So worried. Of anyone had similar experience please share.
i was 8 weeks 5 days pregnant when my toddler gave me a bug that caused me high fever of 38,6-38,7 measured with the Braun ear thermometer on a Saturday.
saturday, sunday it was probably managed i guess. I wasn’t having any other symptoms so on monday i just assumed im okay until i measured it again and it was 38,7 . Took paracetamol and waited. It didnt come down. So i went to A&E ( in Spain currently) and they measured ny temperature under armpit and it was normal. Maybe they were wrong maybe the temperature finally dripped by the time.
the thing is that the doctor and my husband and for some reason me, all assumed that the ear thermometer is not accurate. Unfortunately i stopped monitoring on Monday. Wednesday 3 in the morning i woke up feeling unwell. My ear thermometer showed 38,3 . I panicked and took paracetamol. But I was still assuming that the Braun ear thermometer was not accurate.
until i got a flu now ( week 12) so to avoid confusion, i started measuring it rectally. And i was shocked to discover that the ear thermometer is pretty accurate! And i cannot eat sleep take care of my toddler since then.
CONCLUSION: i had an unmanaged fever for 3-4 days that reached 38,7 at some point and god knows maybe 39 and above. I wasn’t having any feeling warm but i was like this throughout the first trimester so i did not differentiate.
i know fever in pregnancy or first trimester are all commun… but this one was UNMANAGED.. no paracetamol for a few days where i clearly had fever.
anyone with similar experience please tell me