Midwife Triage or Walk-In Centre?

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I'm 24 weeks pregnant with twins and I've been ill with a horrific virus for 2 weeks. For the last 4 nights I've coughed so much that I've had hardly any sleep at all. Last night I pulled and muscle or rib in my left side and overnight every movement and cough has been agony. I haven't slept again. I've had about 6/7 hours sleep over 4 nights and I'm exhausted.

I've seen the GP (before the rib/muscle went pop) and as my chest sounds OK and my blood oxygen is fine they say I just have to ride it out because I can't take any medication in pregnancy.

I'm inclined to go to the walk-in centre this morning as I'm suspicious of a chest infection but my mum says they'll just say the same as the GP and I should phone maternity triage. I don't think they will be able to help with this.

Sorry you’re suffering, I’m 21 weeks and just had something very similar so you have my full sympathy, the not sleeping was awful

when I saw my GP my chest and everything was fine but he prescribed antibiotics and told me to hold off taking them if I could, left it 48 hours then picked up the prescription, it instantly helped

I’d go to the walk in centre and lay it on thick, tell them that you are unable to eat and being pregnant this is not ok. I really hope you get some help, good luck xx

A possible chest infection isn’t obstetric pregnancy related, so if you went to triage they’d bat you back to GP / 111. So id say a walk in.
Hope you feel better soon!

@DitzyDerbyBabe86 my thoughts exactly. I'll probably need my mum to drive me there as I don't really want to take our toddler to the walk-in so my partner will look after him. Also, he's been looking after me all night and really can't have had much more sleep than I have.

@cheerfulaf that's reassuring to know that it helped straight away. My partner had the same thing but has managed to clear it, but it's just going on and on for me, so I suspect my reduced pregnancy immune system has developed an infection. To be fair yesterday I only had two bowls of soup all day because it was all I could stomach, so I'm not really managing to eat.

this is exactly the sort of thing that it's a good idea to chat to maternity triage about. Partly because coincidental illnesses in pregnancy are things to worry about, but partly to make sure it's not impacting your pregnancy.

@Greybeardy I have a consultant appointment tomorrow so will go through everything then. I just meant that triage wouldn't be able to prescribe me the antibiotics that I needed (4 tablets in and I'm already so much better 👍).