Just found out im Pregnant with first baby 5 weeks- terrified something bad is going to happen

[MegWolf91]

Hi, I'm new to this website. I'm 31 and in the UK. Ive just found out I'm 5 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I've been with my husband for 13 years and he is overjoyed, as am I. I suffer with anxiety and OCD and I'm terrified that something bad is going to happen and I'm going to lose my baby. Every symptom I get is sending me into an emotional wreck. It doesn't help that its impossible to get an appointment with my GP. I've just signed up for the "early bird service" at my hospital and I should receive a letter for an appointment within 2 weeks.

Don't get me wrong , I am sooo excited for this. I think my mental health issues that ive had for 10+ years are just being played on here.

My symptoms are , I have absolutely no appetite. When I do want to eat, I want to eat plain things like toast and biscuits. I am able to eat vegetables and fruit though, but anything with a strong smell or dairy makes me feel ill!

I also have cramping and fatigue as well as nausea.

I'm a vegetarian (have been since I was 10) and I have coeliac disease so I can't eat gluten.

I'm concerned I'm not eating well enough for baby 😭😭

I'm also on citalopram and have been told by lots of people to stop but I've been on it for 6 years and don't want to go cold turkey as I've heard this can be dangerous.

Has anyone else ever felt a similar way?

Thanks for reading my essay!

Paranoid mum to be
Megan

You’re overthinking your symptoms. They are totally fine, very common. Eat what you can. Take a pregnancy vitamin like the one from Pregnacare, I take the one that has a fish oil capsule plus a multivitamin and it includes folate. That takes care of your vitamin needs. You’ll be able to eat better in the 2nd trimester.

I don’t know about citalopram but nhs says you can take it in pregnancy

www.nhs.uk/medicines/citalopram/pregnancy-breastfeeding-and-fertility-while-taking-citalopram/

discuss it with your midwife, dr. as well, tell them your dosage etc.

you only have control on things you can do. Do those (take your meds and vitamins, go to appointments, talk to dr.) and put your effort into doing activities that lower your stress, walks, reading a book etc. but I know when you have anxiety, this is not how things work, so I’d say you might need some mental health support for your pregnancy, ask the gp for that too.

Hope you don’t have to wait long for it.

I was on fluoxetine until about week 12, and then tapered it off under gp guidance. Do not stop taking your antidepressants without help from your gp!

I'm also vegan and have so far grown one healthy toddler and have another on the way so there's no issue with being veggie either.

I'm also on citalopram and have been told by lots of people to stop

Are any of those people doctors or psychiatrists?

I assume not from what you've written, so why would you even consider listening?

Don't take medical advice from random unqualified people.

Congratulations,
I to am a anxiety worrier im 6w2d got a scan on Wednesday as I had ectopic so I need scanned early. I was also on citalipram with my daughter it made me so ill I couldn’t keep anything down I lost over a stone in the first three weeks. So dr said to stop them and felt so much better I could actually eat. That was 5 years ago. Now this pregnancy I’m on stetraline and so far so good I’ve only been sick a couple of times but constantly feel sick. I’m wondering when I will ever stop worrying the worst will happen 😩