Pre-eclampsia

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Anyone suuffered from this? I got it first time round almost three years ago and am now wondering whether I'll get it again (currently eight weeks pregnant).

Oh and don't worry about a trace of protein, that is very common and can mean anything. Even +1 protein is fairly common.

Heron - When I was pregnant with DD, I booked in at 120/70, and was hospitalised at 140/90 for a night so that they could try and get it down (joke - their negligence caused me enough stress to push it to 225/110 while I was in there!! How to get 2 consultants and 3 midwives standing around your bed immediately ). This time I booked in at 140/90, and there it stayed until 26 weeks where it went to 152/93. Methyl dopa has brought it back down to 132/82. Consultant said they were mostly worried about big changes to booking in BP.

Dont know ...can only say my bp was judged low even in the 12 hours (postnatal) before the eclamptic fit, depends on you I guess. The midwives checked my bp but didnt listen to me re: blobs in my vision, headache, feeling lousy etc.

I had pre-eclampsia with ds2. My urinalysis was negative but the blood test was positive. With ds1 I had gestational hypertension and massive swelling. Urinalysis also came up negative but they never did the blood test. I've always wondered if I did indeed have undiagnosed pre-eclampsia with ds1.

I'm just quoting some things I've just read on the APEC website (where was that 3 years ago when i needed it!)....

"If you have had pre-eclampsia before then you are almost 8 times as likely to get pre-eclampsia in your next pregnancy. The actual risk of developing the disorder will depend on a number of other factors such as when you initially developed pre-eclampsia in your pregnancy and how acute it was. If you have had previous pre-eclampsia it is important that you let your health care professionals know the details. There is research to show that if you do develop pre-eclampsia again, on average, it is likely to be up to a couple of weeks later in onset and milder than previously experienced."

Sorry that was a bit long!

Fingers crossed for this second time then...