Good: Thyroid is normal, apparently just super exhausted all the time :)
Bad: Shingles are back, this time on the right side of my collar bone. Going into the doctor's tomorrow to get it looked at. *scratch scratch*
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Baby update
I had my drs visit on Thursday (yesterday). It was good, had several questions that she was able to answer for me.
Everything is still measuring out as normal, turns out last time I went in I was measuring as big due to the baby's position. :) His butt must have been sticking out or something, unless he has inherited mine, then he's just got a big butt period. :)
It was interesting trying to get the heartbeat this time. It was really faint (for me anyway), but we could only hear it for a brief second a couple of times because of how much he was moving! He kept moving so all you kept hearing were these static like noises as if you take you finger and brush it across the top of microphone. It was pretty cool, and she wasn't too worried about not getting a good solid heart beat sound in if he was moving that much :)
I seem to possibly be running into thyroid problems again. I'm just constantly tired all the time. I know it's normal to be excessively tired in the third trimester, but this is ridiculous. I sleep through the night without ever waking up to go the bathroom or from any movements from the baby. I sleep like a rock. The only time I ever do wake up is because my arm or leg or hand is numb from laying on it for way too long. Even then, I'm only awake for a brief second (or 5 as it takes awhile to roll over at this point....shifting all that belly weight over!). So not do I only sleep through the night peacefully, I also get about 10-12 hours of sleep EVERY night, that's just the part where I sleep through it. I also tend to take 30 minute to 2 hour naps during the day when I get home from work. I STILL feel tired after this, so I personally think it's a bit excessive, and my doctor does as well. They did call last night, but I was unfortunately in class so I haven't heard the results on it yet. They're not in on Fridays either, or the weekend, so I'll have to wait for them to call me back on Monday.
I also asked her about this tendonitis, and she said pretty much what I had guessed. My tendonitis had started acting up when I got the shingles because of swelling around the area, and the swollen lymph node. Unfortunately, the swelling has only gone down a little bit, so there's still swelling in all the areas of where I get tendonitis. Again, not much I can do about it, cept wear wrist braces. That's right, braces, I've got it bad in both wrists, but it's really bad in my fingers on my left hand. Thankfully that's my non-dominant hand.
Back in January, I started getting this wart, which I thought at the time was a callus, and thus left it alone. Byt the time we left to Brazil, it had grown a bit, but I thought I could be imagining it, or that it was just major callus building up. So I filed it down after I got back from Brazil, but it almost immediately started bleeding. That's when I finally accepted that it was a wart. I figured I could wait out for the rest of the pregnancy and get it taken care of after the pregnancy since it wasn't in a dangerous risky area, thank heavens. However, it's been getting bigger and bigger, and starting to catch to the floor, socks, shoes, anything that myfoot moves against (even my sheets!). There were also warts starting to show up below the "big" one I had across the ball of my foot. So I had the first treatment of liquid nitrogen, and dang baby, that hurts. Turns out, the "big" wart is a cluster of 12 warts, 4 warts in the middle in a line, and 8 warts surrounding it. Then there's five more along the ball of my foot. it also seems to be that the cluster I have, is warts on top of warts. So I'll probably need at least two more treatments of liquid nitrogen to get them all frozen off. So I'll be going in once a month for that for the time being. Lovely. it just really really hurts is all.
other than that, everything is going well. No excessive swelling anywhere (besides tendonitis swelling), no nausea, no back pains, no other bodily pains other than the foot with warts, and wrists/fingers.
The baby is still moving a ton, I can sit down and stare at my tummy for a long period of time sometimes and see the constant moving that's going on in my belly. It's quite fun to watch, and totally surreal. I'm excited for Bryan to get and experience this kind of movement for himself. Only 18 more days :) (which is awesome considering it's been 76 days!).
