TTC/Pregnancy on Prednisolone or similar part 6

[Arianrhod]

A positive thread for all those diagnosed with High or Very High NK Cells and looking to start TTC or already pregnant on Prednisolone and/or Intralipid treatment.

Newcomers very much welcome!

Part 5 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1391787-TTC-Pregnancy-on-Prednisolone-or-similar-part-5

Part 4 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1366323-TTC-Pregnancy-on-Prednisolone-or-similar-part-4

Part 3 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1348773-TTC-pregnancy-on-Prednisolone-or-similar-part-3

Part 2 here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1323594-TTC-pregnancy-on-Prednisolone-or-similar-part-2

Part 1 here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1236324-TTC-pregnancy-on-Prednisolone-or-similar

Drat, also meant to say, choccy I always find that being pg almost instantly sends my temperature up too, but then so does being on pred. Although as far as the pred is concerned this effect is virtually cancelled out by the fact that I always feel really cold when I'm very tired, so it's kind of swings and roundabouts for me right now!

Olives Those 13-hour shifts are not what you need right now while battling the effects of pred! Me, I'm still zzzzzz too, still waking up throughout the night, not helped by my lovely DP snoring the last few nights either which always instantly wakes me up. Grrrrrrrrrr :) Sorry to hear you're not feeling positive about testing tomorrow, but you know, that could be Mother Nature playing tricks on you and you could still get your positive! I also often get sore boobs in between OV and AF, which is a real bugger when you're trying not to symptom-spot. I have those right now, and had major cramping on and off all day yesterday (7dpo) ... trying really hard to ignore that and not read anything into it, could be any number of things after all. Had my acupuncture session last night, and thankfully she didn't say she thought I was pregnant .. which of course has the double-edged effect for me of "why? why? does she think I'm not then?" Can't win!

Thinking of pq this morning.

choccy hooray for getting to 4 weeks. Would af have come by now? Are you officially late? Are you sure you're not too hot because you're still using the winter duvet/have the heating on?

pico I am a slow-motion version of phoebe - seriously, little old ladies over take me I run. I think I'm actually just walking with a bounce - but huffing and puffing like a true sprinter. That's me running (caveat - I haven't been 'running' since June/July).

Bloody insomnia here too. Woke up at 3:30 thanks to ds snoring, then a bh, then needing the loo, then having to go downstairs to get loo-roll....got back to sleep about 6-ish. DH has taken DS to pre-school now so I really should get up.

Nah digi, stay put and have another snooze. You need to 'bank' all the sleep you can get now, before little one arrives :)

Morning all, just popping in to say good luck to pq - who should just be about to go for her scan I think?
digi I would stay in bed if I were you - get those hours in now!
choccy Lovely news that that line is getting darker :) I also remember being like an oven on the pred - I was roasting all the time.

I also used to run quite a bit, however it is not a pretty sight and now I can barely run to the end of the drive. The pred also made me very breatheless - so that was my excuse.

Not much happening here, woke up this morning to puppy squits everywhere. Poor boy - I have changed his diet and think this is it.Not nice to have to clean up in the morning - thank god my morning sickness has gone- that would have tipped me over the edge....

Big waves to everyone, I am lurking for news from PQ xxx

Best of luck to PQ. I'll be lurking to see how you got on.

choccy, brilliant news that the line is getting stronger!

battery eeeewwww, puppy squits. Yes, thank god your MS has waned. I remember when my cat was a kitten and he had the squits in his carry box on the way to the vet. I had to drive there with my head out of the window, eyes streaming and wretching all the way! Nasty!

digi I agree with ari, get all the sleep you can!

kittens My cat does that everytime we travel. I end up heaving at the wheel , cat poo is vile. :( The last time we went to the vet - DP had to take her into the disbled loo and clean her up :( ( I have a lovely dp)

kittens and battery Add me in too, my cat does that everytime she has to go in the car, even 10 minutes down the road to the vet. Needless to say she doesn't go to the vet very often!!

