rosiee
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hello everyone!! Ive been absent again for ages. going to take a little while to catch up with how everyones doing in a minute! Ive just been working lots, and if im not working, im asleep!!
everything was going really well with baby, we had our v-day last week, she's getting big and strong ?(im huge and her kicks have got so hard she managed to bruise my ribs!!!) but I havent been feeling great for a few weeks now. Ive been fainting. after fainting the first time, on the bus on the way home from work, I called the doctors and tried to make an appointment, but the doctor called me back and said there was no need to come in, its really normal in pregnancy and theres nothing they can do and I just need to try and cope. She made me feel like such a drama queen!! so I just got on with it. I was going to work everyday feeling weak and rubbish and fainted several times over the course of 2 weeks, feeling faint on a daily basis. The fainting was worrying me though, because it would happen even if I was sat down. I fainted at work, in the street- it was horrible but the dr made me feel so dramatic I didnt call them again.
Then I had my 24 week appointment tuesday, and mentioned to the midwife about it. she did all her checks and said my heart didnt sound good, and was concerned so got me some blood tests straight away. She called early the next morning to tell me I am very anaemic. she was really stressing the point that anaemia is normal, but I was quite dangerously so, which would explain the fainting and also my heart struggling. so she's sgned me off work for a week and put me on a high dose of iron and a gentle laxative (lovely!)
I am SO angry with the first doctor! she didnt do anything at all and I just had to 'get on with it'!!!! Sorry for the very long story, but im so annoyed. and I feel really useless as I cant do anything without fainting or getting weak and breathless. and I cant work. Has anyone else had anaemia? if anyone has, how long did it take for you to recover?
hope everyones doing well!!!!
x x x
everything was going really well with baby, we had our v-day last week, she's getting big and strong ?(im huge and her kicks have got so hard she managed to bruise my ribs!!!) but I havent been feeling great for a few weeks now. Ive been fainting. after fainting the first time, on the bus on the way home from work, I called the doctors and tried to make an appointment, but the doctor called me back and said there was no need to come in, its really normal in pregnancy and theres nothing they can do and I just need to try and cope. She made me feel like such a drama queen!! so I just got on with it. I was going to work everyday feeling weak and rubbish and fainted several times over the course of 2 weeks, feeling faint on a daily basis. The fainting was worrying me though, because it would happen even if I was sat down. I fainted at work, in the street- it was horrible but the dr made me feel so dramatic I didnt call them again.
Then I had my 24 week appointment tuesday, and mentioned to the midwife about it. she did all her checks and said my heart didnt sound good, and was concerned so got me some blood tests straight away. She called early the next morning to tell me I am very anaemic. she was really stressing the point that anaemia is normal, but I was quite dangerously so, which would explain the fainting and also my heart struggling. so she's sgned me off work for a week and put me on a high dose of iron and a gentle laxative (lovely!)
I am SO angry with the first doctor! she didnt do anything at all and I just had to 'get on with it'!!!! Sorry for the very long story, but im so annoyed. and I feel really useless as I cant do anything without fainting or getting weak and breathless. and I cant work. Has anyone else had anaemia? if anyone has, how long did it take for you to recover?
hope everyones doing well!!!!
x x x
