Cheer me up?!

[RafflesMaidenSister]

So 26 weeks, and feel appalling. Can't sleep - restless legs and palpitations, sick headaches all the time. Can't breath. In the space of less than a month have gone from riding fit competition horses to not being able to walk my dogs without sitting down every few hundred yards. Legs feel weak when I stand up for more than a few minutes and carrying my 18 month old upstairs requires a sit down afterwards.

Feel awful when I eat and awful when I'm hungry. Trying to stay hydrated but drinking water makes me feel sick. Have been to the GP and waiting for blood test results but I'm terrified that there is nothing wrong with me and this is just how it's going to be for another 13 weeks (ELCS in 39th week). I'm actually hoping I'm anaemic (was in my last pregnancy, midwife alleges I have been tested and was fine, GP could find no test results when he looked) because at least then there's a chance treatment will make me feel better.

So ... just in case I'm absolutely fine and just being pathetic, please anyone who has felt/feels like this, tell me how they cope with it (I currently go and lie on my bed and sob quietly for twenty minutes when I get in from work) or even better, that as they hit 27 weeks they felt much better. The thought of feeling this way for another thirteen weeks is unbearable (not to be too dramatic).

I felt like this and also hoped I was low on iron too because at least that could be sorted..I wasn't, was 'just pregnant' according to my midwife 😒 two things did help though, firstly getting reflux under control as that was behind me feeling so sick again, with a prescription for ranitidine. Secondly when the baby moved from breech to head down I could breathe better, and again when he dropped down in the last couple of weeks the breathlessness etc wasn't so bad.

I remember trying to walk up the stairs in a shop and having to sit down on a sofa for 10 minutes when I got to the first floor as I was exhausted. All disappeared the second I gave birth though!

Thanks, Aubrey. It's not totally dissimilar to my last pregnancy but much sooner and much worse.

Still waiting for doctors to call but I suspect I may be like you and "just pregnant". I'll see if midwife thinks ranitidine - as this is really affecting me badly. Other than that I just need to manage my work better - but it's really hard. It's so difficult heaving myself into work when I feel this ill and I really don't need to be there that much - I can work from home.

I'm just going to hang on to the fact that it went away when you gave birth - and count the days.

Thanks for your response!