Bad cold...popping tylenol!

[Daynee]

I feel absolutely awful--bad headaches, body aches, sore throat, and totally congested. So, the only thing I've been taking is tylenol but I've worried myself because I've taken quite a bit since yesterday, approximately 2 every five hours. THe aches and pains are just horrible! I'm 8 weeks...

Anyone have experience/feedback about this?

Is tylenol the same as paracetamol/acitominophen? If so then I have had to use daily from week 5 of pregnancy until about three days ago due to suffering from severe pregnancy related migraines.
I have also had the flu which lasted for two weeks and at that stage was taking multiple doses per day to keep my fever down.

My Gp is aware of all this and was totally unconcerned. She said that in 40 years of reasarch no ill effects have been seen with mums using paracetamol ion pregnancy, apart from a possible tiny association between heavy use in the third trimester and childhood wheezing. Even this 'risk' only accounts for an increase of 1% in the number of cases overall.Amazingly women have also been tretaed for paracetamol overdose in pregnancy (both intentional and accidental) and no ill effects have been seen in those infants either.

I would not worry!

I would not worry.

Thank you santa - that makes me feel much better. I'm trying as hard as I can to not take too much but I am in so much discomfort - ugh!!