Wow lots of posts. I will read them all in a minute.... This is going to be long as I just been to gp, so bear with me. I like a good rant.
Firstly, apparantly I am 'fine^. No ketones, not dehydrated, clearly a drama queen. Been given some drugs. Will get to that in a minute...this is how the morning went. Woke up, peed into a tester pot. Dark and cloudy. Drank some liquid, some of which stayed down I think. Had some porridge - was delicious. Until it came back up 10 mins later with such force I almost chocked on it. And then continued being sick, again. And again.
I had during this time called the midwife advice line, they were concerned, said I should call out of hours gp. Called them, go straight in. I go in, promptly go to the loo to hurl, get called immediately to see a gp who is my age or even younger. He is clearly not experienced. He could not find anything to test my wee, gave me an emergency sick bucket by disposing of some needles stored in a cardboard holder.
After some discussion, he checks my wee (for something, not specified) 'thats fine' he said. Checks my skin, my blood pressure etc etc. Its all fine. He said don't look too bad. We talk about medication. And he says - you got to listen to this bit (paraphrased as I don't have recall memory) 'the thing with morning sickness, if it is not treated quickly, it could become something called hyperemesis gravidava, and if this happens you could end up going into hospital for intravenous fluids. I think you should consider medication. We weigh up the risks versus the wellbeing of you and your pregnancy. Your morning sickness might become HG if you don't take medication'. . You mean I do not as yet have HG afterall . Well darn me!
So, then while talking quietly, nervously, unsure, he flicks through a medical book to see what anti-sickness I can take while pg 'mmm, nope, not that one, hmm, hmm, hmm, oh hang on, this one should be ok, i will just call a colleague'. I wanted to just take the book from him and say 'shall I find it for you?'. He called a colleague and they recommended 2 drugs, citrizine and another one (will find it in a moment) which is a melt under the tongue one, in case I don't keep the citrizine down. His colleague asks him about ketones 'no, she has no ketones'. Then he gets off the phone and goes back to my urine sample and says 'i am just going to check for ketones, to see if you are, well, starving!' 'er, er, er, er, yes thats fine'. (what was he testing the first time then?)
As we leave to collect prescription he says 'oh I think i should probably examine you first'. Prods about a bit, tells me if I don;t keep anything down over weekend I could always pop along to EPU to get baby checked and they can check ketones there too, the consultant there will do it.
I asked him about weight loss - he said, you look fine to me (i swear he was looking at my breasts when he said it!). How woud you know. He said, have you lost much then? 'i don't know' I said 'no scales but I can now pull me jeans down without undoing them'- 'you need to go to see your midwife to get your weight checked'
He never looked at my notes once, or updated them. So on that basis, how would he know if my blood pressure was normal? (my blood pressure is normally on the low side of normal 100-110/50). If he did not know my weight, how would he know what normal was for me?, if he has never seen me before, how would he bloody well know if I look fine!!!!
I mean don't get me wrong. I am pleased that I am not dehydrated, that I am abosrbing more fluid and food than i thought. Really. But this man did not inspire me with confidence. It was like he was reading it all out of a text book. I have learnt more from here than from him, and now I feel, well like I am exagerating it all. So, one hand, great I am not too ill, on the other hand fed up that its been dismissed so out of hand as just bloody morning sickness.
I went to pharmacy for drugs. Pharmacist called me over - had the dosage been explained to me? What was I told about taking them? I told him what I was told. He said 'but you do know that you cannot take these constantly? Only if you really need to? At this stage in your pregnancy medication is not recommended because of the risks, so you need to limit the dose. And I am surprised he has given you this one, and I am really surprised he is expecting you to take maximun dose citrizine for an entire month without seeing your gp again. If you need this much for this long, you need to be seeing your gp before this long.
So, I have been given a cure for a made up fucking illness and I am now too afraid to take it.
If you made it to the end, I applaud you. I am just going to go and throw up the seeds and nuts DH has just made me eat.