Everything is still measuring out as normal, turns out last time I went in I was measuring as big due to the baby's position. :) His butt must have been sticking out or something, unless he has inherited mine, then he's just got a big butt period. :)
It was interesting trying to get the heartbeat this time. It was really faint (for me anyway), but we could only hear it for a brief second a couple of times because of how much he was moving! He kept moving so all you kept hearing were these static like noises as if you take you finger and brush it across the top of microphone. It was pretty cool, and she wasn't too worried about not getting a good solid heart beat sound in if he was moving that much :)
I seem to possibly be running into thyroid problems again. I'm just constantly tired all the time. I know it's normal to be excessively tired in the third trimester, but this is ridiculous. I sleep through the night without ever waking up to go the bathroom or from any movements from the baby. I sleep like a rock. The only time I ever do wake up is because my arm or leg or hand is numb from laying on it for way too long. Even then, I'm only awake for a brief second (or 5 as it takes awhile to roll over at this point....shifting all that belly weight over!). So not do I only sleep through the night peacefully, I also get about 10-12 hours of sleep EVERY night, that's just the part where I sleep through it. I also tend to take 30 minute to 2 hour naps during the day when I get home from work. I STILL feel tired after this, so I personally think it's a bit excessive, and my doctor does as well. They did call last night, but I was unfortunately in class so I haven't heard the results on it yet. They're not in on Fridays either, or the weekend, so I'll have to wait for them to call me back on Monday.
I also asked her about this tendonitis, and she said pretty much what I had guessed. My tendonitis had started acting up when I got the shingles because of swelling around the area, and the swollen lymph node. Unfortunately, the swelling has only gone down a little bit, so there's still swelling in all the areas of where I get tendonitis. Again, not much I can do about it, cept wear wrist braces. That's right, braces, I've got it bad in both wrists, but it's really bad in my fingers on my left hand. Thankfully that's my non-dominant hand.
Back in January, I started getting this wart, which I thought at the time was a callus, and thus left it alone. Byt the time we left to Brazil, it had grown a bit, but I thought I could be imagining it, or that it was just major callus building up. So I filed it down after I got back from Brazil, but it almost immediately started bleeding. That's when I finally accepted that it was a wart. I figured I could wait out for the rest of the pregnancy and get it taken care of after the pregnancy since it wasn't in a dangerous risky area, thank heavens. However, it's been getting bigger and bigger, and starting to catch to the floor, socks, shoes, anything that myfoot moves against (even my sheets!). There were also warts starting to show up below the "big" one I had across the ball of my foot. So I had the first treatment of liquid nitrogen, and dang baby, that hurts. Turns out, the "big" wart is a cluster of 12 warts, 4 warts in the middle in a line, and 8 warts surrounding it. Then there's five more along the ball of my foot. it also seems to be that the cluster I have, is warts on top of warts. So I'll probably need at least two more treatments of liquid nitrogen to get them all frozen off. So I'll be going in once a month for that for the time being. Lovely. it just really really hurts is all.
other than that, everything is going well. No excessive swelling anywhere (besides tendonitis swelling), no nausea, no back pains, no other bodily pains other than the foot with warts, and wrists/fingers.
The baby is still moving a ton, I can sit down and stare at my tummy for a long period of time sometimes and see the constant moving that's going on in my belly. It's quite fun to watch, and totally surreal. I'm excited for Bryan to get and experience this kind of movement for himself. Only 18 more days :) (which is awesome considering it's been 76 days!).
Friday, September 26, 2008
Gimp
I have wrist braces on both wrists now, thanks tendonitis
I just had a bunch of warts frozen off at the drs today, seems it will take at least three treatments, ow. This is making me limp, as if waddling from being preggo isn't enough :)
They took blood today to check thyroid, it actually bruised this time, and it hurts.
ow, just....ow.
I just had a bunch of warts frozen off at the drs today, seems it will take at least three treatments, ow. This is making me limp, as if waddling from being preggo isn't enough :)
They took blood today to check thyroid, it actually bruised this time, and it hurts.
ow, just....ow.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Baby update
I'm 29 1/2 weeks along.
