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Feeling rotten after amnio - anyone had similar?

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ScarlettCrossbones · 23/11/2009 14:51

I had my amnio last Thurs and initial results are fine, thank goodness. (Am 16 weeks.) But since Saturday I've been feeling really rubbish, and not the side-effects I would have expected. Queasy (have never had morning sickness before), sore head, a bit dizzy and spaced-out, and an almost constant ache right across the whole uterus area - just like a period pain. It really feels as if something is trying to get out ...

I went to the hospital yesterday and they took temperature, blood etc and checked there was no infection - I also heard the heartbeat which of course was v v reassuring! But I'm still feeling yucksville. Hoping it's just a bug I've coincidentally picked up, but that wouldn't explain the big ache, would it? They told me at the amnio just to expect little localised twinges around where the needle went in, but not this. M/w yesterday didn't seem particularly concerned, but has anyone else experienced similar, to put my mind at rest?

Have 2 DC already and 2 normal pgs, and am not usually so paranoid! First amnio though. x

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T84 · 24/11/2009 14:07

emotionally, the amnio was the worst thing i have ever done. Remember it is traumatic and it might be this that is making you feel bad.

Not all the pains we have a from a physical source.

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