Jan 29

So THAT’s what’s wrong with me!

Tag: Baby,Emily,GeneralEmily @ 10:06 pm

Ever since the last few days in December, I’ve had several of bouts of dizziness and near fainting (even have had to leave work because of it). All the reading I did said that dizziness and lightheadedness was fairly normal in late pregnancy, but I knew that something had to be wrong. I can no longer stand up for more than 10 minutes without getting faint, I feel completely drained ALL the time, and get feel lightheaded pretty much all day. Nothing I eat or drink seems to help. I talked to my doctor Thursday about it; and he did some bloodwork on me. Turns out that I’m anemic. Darn kid; not only is he beating the living tar out of me, but he’s stealing all my iron too! My mom said that since he’s been doing triathlons in there and stealing my iron that she’s now going to call him Ironman. 🙂

My doctor prescribed me iron pills and said that should drastically help. My counts were really low, plus my blood pressure’s been on the low end, so I’m hoping for rapid improvement.

Glad to hear that something is going on though, I hate when I know that something’s not right and all tests come back normal; it’s just frustrating. Luckily, there actually was something off, and it’s an easy fix without any concerns for the baby.

On top of that though, I’ve caught a nasty cold. So, not only do I feel like crap from the iron being low, but now I have a head cold that I can’t take anything for…yay!!! I love pregnancy!! (just a wee bit of sarcasm there…)

Only 5 more weeks….only 5 more weeks…

One Response to “So THAT’s what’s wrong with me!”

  1. Ashley says:

    Glad you finally found out what the problem was!

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