was my doctor that night. She told me to go to the ER to get fluids and pain meds.
Since I live about 30 minutes from my doctor's hospital she said the hospital nearest me would be ok. That night the people were nice and took care of me. Gave me a warm blanket, pain meds, nausea meds and water to sip on.
They did a sonogram of my kidneys since I'm pregnant there wasn't anything thing else they could do. They couldn't see any kidney stones but saw an infection one might have caused in my kidneys.
I went home and my mom stayed with me on Monday. Even with the pain meds the doctor gave me and the nausea meds I was still in pain and throwing up. By 4:30 I was still in so much pain I called my doctor again. There was talk about admitting me to Labor and Delivery but we decided to up the amount of hours I could take the pain medicine and went from there. By morning I had little pain so by Wednesday morning I thought I was good to go back to work.
Then Wednesday night about 8:00 the pain came back even with pain meds and around 1:00 I was throwing up again. So after another call to the doctor we went back to the ER. This time the people weren't as nice. They basically said there's nothing we can do and sent me on my way.
Around 11:00 we had a sonogram done of the baby and saw my doctor. The baby is doing great and developing well. She said not to worry about the baby. However, my pain could take a week or so to completely go away. She ended up giving me suppositories to see if that would help keep down fluids. She said by morning if I was still sick that she would admit me to the hospital so I could get an IV of fluids. As of Friday at 12:20 I've been able to keep down water and toast so that's good.
She want's me to take it easy for the next few days so I didn't go to work on Friday either. Wednesday was the only day I was able to make it to work this week. Needless to say I'm out of sick days at work.
Monday we'll be going back to the doctor for a check up with me and to see the gender of the baby!
We're thinking that all the club soda and lime that I've been drinking is the cause for all this pain. I am now a water and juice girl! I don't want this to happen again!