I'm 33 centimeters (apparently that's big, and we'll look more into why I'm so big next time)
I do not have gestational diabetes
The heartbeat was strong and healthy
He's active and kicking
I got my Rhogram shot (OW!)
Everything else is healthy :)
I'm 33 centimeters (apparently that's big, and we'll look more into why I'm so big next time)
I do not have gestational diabetes
The heartbeat was strong and healthy
He's active and kicking
I got my Rhogram shot (OW!)
Everything else is healthy :)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Hiccups
Today is the first time I've been able to feel the baby have hiccups! It's fun :)
Things overall have been going well. The shingles stopped spreading the same day I got them once I started taking antibiotics. They just continuously itch and burn, I'm still taking antibiotics for them. Turns out my stiff finger and arm and hand were NOT from tendonitis, but rather from the shingles causing a swollen lymph node near my collar bone. That is going down since I've been taking antibiotics, and it's not nearly as bad anymore. So things are getting better, just slowly :)
I've also come to find there is no way I can sit in a chair in a normal position. I have to sit so that I'm off to the side, or my heart rate goes crazy and I start getting dizzy. This can be frustrating as I have three classes a week, and each one is 4 hours long, with usually only one break for class (10 minutes).
I have also come to find that I do not handle warm classrooms well at all.
Two Saturdays ago I went to my Saturday class, and the classroom was 74 already (at 9 AM). Within the first 15 minutes I got close to passing out, so I excused myself to go to the bathroom and sat on the floor for a bit since it was cooler. When I thought it was all better, I went back to class, but within 15 minutes I got even closer to passing out than before (yes I can tell when I'm about to pass out, everything goes a certain color). So I excused myself and hurried out the door and found a couch to lay on for five minutes. My classmate has been in all of my classes for the past 3 semesters, and had informed the teacher that this was really not like me, and that I wasn't always like this (thank heavens). After lying down for 5 minutes, and finding three fans in the classroom to turn on that were all directed at me, I was able to go through the rest of class. Needless to say, this Saturday, we immediately turned the fans on and I was fine, as long as I didn't sit the "right" way in the chair and had it turned sideways.
Other than that, Kiernan's still kicking like crazy all the time. I can see my actual stomach moving when he kicks now and then, and he has definitely got the hiccups at the moment. It's really cute :)
Things overall have been going well. The shingles stopped spreading the same day I got them once I started taking antibiotics. They just continuously itch and burn, I'm still taking antibiotics for them. Turns out my stiff finger and arm and hand were NOT from tendonitis, but rather from the shingles causing a swollen lymph node near my collar bone. That is going down since I've been taking antibiotics, and it's not nearly as bad anymore. So things are getting better, just slowly :)
I've also come to find there is no way I can sit in a chair in a normal position. I have to sit so that I'm off to the side, or my heart rate goes crazy and I start getting dizzy. This can be frustrating as I have three classes a week, and each one is 4 hours long, with usually only one break for class (10 minutes).
I have also come to find that I do not handle warm classrooms well at all.
Two Saturdays ago I went to my Saturday class, and the classroom was 74 already (at 9 AM). Within the first 15 minutes I got close to passing out, so I excused myself to go to the bathroom and sat on the floor for a bit since it was cooler. When I thought it was all better, I went back to class, but within 15 minutes I got even closer to passing out than before (yes I can tell when I'm about to pass out, everything goes a certain color). So I excused myself and hurried out the door and found a couch to lay on for five minutes. My classmate has been in all of my classes for the past 3 semesters, and had informed the teacher that this was really not like me, and that I wasn't always like this (thank heavens). After lying down for 5 minutes, and finding three fans in the classroom to turn on that were all directed at me, I was able to go through the rest of class. Needless to say, this Saturday, we immediately turned the fans on and I was fine, as long as I didn't sit the "right" way in the chair and had it turned sideways.