Oh dear. My cat has only done it about 3 times in 12 years luckily. You have my sympathy!

helloo, have had to skim read the cat and puppy stories as feeling a bit queasy!!

good news at the scan - hb 173 and measuring 8+4. So a feeling of relief that will last - oh - 2 or 3 days at least! Thanks so much for all your support. EPAU Dr said I will probably still get brown spotting as an after effect of such a big bleed two weeks ago so I am just going to have to deal with this I guess. She came in on her day off just to scan me and one other RMC lady (when she could have left us to the specialist midwife). Last time she scanned me in her lunch break. She is officially my hero of the day.

Have also come to the realisation that I have not booked in at a hospital and can't get a GP appt for a week to get the referral. So if the pregnancy goes according to plan, am probably going to have to go private for the NT scan after all as I won't be booked in anywhere in time. Gah - all this being cautious...

Hope everyone is enjoying the sun wherever they are today.

Thogh digi - stay in bed!

Thanks digi all v good points as usual. We do have the full winter combo duvet on but only coz DH couldn't be arsed to take half out last night. I'll tell him the radiator thing is thus his own fault :)

Good to know others have been super hot in early pg and from the Pred.

I am or would be due today so not actually late yet. Still a bit booby and getting the odd twinge in my right hand side. And exhausted. No chance of getting me to the gym at the mo!!

Waiting and hoping for news from PQ...

Yay PQ fantastic news. Almost leapt out my seat for joy when I refreshed after posting!!

Know what you mean tho I shan't be booking in til at least I get to 8 weeks

Woohoo PQ, was lurking for your news. So pleased it's good news!! You can breathe now ... :)

Oh PQ that's brilliant news. You may be able to self refer for your booking in. I had a super lovely midwife my first two pregnancies and she told me to self refer straight to her, which I have now for all 6 of mine.

Yay, fabulous news PQ! I know what you mean about late booking. I am finally having by booking appointment with midwife next week, at just under 15 weeks . But could your EPAU consultant or hospital midwife book you for a scan on the NHS perhaps? They booked my NT at my first consultant appointment at about 10 weeks.

Mercator, hurrah for the 2nd trimester. It still doesn't seem real yet to me, I have to say. What about you?

Greenolives, fingers crossed for testing, and hope the NHS appointment goes well today

Choc, I've always interpreted the hotness as a good sign and have had it on my 2 pred pregnancies and this current one.

Battery, eeeew, puppy squits! Ours did that when she was little, but thank goodness not for a while since.

Digi sounds like you've every reason to have a lie in!

Pico - I run like that too. Imagining two 'Phoebes' running along together now!

Arian it's interesting that your accupuncturist tells you when she thinks you're pregnant. Mine used to tell me that she thought so AFTER I'd told her I was ... so probably marginally less annoying/provoking false hope, but I guess she always guaranteed being right (she never predicted me to miscarry though, but I always did).

Snoopy - that vet visit sounds nasty, poor you and poor kitty!

Iggi, yes those twins must have been sooooo tiny. It's amazing what we can do to help them survive now.

Re: the premature delivery, my consultant says there's a 25% chance of it happening again but won't even hazard a guess as to why it happened last time. I think the chances are higher though: I seem to dilate really quickly without noticing (happened for both labours) and I have an irritable uterus, so get loads of contractions from the 2nd trimester onwards. A recent Cochrane review indicates that progesterone IM injections can postpone early labour and delivery when there's been one previous early delivery and when it's a singleton pregnancy. It's not widely used here though, so think my consultant might (or probably will) say no. I'm going to beg for regular cervical length checks if he says no. I realise I should probably just stop looking for more things to scare myself with but I'm a researcher by trade so information hunting is essentially what I do all day

I should know the answer to this by now but does the pred make anyone else nauseous? If so, is there anything that combats it? Feeling distinctly bleugh today, I know it's the pred (no stomach pains or anything, no heartburn, just nauseous) but I can't find anything that stops it.

At this point of course I'm expecting to get told off for not taking the Omeprazole And if you tell me it combats nausea choccy, then I promise I'll take it! :)

Sorry for people missed on personals, my boss wandered by so I had to press 'post' quickly.

ari
yes - stuffing your face with biccies/anything to hand usually does it for me! i often feel like that on pred luring myself into false sense of bfp.
erm.. you've answered you question about the Omprazole and I too know all of this but do I take it ..no!!

great news pQ aaaaand breathe......

frozen not me with the squity kitty!!!!
Was your docs cross with you for not booking in then?

