I'm 38 weeks tomorrow and yesterday I woke up with a sore throat..I assumed I was coming down with a cold or something which is plausible because I have to sleep with the window open otherwise I have terrible hot flushes. For some reason whenever I get a sore throat, I always feel a bit off anyway so yesterday in the day when I was feeling a bit sluggish I just put it down to the bad throat. I went for a walk in the evening, came back and felt like I'd caught the plague or something. Terrible headache, felt so sluggish and like I was going to be sick even though I knew I wasn't going to actually throw up (hard to explain, I guess it was nausea), was either freezing cold and shaking or boiling hot. Whenever I put the blanket over me, I was overheating and when I kicked the blanket off, I was shaking again. I felt really weak and as if someone could blow and I'd fall over. Went to bed and I was waking up every hour or so, really rubbish night sleep but when I finally got to sleep and then woke up this morning, I still had a headache and still felt sluggish which has carried on all day, haven't really wanted to eat anything and even left most of the dominoes I bought tonight.
I've had headaches a lot throughout the pregnancy but never like this, it's always just been a headache with nothing else. I have constantly needed a wee but I assumed again this was because baby was nearly fully engaged and my doctor told me labour was imminent so I thought that was why, but now I'm thinking it might be a uti however it doesn't feel like uti's I've had before so I'm thinking more pre eclampsia.
I did have a bit of what I thought was chest pain/hard to catch my breath but nothing that didn't go away and now I'm thinking about rib pain being a symptom. I've had no swelling or anything, as far as I can tell anyway.
I'm going to phone the ante natal clinic tomorrow but does anyone have any advice or experience?? Is this pre eclampsia or am I just being paranoid? Thanks x