Other than that, Kiernan's still kicking like crazy all the time. I can see my actual stomach moving when he kicks now and then, and he has definitely got the hiccups at the moment. It's really cute :)
Friday, September 5, 2008
Shingles
I haven't been able to sleep tonight....at all. It's now 4:45 am. I've tried to go to sleep. I've tried just laying there, reading, watching tv, warm bath, milk, etc. Nothing's worked without taking some kind of over the counter drug, which I'm not even willing to think about.
However, that's really not what's bugging me the most right now. Background info here, and I may have mentioned it before, so forgive my repetition:
I had chicken pox three times as a kid. Once you have chicken pox, the virus stays in you, most people, it's dormant for the rest of your life, but it's still there. Mine, however, does not like to be dormant. I have since had 4 cases of shingles (same virus as chicken pox, similar symptoms, just a smaller concentrated area). The pattern had SEEMED to be that it was going every other year since I was 18 or 19. It would make sense, I had it last year, I was 24, I had it two years before that, I was 22, a year before that I was 21, and two years before that I was 19. I also seem to develop it somewhere around July-Aug (with one case in Dec).
I was hoping it would skip this year. I also thought I was pretty much in the clear since Aug. had finished. Apprarently, I'm wrong. I seem to be developing the beginning stage of shingles. Itchy, burning, and just flat out pain in one small concentrated area, near where I almost always get it. :( Fortunately, I had talked to my doctor about the possibility of getting them, and she gave me antibiotics way back at my second prenatal appointment. I'm going to give it a half day (so this afternoon) to make sure it's not some weird reaction to something, then I'll see if I start taking the meds or not. (don't worry, I'll call the doc too :) ). However, I'm pretty darn sure I have them again, which really, isn't the greatest thing in the world to have when pregnant. :/
However, that's really not what's bugging me the most right now. Background info here, and I may have mentioned it before, so forgive my repetition:
I had chicken pox three times as a kid. Once you have chicken pox, the virus stays in you, most people, it's dormant for the rest of your life, but it's still there. Mine, however, does not like to be dormant. I have since had 4 cases of shingles (same virus as chicken pox, similar symptoms, just a smaller concentrated area). The pattern had SEEMED to be that it was going every other year since I was 18 or 19. It would make sense, I had it last year, I was 24, I had it two years before that, I was 22, a year before that I was 21, and two years before that I was 19. I also seem to develop it somewhere around July-Aug (with one case in Dec).
I was hoping it would skip this year. I also thought I was pretty much in the clear since Aug. had finished. Apprarently, I'm wrong. I seem to be developing the beginning stage of shingles. Itchy, burning, and just flat out pain in one small concentrated area, near where I almost always get it. :( Fortunately, I had talked to my doctor about the possibility of getting them, and she gave me antibiotics way back at my second prenatal appointment. I'm going to give it a half day (so this afternoon) to make sure it's not some weird reaction to something, then I'll see if I start taking the meds or not. (don't worry, I'll call the doc too :) ). However, I'm pretty darn sure I have them again, which really, isn't the greatest thing in the world to have when pregnant. :/
Monday, September 1, 2008
waking up weird
So I remember waking up to my alarm, but apparently I fell back asleep, so I missed church, oh well.
However, when I woke up an hourish later, the entire back of my head was numb/tingling. I didn't like that feeling, so I started getting up. I had somehow cut the circulation off that goes to the back of my head, because as soon as I sat up, I could feel the tingling and the blood flow going back to normal there. Then I went to get some cereal, and found that my fingers were incredibly stiff. My middle finger on my left hand, every time i bend it in anyway, it locks there, and I have to pop it back out.
I really don't like waking up like this.
However, when I woke up an hourish later, the entire back of my head was numb/tingling. I didn't like that feeling, so I started getting up. I had somehow cut the circulation off that goes to the back of my head, because as soon as I sat up, I could feel the tingling and the blood flow going back to normal there. Then I went to get some cereal, and found that my fingers were incredibly stiff. My middle finger on my left hand, every time i bend it in anyway, it locks there, and I have to pop it back out.
I really don't like waking up like this.
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