Ari just take the damn Omeprazole!! . FYI everyone Ari and I may just possibly have has this conversation before...

Dunno about it helping with nausea but it's all about protecting your stomach/guts so I guess nausea could be a product of Pred induced irritation of said stomach/guts. The only way I can ever combat ickiness is to eat too!

Talking of eating my dad held down some special energy food soup stuff yday and is being being weaned off the TPN. We agreed just now it's all about baby steps towards where we want to be :)

And what a gorgeous sunny day it is today. Hope everyone gets a chance to get out and enjoy the sunshine.

ROFL!!! Sorry choccy

Darn, hit send too soon. Meant to say choccy, excellent news about your Dad - all progress forward is good!!

PQ - great news to hear that things are progressing well.

choccy - good news about your dad too.

I love this thread being so positive today.

Excellent news pq!! Nearly nearly there - when's your next scan?

choccy great to hear your dad is making progress.

ari never had nausea on pred, just hunger.

Didn't get anymore of a lie-in as I had to get up and make myself breakfast. Have taken it easy though, totting up receipts.

Snoopy - aargh, no, sorry: it was HavingKittens ...
It's because you both have cat / dog related usernames, because folks were talking about animal squits anyhow, and because my brain is cheese

Re: doctor being cross, oddly enough no-one was - but I'm lucky that the staff know me because DH locums at the surgery occasionally, so they seem to cut me some slack. I might get a lecture from the midwife when I finally see her though!

Fab news pq!

I didn't get going with my local midwife til 10 weeks, and she understood why, but was in a mad rush to get me booked in. Wasn't meant to be scanned til 14 weeks, (apparently the earliest she could get me in) but on louises advice I rang the unit and I got a cancellation and was scanned at 11 4 instead.
Still have to go up on the 28th as they're putting me with a consultant, so first meeting then. Really don't want to be as I don't want it to interfere with having a water birth again.

Got nt results back today, deemed low risk - Phew!
Love to all x x

Just a quick check in from my nan?s from me.

PQ once again sooo pleased it was all good. Scan calmness (well, relative calmness) lasts about?oh 2 days? But hopefully you can relax for a bit longer. When is the next one? Someone (Duggs!) needs to do some research as to how long scan reassurance lasts. You are more or less at that milestone that Mr S sees is the most important so I think that is a very, very good sign.

Oh and PQ I think it was actually you who made me feel fine about not seeing a midwife until 17 or 18 weeks! And the scan experience at FMC is great. SO don?t worry about that too much.

Ari, I am with Choccy on this one. Just take the damn Omeprazole ☺ I spent ages avoiding it but then found it really helped. Not sure why we do these things! Maybe because we are taking so many bloody drugs already it?s nice to be able to skip one and be naughty. But it will def help your stomach so go on and take it.

Choccy so glad your dad is showing signs of improvement.

Hopeful? great news about the NT results!

Frozen, does quick and early delivery also mean it was quite an easy one?? I am looking for positive stories about natural birth. Not the birth per se as I realise that might hurt (a bit?) but it?s the after effects. Am getting so freaked out about stories of tears and incontinence!

Digi great news on no GD! Have I said that already? I forget, as I have been lurking but not posting.

Olives, good luck with the testing!!

All this talk about running, Pico and others ? I don?t get on very well with running either. I can (in normal circumstances obv) run for about 20 mins but then after that my brain just asks my body ? why the feck are you running?!? and then I have to stop. On the fitness front I spent the last couple of years before starting to get pregnant nd miscarry repeatedly and take steroids etc working out with two trainers who I was also writing books for and I got into superb shape ? even a couple of abs poking through! It was all done by lifting heavy weights and cutting out complex carbs on most weekdays. I really hope I can do it all again after I (hopefully ? PUPO and all that) have a baby.

Waves to all and sorry if I have missed anything vital (apart from puppy squits of course Battery). I am just going to do a quick list update before heading out to a local pub to eat with the family.