I am 8 weeks today. I cried on and off all day.
I feel so sick. I am on medication from
the doctor, antihistamines- they don’t seem
to work.
It’s not the tiredness…it’s the weakness. I couldn’t even change a single duvet today without my arms aching. I walked 20m to the local shop and my legs went all weak and dizzy..and I was out of breath.
I went for a sleep at 1pm and I could feel my heart beating in my chest, my breathing really shallow and moments of really weird sensations across my body.
i am constantly cold.
i am anemic and on iron tablets, even with them my iron doesn’t reach above 12. I can’t seem to absorb the iron. That was before pregnancy…I have asked the doctor several times could my iron be really low…they keep telling me to carry on and take the tablets. Im
not sure what to do, i feel my iron may have dropped off a cliff. My mum saw me today and was shocked at how pale and ill I look.
should I ask again? I nearly fainted several times today but even then the doctor doesn’t seem phased. I got the impression she thought I was being melodramatic and that all women feel bad and I should push on…I would love to push on…but at times I felt so bad, if someone said my body was shutting down I would have believed it.
The maternity ward said I am under the gp until 16 weeks so they can’t help.
maybe I get a private blood test…
I know you’re supposed to feel rubbish but this is like something else…I literally shiver with coldness and I can take a hot bath and my legs can’t tell the difference between the hot and cold. It can be so hot and I don’t even feel it.
is this really normal? X